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The Roman Catholic Church has faced accusations of child sexual abuse and cover-ups around the world, as well as condemnation for not acting quickly enough.
Nissan CEO Hiroto Saikawa apologized for causing trouble over Ghosn’s case, which he described as “an unheard of incident” in the history of the automaker.
Osaka Ishin has long championed the reform plan while Komeito, along with the LDP, have opposed it.
The results show that support for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s party remains firm ahead of the Upper House election set for this summer.
About a quarter of people aged 18 to 39 in Japan were estimated to have had no experience of heterosexual intercourse as of 2015, higher than the 20 percent seen more than two decades ago, a team of Japanese and Swedish researchers said Monday. Researchers ...
China will relax residency curbs in many of its smaller cities this year and increase infrastructure spending, the state planner said Monday, in a fresh push to boost the urban population and revive slowing economic growth. The National Development and Reform Commission said it aims ...
A series of cases this year in which female students were sexually harassed when seeking help with job-hunting from employed male alumni suggest the issue is a growing problem, and have prompted concern among recruitment experts and police. Students looking for jobs in Japan commonly ...
Europe's sclerotic growth and political dysfunction inspire frequent comparisons with Japan's lost decade from the mid-1990s. The region's bout of misery this year — Germany's industrial slump and the struggle to fix its banks, Italy's inability to reform, the apparent defeat of central bankers seeking ...
In a possible signal of what to expect at a key meeting of North Korea's rubber-stamp parliament later this week, state media reported Monday on leader Kim Jong Un's visit to a recently remodeled, modern-looking department store. The report was the fourth of a Kim ...
Minutes after takeoff, the pilots of an Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max were caught in a bad situation. A key sensor had been wrecked, possibly by hitting a foreign object, according to four aviation experts and two U.S. officials who were briefed on the flight data. As ...
Osaka voters appear to have done little to shift the political landscape from where it was before polls opened Sunday.
It's not the government but the people of Japan who ultimately signify the era of Reiwa, not the other way around.
Voters cannot be expected to hold a strong interest in local elections — or even in local autonomy — if they are not given choices or chances to vote in the elections.
A visit to Japan by 10 young politics-oriented Cambodians indicates that Tokyo is working outside the international media limelight to engage with both the opposition and the ruling party through its traditional twin-track diplomacy.
Spring is the time for new life, the new school year, new coworkers and, in 2019, a new Imperial era.
When trying to convey the idea of importance in Japanese use "taisetsu" for things that are sentimentally important and "jūyō" for things that are signifficant.
The government held an extraordinary Cabinet meeting on April 1 and decided that "Reiwa" will replace "Heisei" as the new era name.
Northern New Mexico is known for tourist attractions such as artsy Santa Fe, eclectic Taos and the healing dirt of El Santuario de Chimayo. The region's relaxing spas and skiing options present middle-class and wealthy visitors the opportunity to bask in the allurement of ...
Daiya Seto claimed his third title of the national swimming championships Monday with victory in the men's 400-meter individual medley. On the final day of the week-long competition at Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center, Seto touched the wall in a time of 4 minutes, 9.98 ...
Japanese swimming star Rikako Ikee, who has put her athletic career on hold to undergo treatment for leukemia, has enrolled at Nihon University's College of Sports Sciences, her management company said Monday. Ikee has joined the swimming club at the university in Tokyo, but skipped ...
The ironic thing about the Seibu Lions blowing up the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters' "opener" strategy — in such a magnificent explosion of hits and runs on Saturday it might close the book on the opener — is that Fighters starter Takayuki Kato, the ...
The Saitama Prefectural Police department on Monday filed charges against three Urawa Reds supporters for violating the Road Traffic Act before and after the December 9 final of the 2018 Emperor's Cup. Fans of the J. League first division side gathered before the match at ...
Ko Jin-young won the ANA Inspiration for her first major title, celebrated with the traditional winner's leap into Poppie's Pond and will jump to No. 1 in the world rankings. The woman who said this year that her goal was to be the happiest player ...
Tom Wilson tries not to read everything about him on social media. You'd think being on the receiving end of endless tweets and messages that are, well, not suitable for work would be reason enough to skip them. But Wilson can't just ignore it all ...
Takuma Sato had one "little moment" when his car went into the grass late in the race. Other than that, the Japanese driver didn't have too many worrisome moments at Sunday's Indy Grand Prix of Alabama on his way to a fourth career IndyCar victory. Sato, ...
