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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe warns South Korea it risks damaging ties by dissolving a foundation set up under a 2015 agreement to settle the “comfort women” issue.
Japan's nuclear regulation body decided Wednesday to review the nation's distribution system for iodine tablets against radiation exposure, with an eye on giving priority to children. Current rules say iodine tablets should be in principle distributed in advance to all residents living within a 5-kilometer ...
Nissan Motor Co. sinks deeper into crisis as it emerges the car giant could face charges over alleged financial misconduct that led to the arrest of its chairman, Carlos Ghosn.
Philippine government ministers met with a top adviser of Japan's prime minister on Wednesday, in a effort to move forward major infrastructure projects, just hours after a visit by the Chinese president pledging to do the same. Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte has made a $180 ...
Ramen noodle restaurant operator Hiday Co. says its workers formed a labor union, with some 3,000 foreign employees — mostly part-timers — joining the union’s ranks.
Prosecutors demand the death penalty for a man accused of killing two junior high school children in Osaka in 2015.
Ibaraki Prefecture is developing a series of new PR strategies after struggling for years to move up in a private think tank survey that ranks the appeal of all 47 prefectures. Ibaraki has ranked lowest in the survey for six years in a row despite ...
The U.S. Navy's Japan-based aircraft carrier arrived in Hong Kong on Wednesday, the military said in a statement, a day after the air force flew two B-52 bombers near disputed islands in the South China Sea. The port call came nearly two months after China ...
The government on Tuesday called for quickly beefing up defenses against cyberattacks and threats from outer space as it unveiled a draft outline of the national defense buildup guidelines, to be updated next month. The government said in the draft that the security situation surrounding ...
Using bathrooms can be an everyday nightmare for children attending Japan's public schools where the restroom is often considered dirty and smelly. But a professor in western Japan has come up with an eye-opening way to blow away the stench. Machiko Yamashita, a professor of environmental ...
President Donald Trump said he wouldn't downgrade U.S. relations with Saudi Arabia over the murder of columnist Jamal Khashoggi, regardless of whether Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered his death. In an unconventional statement on Tuesday headlined "America First!" Trump said that Saudi Arabia serves ...
Any practices where abuse of foreign workers is suspected should be eliminated.
While deference usually invites bullying, standing up to China draws respect and a readiness to negotiate and make concessions.
There's one thing that's clear amid the uncertain future for this carmaking alliance: The Japanese company wants Ghosn gone.
Quick: what's a good spell against boredom? After getting off to a nimble start with "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" in 2016, J.K. Rowling's five-part prequel to the "Harry Potter" series is already starting to feel like an almighty slog. While its ...
Heist movies play to everyone's dream of easy money, earned by criminal smarts and daring. But a convention of the genre, going back to Stanley Kubrick's 1956 film "The Killing" and beyond, is that the big score is also a big trap for the ...
Recent Asian Champions League winners Kashima Antlers kept the good times rolling in the Emperor's Cup quarterfinals on Wednesday, beating J. League second-division team Ventforet Kofu 1-0. The win sets up a final-four meeting against Urawa Reds on Dec. 5, with Kashima hoping to add ...
No Rui Hachimura and no Yuta Watanabe? Japan can't exactly say "no problem." At this stage, the team doesn't want to take anything for granted. With the fifth window of the FIBA World Cup Asian qualifiers right around the corner, the preliminary Japanese men's national team ...
Amateur sumo is a sport and nothing more. Participants lead lives away from the ring and its governing body has long-standing aspirations to one day be accepted into the Olympic Games. Professional sumo, on the other hand, is a lifestyle. Wrestlers are never off the clock. ...
The Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles announced Wednesday they have acquired infielder Hideto Asamura, who earlier this month declared domestic free agency after playing on the Seibu Lions' top team for the past nine seasons. Asamura, 28, was Seibu's third pick in the 2008 amateur draft ...
The Yomiuri Giants said Wednesday they have signed Mexican-born infielder Christian Villanueva, who played for the San Diego Padres this past season. The 27-year-old Villanueva made his major league debut in 2017 and hit .236 with 20 homers and 46 RBIs in 110 games as ...
The Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games hopes to move up the start times of the 2020 marathons by one hour to 6 a.m. to avoid the extreme summer heat, sources said Wednesday. In July, the International Olympic Committee approved the organizers' ...
Beyond making their audience laugh with punchlines, comedy duo Sandwich Man have two other missions. One is supporting the Tohoku area's recovery from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, something personal to them as Sendai natives. The other is promoting the Rugby World Cup as ...
