About two dozen Muslim residents of Japan huddled together Tuesday afternoon outside the New Zealand Embassy in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward at a vigil for the victims of last week's mosque shootings in Christchurch. [video_embed number="1"] Participants from countries such as Bangladesh, Pakistan, Iraq and Indonesia gathered ...

The government may also revise the parental right to discipline, amid criticism that it has been interpreted by some parents as a green light for abuse.

Prime Minister Theresa May's plans for Brexit were in disarray late Tuesday, after the House of Commons speaker torpedoed her plan to win Parliament's approval of her twice-defeated deal for leaving the European Union. After two-and-a-half years of negotiations with the bloc, Brexit remains uncertain ...

The Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism, said Monday it was possible that once he dies his incarnation could be found in India, where he has lived in exile for 60 years, and warned that any other successor named by China would ...

Punctual trains. Rat-free platforms. A high standard of cleanliness. The Japanese commuter railway system is known for efficient, sanitary and high quality service. But creating an accurately translated website offering train information may not have been a top priority for Osaka Metro Co. The operator of ...

A banquet to be hosted by Abe on Oct. 23 for the new Emperor will feature Japanese cultural performances, which will be overseen by kyogen actor Mansai Nomura.

Amid intense debate over the Abe government's inflation target, some officials at the Bank of Japan think the 2 percent goal will probably remain out of reach for the next three years, according to sources familiar with the matter. The pessimistic view comes as the ...

A public high school in Kanagawa Prefecture is providing a safety net to foreign students who face difficulties in their day-to-day lives, helping them with everything from the Japanese language to addressing family issues and preparing them for self-sufficiency. Sagami Koyokan High School, in the ...

Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki on Tuesday called on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to engage in a one-month dialogue in his latest bid to halt the ongoing construction work to build a replacement facility for a key U.S. air base within the prefecture. Tamaki made the ...

The average price of all types of land in regional areas rose last year for the first time since 1992 as the growing influx of foreign tourists rejuvenated real estate investment, the government said Tuesday. In regions outside the three major metropolitan areas of Tokyo, ...

Representatives of Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido have taken control of three of the country's diplomatic properties in the United States, Guaido's U.S. envoy said on Monday, as the opposition presses its bid to oust socialist President Nicolas Maduro. The envoy, Carlos Vecchio, said the ...

Rental apartment operator Leopalace21 Corp. said Monday that its founder and former president issued the directive to change materials used in the walls of its apartments before they were built, contributing to defective construction work nationwide that later meant over 14,000 residents had to ...

U.S. federal authorities began exploring a criminal investigation of how Boeing Co.'s 737 Max was certified to fly passengers before the latest crash in Ethiopia involving the new jet, according to sources familiar with the probe. The investigation was prompted by information obtained after a ...

Eight years after the March 2011 disasters, elementary and junior high schools have reopened in 10 Fukushima Prefecture municipalities after the lifting of nuclear evacuation advisories. Student numbers have not rebounded. According to statistics released last May, the number of students stood at only about ...

A consortium of global technology firms has shared on its collective database the digital fingerprints of more than 800 versions of the video of New Zealand's mass shootings that killed 50 people, it said on Monday. While it was not the first internet broadcast of ...

A government panel on Monday recommended the mural paintings of the ancient Kitora tomb in western Japan be recognized as a national treasure in a bid to enhance their preservation following more than a decade of restoration work. The recommendation by the advisory council for ...

Japan will send two Self-Defense Force members to a multinational peacekeeping force in Egypt in mid-April, their first dispatch to an overseas mission that is not under the command of the United Nations, the government said Tuesday. The government is accelerating its preparation for Cabinet ...

Berlin could renege on its pledge to raise military spending, in the latest gesture of defiance by German Chancellor Angela Merkel toward U.S. President Donald Trump. Trump has repeatedly blasted NATO leaders for not meeting a target of spending 2 percent of economic output on ...

The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum in Poland recently responded to a high-profile Japanese plastic surgeon's 3-year-old Twitter post denying the Holocaust by issuing a tweet in Japanese describing it as a "historic fact." Katsuya Takasu, a well-known media personality in Japan, posted the tweet Oct. ...

Russia has sent "squadrons" of nuclear-capable Tu-22M3 strategic bombers to Crimea in response to the deployment of U.S. Navy Aegis Ashore missile defense installations in Romania, according to a report in Russian state-run media. "The deployment of American missile defense systems in Romania came as ...

After days of intense grieving for New Zealand's worst-ever mass shooting, attention began to turn to how the country's gun laws need to change and what warning signs might have been missed ahead of a gunman's attack on two mosques that killed 50 people. Bodies ...

Flooding at a U.S. Air Force base in Nebraska that damaged buildings and forced the removal of a plane integral to the nation's nuclear attack response highlight the risks climate change poses to national security, experts said on Monday. U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly ...

Dutch police arrested a Turkish man suspected of shooting dead three people and wounding five on a tram in the Dutch city of Utrecht on Monday. Utrecht police announced the suspect, 37-year-old Gokmen Tanis, had been taken into custody. The city was put into lock-down after ...

Myanmar's army said on Monday it had set up a military court to investigate its conduct during a crackdown on the Rohingya Muslim minority in 2017 that forced more than 730,000 to flee to neighboring Bangladesh. The court comprising a major-general and two colonels will ...

Which view prevails will greatly impact the lessons learned from the Ghosn case.

The monolithic dominance of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp over the Australian media landscape has few counterparts in other democratic countries, and it is reflexively anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant.

It's a fair question given the extent of horrifying alleged instances of sexual abuse of children and coverups.

On some important issues, public opinion is starting to converge.

A federal rule requiring fairness on broadcast TV is gone, and that's probably for the better.

Held annually from 1990, save for 2007 when its host town was facing financial difficulties, the Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival has become a little corner of Hokkaido where for four days in March the cinematically weird and wonderful can flourish. I had long wanted ...

The National Museum of Western Art's survey of Le Corbusier is a revealing origins story that suggests his architectural creative vision may have had its roots in painting.

Warner Bros. Chief Executive Officer Kevin Tsujihara is leaving the studio over allegations that he had a sexual relationship with an actress he helped promote, adding to the number of Hollywood moguls toppled by scandal. Tsujihara brings fresh upheaval to a business acquired by AT&T ...

Former Real Madrid goalkeeper Iker Casillas wants to end his career at Porto and continue playing until he's 40, he told Spanish television. "This week I think I'll extend my contract until I'm 40. I'll be 38 soon and I'll most likely finish my career ...

Opening Day is a celebratory time for baseball fans. It's when a long winter gives way to spring and the familiar crack of balls ricocheting off wooden bats. The atmosphere promises to be even more jubilant than usual for Seattle Mariners fans, for whom the ...

Nasa Hataoka moved up one notch to a personal-best fifth in the latest women's world golf rankings released Monday. The 20-year-old is playing her third season on the U.S. tour. She captured two titles last year while becoming the youngest Japanese toclaim a LPGA Tour ...

Normally, brothers in sumo can't fight one another. The only way siblings can meet on the dohyo is in a playoff for the championship. That has happened just once; in November 1995 when Wakanohana defeated younger brother Takanohana to win his second Emperor's Cup. The Hanada family ...

Yokozuna Hakuho improved to a perfect 10-0 Tuesday at the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament, but a pair of wrestlers remain just one win behind the all-time championship record holder on the leaderboard. Hakuho toppled Tamawashi on the 10th day of the 15-day meet at Edion ...

The announcement was made following accusations that bribery was involved in Tokyo being chosen as the host city for the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Defending world champion Nathan Chen will attempt to do something no American man has done since 1984 when he takes the ice at this week's world championships. No male singles skater from the U.S. has repeated as world champion since Scott Hamilton did it in ...

Gonzaga forward Rui Hachimura was among five players named to the U.S. Basketball Writers Association's All-America First Team on Monday. Hachimura, the West Coast Conference Player of the Year, was joined on the team by Zion Williamson and RJ Barrett of Duke, Tennessee's Grant Williams ...

The line of fans began by the fence in the right-field stands at Tokyo Dome and stretched all the way to the back wall, snaking up through rows 1-14 and 15-21 and around the corner. The fans, mostly clad in the orange and black of ...

Sophomore guard Honoka Ikematsu helped the Robert Morris University women's basketball team book a spot in the 64-team NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament. The Colonials' 65-54 victory over Saint Francis University in the Northeast Conference Tournament final on Sunday gave them an automatic bid. Ikematsu, who attended ...

A rush went through the crowd as Ichiro Suzuki settled underneath the ball Shunta Tanaka hit high into air in the third inning. The fans cheered when the ball nestled into Ichiro's glove and the volume went way up when he fired an absolute strike ...