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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is reluctant to compromise on the substance of constitutional amendments, emphasizing his commitment to the ambitious goal of altering the war-renouncing Article 9.
Sunday's victory in the Nago mayoral election by a candidate who appears to favor the relocation of U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma to the city's Henoko district is widely seen as a political victory for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and a defeat for ...
The habitat of the Japanese crested ibis, one of the nation's special natural treasures, is improving on Sado Island thanks to new technology for cleaning contact lenses. To let the birds feed on water creatures, farmers on the island in Niigata Prefecture have been leaving ...
Travel agency H.I.S. Co. is eyeing an ambitious plan to build eight more android-staffed Henn na Hotels in addition to the one it opened in Tokyo's high-end Ginza shopping district on Thursday. Against the backdrop of a shrinking population and a growing number of foreign ...
Even in the age of LinkedIn profiles and digital addresses, the business card endures. In almost every place on earth, people exchange contact information using printed rectangles of paper (except, perhaps, in Silicon Valley, and increasingly in China). They can get lost, and most folks ...
Japan lodges a protest with South Korea after flags hoisted during an Olympic preparation match were found bearing disputed islets in the Sea of Japan.
Tadashi Yanai — head of the clothing giant Fast Retailing Co., which runs the popular Uniqlo casual wear brand — may be in the later stages of his career as a business manager, but he has no plans to take it easy. The 68-year-old, who ...
Long stuck in China’s second-tier, Nissan and Dongfeng Group plan to boost their volume to 2.6 million vehicles a year by 2022.
Yamato Holdings Co. plans to provide logistics services in Myanmar through a joint venture with a local partner, aiming to capitalize on growing demand for trade and road transport from foreign companies. Yamato Global Logistics Myanmar Co., set up at the end of last year ...
The 69th Sapporo Snow Festival launched on Monday with some 200 snow and ice sculptures on display, including one of a famous manga hero. More than 2 million people are expected to attend weeklong event, which is held in three venues in Hokkaido's capital. In commemoration ...
The United States is considering restricting imports of Venezuelan crude oil and exports of U.S. refined products to Venezuela, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Sunday, to put pressure on socialist President Nicolas Maduro to "return to the constitution." "One of the aspects ...
In a political victory for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and a defeat for anti-U.S. base forces in Okinawa, incumbent Nago Mayor Susumu Inamine failed in his re-election bid Sunday night, losing to a candidate strongly backed by Abe's Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito. Inamine lost ...
An Amtrak passenger train apparently traveling on the wrong track collided with a parked freight train in South Carolina on Sunday, killing two crew members and injuring at least 116 other people in the railroad's third fatal crash in as many months, authorities said. Investigators ...
South Korea's censored discourse on "comfort women" reflects an underlying, authoritarian-nationalist perspective in which Koreans portray themselves as innocent victims and dissenting voices to the anti-Japanese narrative undermine South Korea's moral power.
Japan should pursue close relations with Britain, which can can be an important partner in efforts to promote a rules-based order and democracy, as Beijing plays hard to get.
The prime minister's upcoming pick for governor of the Bank of Japan will be the key executive decision defining the future of Abenomics.
U.K. leaders' apparent belief that they can muddle through Brexit is setting the U.K. up for a rude awakening.
Russia is likely to pass through a darker night than now before Vladimir Putin's determined opponent can claim leadership.
Alibaba is building systems that will link vehicles to the roads they drive on.
Google Trends has released its search data on Japan for 2017 and topping several lists was the name Mao Kobayashi (小林麻央).
Today we'll introduce some meanings and usages of the verb 込（こ）む, which means to be crowded/to include, as in この電車（でんしゃ）は込んでいるから次（つぎ）のにしよう。(This train is crowded so we should wait for the next one.) 込む can be attached to an action verb (X) to create the compound ...
A food tasting party was held on Jan. 28 in Fukuoka's Hakata Ward, which took Islamic law into consideration when serving halal sushi.
Echoing the Mt. Gox fiasco nearly four years ago, Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck disclosed Friday it had been hacked and lost about ¥58 billion ($532 million) worth of its holdings, sending clients into a panic about the fate of their virtual assets.
U.S. reality TV star Kylie Jenner announced on Sunday the birth of her child with rapper Travis Scott, after months of rumors surrounding her pregnancy. The 20-year-old Jenner said in a post on social media platform Instagram that her "beautiful, healthy baby girl" arrived on ...
Former World No. 4 Kei Nishikori appears to be on his way to a full recovery from the wrist injury he suffered last August after claiming his first ATP title since winning the Memphis Open in 2016. Nishikori, who dropped to No. 27 after a ...
The Olympics have the power to turn obscure sports into much bigger attractions once they've been included on the program for the global sports extravaganza. So the announcement two years ago that sport climbing — which combines bouldering, lead climbing and speed climbing — would ...
Speedskating star Nao Kodaira has vowed to strike gold at the Pyeongchang Olympics as a tribute to her late friend and former teammate Miyako Sumiyoshi. Kodaira was left devastated after Sumiyoshi, who skated for Japan with Kodaira at the 2014 Sochi Games, was found dead ...
Japan midfielder Makoto Hasebe reached a milestone when he made his 250th appearance in the German top flight Sunday, but Eintracht Frankfurt was beaten by Augsburg 3-0 away for its first loss in 2018. Hasebe, who is in his 11th season in the Bundesliga, played ...
