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Hitachi Ltd. has decided to continue talks over a ¥3 trillion nuclear power plant project in Wales after the British government made a financing offer, according to a source. The maker of machinery and infrastructure systems made the decision at an extraordinary board meeting Monday ...
The remains of an additional 1,852 unidentified Japanese who died during World War II were laid to rest at Chidorigafuchi National Cemetery in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward in a memorial service Monday. Among the remains were those recovered in and brought back from Russia and Iwo ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe denies the Finance Ministry’s document-tampering and disposal bids were triggered by his pledge last year to resign if evidence proved he or his wife were involved in the Moritomo Gakuen land scandal.
Police dealt with a record-high number of consultations last year over problems that were not pressing, such as noisy neighbors and graffiti.
Surprised Singaporeans pursued North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Sunday before realizing the portly man with slick black hair near the Marina Bay Sands hotel was an impersonator. "It looked like the real Kim Jong Un, but later I realized it's not the real ...
More than 300 cryptocurrency traders reported over ¥100 million in miscellaneous income in their 2017 tax returns as a result of trading bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, according to data released last week by the National Tax Agency. While 331 of them each reported miscellaneous income ...
The International Labor Organization kicks off its annual meeting with discussions aimed at setting the first international rules to end sexual and other types of harassment at work.
U.S. President Donald Trump confirmed Sunday that an advance team of veteran American diplomats is conducting talks with North Korean officials at the border between the two Koreas as both the U.S. and the North work to salvage a possible leaders' summit — a ...
Damage has been found in a bolt in the main rotor head of the Ground Self-Defense Force helicopter that crashed in Saga Prefecture in February, government sources said Monday. The sources think the rotor head of the AH-64D Apache from the GSDF's Metabaru Camp broke ...
The United States and North Korea will focus on a proposed shipment overseas of some of Pyongyang's nuclear warheads during preparatory talks for a summit between President Donald Trump and the North's leader, Kim Jong Un, U.S. officials said Sunday. The U.S. has demanded that ...
In early June, Ben Lecomte will enter the waters off Choshi Marina Beach in Chiba Prefecture to begin a 10,000-km (5,400-nautical-mile) swim across the Pacific Ocean that seeks to shine a light on ocean pollution and plastic contamination, and put Lecomte into the history ...
Whether you love or hate it, artificial intelligence is here to stay. The question is — particularly in Japan, which is facing a severely aging population and shrinking of its workforce — will AI perform tasks that are beneficial to society as a whole? AI has ...
The Aichi Prefectural Government — which has been holding the ShakeOut earthquake drill since fiscal 2013 — plans to draw a million participants to a session to be held this year on Sept. 1, the Disaster Prevention Day. Since the prefecture is expected to suffer ...
House of Representatives member Kanji Kato on Sunday defended a remark he made earlier this month urging newlyweds to have at least three children. The 72-year-old politician from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, representing the No. 2 constituency in Nagasaki Prefecture, told the local LDP ...
Most of the foreign airlines that agreed to tweak references to Taiwan to reflect the island as part of mainland China have been given more time to comply as Beijing extends a crackdown on companies regarding its stance on disputed territories. Air France-KLM and Deutsche ...
China's Defense Ministry has vowed to bolster its "combat readiness" to defend against what it said was a "serious infringement" of the country's sovereignty after the U.S. Navy dispatched two warships for an apparent "freedom of navigation" operation (FONOP) in disputed South China Sea ...
A potential bill to prohibit ZTE Corp. and other Chinese telecommunications companies from operating in the U.S. would have supermajority support in Congress, Republican Sen. Marco Rubio said. "Most members of Congress have come to understand the threat China poses," Rubio said on CBS's "Face ...
British Prime Minister Theresa May faces a showdown with ministers and lawmakers in her Conservative party after refusing to back reform of Northern Ireland's highly restrictive abortion rules after neighboring Ireland's vote to liberalize its laws. Voters in Ireland, a once deeply Catholic nation, backed ...
Now is the time for South Korean President Moon Jae-in to dramatically change his image in Japan.
Japan and other likeminded nations should join the U.S. in letting Beijing know its militarization of the South China Sea is unacceptable.
The saga of Chinese tariffs and ZTE makes clear that the Trump administration hasn't thought through difficult issues.
A decline in global smartphone sales is bad news for Japanese electronics makers.
The English-language media recently described North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un as wearing a "Mao suit," but no one in East Asia would refer to it this way.
On May 22, the transport ministry announced new designs for license plates that will be introduced in 41 regions nationwide.
The head coach of Nihon University's American football team says he will quit after apologizing to a Kwansei Gakuin University player over a controversial play.
Some baseball fans carry a glove to a game hoping to catch a ball. Andy Brown is a little bit different. Brown doesn't go to games in search of foul balls. He carries some paint, a few brushes and other supplies. What he hopes to ...
Naomi Osaka cruised into the second round of the French Open with a straight-sets victory Monday over American Sofia Kenin. The No. 21 seed, who claimed her first WTA title at the BNP Paribas Open in March, took 74 minutes to complete the 6-2, 7-5 ...
A day after coming up short at the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament, Georgian wrestler Tochinoshin said Monday that he is bracing for an even tougher road ahead after he is promoted to ozeki, sumo's second-highest rank. "I think it's going to be really tough. I ...
