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Unknown hackers stole 339.5 million roubles ($6 million) from a Russian bank last year in an attack using the SWIFT international payments messaging system, the Russian central bank said on Friday. The disclosure, buried at the bottom of a central bank report on digital thefts ...
Yori Oda, a decorated teacher who taught Japanese at Harvard University for 35 years, died earlier this month after a recent illness. She was 82. In 2013, Oda was awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold and Silver Rays, by Emperor Akihito in recognition ...
Chika Kako is a rarity in Toyota Motor Corp.'s upper echelons. Last month, the 50-year-old was promoted to the No. 2 job at the luxury Lexus division, becoming the only woman among the automaker's top 53 managers. President Akio Toyoda has made diversifying his executive ...
On the surface, it looks like an attractive deal: Raise your workers' pay by 3 percent and your company qualifies for a substantial tax break. But a closer look suggests that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's policy actually raises the bar for companies to benefit from ...
Japan lags behind other countries in fact-checking initiatives and still has low awareness of their importance, according to FactCheck Initiative Japan (FIJ), a Tokyo-based nonprofit organization that encourages fact-verifying activities. Speaking at a news conference on Feb. 8 at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, ...
More and more Japanese parents are attending matchmaking parties in an effort to marry off their children, worried that they will be part of the growing segment of the population that never ties the knot. Although matchmaking for political or financial reasons was common in ...
A majority of the public is tolerant of physical discipline for children, a recent survey by a nongovernmental organization shows. Of 20,000 respondents 20 or older surveyed online last July, 56.7 percent had a tolerant attitude toward physical discipline, including 1.2 percent who said it ...
Speaking at a conference in San Francisco, Uber Chief Executive Officer Dara Khosrowshahi rattled through the company's ambitions: food delivery, freight, autonomous vehicles and even buses and bikes. Ultimately, Uber Technologies Inc.'s business is getting people from "point A to point B," he said at ...
The government and the International Atomic Energy Agency have signed an agreement to work together to keep the 2020 Olympics safe from nuclear terrorism. According to the Foreign Ministry, the agreement includes measures to support the participation of IAEA experts in related events, exchanges of ...
Mitsubishi Electric Corp. launched a research and development open house event in Tokyo this week to showcase their latest advanced research products. The main focus of the event was the company's new array of AI technology. The firm spent a record ¥212 billion on research ...
President Donald Trump's administration is actively discussing the possibility of rejoining the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade deal on condition that the United States renegotiate it to secure better terms, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Thursday. Citing Trump's suggestion last month in Davos, Switzerland, that he ...
At least 3,400 civilians died last year amid the war in Afghanistan, a slight decrease from the previous year, according to an annual U.N. report released Thursday. The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan said there was a decrease of 2.3 percent from the year ...
It was a trip few Mumbai residents had made before — to a smelly dock on murky waters in the city's southern tip, to see colorful art installations inspired by the fishing community, the city's original residents. The Sassoon Dock Art Project, which ran until ...
In her village of Komalia, the fog swirls so thick at 7 a.m. that Akansha Singh can see no more than 15 meters ahead. But the 20-year-old is already cycling to her workplace, 9 kilometers away. Halfway there she stops for two hours at a ...
The White House on Thursday blamed Russia for the devastating NotPetya cyberattack last year, joining the British government in condemning Moscow for unleashing a virus that crippled parts of Ukraine's infrastructure and damaged computers in countries across the globe. The attack launched in June 2017 ...
Shinsuke Sugiyama, the next Japanese ambassador to the United States, said Thursday that he will do all he can to resolve issues pertaining to North Korea's nuclear arms and missile programs and its abductions of Japanese nationals. "I'll make my utmost effort to resolve the ...
Japan and the United States will hold a tabletop exercise for ballistic missile defense on a larger scale than before, in their latest show of unity against North Korea, the Defense Ministry said Thursday. The annual exercise, aimed at enhancing tactical skills for ballistic missile ...
If dialogue takes place between Washington and Pyongyang, it should place priority on getting North Korea to abandon its nuclear and missile programs.
The U.S. administration's approach to Islamabad undermines potential solutions in Afghanistan.
Abenomics required an end to timid monetary policy. Haruhiko Kuroda is providing it.
Active Kagoshima Prefecture volcano a hot destination for cycle tourists, best viewed from the safety of Sengan-en, an Edo Period circuit garden.
Esmee Visser continued the Netherlands' unrivaled run in Pyeongchang Olympic speed skating Friday, winning the 5,000-meter gold medal, her country's sixth at Gangneung Oval at these games. Up against the sport's royalty in Martina Sablikova and Claudia Pechstein, the diminutive Dutchwoman separated herself from the ...
Mindful of his error-riddled free skate at the Sochi Olympics, defending Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu refuses to get carried away after winning the men's figure skating short program at the Pyeongchang Games on Friday. At the 2014 Sochi Games, Hanyu became the first Japanese man ...
9:05 a.m. Curling, women’s preliminary round: Entering the fourth day of the preliminary round, Japan will face China and the Olympic Athletes from Russia. Japan, runner-up at the 2016 world championships, is currently ranked sixth in the world while China is No. 10. It ...
In incredibly dramatic fashion, Yuzuru Hanyu rose to the occasion in the short program at Gangneung Ice Arena on Friday afternoon. Hanyu's score of 111.68 points, an Olympic record for the short program, has him in first place heading into Saturday's free skate and halfway ...
Over 200 figure skating fans watched Yuzuru Hanyu's bid for Olympic immortality on Friday at NHK Fureai Hall in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward, which was hosting one of several public viewing events taking place around the capital. All 235 seats in the hall were occupied and ...
Austria's Matthias Mayer made up for the disappointment of his injury-hampered downhill title defense at the Pyeongchang Olympics by skiing an error-free run to win the men's super-G on Friday, ending 16 years of Norwegian dominance of the event. A day after Aksel Lund Svindal ...
Yes, there was a giant slalom, the curling and the announcement that Shaun White and Ayumu White would be taking a shot at competing at the Summer Games. But for Japan, in general it was breather of a day ahead of the bigger events ...
Noriaki Kasai had a bittersweet Valentine's Day. On Wednesday, teammate Yuki Ito, who finished out of the medals in ninth in the Pyeongchang Olympics women's ski jumping on Monday, gave Kasai a box of chocolates before boarding her flight back to Japan. Kasai's conversation with Ito, ...
