The Justice Ministry’s probe into the Technical Intern Training Program confirms growing concerns about a link between the trainees’ working conditions and their growing disappearances from companies.

The number of recluses in that age group who have not interacted with people outside their family is higher than in the 15-39 age bracket, the government survey found.

Chinese traditional medicine is rapidly expanding worldwide as a key pillar of the country's "Belt and Road" initiative, but conservation groups say demand for treatments using animal products is driving a surge in illegal trafficking of wildlife. Since the start of the year, authorities in ...

Philippine journalist Maria Ressa, a prominent critic of President Rodrigo Duterte, was rearrested on Friday in what press freedom advocates called retaliation for her news site's dogged coverage of the government. Ressa and her website Rappler have been hit with a string of criminal charges ...

Campaigning began Friday across Japan for prefectural and major metropolitan assembly elections set for April 7, with economic policies, aging, population decline and assistance for the elderly and working mothers the broad issues of concern for voters and candidates. A total of 3,062 candidates were ...

The unemployment rate fell to 2.3 percent in February, the lowest in nine months, as women who quit jobs to look for better work the previous month landed positions amid the tightest labor market in decades, government data showed Friday. The jobless rate fell 0.2 ...

The much-awaited name of Japan’s 248th era will come a month before it dawns on May 1 with Crown Prince Naruhito’s ascent to the Chrysanthemum Throne.

Rows of wooden mortuary tablets inscribed with names line an altar at a Buddhist temple in Tokyo — silent testimony to Vietnamese people who died after coming to Japan to work or study. "Whenever I am contacted about a death, I can speak only two ...

Japan's imports of pork, wine and cheese from the European Union all marked double-digit growth in February from a year ago following the entry into force of a free trade deal, according to government data. Pork imports saw the largest year-on-year rise of 54 percent ...

Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions Corp.'s Indian arm has begun building one of the largest sewage treatment facilities in the Manila area in partnership with two local contractors. The three-party consortium has taken on the construction of a 2.1 billion peso (¥4.4 billion) plant in ...

Software engineer Zhang Yiming started out producing apps for sharing jokes before focusing on news aggregation. That pivot proved lucrative. The 35-year-old founder of Bytedance Ltd. is worth about $13 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, making him China's ninth-richest person and one of ...

Britain’s AstraZeneca’s biggest deal in recent memory give it access to the Japanese drugmaker’s promising but difficult to pronounce cancer treatment: trastuzumab deruxtecan.

Crown Prince Naruhito's memoir was republished Thursday in English translation by a U.K. publisher ahead of his ascension to the Chrysanthemum Throne on May 1. The book, published by Renaissance Books, records the 59-year-old prince's experiences while studying at the University of Oxford in England ...

A whaling vessel left the port of Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture, on Friday for the last mission of what the government calls a scientific research program before the country withdraws from the International Whaling Commission and starts commercial whaling from July. The No. 7 Katsu Maru ...

In a bid to salvage broken-down nuclear negotiations with North Korea, U.S. President Donald Trump and South Korean leader Moon Jae-in plan to hold a summit next month in Washington, the White House has announced. The meeting will be the first between the two since ...

As Chubu Electric Power Co. and a unit of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. complete the integration of their thermal power businesses Monday under joint venture Jera Co., the growing potential of LNG at home and abroad has received renewed attention. The joint venture ...

It was once decried as an architectural "obscenity," but as the Louvre's glass pyramid turned 30 on Friday, it had long since become a cherished icon of the French capital. One eminent writer called for revolt in the streets when French President Francois Mitterrand's flamboyant ...

The introduction of a bill to a South Korean provincial assembly to require the labeling of certain school goods as "made by war crime companies" will be put on hold, one of the sponsors of the proposal said Thursday. In the wake of a statement ...

Shin Jang-jin's shop in Incheon offers seemingly innocuous household items, from pens and lighters to watches and smoke detectors, but with a secret feature — a hidden 1 millimeter-wide lens that can shoot video. Over the past decade, Shin has sold thousands of gadgets. But ...

Every few meters along a shopping street near towering Tokyo Skytree, signs with the words "PayPay used here" can be seen promoting the availability of an electronic payment option, an option that remains a relatively uncommon offering in cash-obsessed Japan. Despite its reputation as one ...

The government secretly considered the option of allowing women to ascend the Imperial Throne from 1997, before officially starting a debate on the issue under a panel of experts in 2005, internal documents and other sources showed Thursday. While the plan was later dropped, the ...

The Venezuelan government said opposition leader Juan Guaido would be barred from public office for 15 years on Thursday, as it seeks to crack down on the U.S.-backed rival to President Nicolas Maduro. Guaido has called for fresh protests on Saturday against Maduro, following a ...

The World Trade Organization confirmed Thursday that Washington failed to fully comply with a 2012 order to halt subsidies to Boeing, marking a partial victory for rival aircraft maker Airbus and the EU. The ruling from the WTO appeals body was the latest blow in ...

Britain has identified "significant" issues in Huawei's engineering processes that pose "new risks" for the nation's telecommunications, a government report found Thursday amid lingering global suspicion over the Chinese technology giant. "Further significant technical issues have been identified in Huawei's engineering processes, leading to new ...

A broad economic slowdown should come as no surprise.

Whatever credibility U.S. media still had after pimping those imaginary Iraqi WMDs and "experts" repeatedly reporting that Trump had no chance of winning, now lies in tatters.

A day trip from Taipei, the Zhuilu Old Road in Taiwan's Taroko National Park is considered to be one of the country's best hikes, though is only for those with a strong head for heights.

Kenichi Hagiwara, an actor and a vocalist in a pop band in the 1960s, died from gastrointestinal stromal tumors at a hospital in Tokyo, his office said Thursday. He was 68. Hagiwara, more widely known as "Shoken," appeared in a number of movies and other ...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the Department of Justice will "review" the case of actor Jussie Smollett, who was charged with staging a fake hate crime in Chicago before prosecutors abruptly dropped the case this week. Trump wrote in an early-morning Twitter ...

Yokohama F. Marinos manager Ange Postecoglou was left ruing missed chances Friday night after his side dominated play but finished with a scoreless draw against visiting Sagan Tosu. Marinos will certainly feel they let three points slip from their grasp, having hit the woodwork several ...

The Chiba Lotte Marines and their fans were already well aware of Brandon Laird and his sushi-making ways before this season. They just like the "Makuhari Sushi" a lot better than the version that was on the menu before. Laird put a jolt into the Lotte ...

Yuzuru Hanyu will need two to three months of treatment for the long-term ankle injury that will keep him out of April's World Team Trophy, the Japan Skating Federation said Friday. The two-time Olympic champion, who finished runner-up last Saturday at the World Figure Skating ...

Yuta Watanabe's rookie season provided another memorable chapter on Wednesday. In a season of steady production for the NBA G League's Memphis Hustle with some time also spent on the parent club (Memphis Grizzlies), Watanabe has been getting acclimated to the pro game at a ...

Ichiro Suzuki was not going to make his exit from pro baseball without a public display of affection from Dee Gordon, who took out a full-page ad on Thursday to thank his teammate. In The Seattle Times ad, the Seattle Mariners second baseman wrote about ...

As one of four women hoping to represent Japan at the World Archery Championships, 16-year-old Waka Sonoda is right on target to make her Olympic dreams a reality. Having started her athletic career by chance after she visited a local archery range with her mother, ...

Sunwolves CEO Yuji Watase put on a brave face last week despite clocking up air miles in the wake of the announcement his team would be not be part of the Super Rugby competition post 2020. The 56-year-old flew to Singapore from Tokyo on March ...

Roger Federer will make Denis Shapovalov's dream come true on Friday after the Swiss booked a Miami Open semifinal against the Canadian star with a ruthless 6-0, 6-4 destruction of Kevin Anderson. Shapovalov, who beat fellow young gun Frances Tiafoe 6-7 (5-7), 6-4, 6-2 to ...