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Tamaki also calls for a “fundamental review” of a bilateral agreement on the status of U.S. forces and a reduction in Okinawa’s base-hosting burden.
Emperor Akihito is set to step down on April 30, and the Emperor’s elder son, Crown Prince Naruhito, is scheduled to accede to the throne the following day.
Comments come as ministry details plan to allow people with knowledge and abilities Japan needs to work in the nation.
Yamato Holdings Co. said Friday it has agreed to jointly develop an unmanned cargo aircraft with Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. of the United States, aiming to launch the "flying truck" by the mid-2020s amid a labor shortage in the logistics industry. Yamato said it will ...
More medical schools were found to have disadvantaged female applicants in their entrance exams, in a survey taken after the discovery that a Tokyo medical university had manipulated test scores to curb female enrollment, education minister Masahiko Shibayama said Friday. Shibayama told a news conference ...
In the lawsuit filed with the Matsuyama District Court, the family claims harassment and overwork led to the suicide.
When Honda Motor Co. launched the latest version of its N-Box a year ago, it promoted features on the pint-sized minicar such as error-detecting pedals, automatic emergency braking and moveable seats, part of a push to market the vehicle to young families. But a drastically ...
Japan seems to suffer more than its fair share of natural disasters, and this past summer was especially bad. In addition to two earthquakes that resulted in considerable damage, there were strong storms that killed dozens and forced thousands to flee their homes. Some people ...
While Tokyo's Toyosu new wholesale food market is furnished with cutting-edge equipment for temperature and hygiene control, resultant high maintenance costs are seen as a potential problem amid increasing off-market trading. The new market opened Thursday, about two years later than initially scheduled due to ...
Hokkaido is trying to tempt back tourists from overseas in the wake of last month's massive earthquake, targeting vibrant Asian economies including Hong Kong. The hotel industry in Hokkaido is still reeling from the magnitude 6.7 earthquake that jolted the southwest of the prefecture on ...
Finding common cause with the governments of the Mekong region is a wise move for Japan.
If no measures are taken, AI and robots are certain to push humankind to the rock bottom of misery.
A rare, original poster from the Boris Karloff horror classic, "The Mummy," is expected to sell for over $1 million, a record price for a film poster, Sotheby's said on Thursday. One of only three known surviving examples of the original lithographic poster from the ...
Takumi Minamino and Junya Ito each scored an international goal for the second game running as Japan eased to a 3-0 win over Panama on Friday night. Salzburg striker Minamino put Japan ahead three minutes before halftime with a skillfully taken strike inside the box ...
The Tochigi Brex played opportunistic pressure defense against the Toyama Grouses on Friday night. And the Brex capitalized on the Grouses' miscues in a big way, scoring 23 points off turnovers in a 104-84 home victory. Tochigi committed just seven turnovers, while Toyama had 15 at ...
The JX-Eneos Sunflowers have completely dominated on the court in Japanese women's basketball for the last decade. But winning never gets old for the ultimate title collectors. In fact, if they capture another trophy in the upcoming Women's Japan Basketball League season, the Sunflowers will ...
Wheelchair tennis player Yui Kamiji on Friday became the first Japanese athlete to qualify for either the 2020 Tokyo Olympics or Paralympics by winning gold at the Asian Para Games. Kamiji defeated China's Zhu Zhenzhen 6-3, 6-4 in the women's singles gold-medal match at the ...
Leading a scandal-hit team dismissed as Australia's worst in 30 years, captain Tim Paine's pledge to win back hearts and minds seemed a fanciful, if noble aspiration in the lead-up to the test series against Pakistan. In the end, it took only five days of ...
The race to the Japan Series begins Saturday as the Central and Pacific League Climax Series' first stages get underway in Tokyo and Fukuoka. Each league's second-place team will host their third-place league rival in the three-game first stages. Each first-stage winner will advance to ...
