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The government presented a proposal on Tuesday to revise its regional revitalization strategy, including strengthened support for major cities outside the Tokyo metropolitan area. To combat the over-concentration of people and businesses in the capital, the government aims to create attractive footholds nationwide. Excluding those in ...
A petition to Washington that calls for a temporary halt to reclamation work for the construction of a U.S. base off Okinawa hit the signature threshold on Tuesday to warrant a response from the White House. Robert Kajiwara, a 32-year-old Japanese-American from Hawaii, started the ...
When a train is about to depart a station, passengers hear an announcement saying, "Please stand clear of the closing doors." Now, when they ride an escalator at Tokyo Station, they will get a constant reminder from East Japan Railway Co. to "Please stand on ...
Tokyo is one of the biggest cities in the world, but it also might be the loneliest. So much so that its people may need to be taught how to love by a robot. On Tuesday, robotics venture company Groove X Inc. unveiled a cute ...
Japan is set to agree with the United States that it will control new commercial flight routes in the U.S. military-controlled airspace near Tokyo's Haneda airport, officials said Tuesday. "We are in the final phase of negotiations with the United States," transport minister Keiichi Ishii ...
Sex workers said they would lose work or be forced to risk soliciting on the streets as Tumblr introduced curbs on sharing explicit imagery on Monday. The U.S.-based microblogging site announced the ban two weeks ago, saying it had a responsibility to consider the impact ...
The figure, eclipsing the previous record of 28.69 million set in 2017, was weighed down by a number of natural disasters that hit the country this summer.
An increase in workforce participation and improvements in labor productivity are among key factors keeping inflation low, former Bank of Japan Deputy Gov. Hiroshi Nakaso said Tuesday. He said the aging population is driving companies to beat labor shortages by automating operations and abandoning the ...
The latest guidelines, which call for the modification of helicopter carriers so they can launch F-35B fighter jets, were adopted amid concerns over China’s expanding military activities.
The explosion, which injured 42 people, happened after two employees of a real estate office located at the site emptied the cans at once, sources said.
President Xi Jinping said China would stick to its policy agenda, despite pressure from the U.S. and others to allow more competition in its economic system. Xi told an audience of party officials, military leaders and entrepreneurs in a speech Tuesday that "no one is ...
The government on Tuesday cut its domestic growth forecast for fiscal 2019, citing weaker than expected capital spending amid a slowdown in the global economy. The Cabinet Office said gross domestic product, the total value of goods and services produced in the country, is expected ...
Major refiners Idemitsu Kosan Co. and Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K. each won approval from their shareholders Tuesday for their long-delayed merger plan, clearing the last hurdle for the April creation of a new oil industry giant. At their respective extraordinary meetings, the companies' shareholders gave ...
The United States and North Korea have reached a holding pattern in denuclearization talks as both sides seek the upper hand ahead of a key New Year's address by leader Kim Jong Un and a second summit between Kim and U.S. President Donald Trump ...
When the Rev. Kenjitsu Nakagaki was honoring the Buddha's birthday with a sacred flower ceremony at a Seattle shrine in 1986, the Buddhist monk was met with sharp criticism for the chrysanthemums he arranged in the shape of a counterclockwise swastika. Nakagaki, then 25 and ...
The U.N. Security Council is considering action to push Myanmar to work with the United Nations to address the Rohingya refugee crisis, although China and Russia have so far boycotted talks on a British-drafted resolution, diplomats said Monday. The draft resolution aims to put a ...
Japan is the second-best place in the world in terms of human development, with Hong Kong in first place and Iceland in third, according to a new index called the Human Life Indicator that is supposed to be simpler and more accurate than the ...
When Hibiki Toyosaki started swimming at around age 5, he was afraid to dip his face in the water. Now 16, his life centers around the sport as he practices almost every day for national competitions and dreams of competing in the Paralympics. Diagnosed with ...
The U.N. General Assembly on Monday adopted a resolution encouraging volunteerism, to advance the global body's sustainable development agenda — an initiative Tokyo hopes can be used to energize activities coinciding with the 2020 Games. "This year we wanted to infuse enthusiasm for the 2020 ...
Russia said Monday it had built new barracks for troops on a disputed chain of islands near Japan and would build more facilities for armored vehicles, a move likely to anger Tokyo after it urged Moscow to reduce its military activity there. The announcement, from ...
T-Mobile US Inc. won U.S. national security approval for its takeover of Sprint Corp., according to two people familiar with the matter, one of the regulatory conditions needed before the two wireless carriers can combine. The Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S., or Cfius, ...
Two female tourists from Norway and Denmark were found dead on Monday in the Atlas Mountains in central Morocco, with both having neck wounds caused by knives, the country's interior ministry said. The women were found in an isolated area on the way to North ...
Pork products sold at retailers in Brazil contain antibiotic-resistant bacteria, according to a study funded by animal rights group World Animal Protection (WAP), providing potential evidence of overuse of the medicines in food livestock. The study, which also looked at pork in three other countries, ...
Alphabet Inc.'s Google is investing more than $1 billion on a new campus in New York, becoming the second major technology company after Amazon to pick America's financial capital to expand and create thousands of jobs. The 1.7 million-sq.-foot campus, called Google Hudson Square, will ...
Europe's Airbus is ready to pay a special bonus to its lowest-paid workers after French President Emmanuel Macron called on French companies to help tackle weeks of protests about the cost of living, according to a staff memo. The intervention by Europe's largest aerospace firm ...
Heavy fiscal measures to ease the impact of raising the consumption tax on households could raise doubts over the very purpose of the increase.
In the last five years, China has turned its contrived historical claims to the South China Sea into reality and gained strategic depth.
Both Washington and Pyongyang are going to need to make concessions.
As algorithmic decision-making spreads, it is exposing social and economic inequities that were long hidden behind "official" data.
The prime minister has seized the diplomacy initiative from the bureaucracy.
Traffic accidents are the leading killer of younger people worldwide, but there are signs that making our roads safer isn't impossible.
The final full year of the Heisei Era was one of the most discombobulating for Japanese music this decade. Nostalgia for the soon-to-end era clashed with efforts to figure out where J-pop goes moving forward. Tunes covered in cobwebs suddenly became the soundtrack for ...
YouTube in Japan had an identity crisis in 2018. The video-sharing site only grew in importance this year, as the top creators associated with the platform achieved acceptance by the country's mainstream media gatekeepers while famous names migrated over. But, at the same time, the ...
Kawasaki Frontale midfielder Akihiro Ienaga was named the J. League's Most Valuable Player at Tuesday's J. League Awards. It was the first MVP award for the 32-year-old Ienaga, whose club won its second consecutive league championship. He is the third straight Frontale player to win ...
No matter how one of the all-time best boxers views his New Year's Eve showdown with Tenshin Nasukawa, the kickboxing phenom is planning to shock the world by putting on a competitive fight. With two weeks to go until his special three-round exhibition boxing match ...
Andrew Fitzgerald scored the Ehime Orange Vikings' first two points on an outside jumper on Sunday, and never stopped scoring. He had a career-high 55 points and pulled down 22 rebounds while playing all 40 minutes in Ehime's bounce-back, 101-95 victory over the Fukushima Firebonds ...
With two-time Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu out of this week's Japan nationals in Osaka due to injury, the focus will be squarely on the battle between the elite women skaters to make the team for the world championships and the return of Daisuke Takahashi ...
Tokyo resident Masaru Seto knows why he wants to become a volunteer at the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan. "I've been a rugby fan for 40 years," the 53-year-old service industry worker told The Japan Times at an interview session for the tournament's "Team ...
