Joel Robuchon, a master chef who shook up the stuffy world of French haute cuisine by wowing palates with the delights of the simple mashed potato and giving diners a peek at the kitchen, has died at 73. His career was one of superlatives: Named ...

ICAN, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, has made significant progress in the last year, but according to core member Akira Kawasaki the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize winning coalition is just getting started. ICAN, based in Geneva and launched in 2007, now has around ...

Automakers and industry experts say the levies would surely hit Japan’s signature industry hard, with manufacturers expected to shoulder thousands of dollars of additional costs for every imported car.

The summer heat may be sapping people's energy, but it is firing up several sectors of the economy as demand increases for products ranging from beer and air conditioners to bedding that claims to keep sleepers cool at night. Beer- and beverage-makers are moving to ...

The internal affairs minister admitted Monday that she is concerned about her candidacy because her eligibility is still in doubt, describing it as “a tough situation.”

Portland police were accused Sunday of being heavy-handed against people protesting a rally by extreme-right demonstrators, reportedly injuring some counter-protesters and prompting the city's new police chief to order a review of officers' use of force. Police in riot gear tried to keep the two ...

Masayoshi Son has a lot going on these days. The SoftBank Group Corp. founder oversees the largest technology fund in history and is putting money into ride-hailing, e-commerce, digital payments, satellites, semiconductors, agriculture and cancer detection — just for starters. How to make sense of it ...

More than 80 percent of companies that employed truck, bus and taxi drivers last year breached the Labor Standards Law, with illegal overtime accounting for over half the violations, a government survey says. Of the 5,436 supervised firms surveyed, breaches were found at 4,564, or ...

Amazon says it has removed items with Nazi or white supremacist symbols from its website after criticism from advocacy groups. An Amazon executive said the company blocked the accounts of some retailers and might suspend them. Democratic U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota complained to Amazon ...

Rescue workers found scenes of destruction across the north of Indonesia's resort island of Lombok on Monday after a magnitude 6.9 earthquake killed at least 91 people and prompted an exodus of tourists rattled by the second powerful quake in a week. The National Disaster ...

Hiroshima once again fell silent Monday morning while traffic came to halt in remembrance of those lost, with dignitaries urging world leaders to strengthen efforts to abandon nuclear weapons.

Two-thirds of residents surveyed in the prefectures of Okayama, Hiroshima and Ehime said they are facing serious financial difficulties, and a third said they are unsatisfied with relief measures.

While North Korea has held summits with the leaders of neighboring South Korea and China as well as the United States this year, Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un has shown no signs of wanting to meet Prime Minister Shinzo Abe anytime soon. Instead of signaling ...

A French woman who visited the popular tourist destination of Nikko has been missing since late last month, the Tochigi Prefectural Police announced Sunday. Tiphaine Veron, 36, was last seen on the morning of July 29, when she left her lodging facility there, they said. ...

The international community shouldn't let China quietly ignore the 2016 arbitral tribunal ruling that Beijing's "nine-dash line" in the South China sea violates the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea.

When political leaders put tangible results before ethical considerations, their successes rarely stand the test of time.

Until recently, summer nights involved turning off the AC and doing things like kurumaza ni natte kaidanbanashi (sitting in a circle and telling ghost stories).

Introduce the word 一杯 (いっぱい, one cup) and its related expressions.

In a bid to boost the user-friendliness of the subway for visually impaired people, the Tokyo Metro will place new QR-coded stickers on the bumpy tiles that mark the path for the blind in one of its stations.

President of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee Yoshiro Mori met with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to discuss the possibility of introducing daylight saving time during the 2020 Games.

Carol is that friendly boy-next-door kind of a fellow with familiar good looks, but he also has an exotic lineage that includes chow chow, spitz, Akita, Shiba and husky.

The Japanese Amateur Boxing Federation announced Monday it will set up an independent committee to investigate allegations of improper conduct by its president Akira Yamane. The announcement on the association's website follows requests by the Japan Olympic Committee and the Japan Sport Association for an ...

Five-time minimumweight world champion Katsunari Takayama filed an application Monday with a sports arbitration body to overturn a decision by Japanese amateur boxing authorities preventing him from competing at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The first Japanese fighter to have been crowned champion in four major ...

Yasutoshi Okuno, the father of the Kwansei Gakuin University quarterback who was illegally hit from behind by a Nihon University defensive end during their exhibition game on May 6 in Tokyo, hopes the defender can begin playing football again. "I have kept saying this from ...

The temperature in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, got as high as 34 degrees Celsius (93 Fahrenheit) on Sunday, the opening day of this year's edition of Summer Koshien. According to AccuWeather RealFeel, which measures in things such as humidity, cloud cover, intensity of the sun ...

Alexander Zverev winning his second Citi Open title in a row on Sunday is merely the latest sign he is separating himself from the other up-and-coming youngsters in tennis. That doesn't mean he is sure Roger Federer or Rafael Nadal are worrying just yet. "You've got ...

Masahiro Tanaka missed out on his 10th win and saw his career-high 21⅓-inning scoreless streak end Sunday when he allowed a home run as the New York Yankees blew a three-run lead in a 5-4 extra-innings loss to the Boston Red Sox. Tanaka, who is ...

2020 Tokyo Olympics hopeful Kanoa Igarashi won the Vans U.S. Open of Surfing on Sunday, claiming the World Surf League Qualifying Series event for the second straight year. Igarashi posted runs of 7.60 and 8.17 to beat American Griffin Colapinto by 0.77 point in the ...

Mamiko Higa's hopes of becoming only the second Japanese golfer to win a major were dashed when she finished in a tie for fourth, eight strokes behind winner Georgia Hall, after the final round of the Women's British Open on Sunday. Higa, who started the ...

Former Japan midfielder Keisuke Honda has signed with Melbourne Victory for the 2018-19 season, the A-League champions announced Monday. The former AC Milan player retired from international soccer after Japan's exit from the last 16 at the World Cup in Russia, having represented the nation ...