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Seafood company Nippon Suisan Kaisha Ltd. has developed alternatives for Japanese flying squid and imported salmon to meet sushi and sashimi demand. Record poor catches of the squid in waters around Japan since 2016 have pushed up prices sharply. As of late February, the squid's ...
The Abe government plans to make it easier for foreign nationals with expertise in animation and illustration to obtain permanent residency in a bid to attract talent and further promote Japanese pop culture overseas. A source said Monday that the government expects to change the ...
China has set the stage for President Xi Jinping to stay in his post indefinitely in a position some have compared to that of an “emperor” — a move that could put the Asian powerhouse on a collision course with Japan and Prime Minister ...
A lawmaker from the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan files a lawsuit against the Abe government for not quickly meeting a request to convene an extraordinary Diet session last year.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in urged the United States and North Korea to each cede some ground in an attempt to broker talks between the two countries centered around resolving the nuclear crisis as Pyongyang reiterated its openness to dialogue and Washington said it ...
It may be hard to find a workplace more rife with inefficiency and inertia than the national Diet. After all, it's where the prime minister and other Cabinet ministers sacrifice their time to an extent almost unthinkable in other developed nations, even though constructive policy ...
A popular restaurant that accepted NEM, a virtual currency, has relocated to Tokyo from Nagoya, where it operated until last October. Regarded as the holy grail among virtual currency fans, it is believed to be the first store in the world to exchange XEM, the ...
Severed arms, legs and a torso were found in mountainous areas of Kyoto and Osaka two days after police discovered a human head during a search for a missing Hyogo Prefecture woman last seen with an American tourist.
Now it's Tokyo's turn. Sunday drew the curtains on a Winter Olympics that opened two weeks ago under the cloud of Russia's doping scandal and saw fears of a norovirus outbreak and freezing weather force changes to the Pyeongchang Games schedule. Not to mention the North ...
A third man was arrested Monday in connection with the death of a 19-year-old Sapporo woman two days after her severed head was found in a mountainous area in Hokkaido. Kazuo Shibata, 47, was arrested on suspicion of abandoning the body of Yuri Miyoshi in ...
Japan is the only country currently watching over ship-to-ship transfers extensively involving North Korean vessels.
The strategy of "maximum pressure" on North Korea continues unabated — as it should — but the risk of a conflict is also rising.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution will amount to a major test for a Japanese education system focused on reciting facts and performing formulaic calculations — precisely the areas where humans cannot compete with intelligent machines.
If the teenagers protesting America's insanely stupid gun laws are any indication, the future is in good hands.
One way to acquire more kanji is to organize them into a relational database. To show how this works, let's look at some of the many characters using the hand radical.
Nao Kodaira beat South Korea's Lee Sang-hwa to win the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics women's 500 meter speedskating event.
A public elementary school in Tokyo's posh Ginza district has decided to adopt new uniforms designed by Armani, triggering protests.
One day after the Winter Olympics concluded in Pyeongchang, the Japanese delegation returned home Monday and its medal-winning athletes expressed their gratitude to the fans for their warm and enthusiastic support. Team Japan amassed 13 medals in South Korea, its most ever in one Winter ...
Ruika Sato took out the women's 78-kg class and teammate Sara Asahina captured the open-weight title Sunday to bring Japan's final tally at the Dusseldorf Judo Grand Slam to seven gold and two silver medals. Sato went on the offensive from the outset against Brazilian ...
The Sunwolves may have come up short in their 2018 season opener, but the contest provided valuable experience for the younger players making their Super Rugby debuts. On Saturday, a trio of young Sunwolves — scrum-half Yutaka Nagare, flanker Kazuki Himeno and center Ryoto Nakamura ...
Japan midfielder Ryota Morioka scored a brace Sunday to help Anderlecht beat Mouscron 5-3 at home in the Belgian first division. Morioka scored his first goals since joining the reigning division champions in January. The 26-year-old gave Anderlecht the lead in the 26th minute when ...
On the back of his overpowering championship run in January, Georgian wrestler Tochinoshin will compete in March at sumo's third-highest rank of sekiwake, according to the rankings published Monday by the Japan Sumo Association. When the 30-year-old takes to the ring at Edion Arena Osaka ...
After finishing his first season in England empty-handed, Pep Guardiola finally collected his first trophy with Manchester City on Sunday. Thanks to some familiar faces. Despite recruiting more than $600 million in talent in around 18 months, Guardiola relied on City's old guard to produce a ...
