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The Central League-leading Hiroshima Carp fought their way out of a four-run hole for a 6-5 extra-inning win over the Tokyo Yakult Swallows on Friday night. Outfielder Yoshihiro Maru drove in the winning run with a solo homer off Yugo Umeno in the top of ...
Two senior officials of the Japan Gymnastics Association denied on Friday a harassment allegation made by an Olympic gymnast but admitted some of their words and actions may have been inappropriate. "We have never uttered threatening words to Miyakawa," Chieko Tsukahara and her husband Mitsuo ...
Shonan Bellmare ran out comfortable 3-1 winners away to V-Varen Nagasaki in the J-League on Friday night. In the only J1 clash of the night, the visitors went into the break with a 1-0 lead thanks to a 32nd-minute opener from Tsukasa Umesaki. The 31-year-old midfielder, ...
The Central League-leading Hiroshima Carp fought their way out of a four-run hole for a 6-5 extra-inning win over the Tokyo Yakult Swallows on Friday night. Outfielder Yoshihiro Maru drove in the winning run with a solo homer off Yugo Umeno in the top of ...
Iran has given ballistic missiles to Shiite proxies in Iraq and is developing the capacity to build more there to deter attacks on its interests in the Middle East and to give it the means to hit regional foes, Iranian, Iraqi and Western sources ...
Japan continued to dominate the Asian Games judo competition on Friday, adding a further three gold medals to the five it had already won in Indonesia. Ruika Sato collected the nation's first gold of the day, beating South Korea's Park Yu-jin with a leg sweep ...
Japanese chipmaker Renesas Electronics Corp. is in talks to acquire U.S. peer Integrated Device Technology Inc. for around $5.5 billion, sources said Friday. Through the acquisition, Renesas aims to obtain knowledge and skills for the development of semiconductors necessary for automated driving, as California-based IDT ...
Budget requests from government ministries and agencies for fiscal 2019 reached a record-high ¥102.5 trillion ($923 billion) amid snowballing social security costs and increasing defense spending, officials said Friday. The figure suggests that the initial general account budget for the year beginning next April could ...
Vegalta Sendai forward Takuma Nishimura will make a full transfer to Russian Premier League side CSKA Moscow, the J. League club announced Friday. It will be Nishimura's first stint with an overseas club, having spent his entire career with Vegalta since joining the J1 side ...
The remote Tango Peninsula might be off the typical traveler's itinerary for Kyoto Prefecture, but its scenic views, unique geological formations and stunning coastline make this "Kyoto by the Sea" a worthwhile trip.
Each one of us must be fully aware of disasters risk and learn what action we need to take when they hit.
The one area where the new agreement is starkly more protectionist involves cars and trucks.
Donald Trump's Twitter onslaught is in danger of drowning press freedom.
Jeffrey Lewis' speculative novel, "The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States," takes the form of a 9/11 Commission-style report on a fictionalized war between North Korea and the U.S. and its Asian allies in March 2020.
Members of sexual minority groups on Friday demanded an apology from a ruling Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker who claimed in a magazine article that the government should not support lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people because they cannot bear offspring and thus are "unproductive." LGBT ...
Shohei Ono put on a show at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, winning four of the five matches by ippon. By doing so, he nabbed a gold medal in the men's 73-kg judo competition. The fashion in which he earned the gold in ...
Noda again postponed her long-shot bid to replace Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as the nation’s first female leader.
North Korea's ruling family has long dreamed of a state-of-the-art rail system linking its major cities with each other and the wider world. Now leader Kim Jong Un is looking to capitalize on an easing in international tensions to advance plans for a high-speed rail ...
More teenagers are becoming addicted to the internet with an estimated 930,000 junior high and high school students nationwide overusing online services, a health ministry team said Friday. The figure is double the number from the previous survey in 2013, and showed that more female ...
The stricter screening system was introduced in January to eliminate applicants believed to be job-seekers.
