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Many of the nation's stargazers were treated to a celestial show Wednesday night with the appearance of a "super blue blood moon," a phenomenon caused by the rare confluence of three lunar events. According to NASA, which called the event a "lunar trifecta," a supermoon ...
Analysts downgraded Japan's Pyeongchang Olympics medal projection from 15 to 14 on Tuesday, while lowering the nation's gold medal haul from four to two. According to sports analytics firm Gracenote's latest virtual medal table, Japan's figure skating prospects have taken a hit since it was ...
Japan defender Yuto Nagatomo is leaving Serie A powerhouse Inter Milan on a six-month loan deal to Turkish giant Galatasaray, an informed source said Wednesday. The 31-year-old Japanese will travel to Istanbul today to iron out the final details and have a medical. Nagatomo, who ...
In what was perhaps a make-or-break moment for their careers, comedy duo Woman Rush Hour did something on prime-time television in December that most of their fellow comedians try their best to eschew: They talked about politics. The 5-minute-long manzai act lampooned Japan's purchase of ...
In the wake of the Logan Paul "suicide forest" fiasco, YouTubers offer their tips on filming in Japan without infuriating the locals.
The news that "Monkey" has been remade by Australia's ABC in a co-production with TV New Zealand and Netflix is likely to cause those in the know to fan two fingers in front of their mouth, Monkey-style, to summon a flying cloud.
A father steps back into his family's lives, after a gap of 13 years, to tell them he is dying of cancer.
"Manhunt" has got the white doves, gratuitous slo-mo and operatic gunplay that fans of Woo's earlier films would expect, but the whole thing is as slackly executed as an "Expendables" movie.
The U.S. government is "cautiously optimistic" on Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs following a decline in extrajudicial killings, a U.S. senior narcotics official said Tuesday. Washington has shifted away millions of dollars in funding for law enforcement from a drug control program of ...
America's allies in Asia — Japan and South Korea — should strongly support the key directions of the U.S. 2018 nuclear posture review.
When Mount Moto-Shirane in Gunma Prefecture erupted without warning Jan. 23, killing one person and injuring 11 others, the Meteorological Agency was unable to issue an alert immediately after the eruption — the first one was issued only about an hour later. The town ...
As the global economic recovery gains momentum, the time has come to begin tightening monetary policy.
Fujifilm Holdings Corp. said Wednesday it will merge its subsidiary Fuji Xerox Co. with Xerox Corp. of the United States to boost growth, while at the same time saying Fuji Xerox will cut one-fifth of its global workforce. The merger will enable Fujifilm "to formulate ...
Kanagawa Prefecture will test a free smartphone rental service for foreign tourists from mid-February to the end of March as the country readies itself for an expected influx of overseas visitors in the run-up to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The prefecture plans ...
The reactor in Ibaraki Prefecture gained approval from the Nuclear Regulation Authority to resume operations and will be used to conduct research on the extraction of melted nuclear fuel.
In his first State of the Union address, U.S. President Donald Trump branded the North Korean regime "depraved" and touted his pushback against "unfair trade deals," but had little new to say beyond rehashed statements about two key issues allied Japan continues to grapple ...
The government plans to conduct a demonstration project to test the safety of burying waste generated by decontamination work following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.
The Fukushima Prefectural Government took disciplinary action Tuesday against an employee in his 50s who used his office laptop to enter a raffle approximately 1,450 times, with about 930 being completed during working hours. The man, who held a managerial position at an outpost agency ...
Sharp Corp. reported Wednesday a consolidated net profit of ¥55.38 billion ($509 million) for the nine months through December, its first black ink for the period in four years due to recovering sales and cost cutting. In the latest evidence of a remarkable turnaround under ...
Reigning Belgian first division champions Anderlecht announced the acquisition of Japanese midfielder Ryota Morioka from fellow Belgian club Waasland-Beveren on Tuesday. After a spell with Polish side Slask Wroclaw in 2016, the 26-year-old Morioka moved to Waasland-Beveren in June and was called up to the ...
