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The Maritime Self-Defense Force will link up with five Asian navies and the U.S. during a dispatch involving three vessels that is certain to stoke anger in Beijing.
The government will step up support for companies developing caregiver robots with an eye on improving productivity in the field of elderly nursing care amid widespread labor shortages. In its budget request for fiscal 2019, which begins next April, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and ...
Poll predicted to give Prime Minister Shinzo Abe a historic third term as LDP president, effectively extending his hold on power by up to another three years.
Weather agency warns typhoons approaching the country, including areas already hit by torrential rain and flooding last month, to bring heavy downpours, strong winds and high waves toward the weekend.
The prefecture’s project is intended to help the families and others involved in the games secure lodging and offer opportunities for them to experience Japanese culture and cuisine.
Carmaker plans to invest about $900 million in the country, part of an $9 billion strategy to become a top three player in the world’s largest auto market.
Targeted killings and kidnappings for ransom have for months rattled Syria's Idlib province, with angry residents blaming dominant rebel and jihadi forces for the chaos. Even as the regime says it aims to retake the northwestern province on Turkey's border, its inhabitants are falling victim ...
Tokyo's famous Tsukiji fish market will stop admitting tourists to watch its pre-dawn tuna auctions next month as it prepares to move on Oct. 11, a spokeswoman said Tuesday. After more than 80 years in operation, the world's largest fish market — and a popular ...
Mansour al-Amer swipes a card to reveal a narrow sleep pod, reminiscent of Japan's famed capsule hotels. But this pod is in Saudi Arabia, where the Muslim hajj pilgrimage began Sunday. The kingdom is introducing capsule rooms in the western city of Mina, as an ...
With tweets and taunts, President Donald Trump is attempting to turn one of his most outspoken critics into the public face of the Russia probe that he has long worked to discredit. In John Brennan, the blunt former CIA director, Trump believes he has found ...
Foreign-brand automakers with U.S. plants do not support Trump administration rules to raise the amount of local content in North American-made vehicles, a group representing companies including Toyota Motor Corp., Volkswagen AG and Hyundai Motor Co. has told key U.S. lawmakers. Talks between Mexican Economy ...
The revelation of government malpractice in the mandatory employment of people with disabilities should trigger more discussions on what's needed to promote hiring of these people so they can give full play to their potential in the nation's workforce.
More voters now expect extreme positions, and more politicians are finding it harder to resist taking them.
Could the U.S. be going too far with the weaponization of its economic advantage? For now, Turkey, Russia and Iran are powerless against the dollar's dominance, even with China's help.
Limited success in Tokyo led Tanaka Isson (1908-77) to burn his sketchbooks, sell his house, and move to Oshima, where he lived in near poverty painting in a vibrant style that posthumously captured the nation's heart.
British rocker Noel Gallagher has developed a reputation in recent years for delivering biting, hilarious one-liners, both in interviews and at concerts. In front of the crowd as the Saturday night headliner for Tokyo's leg of Summer Sonic, however, the former Oasis brain trust ...
As the sun began to set on this year's Summer Sonic, London-born singer Tom Misch took to the Beach Stage for his first live appearance in Tokyo. Misch, who released his debut album "Geography" in April, performs an upbeat mix of lo-fi funk and soul. ...
Japan remained undefeated in women's soccer at the Asian Games following a 7-0 win over Vietnam on Tuesday. Five days after opening its group stage games with a 2-0 win over Thailand, world No. 6 Japan finished atop group C with a convincing win over ...
Cuban Yurisbel Gracial scored twice and drove in three runs to pace the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks to a 10-5 Pacific League win over the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters on Tuesday. The 32-year-old Gracial, playing in place of injured countryman Alfredo Despaigne, helped pull the Hawks ...
Rikako Ikee's quest for a perfect Asian Games slipped away Tuesday, when the women's 4x200-meter freestyle team swam to silver, a disappointing result after she had earlier kept her streak alive with her fourth gold in four events. She won the women's 100-meter butterfly, her ...
Badminton world No. 2 Akane Yamaguchi is struggling at the Asian Games, losing her second match in as many days on Tuesday, but Japan still managed to advance to the final to give the team's star a chance to make amends. "I wasn't so bad ...
Goals by Riko Ueki and Jun Endo on Monday propelled Japan to its first-ever FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup final with a 2-0 win over England. Nineteen-year-old Ueki opened the scoring in the 22nd minute, receiving Endo's pass just outside the penalty area and deftly ...
Miami Marlins manager Don Mattingly will lead a team of major league All-Stars against Japan's national team, Samurai Japan, in November. It will be the first time the two sides have met since 2014, ending a drought of visits by the MLB All-Star side. "We are ...
All but one player in the Osaka Toin starting lineup had at least one hit as it pounced on Kanaashi Nogyo 13-2 in the final of the National High School Baseball Championship on Tuesday. Osaka Toin, which won its fifth Summer Koshien title and eighth ...
Sometimes in life we encounter a person who is a veritable force of nature. Dynamic, honest, emotional. The kind of individual that stops you in your tracks. David Wilson is one of those people. After a short time with Wilson you feel like you have known him ...
