Hours after U.S. President Donald Trump touched down in Japan on the first leg of his Asia tour on Sunday, North Korea warned him against making any "reckless remarks." Trump told troops during an arrival ceremony at Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo ...

The blanket radiation checks conducted on rice grown in meltdown-hit Fukushima Prefecture have recently come under debate because none with radiation levels exceeding the safety limit has been found in recent years. Some residents, including rice producers, want to continue the current system because there ...

While Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Donald Trump engaged in golf diplomacy, their wives spent time Sunday learning about Japanese pearl cultivation in Tokyo's top luxury shopping district. Akie Abe and Melania Trump visited the flagship Ginza store of accessories firm Mikimoto, which ...

Yoshiharu Hoshino describes his experience taking over the reins of his century-old family business in 1991 as a "hard landing." The fourth-generation hotelier and chief executive officer of Hoshino Resorts Inc., one of Japan’s largest and most well-known operators of luxury hotels and ryokan (traditional ...

At the start of his five-nation Asian tour, U.S. President Donald Trump calls Japan a “treasured partner” and “crucial ally” of the United States.

A speaker made from bottle gourd grown in Tochigi Prefecture is attracting listeners with its acoustic qualities and a cute appearance resembling an animation character. A maker of car stereos in Tochigi, the biggest producer of dried gourd strips for rolled sushi, began developing the ...

The name of a female high school student from Gunma Prefecture is added to the potential list of people killed after nine dismembered bodies were found in a man’s apartment in Kanagawa Prefecture.

Deep in the Amazon rain forest, it's that time again: beer o'clock. Members of the tiny, remote Waiapi tribe in Brazil's eastern Amazon raise calabash gourds to their painted faces and quaff the homemade brew they call caxiri. Draining the gourds the size of salad bowls, ...

A top Pentagon official has said the only sure way of eliminating North Korea's nuclear weapons capabilities would be by putting U.S. boots on the ground — a move that some worry could prompt Pyongyang to use biological, chemical and even nuclear weapons against ...

SoftBank Group Corp.’s talks to merge U.S. unit Sprint Corp. with T-Mobile U.S. Inc. end after months of negotiations, meaning SoftBank will go it alone in the U.S.

A retired Kobe Steel employee says the company’s corporate culture was to look the other way even while you saw what was going on.

It was just before noon in Moscow on March 10, 2016, when the first volley of malicious messages hit the Hillary Clinton campaign. The first 29 phishing emails were almost all misfires. Addressed to people who worked for Clinton during her first presidential run, the ...

U.S. President Donald Trump ramped up his tough rhetoric against North Korea when he arrived in Japan on Sunday, saying that the United States and its allies are prepared to defend freedom and that "no dictator" should underestimate U.S. resolve. Trump kicked off a 12-day ...

Today's record cash surplus allows for tomorrow's decoupling from the normal business cycle.

Although people are living longer almost everywhere, life expectancy figures in the United States tell a more complicated story.

Offer Laurent Pic, the new French ambassador to Japan, a role in a traditional noh play and he would likely accept it. “Why not?” the ambassador said in an interview with The Japan Times.

Last month saw the launch of Designart — the capital's new annual collection of exhibitions that bring together Japanese and overseas creators for collaborations on product design and objets d'art. Here are a few picks that showcase the inaugural event's embrace of color, versatility ...

Fireflies don't have a lot going for them. For starters, they're bugs —not the pretty kind like butterflies, but beetles, the kind people swat away from lunch boxes or squash on the sidewalk. Even when they do their signature thing of glowing, ambient light ...

Perhaps unwittingly, Japanese voters just gave their silent nod to the seven most recent appointees to the nation's top court.

Everybody knows that Japan produces the most technologically advanced toilets in the world. They pretty much do everything except pull up your pants when you're finished. And one of the more pleasant surprises greeting foreign visitors to Japan is the ubiquity and accessibility of ...

Natsu would make a great companion, for a single person, a couple, or family with older children — just about anyone that will listen up when Natsu has something to say.

A reader asks about a payment demand from the manager of an apartment in Tokyo that the reader vacated in a hurry.

Statistical similarities marked the first half of Sunday's Yokohama B-Corsairs-San-en NeoPhoenix series finale. The second half was a somewhat different story. The NeoPhoenix pulled away in the third quarter, and then the B-Corsairs made a valiant comeback in the fourth quarter, but ran out of time ...

Forty-five-year-old veteran Noriaki Kasai claimed the men's large hill title on the final day of the Nordic ski national championships on Sunday after landing a pair of strong leaps. Kasai posted jumps of 130.5 and 134 meters for a total of 276.1 points, followed by ...

At the end of another NPB season, the Japanese baseball world is again wondering how to beat these Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks. After Saturday night's dramatic 11-inning 4-3 sayonara victory over the Yokohama BayStars in Game 6 of the Japan Series clinched another title, the dynastic ...

The Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks wrapped up the 2017 Japan Series at Yafuoku Dome on Saturday by capturing their eighth overall title — fourth in the last seven years — after defeating the Yokohama BayStars in a hard-fought Game 6. The matchup between the Pacific League ...

Kashima Antlers closed in on a record-extending ninth J. League championship title with a 1-0 win at home to Asian Champions League finalist Urawa Reds on Sunday. Brazilian midfielder Leandro settled the contest late in the second half as the defending champions opened up a ...

Akihiro Kondo failed in his bid to claim the vacant IBF super lightweight title on Saturday, losing to Russia's Sergey Lipinets on a unanimous decision. Kondo, the third-ranked challenger making his first attempt at a world title, struggled against Lipinets who used an array of ...

There will be no Game 7. Seiichi Uchikawa, Dennis Sarfate and Keizo Kawashima made sure of that, and the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks and their fans breathed big sighs of relief before succumbing to the joy and elation of winning the Japan Series. Uchikawa hit a game-tying ...