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Pictograms on how to use Japanese electric toilets have been registered as a global standard in a step aimed at making such signs more familiar to the growing number of foreign tourists visiting the country. Six kinds of pictograms — showing instructions on which buttons ...
The Japan Times will hold its ninth annual spelling bee Saturday in Tokyo, with students from Japanese, international and United States military base schools across the nation competing to be recognized as the best speller in Japan. The winner of the Japan Times Bee qualifies ...
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 state-backed summit saw officials from about 130 prefectures and municipalities converge on Tokyo over the weekend to exchange information on their plans as registered "host towns" for the 2020 Olympics. At the summit Sunday, participants exchanged information on their welcome plans for the athletes, ...
Companies across the developing world are stepping up investment to meet rising demand from industrial economies, in a development that is further boosting already buoyant global growth. Big industrial economies, including the United States and Japan, led the recent recovery in capital spending. Now such ...
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 ...
The country's first office building fully powered by off-the-grid solar energy opened Monday in the city of Saga. Daiwa House Industry Co. is promoting the two-story, 2,400-square-meter facility as a "net-zero energy building" that offsets primary energy consumption through the use of renewable energy created ...
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 ...
The transfer of spent nuclear fuel from the Fugen converter reactor in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, will be postponed for nine years until a new reprocessing facility can be chosen, the Japan Atomic Energy Agency said Monday. JAEA President Toshio Kodama announced the delay until fiscal ...
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 ...
Nissan Motor Co. said Monday it is aiming to increase its sales of light commercial vehicles by more than 40 percent by 2022 as part of its midterm business plan. The carmaker said it is planning to boost its LCV sales to some 1.2 million ...
Sales of digital manga in 2017 surpassed their printed versions for the first time, an industry research institute said Monday, highlighting a shift in reader preferences. According to a survey by the Research Institute for Publications, sales of digital manga last year are estimated to ...
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.
Major brokerages are set to raise pay for newly hired college graduates this year as competition for talent intensifies, amid a rebound in retail business and a chronic labor shortage. Daiwa Securities Group Inc. plans to increase base salaries for the 600 school leavers starting ...
Myanmar has begun upgrading the six-decade-old railway loop in its former capital Yangon with official development assistance from Japan. Tokyo will provide $207 million for the $301 million project, which is designed to shorten the round-trip travel time to two hours from three. More commuters ...
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.
ABUJA, Nigeria Reuters One hundred and ten girls are missing after an attack on a school in northeast Nigeria by suspected Boko Haram insurgents, the information ministry said on Sunday, in what may be one of the largest abductions since the Chibok kidnappings of 2014. The Islamist ...
The National Rifle Association pushed back on Sunday against modest proposals by President Donald Trump and other Republicans to change U.S. gun laws in the wake of a school shooting in Florida that killed 17 students and staff. The powerful gun lobby group does not ...
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 ...
