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Legendary former world champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. tamed Japanese kickboxing phenom Tenshin Nasukawa via technical knockout on Monday. The special boxing exhibition, a dramatic conclusion to the Rizin 14 mixed martial arts event, took place before a New Year's Eve full house of 29,105 at ...
Japan's Kazuto Ioka suffered his first loss in over four years on Monday when Donnie Nietes won a split decision to capture the vacant WBO super flyweight championship. The 29-year-old Ioka, aiming for his fourth world title, had trouble coping the powerful inside punching by ...
The number of Japanese aged 20, the legal age of adulthood, on New Year's Day will be 1.25 million, up 20,000 from a year earlier, according to a government estimate released Monday. But new adults will make up only 0.99 percent of the total population ...
The number of Japanese aged 20, the legal age of adulthood, on New Year's Day will be 1.25 million, up 20,000 from a year earlier, according to a government estimate released Monday. But new adults will make up only 0.99 percent of the total population ...
As a former director and producer for the Nippon Television Network Corporation, Nobuhisa Sakata has participated in live broadcasts of many different major professional sporting events, such as Yomiuri Giants games and the world track and field championships. But for him no other project inspired ...
This will be the 95th winter featuring the New Year's tradition — the Tokyo-Hakone Round-Trip College Ekiden Race, or as it's more commonly known, the Hakone ekiden. There's a story behind how the annual race came to be over a century ago. Shiso Kanakuri was one ...
Japan hopes to use the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics as an opportunity to become a more inclusive and accessible society, and in 2018 games organizers made some strides towards making it a reality. When hosting a major sporting event, people usually talk about what kind of ...
Experts bemoan the lack of support measures so far for incoming laborers.
Abe and Putin agreed in November to speed up peace treaty talks by finding common ground to resolve the territorial row.
The Tokyo District Court ensures the former Nissan chairman Ghosn will ring in the new year from behind bars.
The recent sweeping revision to the immigration law opens a gateway for as many as 345,000 migrant workers to enter Japan in the next five years. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, however, has repeatedly said the new visa system does not constitute an immigration policy. "This ...
Dozens of young people from around Asia descended on Tokyo last month for a job fair, dressed in a plain black suit of the type considered "the uniform" for Japanese college students when they meet with prospective employers. Some of the visitors said they were ...
When a train is about to depart a station, passengers hear an announcement saying, "Please stand clear of the closing doors."
Director Hayao Miyazaki’s animated film “Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind” will be adapted for the kabuki stage, it was revealed on the 12th. Kabuki actors Onoe Kikunosuke and Nakamura Shichinosuke are among those set to appear on stage for the performance at ...
New Year's Day is a major holiday in Japan, but the date for it hasn't always been in January.
A holdover from Japanese past still makes for a convenient way to express the idea of "at least" in daily conversation.
The lesson of 2018 is that democrats around the world must rethink the basic operating procedures of their societies if they are to combat the threat to them that is generated by the very openness that they cherish.
For all the assurances that the world is getting better, there are huge geopolitical challenges to face and master to make that optimism real.
Step into the municipal office of this city and you'll find pamphlets in multiple languages lining the walls, as people waiting in lines converse quietly in Portuguese. Walk along the streets around the station and you'll find an array of Brazilian, Filipino, and Peruvian flags ...
