Around 1,200 people lined up on Thursday morning at Tokyo's Ueno Zoo to see giant panda cub Xiang Xiang and mother Shin Shin, as a first-come, first-served system for viewing the animals kicked off. According to the zoo, the line began to form at around ...

Nissan Motor Co. will take over as main sponsor of the popular TV anime "Sazae-san," sources said. In November, struggling electronics and machinery maker Toshiba Corp. announced plans to quit as main sponsor of the Fuji Television Network Inc. show at the end of March. ...

A loading vehicle struck a group of students and teachers from a school for children with impaired hearing in Osaka on Thursday, killing an 11-year-old girl and injuring four others, police and rescuers said. The driver of the loader, Takuya Sano, 35, was arrested at ...

The slide is the biggest one-month loss in dollar terms in the short history of digital assets.

The test came after the United States approved a plan in early January to sell four SM-3 Block IIA missiles to Japan.

Eleven people were killed and another three were injured in a fire that started late Wednesday night at a residential facility for people living on welfare in Sapporo, the police said. The incident highlighted the poor fire prevention and protection measures common at housing open ...

SoftBank Group Corp. said it has agreed to take a majority stake in Line Corp.'s mobile unit for an undisclosed sum. The deal, to be finalized around March, will give SoftBank Corp. — the Tokyo-headquartered telecom and technology conglomerate's mobile phone subsidiary — 51 percent ...

If Uber Technologies Inc. is planning a retreat from Asia, no one told Brooks Entwistle, head of the ride-hailing company's business in the region. The San Francisco-based company is planning an expansion in Japan and is offering faster booking and cheaper rides to improve market ...

The criticism comes after the government announced planned revisions to a law on secondhand smoke, saying smoking would be permitted in some small establishments.

Instant cameras are making a comeback in Japan as the colorful, boxy film-based devices capture the hearts of young women. The cameras, which let people print photos on the spot, offer new ways to enjoy online photo-sharing as well, helping them defy the sales slump ...

The new method screens for the buildup of a protein in the brain believed to be linked to the disease.

The youngest son of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori said on Wednesday that he would form a new political group to support the executive branch as President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski and his center-right government grow increasingly isolated. Kenji Fujimori, whose popularity is surging, said he ...

The Osaka District Court has dismissed a damages lawsuit filed by relatives of Koreans who were in Hiroshima or Nagasaki at the time of the atomic bombings in 1945, citing the statute of limitations. The court's decision on Wednesday backed the government's stance that relatives ...

The Japanese media have finally begun portraying athletes with disabilities as elite in their own right, rather than focusing on what they are unable to do, according to an American academic researching the subject. Dennis Frost, associate professor at Kalamazoo College in Michigan, said newspapers ...

France's coast guard on Wednesday called off searches for the head of the U.S. firm that owns the Quiksilver surfwear brand, a day after his boat washed up empty on the country's Atlantic coast, local authorities said. Pierre Agnes had gone out fishing in his ...

Human traffickers are capitalizing on widespread chaos at migrant reception centers across Southern Europe to transport their victims undetected and lure other migrants into forced labor, a European security watchdog said on Wednesday. Migrants waiting for their asylum claims to be processed or stranded at ...

Few people expect to see Japanese CEOs weighing in on socially sensitive and divisive issues, but that may be starting to change.

The opening of previously frozen trade routes has supercharged an arms race and jostle for influence on the roof of the world

The flamboyant restaurant and bar NAMIKI667 that opened in January in the new Hyatt Centric Ginza Tokyo, offers guests a unique space to unwind with family and friends. The Ginza location marks Hyatt Centric's initial foray into Asia. The brand's first hotel opened in North ...

Food and the desire to eat has always been mysterious to Asako Iwama. When the artist and cook was a young child, she could not understand why she had to eat. Her earliest memories of food are of her grandmother's cooking in a strange ...

At the start of each year the New National Theatre Tokyo holds a media event at which the artistic directors of its three departments covering opera, drama and dance (ballet and contemporary) outline their aims and announce the upcoming programs. This time there was ...

Kei Nishikori survived an early scare Wednesday to claim a come-from-behind victory over German Matthias Bachinger in the second round of the RBC Tennis Championships of Dallas, an ATP Challenger Tour event. Two days after picking up his first win since returning from a five-month ...

Hideki Matsuyama will be looking to tie one of golf legend Arnold Palmer's records this week when he goes for his third consecutive victory at the Phoenix Open. The 25-year-old was welcomed with cheers at a news conference on Wednesday after he was announced as ...

"She is the one I trust the most." There is no higher praise for an athlete than to hear a comment like that from their coach or manager. The words of Japan women's national hockey team coach Takeshi Yamanaka crystallize what teammates and mentors think about ...

In the rapidly changing Japan pro basketball landscape, the Iwate Big Bulls' run to the bj-league Final Four in 2015 is, well, ancient history. The team has experienced its share of ups and downs since then, when Dai Oketani completed his distinguished three-year run as ...