A launching ceremony for an 8,200-ton, 169.9-meter warship for the Maritime Self-Defense Force was held Monday at a plant in Yokohama's Isogo Ward as Tokyo keeps steadily bolstering its defense capability against North Korean and Chinese missiles in close cooperation with U.S. military forces. The ...

A Kyoto University research team will begin a clinical test this week using induced pluripotent stem cells to treat Parkinson’s disease, in what will be the world’s first application of iPS technology to the progressive neurological disorder.

The U.S. says deploying the first of two new land-based missile defense batteries to protect against North Korean attacks is expected to take a year longer than Japan wants.

People and businesses from central to western Japan began picking up the pieces from the passage of Typhoon Jongdari on Monday after the storm's rare east-west trajectory took it from Mie Prefecture straight across western Japan, dumping more rain on the areas ravaged by ...

Joining the worldwide movement to combat plastic waste, two international hotels in Osaka are moving toward paper straws. "We switched to paper straws on July 1, and the response from our customers has been very good, as they understand the problems of plastic straws," said ...

Best-selling author Haruki Murakami says he cannot publicly oppose the hanging of those who perpetrated Aum Shinrikyo's sarin attack on the Tokyo subway system in 1995 despite his objections to the death penalty, but that Japan should not use the case as a pretext ...

More than three-quarters of the Liberal Democratic Party's Diet members support Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's bid for a third consecutive term as president, the results of a poll show. Of the 405 members in both chambers, 310, or 76.5 percent, said they plan to vote ...

As soon as the Seoul office worker told police she had been raped, her attacker struck back with a barrage of complaints against her under South Korea's criminal defamation law, which states that truth is not necessarily a defense. "He kept filing complaints against me ...

To cool down, electricity suppliers are firing up fossil fuels.

Tokyo-based Inpex Corp. announces that its Ichthys liquefied natural gas project has gotten underway off the northwest coast of Australia.

Apple is offering free repair for its product owners whose devices have been damaged by torrential rain that hit western Japan earlier this month, according to the company's website. If the gadgets were impaired directly by the rain disasters and still fixable, individual users can ...

The U.S.-Iran stalemate will continue, but don't expect the mother of all wars any time soon.

For cost, performance and operational reasons, it makes little sense to go it alone.

Can the former cricket great deliver on his promise to crackdown on corruption and improve services?

Considering the versatility of the human hand, it should come as no surprise that it can be found within more than 1,000 kanji.

The adverb そろそろ can be used to indicate that an action is done not only slowly but also carefully, or that it is almost the time for something.

Sixty percent of parents and children in Japan use their smartphones or cellphones when they are together for family time, the highest percentage in a comparison with the U.S., South Korea and China.

Twelve people died and nearly 10,000 people were taken to hospitals with heat exhaustion or heatstroke during the week through July 15, as a heat wave continued to scorch wide areas of Japan.

The country's courts are drawing a line in the sand over discrimination against LGBT people, even as far-right LDP lawmaker Mio Sugita slams support for 'unproductive' members of society.

Japan's Haruto Goto won second prize Sunday at an international ballet competition in Bulgaria considered to be the "Ballet Olympiad," while three other Japanese dancers took third place in their divisions. In the latest round of the Varna International Ballet Competition that began on July ...

CBS directors are weighing whether chairman and chief executive Leslie Moonves should step aside as the U.S. television network investigates claims he sexually harassed women, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday. The CBS board is expected to choose a special committee that would oversee the ...

The third-party committee appointed to investigate the Nihon University American football team’s illegal tackle scandal concluded Monday that school president Hidetoshi Tanaka was responsible for the lack of governance and must take accountability for the scandal. But whether Tanaka will actually address the media and ...

Three seasons ago, a Triple 3 campaign was treated as something of a phenomenon. The feat — finishing a season with at least a .300 average, 30 home runs and 30 stolen bases — had been accomplished before Tetsuto Yamada and Yuki Yanagita both ...

Nadeshiko Japan lost to Brazil 2-1 in the Tournament of Nations on Sunday, suffering their second-straight defeat in the round-robin competition that features four of the world's top women's soccer teams. Rika Masuya scored for Japan with a spectacular diving header in the 93rd minute ...

Sean Newcomb thought his near no-hitter would be the story of the day. Then he picked up his phone. Newcomb said he had forgotten about racist, homophobic and sexist tweets he sent as a teenager, but was quickly reminded a few minutes after speaking with the ...