A Nagoya high court ruled the No. 3 and No. 4 reactors of Kansai Electric Power Co.’s Oi plant do not threaten the personal rights of those living nearby.

Chiba Institute of Technology unveiled Wednesday a transformable machine that can play dual roles — as both a robot, fused with artificial intelligence technologies, and a vehicle to enhance personal mobility. https://youtu.be/B2-YdU2TOCg The three-wheeled robot called CanguRo — meaning kangaroo in Italian — resembles the animal, ...

Hidden behind the capital's glassy high-rises and bustling shopping streets are dusty remnants of red-light districts and smoky bar alleys preserving traces of an older Tokyo — pockets of history Hisaki Kurosawa explores to catch glimpses of the other, more textured face of the ...

Despite winning approval by the Nuclear Regulation Authority, the plant still needs to clear two more screenings by November, when it will turn 40 years old.

Some 130 people who had been stranded at a hot spring resort in Hokkaido were rescued Wednesday after torrential rains triggered landslides in the area the previous day. The people who were staying at Tenninkyo hot spring in the town of Higashikawa walked across what ...

Nippon Express Co. said one of its employees falsified inspection stamps on government-stockpiled rice it had stored, in another case involving quality-control misconduct by a major Japanese firm.

Bank of Japan board member Yutaka Harada said Wednesday that unemployment needs to fall further if the country's stubbornly stagnant inflation rate is to pick up, while also advocating for continued monetary easing. His comments, made in a speech to business leaders in Kanazawa, Ishikawa ...

Emperor Akihito's health is improving, the Imperial Household Agency said Wednesday, after he had to cancel official duties earlier this week due to dizziness and nausea. Despite signs of recovery, the 84-year-old Emperor had to rest at the Imperial Palace, the agency said. Crown Prince ...

U.S. President Donald Trump added fuel to his feud with Harley-Davidson Inc. by claiming he's working with other motorcycle-makers to offset the production it's shifting overseas. He'll almost certainly have to work with foreign companies to do so, and none has stepped forward to announce ...

Hong Kong's top court ruled on Wednesday that a British lesbian should be granted a spousal visa, upholding a lower court's decision, in a landmark judgment that could open the door for expatriates' same-sex partners to move to the financial hub. The British woman, identified ...

Japan will send a large helicopter carrier to the South China Sea and Indian Ocean for a second straight year as it looks to bolster its presence in the strategic maritime region with annual tours, two Japanese officials said. "This is part of Japan's efforts ...

U.S. President Donald Trump personally took credit Tuesday for averting war with nuclear-armed North Korea, writing in a tweet that talks with the regime of leader Kim Jong Un were proceeding smoothly while also claiming that Asian nations were "thrilled" with the developments. "Many good ...

This spring, Pernod Ricard SA's Malibu Rum paid American singer Nick Jonas to host a competition in Vietnam that began with 33 Instagram stars battling to catch fake pineapples while flying off a giant waterslide into the sea. In one month alone, videos and pictures ...

The first batches of batteries from electric and hybrid vehicles are hitting retirement age, yet they aren't bound for landfills. Instead, they'll spend their golden years chilling beer at convenience stores in Japan, powering car-charging stations in California and storing energy for homes and ...

Malaysia's former leader Najib Razak has pleaded not guilty to charges of corruption and criminal breach of trust in connection with a multibillion-dollar scandal surrounding state fund 1MDB. Appearing in the High Court on Wednesday, Najib was granted bail of 1 million ringgit ($247,000) and ...

The Senate Intelligence Committee strongly backed the finding by U.S. intelligence agencies that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a campaign to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, ultimately intending to help Donald Trump win. "The committee concurs with intelligence and open-source assessments that this influence ...

The Trump administration is giving some parents who were separated from their children after entering the United States illegally the option of either being deported with their youngsters or without them, NBC News reported on Tuesday. A form laying out the two options is being ...

The U.S. Commerce Department on Tuesday granted a temporary reprieve to ZTE Corp. that allows China's No. 2 telecommunications equipment-maker to conduct business needed to maintain existing networks and equipment in the United States as it works toward the lifting of a U.S. sales ...

Major U.S. trading partners including the European Union, China and Japan voiced deep concern at the World Trade Organization on Tuesday about possible U.S. measures imposing additional duties on imported autos and parts. Japan, which along with Russia had initiated the discussion at the WTO ...

Planned new centers around the Mediterranean to handle migrants will be no silver bullet solution to the European Union's immigration challenge, says a U.N. agency of the idea it will be asked to implement. Irregular migration across the sea has been dramatically reduced, and only ...

Pilots directly employed by Ryanair and who are members of its Irish trade union will go on strike for the first time on July 12 after the union said on Tuesday the airline had failed to meet demands over new working practices. Europe's biggest budget ...

Japan will have to anticipate a high risk of trade policies being taken by Trump that would be inconceivable from a common sense perspective.

The emerging U.S.-China trade war was caused by structural flaws on both sides that long predate the Trump presidency

Job insecurity, excessive secrecy and legal curbs on dispatch teachers come under the spotlight as 120 teachers lose their classes.

When the first same-sex partnership was recognized in Shibuya in 2015, the mayor called it "a first step." So why, nearly three years later, are we still taking first steps?

Before the start of the World Cup, The Japan Times got the lowdown from Japan-based supporters of some of the 32 teams fighting it out for the ultimate prize in Russia.

Written at the start of World War I and published in 1925 after its author's untimely death, Franz Kafka's "The Trial" is one of those novels everyone knows by reputation (or, in my case, from a fevered reading in high school). The unequal contest between ...

Love can drive you nuts. One recent illustration of how can be seen in the American TV show "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend," about a successful New York lawyer who runs into her teen crush one day, and soon after quits her job and moves to California ...

It's the title that grabs you first. Hikaru Utada's seventh album makes a conspicuous nod to her 1999 debut, but the preternaturally mature teen of "First Love" is now a twice-divorced mother with ample life experience to draw on. However, on the title track of ...

Kris Johnson worked into the ninth to pitch the Central League-leading Hiroshima Carp to a 4-2 win over the Tokyo Yakult Swallows on Wednesday. Johnson, the 2016 Sawamura Award winner, improved to 5-2. After winning 29 games over his first two seasons in Japan, fitness ...

Now under new ownership, the Kawasaki Brave Thunders will be called ... the Kawasaki Brave Thunders. DeNA Kawasaki Brave Thunders Co., Ltd., which took over as the operating company of the B. League first-division club at the beginning of this month, announced it has decided ...

Sumo makes its yearly stop in steamy Nagoya starting Sunday, with Kakuryu aiming for a third straight title at the only venue where he has yet to raise the Emperor's Cup. If the yokozuna emerges victorious at the end of the two weeks, he'll have ...

Japan captain Makoto Hasebe announced Tuesday he is retiring from the national team, a day after the Samurai Blue were knocked out of the World Cup by Belgium. Hasebe took to social media to make the announcement, posting on Instagram that it is time for ...