On Sept. 6 a spacious English education facility where children can immerse themselves in the language through simulated travel experiences will open in Tokyo as part of efforts to beef up Japan's communication abilities ahead of the Olympics. The Tokyo Global Gateway in Koto Ward, ...

The second-largest group in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party has proposed a national plebiscite on the issue to generate political momentum for revising the war-renouncing Article 9.

Australia's new prime minister toured drought-hit farms Monday to show voters after a week of turmoil the government was back to work, but a leading opinion poll showed it now faces an even greater chance of electoral defeat after changing leaders. Prime Minister Scott Morrison ...

Pope Francis declined Sunday to confirm or deny claims by the Vatican's retired ambassador to the United States that he knew in 2013 about sexual misconduct allegations against the former archbishop of Washington, Theodore McCarrick, but rehabilitated him anyway. Francis said the 11-page text by ...

Man who allegedly broke the law during a recent tour of the country was freed on humanitarian grounds, according the North’s official Korean Central News Agency.

When Akira Matsumoto speaks, investors hang on his every word. And here's what he tells them: You're less important than everyone else. The diminutive 71-year-old can get away with it because of his status in the Japanese business world, where he's known for his two ...

The agency aims to include some ¥3.3 billion in funds for the initiative in its budget request, about the same amount budgeted in the previous year.

Former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba is back in the spotlight. Ishiba and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe are likely to face off in the Sept. 20 vote to select the next leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, which will also determine who is the nation's ...

Myanmar's military carried out mass killings and gang rapes of Muslim Rohingya with "genocidal intent" and the commander-in-chief and five generals should be prosecuted for orchestrating the gravest crimes under law, U.N. investigators said Monday. The civilian government led by Aung San Suu Kyi has ...

A venture firm and a major taxi company began the tryout Monday with an eye on launching the full service around 2020, when Tokyo hosts the Olympics and the Paralympics.

A survey by Jiji Press showed Monday that 15.7 percent of people nationwide subscribe to online video streaming services in order to watch movies. Since the world's largest online video-provider Netflix Inc. and Amazon Japan KK launched their streaming services in Japan in September 2015, ...

A Myanmar court postponed its ruling Monday on whether two Reuters journalists violated a state secrets law while reporting on a massacre of Rohingya Muslims, delaying the decision for a week. Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 28, have been detained in Myanmar's infamous ...

Kenshi Yamamoto, a 20-year-old university student from Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture, made a 1,746 kilometer round-trip bicycle journey earlier this month to Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, to challenge post-disaster media coverage that he believes focuses excessively on depressing news. Yamamoto visited the Tohoku region three times while ...

A shooting at a video game competition in Florida has left two people dead along with the suspect and prompted calls from gamers for more security at esports tournaments. The gunman opened fire Sunday at the online video game tournament as it was being live-streamed ...

Sen. John McCain represented the best facets of the American nation and people.

For many emerging economies, it is imperative to pursue a rebalancing of growth patterns, with a more active approach to managing debt and capital flows and their effects on asset prices, exchange rates, and growth. Otherwise, the dangers of unsustainable growth patterns will bring ...

Paulson et al. still claim they did all that could be done to save the troubled firm.

Back in the 1960s when Paul McCartney wrote "When I'm 64," the average life expectancy worldwide was 52. Yet half a century on, Japan is already gearing up for the era of 人生百年 (jinsei hyakunen, 100-year life).

Introducing some of the usages of the adverb 全然(ぜんぜん, never/not at all), which is often heard in conversation.

The diaries of the late Chamberlain Shinobu Kobayashi from 1987, when Emperor Showa was 85 years old, reveal how the Emperor was troubled by his war responsibilities.

The recent discovery of an uninjured 2-year-old boy who had been missing for three days on an island in western Japan is being called a miracle.

Misaki Matsutomo and her partner Ayaka Takahashi gave up leads in both games on the way to losing the women's doubles badminton final 2-0 to Chinese pair Chen Qingchen and Jia Yifan at the Asian Games on Monday. Despite rallying in the second game to ...

Japan's mixed recurve archery team won gold at the Asian Games on Monday with a 6-0 shutout of North Korea. Tomomi Sugimoto and Takaharu Furukawa won the first set 36-35, scored a perfect 40 in the second and snared the third with a 38-36 score ...

Paul Goldschmidt and Zack Greinke are two of the players Arizona counts on most, and they came through when sorely needed on Sunday. Goldschmidt hit his 30th homer, Greinke won for the first time in almost a month and the Diamondbacks avoided a three-game sweep ...

Nasa Hataoka slumped into a five-way tie for eighth place Sunday after ending the CP Women's Open at a 13-under-par 275, eight strokes behind winner Brooke Henderson of Canada. Hataoka, who went into the final day at Wascana Country Club one shot off the pace, ...

Koichi Ogata didn't sound like a manager with a pennant on the horizon after watching his Hiroshima Carp drop two of three against the Chunichi Dragons, a team 16 games behind them in the standings, over the weekend. "I apologize to the fans," the Carp ...

Su Bingtian cemented his status as Asia's fastest sprinter with a convincing victory in the men's 100-meter final at the Asian Games on Sunday night. Third-place finisher Ryota Yamagata was certainly not happy to come up short in his pursuit of the gold medal, which ...

Georgian Tochinoshin will face his first threat to survival as an ozeki starting on Sept. 9, when the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament kicks off. The 30-year-old failed to win eight bouts in July, his first tournament as an ozeki. He won five of his first ...

Individual and team sweeps in equestrian eventing and men's golf gave Japan six gold medals at the Asian Games on Sunday, helped along by a late win for defending champion Keisuke Ushiro in the men's decathlon. Ushiro ran an incredible 1,500-meter race to win the ...