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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe vowed Sunday to push forward deregulation to bring about more technological innovations in Japan. Delivering a speech at an international conference on science and technology in Kyoto, Abe said he aims to make Japan a "cradle" for the so-called open innovations ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party has a 9 percentage point lead over the upstart Kibo no To (Party of Hope) led by Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike, a Kyodo News survey showed Sunday, three weeks ahead of the Oct. 22 general election. In the ...
Masaru Wakasa, a founding member of Kibo no To (Party of Hope) says Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike’s new national party is unlikely to win enough seats in the Oct. 22 general election to seize power.
Xiang Xiang, the female giant panda born in June at Japan's oldest zoo, is growing well and has added 900 grams in 10 days, Ueno Zoo said Sunday. During a checkup Saturday marking the 110th day since the cub was born, Xiang Xiang, the name ...
In a glass tower in a trendy part of China's eastern city of Tianjin, hundreds of young men and women sit in front of computer screens, scouring the internet for videos and messages that run counter to Communist Party doctrine. References to President Xi Jinping ...
Seven & i Holdings Co. has started donating unexpired food leftover at its Ito-Yokado supermarkets in Tokyo to needy families. According to Seven & I, it plans to expand the donations to more regions to reduce food waste. Poverty is a serious issue with the relative ...
Britain's ambassador to Myanmar was forced to interrupt U.K. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson earlier this year as he tried to recite a nostalgic colonial poem by Rudyard Kipling in public during a visit to the country's most famous Buddhist site. Johnson, who helped lead the ...
A Mexico City school that collapsed in a powerful earthquake on Sept. 19, killing 19 children and seven adults, buckled under the heavy weight of floors added over the years with scant steel support, according to experts and witnesses. The tragedy at the privately owned ...
The White House said on Saturday it had ordered that Iran, Venezuela and four African nations be added to a U.S. list of countries accused of failing to crack down on human trafficking, a step that further isolates them from the United States. The White ...
As the commanders of the largest U.S. warship in Asia seek to maintain operational readiness amid protracted tensions over North Korea, they find themselves keeping one eye on China, too. On Saturday, as F-18 Super Hornet jet fighters roared from the decks of the USS ...
Japan will emerge as the only advanced economy that achieves the ultimate goal sought by policymakers — a new middle class.
The Dentsu case serve as a catalyst for greater efforts by businesses and the government to eradicate excessively long work hours.
There has been an explosion of commercial interest in flying cars.
There are some things in life that are designed just for fun. And why not?
The ruling in the NS Solutions case should say a lot about where Japan stands now on the issue of sexual harassment, nearly three decades after the first ruling on this issue.
A letter regarding Amy Chavez's Japan Lite column "Blame for 'bad tourists' to Japan lies with the advice they never receive."
According to an article that appeared in the Asahi Shimbun last June, authorities are unsure of the title holders to 4.1 million hectares of land in Japan — in total, an area equivalent in size to the island of Kyushu. Though this problem has ...
Along with vinyl's recent resurgence, another throwback from the 1970s is gaining popularity in the digital age: the boombox portable music player. While radio-cassette players are viewed with nostalgia among older generations, they represent something new and fresh for young people, even if the machines ...
A quick start ignited the Niigata Albirex BB in Sunday's series finale against the visiting Shimane Susanoo Magic. The Albirex jumped out to a 24-5 lead at the end of the first quarter in a runaway 87-55 victory to complete a series sweep in Nagaoka, ...
Nasa Hataoka blasted into the record books on Sunday, when the 18-year-old became only the second golfer to repeat as the Japan Women's Open champion. Hataoka, who seized her maiden title last year as an amateur, held onto her third-round lead at Abiko Golf Club ...
Four-time stolen base champion Yasuyuki Kataoka of the Yomiuri Giants said Sunday he will draw the curtain on his Nippon Professional Baseball career after this season. The 34-year-old, who is in his 13th pro season, joined Yomiuri in 2014 from the Seibu Lions as a ...
Shinzo Koroki scored a brace to help Asian Champions League semifinalists Urawa Reds to a 3-2 win away to Vegalta Sendai in the J. League first division on Sunday. Koroki extended his lead at the top of the J1 scoring charts to 19 goals with ...
The Yokohama BayStars clinched a spot in the Central League Climax Series for the second straight season on Sunday with a 13-7 beating of the league champion Hiroshima Carp. Before a packed house of 28,966 at Yokohama Stadium, Yoshitomo Tsutstugo led off the bottom of ...
Ryuji Kashiwabara used to be called "God of the Mountain" when he starred in Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden from 2009 to 2012. It was a valuable experience. Nowadays, he uses his fame to build a bridge between two very different cultures — American football and otaku. A collaboration ...
Yomiuri Giants reliever Scott Mathieson is no longer the pitcher he was when he turned up on these shores in 2012 as a 28-year-old, he's better. With 15 major league games to show for 10 seasons in the Philadelphia Phillies organization, Mathieson was brought to ...
