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Nintendo Co. has resumed sales in Japan of a smaller, palm-sized version of its 35-year-old popular Famicom game console, in response to requests from fans for its revival. Many stores in Japan sold out of the Nintendo Classic Mini Family Computer console after its initial ...
The firm sees a key role for financial services in its growth strategy, and plans to integrate them into its messaging app used by 75 million people in Japan.
With thousands of Airbnb reservations scrapped and Uber reduced to delivering food, life is hard in Japan for the giants of the sharing economy: They're stuck between tough regulation and popular suspicion. Japan may be the world's third-largest economy and a high-tech hub but it ...
Hiroki Shimada can trace the genesis of his company, Scouty Inc., back to a time when he was on the outside of the job market looking in. During his graduate studies in artificial intelligence at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, Shimada was surprised to ...
The race to transform the global auto industry has reached full throttle. Facing what has been touted as a once-in-a-century transformation, domestic carmakers are rushing to transition from conventional manufacturers into tech-driven "mobility companies" focused on CASE (connected, autonomous, shared and electric) technologies. Toyota Motor Corp. ...
Seven plaintiffs have now filed sterilization lawsuits against the government since January.
The researchers used processed aluminum powder to develop a reusable filter that captures tritiated water in superfine pores.
Ng Goon-lau pointed at a window inside a dark, tiny bedroom. The window was small and easily sealed, Ng explained, a perfect place for carbon-monoxide poisoning. A man once burned charcoal to kill himself there. Another tenant, a policewoman, also hanged herself in the same ...
Popular baseball manga series "Dokaben" ended its 46-year run with a final entry published in a weekly comic magazine released Thursday. Many people in their 40s and 50s who had read the series by Shinji Mizushima as youngsters reminisced about how they learned about baseball ...
The suicide of a teenager in China whose sexual harassment case was dismissed has triggered nationwide soul-searching over her treatment, and anger at onlookers who encouraged her to jump off a building. Li Yiyi, 19, died last week after throwing herself from the eighth floor ...
The idea that North Korea's denuclearization can be implemented without Japan's involvement is completely misguided.
While earthquakes cannot be prevented or predicted, the damage they cause can be limited by taking action to address foreseeable risks.
Asia-Pacific economies could boost their collective GDP by $4.5 trillion per year by 2025, just by accelerating progress toward gender equality.
Whether Trump's values-free approach works depends on the diplomacy that follows.
When life gave her lemons, film star Kirin Kiki didn't make lemonade, but wild grass enzyme juice. It's the only thing that has satisfied her taste buds since her advanced-stage cancer caused her to lose her appetite, and even her desire for alcohol has vanished ...
Now 75, Kirin Kiki is everyone’s favorite Japanese grandmother, a role she has been playing for years now on big screens and small. But she has also never been anyone’s stereotype of quietly suffering, nobly self-sacrificing Japanese womanhood. Starting on television in the mid-1960s she ...
Skyler Howard celebrated his Tokyo Dome debut with the MVP-winning performance that guided the Obic Seagulls to back-to-back Pearl Bowl championships. Howard, a former West Virginia quarterback, threw two touchdown passes in his first appearance at Tokyo Dome to help the Seagulls beat the IBM ...
Minoru Iwata and three relievers combined on a five-hitter as the Hanshin Tigers beat the error-prone Yokohama BayStars 3-2 on Thursday to complete a three-game sweep. A packed house of 28,195 watched a well-pitched game that was eventually decided by mistakes. With no outs and ...
The Japan men's national team will face Australia in the first of two remaining FIBA World Cup Asian first-round qualifiers on Friday night at Chiba Port Arena. Many observers think that it's too tall of a task for the Akatsuki Five to post a win ...
Sunwolves stand-in head coach Tony Brown named his side Thursday for Saturday's clash with the Bulls at Singapore National Stadium as Super Rugby resumes following the June tests. Willie Britz leads a side that includes 11 members of the Japan squad that split the two-match ...
Yomiuri Giants right-hander Tomoyuki Sugano was among seven players added Thursday to the Central and Pacific League All-Star teams through player voting. Sugano was selected to the All-Star roster for the seventh time after receiving 385 votes from his NPB colleagues. The 28-year-old leads the ...
Back in 2005 two flyhalf/centers of contrasting ability talked about why they hoped Japan would win the right to host the 2011 Rugby World Cup. "By hosting the World Cup, we will raise the level of the national team and raise the popularity of the ...
Los Angeles Angels general manager Billy Eppler said Wednesday that Shohei Ohtani would have already been cleared to bat as a designated hitter if the American League club wasn't also aiming for him to pitch again this season. Ohtani, who entered the disabled list earlier ...
