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With temperatures soaring higher than average this year, retailers are hoping to boost sales of apparel by capitalizing on the government's annual Cool Biz campaign, which started Tuesday. To reduce energy costs, the Cool Biz campaign calls for workplaces to set their air conditioners to ...
The girl reportedly withdrew the complaint she had filed with police, which was likely to have factored into the decision by prosecutors not to charge Tatsuya Yamaguchi.
Marine salvage experts are floating a plan to tug icebergs from Antarctica to South Africa's drought-hit Cape Town to help solve the region's worst water shortage in a century. Salvage master Nick Sloane said he was looking for government and private investors for a scheme ...
The fugitive fled last month from a low-security prison in Ehime Prefecture and was caught in Hiroshima on Monday, ending a search that involved some 15,500 personnel.
The case is the latest in a string of inappropriate practices involving the government program, which is often criticized as a cover to import cheap labor.
An annual memorial service for victims of mercury poisoning was held Tuesday in Minamata, Kumamoto Prefecture, as Japan marked the 62nd anniversary of its official recognition of the disaster caused by industrial pollution. About 700 people, including survivors and families of victims, attended the service ...
Volkswagen AG, the world's biggest automaker, is in talks to form a joint venture with China's Didi Chuxing to manage part of the ride-hailing company's fleet of cars and help develop "purpose-built" vehicles for Didi's services. As part of the deal between Volkswagen and China's ...
Japan's traditional regional utilities, already defending their territory against nimbler new entrants, face a fresh threat: One of their own is now stealing customers thanks to cheaper nuclear-powered electricity rates. Kansai Electric Power Co. is one of a few utilities to restart its reactors, which ...
Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad says the Yasukuni Shrine is a delicate issue for China and that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe needs to pay attention to the feelings of neighboring countries. "I think it's a sensitive issue for the Chinese. He should take into ...
After months of threats and insults directed at North Korean leader Kim Jong Un that fueled fears of nuclear war, is a Nobel Peace Prize now in the cards for a more conciliatory Donald Trump? That's what South Korean President Moon Jae-in has said, suggesting ...
White House chief of staff John Kelly persuaded U.S. President Donald Trump not to order the withdrawal of all American troops from the Korean Peninsula ahead of the February Winter Olympics in South Korea, a report said Monday, just weeks ahead of a planned ...
In the first time he has spoken to Japanese media, the former engineering manager at Takata Corp. who alerted U.S. authorities to the risks of its air bag inflators said he did so out of a sense of professional and ethical duty. Mark Lillie said ...
A service launched by an agriculture venture in 2010 combines the fun of an online game with tangible benefits, as players receive produce in exchange for managing a virtual farm linked to real-world cultivation. The service connecting consumers with farmers through gamification, started by Telefarm ...
Thousands of people marched through Moscow, throwing paper planes and calling for authorities to unblock the popular Telegram instant messaging app on Monday. Protesters chanted slogans against President Vladimir Putin as they launched the planes — a reference to the app's logo. "Putin's regime has declared ...
The judge who will decide if AT&T will be allowed to buy movie and TV show maker Time Warner indicated on Monday that he could be considering a decision that wasn't a clear approval or blocking of the $85 billion deal. In his closing remarks, ...
A unit of Panasonic Corp. has agreed to pay about $280 million (¥30.5 billion) in a deal with the U.S. government to resolve criminal and civil charges that the company falsified its financial records to conceal payments to sales agents in China and other ...
It is at least the seventh time for Tokyo to see such inter-Korean "agreements" and, most ominously, they have never been implemented.
Japan must work closely with the U.S., South Korea, and China to ensure that North Korea commits to irreversible denuclearization and then follows through on that promise.
The next few weeks will be critical for Japan, as it will be profoundly affected by the outcome of the Trump-Kim meeting even though it will only have a limited direct influence on the developments on the Korean Peninsula.
The belief that the Kim-Trump summit will produce a definitive resolution rests on irrational exuberance.
On the evening of May 2, 1998, as most of Japan was basking in the annual Golden Week holidays, a few dozen young women had gathered outside an apartment building in Tokyo's Minamiazabu neighborhood. Earlier that day, the musician Hideto Matsumoto, better known by his ...
"Velazquez and the Celebration of Painting: The Golden Age in the Museo Del Prado" celebrates 150 years of Japan-Spain diplomatic relations with an exploration of the authority of vision and humanity of the divine.
Club music usually gets you pumped up for a night out. Music about clubs? Those songs are just as likely to focus on the come down from the good vibes: There's Robyn being ignored in the corner on "Dancing on My Own" or Morrissey ...
Takumi Akiyama went the distance and Yoshio Itoi opened the scoring in the Hanshin Tigers' 7-1 victory over the Yokohama BayStars on Tuesday. Akiyama (2-3) did not issue a walk and limited the visitors to six hits, while striking out nine in his 107-pitch effort ...
Building relationships is a vital part of being a successful pro sports agent. Sustaining relationships is equally important, but it's an often trickier task in the cutthroat world of pro basketball. After all, agents come and go in this ultra-competitive business, and maintaining trust and ...
Toronto Maple Leafs general manager Lou Lamoriello will not return to the role next season. Team president Brendan Shanahan said Monday he was sticking to a plan that called for the 75-year-old Lamoriello to serve as GM for three years and then transition to senior ...
