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Police arrested a 50-year-old man on suspicion of stabbing one man to death and injuring another on a street in a residential area of Kyoto on Sunday afternoon. The suspect was identified as Masakatsu Nakamura. He admitted to attacking the two, police sources said. Masaki Ikai, ...
A 49-year-old Japanese chef in the Indonesian capital has been arrested on suspicion of having sex with two underage girls, local media reported Sunday. Akira Ando, alias Gonzaburou, was arrested Saturday at the restaurant in South Jakarta where he works, the reports quoted South Jakarta ...
The number of Japanese aged 20, the legal marker for adulthood in the country, will stand at just over 1.2 million on New Year's Day, unchanged from a year earlier and equating to less than 1 percent of the population for the eighth straight ...
As the nation struggles with a shortage of workers and an aging population, experts expect Japan to develop a severe labor shortage around mid-century.
A fire broke out in a four-story building along the busy Center-gai shopping street in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on Sunday afternoon amid reports that people were trapped inside. The building is about 400 meters northwest of Shibuya Station, and one man was rescued, rescuers said. According ...
Fans began lining up at 4 a.m. Sunday to enter Space World amusement park in Kitakyushu for its final day in business. Attendance at Space World, which opened in April 1990, peaked at 2.16 million in fiscal 1997. But the gradual decline in business since ...
As Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski scrambled to survive a bid in Congress to oust him in the wake of a graft scandal, his jailed authoritarian predecessor, Alberto Fujimori, called on his loyalists in Congress to save the head of state. The day before the ...
The capital saw its first snowfall of the season on Sunday as cold air gripped eastern Japan with the approach of a low pressure system, the Meteorological Agency said. Snowfall was observed in the Otemachi business district, where the Meteorological Agency is located, around 8:30 ...
The government has begun discussing how the Self-Defense Forces would respond to a military conflict on the Korean Peninsula, government sources said Saturday amid tensions with internationally condemned North Korea. The National Security Council will examine specific scenarios including an inadvertent clash between North and ...
Nothing is inevitable — political decisions will determine what does and does not occur — but we must prepare now to head off the worst outcomes.
Here are some far-out predictions that, if they come true, would be truly earthshaking. Enjoy, and best wishes for a successful and happy 2018.
What if globalization is just getting started? The resilience of the international system should get its due.
Faithful, intelligent, warm and full of energy, the dog has long held its place as man's best friend. That's good news as we approach 2018, the Year of the Dog, because, according to the Chinese calendar, the next 12 months will be largely shaped ...
What brought you to Japan? I came here for the magic. Osaka is home to some of the best close-up magicians in the world. — Ben Daggers, magician Richard Brezina | COURTESY OF RICHARD BREZINA What's your favorite Japanese word or phrase? I like Japanese tongue-twisters; my ...
Cats may have surpassed dogs as pets in Japan for the first time in more than 20 years, but that hasn't stopped the nation preparing for the year of the dog with canine events and all manner of engimono lucky charms to see you ...
Now that the festive season of partying and extravagance is over, now's the time to take a breather with a return to some of the calmer things in life — tea, coffee and books.
Fate intervened when the heavens opened, guiding Ippei Hayashimoto on his path to mastery in the art of pure buckwheat noodles.
The top court's latest ruling suggests judges will find ways to avoid messy Hague Convention returns that Japan lacks the means to enforce anyway.
Young people in Kansai's commercial hub talk about their wishes for the coming year.
A neighbor recently asked us to sign a petition requesting that the local education committee keep a certain elementary school open. Due to falling enrollment, students who attended the school would be transferred to a different one in the near future. Since the ...
The Kawasaki Brave Thunders are starting to hit their stride. Led by a fierce determination to improve and dynamic defensive tenacity, the 2016-17 B. League championship runner-up Brave Thunders have reeled off six straight victories. For the second day in a row, they seized control in ...
One of the curious things about the current Hot Stove season in Japan has been Shuichi Murata's inability to find a job for 2018. Shortly after the 2017 season, Murata was, somewhat surprisingly, cut loose by the Yomiuri Giants, with whom he'd spent the past ...
Kei Nishikori, who has been sidelined since August with a wrist injury, has withdrawn from the Jan. 7-13 Sydney International, the tournament organizers said Saturday night. Sydney International said on its official Twitter account, "Unfortunately Kei Nishikori has withdrawn from (the tournament). We wish him ...
