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A 10-minute walk from JR Sapporo Station brings one to a small, white clock tower in the city center. The 13-meter-high Western timepiece is an iconic image of the city and Hokkaido. Most Japanese recognize the tower, one of the most popular tourist spots in ...
The U.S. forces in Japan will ground all CH-53E helicopters to confirm their safety after the same type of chopper crash-landed near a U.S. military training area in Okinawa on Wednesday, Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera said. The minister said that Maj. Gen. Charles Chiarotti, ...
Fuel reprocessing plant halts operations after nuclear regulators found the operator neglected to conduct safety tests for more than a decade.
Tokyo remains the top city in Asia for attracting global talent and in third place worldwide, standing a strong chance of overtaking New York soon to clinch the No. 2 spot, according to the latest Global Power City Index ranking released Thursday. The survey, compiled ...
A draft U.N. resolution circulated by Japan on nuclear weapons makes no mention of the landmark treaty ban signed by 122 countries.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Thursday that Tokyo is arranging a meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and the parents of a Japanese national abducted by North Korean agents during the president's planned visit to Japan early next month. "When I asked President Trump ...
Kobe Steel Ltd.'s chairman and president said Thursday that further cases of misconduct by the nation's third-largest steel maker may emerge as part of the burgeoning scandal over its falsification of inspection data for iron powder, aluminum and copper, which has already affected automakers ...
The eruption of a Kyushu volcano continued for a second day on Thursday, with a plume rising about 2,000 meters above the crater, the Meteorological Agency said. Mount Shinmoe, straddling the borders of Kagoshima and Miyazaki prefectures, erupted early on Wednesday for the first time ...
The man whose road rage led to two deaths on an expressway had a history of aggressive and menacing behavior behind the wheel.
Stagnant spending and soft wage growth in Japan are forcing two of Asia's biggest retailers — Fast Retailing Co. and Seven & i Holdings Co. — to court overseas consumers to drive long-term growth. Fast Retailing, operator of the Uniqlo chain, and convenience-store giant Seven ...
Aichi Gov. Hideaki Omura has withdrawn his support for Kibo no To in a blow to Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike, who is also the fledgling party's chief. This setback comes less than two weeks after Omura agreed to cooperate with Koike and Osaka Gov. ...
A new species of clione sea slug has been found in Toyama Bay, a local university said Thursday. The discovery was made by a team of researchers led by Zhang Jing, a professor at the University of Toyama's graduate school. Zhang has been studying the ...
The flames stopped 2 meters from tanks holding fermenting wine at Sonoma's Imagery Estate Winery, but the threat to the precious contents persisted. "There's a million dollars of wine in these tanks," said Mark Burningham, who helps manage Imagery. Smoke rose from a smoldering compost ...
In a historic shift, the Boy Scouts of America will let girls enroll in Cub Scouts starting next year and allow them to eventually earn the highest rank of Eagle Scout, the organization said on Wednesday. The unanimous decision by the 100-year-old group's board of ...
General Motors is checking whether its cars contain falsely certified parts or components sourced from Kobe Steel, Kyodo News reported on Thursday, the latest major automaker to be dragged into the cheating scandal. "We are aware of the data falsification and examining its impact," Kyodo ...
Myanmar security forces have brutally driven out half a million Muslim Rohingya from northern Rakhine state, torching their homes, crops and villages to prevent them from returning, the U.N. human rights office said on Wednesday. Jyoti Sanghera, head of the Asia and Pacific region of ...
Gunma University announced a punitive discharge of a professor Wednesday who allegedly used falsified data for his academic papers and slandered the school and its students on Twitter. According to the college, Masashi Emoto, 56, who teaches on the faculty of medicine at ...
Ninety-six Japanese have visited a pair of South Korea-controlled, Japan-claimed islets in the Sea of Japan over the last 12 years, a Seoul daily reported Wednesday. The Japanese visitors are among the 1.94 million people who have traveled to the islets, known as Dokdo in ...
Nearly half of black Americans who borrowed from the federal government to attend college defaulted on their student loans — more than double the rate among white student debtors, according to new data from the U.S. Department of Education. The figures are part of a ...
Abe’s gamble to call a snap election looks like it could pay off, with the ruling bloc on track for a big win, according to a survey.
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on Wednesday gave the Catalan government eight days to drop an independence bid, failing which he would suspend Catalonia's political autonomy and rule the region directly. His move could deepen the confrontation between Madrid and the northeastern region but also ...
President Donald Trump suggested challenging licenses for NBC and other broadcast news networks on Wednesday, a salvo that followed reports his own secretary of state had called him a "moron" after a discussion of the U.S. nuclear arsenal. "With all of the Fake News coming ...
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would be open to doing a bilateral trade deal with Canada but not Mexico if talks between the three countries over the North American Free Trade Agreement fall apart. Asked by a reporter if he would make ...
A key member of an international organization that won this year's Nobel Peace Prize criticized the Japanese government Wednesday for ignoring a landmark U.N. treaty that outlaws nuclear weapons. "This extraordinary silence on this treaty by the Japanese government is very, very disappointing and frustrating," ...
An Indian taxi company has stepped up its legal challenge against local competitor Ola and U.S. rival Uber, alleging the firms are abusing their market position, and believes that planned investments in both by Japan's SoftBank underscore its view. The head of India's Meru Cabs ...
As Amazon.com Inc. pushes into Southeast Asia with a new venture into Singapore, the online retailer is facing some tough hurdles. Shopping in air-conditioned malls is practically a national sport, and e-commerce rivals moved in long ago. Delivery delays also marred Amazon's debut in July, ...
From the standpoint of global stability and enlightened American national interest, this is an unusually important time for Trump to seriously engage with Asia's leaders.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's high-handed governing style has made India's economic missteps even worse.
Danny Risberg, chairman of both the European Business Council in Japan and Philips Electronics Japan, wants Japanese to become fast, smart and independent decision-makers.
The Lounge South Court on the 20th floor of the Hotel Century Southern Tower in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo, offers "South Court Brunch" on weekends and holidays. The featured dish of the brunch is a rice flour waffle sandwich with a fried egg, bacon and fresh ...
Moscow is welcoming Japanese soccer fans to the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The world's largest soccer event happens to fall in the year when Japan and Russia will hold a bilateral year of culture exchange. "We will have Japanese-speaking volunteers in Moscow, and hotels will also ...
A Brazilian man took home the gold prize, while an Indonesian man and a Filipino woman received the silver prizes in a soy sauce cooking contest, in which foreign participants presented 58 dishes made with soy sauce, at a Tokyo hotel on Sept. 29, ...
The route that has brought Richard Twyman to Tokyo to direct an all-Japanese cast in a play based on an 18th-century French novel has taken many twists and turns. Now, though, it has finally led this rising star of the British drama scene here with ...
Like many art forms in our rapidly shrinking world, dance is constantly experimenting with variants of the cross-cultural, extending and blending boundaries into innovative re-imaginings of genre. Choreographers such as Akram Khan, an English dancer of Bangladeshi descent, have found great success by combining ...
Romanian theater director Silviu Purcarete has staged several plays in this country before, but now he's working with an all-Japanese cast for the first time as he prepares to present his brand-new "Richard III" at Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre in Ikebukuro from Oct. 18 to ...
Japan's new manager is ready to lead the next generation on the road to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The first stop along the way comes next month, when Samurai Japan takes on South Korea and Taiwan during the Asia Professional Baseball Championship from Nov. 16-19 ...
Early in his pro career, Tatsuya Suzuki displayed a flair for making the right pass at the right time. Yes, he records a flashy assist here and there. He also threads the needle on textbook tosses of all varieties to his teammates. He reads the defense ...
