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A group of lawyers filed lawsuits seeking to invalidate the results of Sunday's Lower House election for all 289 single-seat districts. The group, led by Hidetoshi Masunaga, claimed the election was unconstitutional in terms of vote-value disparities. The lawyers said the election was invalid because it ...
The 21st typhoon of the season makes an unusually quick pass over Japan, but the toll both human and material is heavy.
A lawyer representing the group said the “level and scope of compensation” awarded by a lower court is insufficient.
China urged Japan to follow the track of peaceful development following Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's decisive election victory, which gives him a stronger hand to achieve his major goal of amending the pacifist Constitution. Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said Monday that China hopes Japan ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says the ruling bloc's overwhelming victory in Sunday's election represents a "historic" level of public confidence.
The campaign is over, and now judgment time has come: Who were the winners and losers in Sunday’s Lower House election?
North Korea on Monday blasted "Japanese reactionaries" for working to "pave the groundwork for a reinvasion of the Korean peninsula" after Sunday's Lower House election that saw Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling bloc secure a sweeping victory. Abe dissolved the Diet on Sept. 28, forcing ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s landslide sends Tokyo stocks higher and the yen down, with the path paved for a continuation of loose monetary policy.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has made women's empowerment a pillar of his economic policy as the workforce shrinks and the nation grays, but his decisive election victory Sunday failed to bring more women into the Diet. Forty-seven women had been elected to the 465-seat Lower ...
Having built an impressive lead in artificial intelligence, Canada is keen to do the same in driverless cars — specifically the lidar (laser radar) technology that lets these vehicles see where they're going. The nation's main contender is LeddarTech Inc. The Quebec City-based company makes ...
Toyota Motor Corp. temporarily suspended operations Monday at all of its domestic vehicle and auto parts plants due to Typhoon Lan. Some of the plants were set to resume operation later in the day. The move was aimed at ensuring the safety of workers, the ...
Is Masayoshi Son the next Warren Buffett? A note from Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. argues that Son's SoftBank Group Corp. is the next Berkshire Hathaway Inc. "We like to think of SoftBank as a tech-focused Berkshire Hathaway," analyst Chris Lane wrote, noting that investor returns ...
Emboldened by the victory of his ruling coalition in Sunday's general election, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is likely to boost government spending to speed up his Abenomics deflation-fighting economic policy mix. The government is expected to draw up a ¥2 trillion policy package by year-end ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe should not take the election outcome as an unqualified thumbs-up for his administration by voters.
The odds of Japan getting advantageous terms in direct talks with a U.S. president who's torn up myriad deals since January are tiny.
Japan cannot afford to slumber in pseudo-peace while leaving this issue for other nations to resolve.
Chicago-born TV personality Dave Spector is the undisputed master of puns in Japan’s 芸能界 ('geinokai,' entertainment world).
Tsukiji fish market, currently in Chuo Ward, is set to relocate to the nearby Toyosu waterfront area (Koto Ward) in “September to October 2018.”
The Yokohama BayStars moved to within one win of their first Japan Series berth in 19 years with a 4-3 win over the Hiroshima Carp on Monday in the final stage of the Central League Climax Series. In a game that was postponed for two ...
U.S. President Donald Trump told Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that he was delighted he'd be able to play a round of golf with world No. 3 Hideki Matsuyama during a visit to Japan early next month. The two leaders confirmed the round, to be played ...
After getting a full night's sleep, newly crowned WBA middleweight champion Ryota Murata is finally letting the seventh-round technical knockout victory sink in and speaking like a winner. "Yesterday I was hoping it wasn't a dream," the 31-year-old Murata told a news conference on Monday. ...
In what has almost become a rite of fall, the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks paraded around a field with a banner in tow in celebration of a championship. This latest triumph came after the Hawks wrapped up the Pacific League Climax Series in emphatic fashion on ...
