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The Meteorological Agency warned that heavy rain may continue through Sunday in the region, which is still reeling from a deadly earthquake in June.
Some economists see the upcoming 2019 consumption tax increase as a potential step toward repeating mistakes of the past.
The 58-year-old plaintiff, who is a member of the ethnic Tamil minority, applied for refugee status in October 2006 during civil war in Sri Lanka.
Prosecutors believe the school’s chairman and president were involved with approaching a ministry official to help the institution get selected for subsidies, sources have said.
Technology today is advancing — often so fast that society fails to take full advantage of some great innovations due to outdated regulations, says the head of a new research center in Tokyo. The newly established Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution in the capital ...
The city of Kyoto once again saw record levels of tourists in 2017, with 15.57 million foreign and Japanese visitors spending at least one night in the former capital, city officials said Wednesday. But both foreign and domestic visitors continued to complain about overcrowded tourist ...
Hosting the Olympic and Paralympic Games comes with a massive environmental footprint. In fact, the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee believes that making the games sustainable can only be achieved if it intensifies its efforts to showcase green technology innovations to the world at a time ...
With Japan purchasing just 1.3 percent of Mexico's exports last year, there is great room for growth.
Can an old-fashioned military alliance like NATO can deliver the security and physical safety modern societies need?
Out of Mexico's three presidential contenders, Andres Lopez Obrador was the least prepared to manage the bully in the White House.
Follow the Sumida River southwest from Asakusa and you'll soon reach Kuramae, an old working-class neighborhood filled with small factories, wholesale shops and temples. The area is changing, though, with single origin coffee roasters and stores selling imported pottery sprouting up next to mom-and-pop ...
Television has long been my connection to home. White Walkers ushering in an apocalyptic winter, Cold War sleeper agents going rogue, robots running amok in an Old West theme park — all of these have but a passing resemblance to my former life in ...
Yokohama BayStars manager Alex Ramirez has been asking to see pitcher Shota Imanaga's fighting spirit all season. Once he saw the left-hander escape an early bases-loaded jam against the Yomiuri Giants on Thursday night, he felt like he was going to get his wish. Imanaga ...
Naomi Osaka cruised to a straight-sets, second-round victory at Wimbledon on Thursday. Osaka, seeded 18th and ranked 18th in the world, beat Britain's Katie Boulter 6-3, 6-4 in 1 hour, 18 minutes to advance to the third round. Osaka is playing at Wimbledon for the ...
Sunwolves stand-in head coach Tony Brown recalled some big guns Thursday for the Super Rugby clash with the Waratahs at Sydney's Allianz Stadium on Saturday. Michael Leitch, Kazuki Himeno and Yutaka Nagare return to the side as they look to pick up their first-ever win ...
Real Madrid has denied reaching an agreement to sign France forward Kylian Mbappe from Paris Saint-Germain. The Spanish club released a statement Wednesday calling reports of an agreement between Madrid and PSG "completely false." Madrid said it "has not made any offer to PSG or the ...
National team manager Akira Nishino predicted Thursday that Japan will improve on its 2018 World Cup performance by reaching the quarterfinals in 2022, but he will not be around to lead the charge after the Japan Football Association announced it would not extend his ...
Shohei Ohtani went 2-for-4 and scored two runs on Wednesday as the Los Angeles Angels beat the Seattle Mariners 7-4 to even the three-game series at one apiece. In his second game since being activated off the disabled list, Ohtani reached on a catcher's interference ...
After capturing the women's title at the inaugural Combined Japan Cup on June 24, Akiyo Noguchi insisted she needed to sleep a lot to restore her energy following a grueling qualification round the previous day. "I slept a lot," the 29-year-old Noguchi admitted with a ...
FIFA condemned comments by Diego Maradona on Wednesday, after the Argentine legend claimed that Colombia only lost to England in the World Cup last 16 because of the appointment of referee Mark Geiger for the match. The 1986 World Cup winner said England's win was ...
Belgium coach Roberto Martinez has admitted he has no secrets as he plots to end Brazil's bid for a record-extending sixth World Cup ahead of their "dream" quarterfinal in Kazan on Friday. But the nation's "Golden Generation" has been reminded that the match against the ...
Roger Federer extended his flawless winning streak at Wimbledon to 26 consecutive sets as the defending champion crushed Lukas Lacko, while Serena Williams powered to her 16th successive win in Wednesday's second round action. While Federer and Serena strolled, Caroline Wozniacki suffered fresh Wimbledon woe ...
After a decade and a half as a globetrotting pro basketball player, Rick Rickert has decided that it's time to begin the next phase of his life. The 35-year-old's retirement was made official last weekend. The Ibaraki Robots, for whom Rickert played the past two ...
