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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. ...
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 ...
A bottle of limited edition Yamazaki-brand whisky released by Suntory Spirits Ltd. about six years ago has fetched $298,879 (about ¥32.6 million) at a Sotheby's auction in Hong Kong. This is the highest successful bid for any single bottle of Japanese whisky, an official of ...
The criticism comes after the government announced planned revisions to a law on secondhand smoke, saying smoking would be permitted in some small establishments.
The new method screens for the buildup of a protein in the brain believed to be linked to the disease.
The main terrorism suspect behind the 2015 Paris attacks, Salah Abdeslam, will go on trial in Belgium under tight security on Monday over the shootout in Brussels that led to his capture. It will be the first public glimpse of the 28-year-old who led police ...
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 ...
A volcanic eruption in the Philippines forces mass evacuations, while another in Japan kills one person. Across the Pacific, a 7.9 magnitude earthquake hits off Alaska. So what's the link? The spate of activity around the so-called Ring of Fire has raised concerns that a ...
Few people expect to see Japanese CEOs weighing in on socially sensitive and divisive issues, but that may be starting to change.
Further postponing the goal of achieving a primary budget balance risks making Japan's commitment to fiscal consolidation less credible.
The opening of previously frozen trade routes has supercharged an arms race and jostle for influence on the roof of the world
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 ...
Manchester United and Chelsea couldn't afford any slip-ups if they were to have even the slightest chance of catching Manchester City in the final months of the Premier League. Both lost on Wednesday, and saw City rack up another big win to move even closer ...
Sky Brown is not your typical 9-year-old. Born to be wild, the freckly Japanese schoolgirl is already the world's youngest pro skateboarder, videos of her shredding have gone viral and, for super-duper kicks, she's just started jumping off the tops of buses. Sky has been skating ...
