Toshiba Corp.'s semiconductor-making subsidiary will create up to 5,000 jobs in Japan after its planned sale to a consortium led by Bain Capital, an executive at the U.S. investment fund said Tuesday. The workforce additions at Toshiba Memory Corp. will take place at the company's ...

The government will try to minimize the restrictions that municipalities concerned about noise and traffic place on private lodging businesses in residential areas, officials said Tuesday. While local governments are allowed to put limits on the minpaku services, the central government — relying on the ...

Sony Mobile Communications Inc. announced Tuesday it will begin selling a new communications robot targeted at families next month, furthering its foray into the trending robot market. "We've developed this product based on a theme of making it a new member of the family," Hiroshi ...

White House releases details of U.S. president’s five-nation Asian tour, set to kick off in Japan on Nov. 5.

The demand from the U.S. Justice Department comes as company sources said shady practices may have started more than 10 years ago.

Source says utility may take units offline to avoid massive costs required to meet stricter safety requirements in place since Fukushima crisis.

The leaders remained at odds over U.S. calls to start bilateral free trade talks but made progress on automobile and farm trade.

Japanese and U.S. vice foreign ministers agreed Tuesday to seek a diplomatic solution to North Korea's nuclear and missile threats, despite increasing fears about a military conflict with Pyongyang. Amid growing tensions over a possible fresh provocation by North Korea, Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Shinsuke ...

Amid the gloom and struggle that Osaka has gone through in recent years, a tourism boom has been an unexpected boon for Japan's gritty second city. The commercial roots and boisterous and friendly people of Osaka and the surrounding Kansai region provide a contrast to ...

Authorities in the Chinese territory of Macau have ramped up security measures following the deadly Las Vegas shooting this month and unveiled plans for a series of mock attacks and crisis training to safeguard the world's largest gambling hub. The new recommendations were laid out ...

Propaganda fliers presumed to be from North Korea and calling U.S. President Donald Trump a "mad dog" have turned up across central Seoul, including near the presidential Blue House, according to posts on social media and people who found them. "Death to old lunatic Trump!" ...

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent a ritual offering Tuesday to the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine, which has been a source of friction with Japan's neighbors that suffered from its wartime militarism. But Abe is likely to refrain from visiting the shrine in Tokyo during its four-day ...

Asia's two biggest economies both have their most powerful leaders in decades — and neither one has much incentive to mend a relationship that has long been volatile. Polls show Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling party is heading for a landslide win in Sunday's election, ...

Lazarus, a hacking group linked to North Korea, may have been behind this month's theft of $60 million from Taiwan's Far Eastern International Bank, according to BAE Systems PLC researchers. The cyberattack, in which malware was used to steal the money through the international Swift ...

If Shinzo Abe wins Sunday's Lower House election, it will boost the chances that Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda will serve a second term, according to a former economy minister. "Kuroda has done an excellent job. He should continue," Heizo Takenaka said in an ...

After years of focusing divided Iraq on a shared fight against the Islamic State group, the United States is now straining to leverage its limited influence to avoid a full-blown conflict between the Iraqi and Kurdish forces it has armed and trained. Experts say that ...

They looked like any other job recruiting seminar. Company officials asked job seekers their perceived strengths and in return were asked what kind of people they want to hire. But one seminar held in mid-September in Tokyo targeted people with disabilities, while another highlighted Asian ...

World Monuments Fund, a U.S.-based nonprofit organization aiming to preserve imperiled cultural heritage sites, has named the Kagawa Prefectural Gymnasium, designed by the late renowned architect Kenzo Tange, on its 2018 World Monuments Watch list. The gym in the city of Takamatsu faces possible demolition ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to resolve a major privacy dispute between the Justice Department and Microsoft Corp over whether prosecutors should get access to emails stored on company servers overseas. The justices will hear the Trump administration's appeal of a lower court's ...

Iraqi government forces captured the major Kurdish-held oil city of Kirkuk on Monday, responding to a Kurdish referendum on independence with a bold lightning strike that transforms the balance of power in the country. A convoy of armored vehicles from Iraq's elite U.S.-trained Counter-Terrorism Force ...

An ambitious plan by Jared Kushner's family to recast its indebted Fifth Avenue office building as a luxury architectural trophy is collapsing, setting off a chain of events that may imperil the Kushners' ownership of a property central to their real estate empire. Their partner, ...

The Kobe Steel scandal offers insights into why more Japanese households aren't feeling the benefits of today's 2.5 percent growth.

It's time to build a wall — and, in doing so, prevent an estimated 600,000 "dreamers" from being deported.

Pyongyang views NATO's willingness to use force in Kosovo just four years after Washington signed the Dayton Agreement with Milosevic in 1995 as proof that U.S. public statements on the use of force should not be taken at face value.

If you were to glance at Kikagaku Moyo's tour itinerary for 2017, it would be easy to forget that the group was Japanese at all. The psych-rock quintet recently completed the second leg of a European tour that encompassed nearly 50 dates, having racked ...

Koganecho Bazaar 2017’s “Double Facade: Multiple Ways to Encounter the Other” show is a bit of a mess.

Joe Wieland allowed a run in seven innings to earn the win as the Yokohama BayStars beat the Hanshin Tigers 6-1 on Tuesday to advance to the final stage of the Central League Climax Series. Wieland, who was pitching his third game this year at ...

The B. League on Tuesday announced that the 2018 All-Star Game will be held in Kumamoto. The event will take place on Jan. 14. It will be televised by NHK BS1 and shown on the internet via Sportsnavi Live. Tipoff is set for 3:05 p.m.For ...

One of the great aspects of being a sportswriter is the people the job puts you in contact with. I have been blessed in my long career in sports media to work with, get to know or interview some of the all-time giants in different ...

Japan striker Genki Haraguchi has been suspended from playing two matches for Hertha Berlin in the Bundesliga after he was given a red card for a dangerous tackle during Saturday's home game against Schalke, the German Football Association announced Monday. Haraguchi will miss Sunday's Bundesliga ...

Yomiuri Giants right-hander Tomoyuki Sugano was named Central League pitcher of the month for the third time this season on Wednesday, when NPB announced its final monthly honors for 2017. Ryuhei Matsuyama of the Hiroshima Carp was named the CL's monthly MVP — for position ...

Many fans, of both the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles and Seibu Lions, probably spent much of the third game of the first-round playoff series between the two teams waiting for the other shoe to drop. Rakuten never let it happen. The Eagles, underdogs in the Pacific ...