The Japan Fair Trade Commission will question the e-commerce giant over its plan on the suspicion that small merchants will be forced to shoulder the cost of the points.

The country's three major mobile carriers and e-commerce operator Rakuten Inc. have applied for the allocation of a mobile phone frequency band to introduce next-generation 5G wireless services, the communications ministry said Tuesday. The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications will review plans by NTT ...

The minister is considering offering financial assistance to Honda and is expected to ask the firm to cancel its plan to shut down the company’s only factory in England.

Kang Kyung-wha said in an ordinary session of the U.N. Human Rights Council that the matter has not been settled because the accord lacked a “victim-centered” approach.

Sony Corp., having fallen way behind its South Korean and Chinese rivals in the smartphone sales race, aims to capitalize on its movie pedigree with new devices featuring 21:9 ratio screens, the dimensions used to film blockbusters. The company announced a new flagship Xperia 1 ...

The international terminal at Haneda airport in Tokyo will be renamed Terminal 3 in March 2020 as part of large-scale renovations to cope with an increase in international flights ahead of the Olympics and Paralympics, sources said Tuesday. Because Terminal 2, now used for domestic ...

Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko hosted a tea party on Tuesday attended by guests from various fields including figure skater Mao Asada, a 2010 Vancouver Olympic silver medalist, and Yoshinori Osumi, a 2016 Nobel Prize laureate. "I am truly happy to spend time together with ...

The Japan Times asked author Suzanne Kamata to reach out to some of her fellow writers for their memories and thoughts about Donald Keene, the noted scholar of Japanese literature who died Sunday in Tokyo at age 96. Here is a short collection of ...

A group in a small Fukushima Prefecture town is doing its best to rebrand a tiresome winter chore into a fun and healthy outdoor activity. In the town of Nishiaizu, where about half of the 6,000 residents are 65 or older, snow shoveling is being ...

The House of Representatives on Tuesday issued a congratulatory message to Emperor Akihito on his 30-year reign, ahead of his abdication at the end of April, in the first such message dedicated to a particular Imperial anniversary. "We, the Japanese people, respectfully acknowledge His Majesty ...

Opponents of a controversial plan to relocate a U.S. air base within Okinawa held a rally in New York on Monday following a weekend prefectural referendum that showed more than 70 percent of voters oppose the move. The rally outside the Japanese Consulate in New ...

Theresa May is considering a plan to delay Brexit and stop the U.K. leaving the European Union with no deal next month, according to people familiar with the situation. The prime minister is expected to allow her Cabinet to discuss extending the deadline beyond March ...

The U.S. Navy has sent ships through the Taiwan Strait, as Washington ramps up naval activities in the waterway stoking criticism from Beijing on Tuesday after a similar sailing just a month ago. The move, likely to be interpreted by China as implicit support for ...

Europeans must heed Mike Pence's dark warnings to achieve Joe Biden's bright vision

The China deal is exposing Trump's willingness to sacrifice long-standing American ideals for short-term political gain.

With a single tweet, the U.S. president scuttled years of American efforts to isolate North Korea and force Kim to denuclearize.

The tourist boom in Japan shows no sign of ending, with the number of visitors only set to increase in the lead up to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Whether for bulk shopping, temple visiting or sushi-counter hopping, Tokyo and surrounding neighborhoods have endless ...

As the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art's final Heisei Era (1989-2019) exhibition, this ambitious and somewhat provocative show looks back on the socio-political roles art played in the midst of the past 90 or so years.

March 8-10 Art Fair Tokyo is the largest art fair in Japan and the oldest in Asia. When it first launched as the Nippon International Contemporary Art Fair (NICAF) in 1992, it was the first and largest contemporary art fair in Asia. The fair was relaunched ...

March 1-May 31 A pioneer of color photography, Austria-born American photographer Ernst Haas (1921-86) was one of the most influential photographers of his time. He helped establish color photography as a form of artistic expression during the 1950s and was often referred to as "the ...

Feb. 23-March 31 Born in Singapore, Errol Le Cain (1941-1989) spent his early childhood in India until he moved to the U.K. by himself at the age of 17 to study animation. Settled in the U.K. until his death, Le Cain's first self-authored picture book ...

Kashima Antlers' star striker Yuma Suzuki will be out for roughly two more months after aggravating a right hamstring injury in training, the J. League club said Tuesday. The 22-year-old forward, who has not played due to the injury since late last year, suffered a ...

When it comes to international sports, the cozy western Shizuoka Prefecture town of Fukuroi has already been there and done that. At this year's Rugby World Cup, however, the town is confident that it can offer a lot more. In 2002, Fukuroi accepted fans from across ...

The Japanese skating juggernaut rolled into The Hague last week for the Challenge Cup and left town on Monday with a total of five golds medals in an impressive show of dominance. Rika Kihira, Sota Yamamoto, Yuhana Yokoi, Shun Sato and Sara Honda all topped ...

An arrest warrant for Patriots owner Robert Kraft is expected Monday, which prompted the NFL to release an updated statement on the status of the pillar of the New England franchise. Kraft is facing two counts of misdemeanor solicitation of a prostitute connected to a ...