The transport ministry said Tuesday it will mandate Breathalyzer tests for all flight attendants, engineers and flight operations managers after loosely imposed drinking regulations came under fire for a series of alcohol-related problems at Japanese airlines. Drinking rules for pilots will be applied to flight ...

“This is about a plot. This is about conspiracies. This is about backstabbing,” the former Nissan Motor Co. chairman says in the highly anticipated video, recorded April 3.

The portraits on the new bills will be rendered as 3D holograms, which the Finance Ministry said is a world first for currency.

Snack company Kameda Seika Co. will produce its mainstay crispy rice cracker in India starting in June following a better than expected trial sales performance in the world's second-most populous nation. The investment amount and production capacity for a plant in Haryana state adjacent to ...

The 10-year survival rate for patients who were diagnosed with cancer between 2002 and 2005 was 56.3 percent, a survey by the National Cancer Center Japan showed Tuesday, up 0.8 percentage point from the previous survey. The five-year survival rate, covering those who received the ...

In the latest show of military muscle in the South China Sea, the U.S. has apparently sailed its USS Wasp amphibious assault ship near a strategic reef claimed by Beijing and Manila that lies just 230 km (140 miles) from the Philippine coast. Filipino fishermen ...

Honda Motor Co. will end car production in Turkey in 2021 after the completion of existing manufacturing operations for the Civic Sedan model. The automaker said Monday the move is needed to ensure appropriate production capacity amid developments in the electrification field in the global ...

An official of the French presidential office has indicated that the government is unwilling to give special treatment to former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn, French radio RTL reported Monday. The official said that Ghosn, rearrested in Tokyo last week on fresh charges of ...

Taeko Watanabe awoke one cold March night and found a trail of blood in the hallway, a bloody cleaver on her son Yuki's bed and no trace of him in the house. Then police discovered a suicide note in his bedroom. "They found him in ...

Dai-ichi Life Insurance Co. has become one of five foreign insurers to obtain initial approval to enter the Myanmar market via a wholly owned subsidiary. The Japanese insurer is expected to set up a subsidiary to start operations in the Southeast Asian country. Dai-ichi Life won ...

“Serving terms in home countries where there are no language or cultural differences should help the prisoners’ smooth return to society,” a ministry official said.

Japanese sports equipment firms are looking at the three years through 2021, dubbed the "Golden Sports Years," as opportunities for growth. These are "three unprecedented years," Akito Mizuno, president of Mizuno Corp., said of the period during which major world sporting events will be held ...

Daniel Loeb's hedge fund Third Point LLC is building a stake in Sony Corp. to push for changes, the second time in six years it has targeted the electronics maker, according to sources familiar with the matter. Once a market leader in consumer electronics, Sony ...

A scandal over improper maintenance work at jet-engine maker IHI Corp. deepened as the company said it has found over 7,000 cases of flawed engine inspections in the process of making engine parts during the two years through January. The latest findings, which also affect ...

Corporate bankruptcies across Japan fell in fiscal 2018 to their lowest number since fiscal 1990, when the country was in the final stage of the bubble economy era, according to a private credit research firm. Bankruptcies dropped 3.0 percent from 2017 to 8,111, down for ...

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday expressed his worries about soured relations between Tokyo and Seoul in a meeting with the outgoing South Korean ambassador to Japan. During a courtesy call from the ambassador, Lee Su-hoon, at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo, Abe expressed ...

Electrical brain stimulation using a noninvasive cap can help boost older people's mental scores to those of people 20 to 30 years younger, according to a study published on Monday. The research, published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, found that age-related decline in working memory ...

The House of Representatives on Tuesday approved legislation to expand child care support by offering free preschool education from October, with the move coming as Japan struggles to reverse its falling birthrate. The free education program, expected to cost ¥776 billion a year, is a ...

With an increasing number of foreign motorists taking the wheel while visiting Japan, numerous traffic safety measures have been introduced to assist them amid a rise in serious accidents. Warning signs in multiple languages and a driver-assistance system catering to foreign tourists are just some ...

India's Air Force presented what it called "irrefutable evidence" Monday that it downed a Pakistan fighter jet in February, as the regional foes offer competing narratives over what happened in the dogfight. Pakistan has repeatedly denied that it lost an F-16 over the skies in ...

In such schemes, scammers often send letters in the name of real organizations telling recipients that their bank cards need to be renewed because of the era change.

Last May, millions across the world tuned in to watch Queen Elizabeth II's grandson Prince Harry tie the knot with his American fiancee, Meghan Markle, with the media feting the couple as the epitome of glamour and royal modernity. But less than a year later, ...

The Russian Defense Ministry has deployed a surveillance drone to an artillery division stationed on a group of islands controlled by Russia but claimed by Japan, a Russian newspaper reported Monday. The drone will be used for patrolling coastal areas and surrounding waters, as well ...

An exhibition exploring the origins of Reiwa, the name selected for the forthcoming era, opened Tuesday at a museum in Fukuoka Prefecture, where poems about plum blossom viewing that inspired the era name are said to have been written. The event, which runs through June ...

Thousands of cherry trees will be planted across Britain to celebrate its relationship with Japan, with a high school becoming the first site to get one. The initiative is being organized by Japanese individuals and companies in both countries as a symbol of friendship, and ...

Bracing for life after Brexit, U.K. hospitals badly need more nurses like Filipino Jobie Escalona. But she twice flunked the English language test that is required to get there, in which she was asked to write about topics such as the merits of immigration ...

Official campaigning began Tuesday for key Lower House by-elections in Osaka and Okinawa prefectures in what is seen as a prelude to the Upper House election this summer. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling Liberal Democratic Party is competing with opposition candidates seeking to streamline administrations ...

U.S. officials are "not satisfied yet" about all the issues standing in the way of a deal to end the U.S.-China trade war but made progress in talks with China last week, a top White House official said on Monday. The United States and China ...

Brexit hung in the balance on Monday as Prime Minister Theresa May tried to coax the Labour Party into agreeing to a divorce deal with a better chance of passage by Parliament, ahead of a crisis EU summit where she will try to delay ...

French lawmakers on Monday began debating a new tax on digital giants such as Facebook and Apple that has angered the United States, with Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire boasting that France was proud to be in the vanguard of such a move. The United ...

Forty-one Rohingya were found in northern Malaysia Monday, police said, the second group of the Muslim minority to arrive in the country within weeks, while about 200 more are feared trapped at sea. Many Rohingya have been seeking in recent weeks to leave by sea ...

It is terrifying to think of the continued risk of a deal between Trump and Kim that could leave North Korea's denuclearization incomplete.

Xi Jinping's repression of Muslim minorities may not lead to international action against China. But it will almost certainly spawn a new generation of Islamist terrorists, compounding China's internal security challenges.

The term "populism" does not capture what is really at stake in national and regional elections around the world this year.

Indian voters must decide whether they want an inclusive country that embodies hope, or a divided one that promotes fear.

Despite the plethora of stations and platforms in Tokyo, the city still lacks a unifying force that brings together and gives expression to its underground scene.

The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo's re-opening exhibition is an ambitious exploration of an entire century's worth of art that runs through the majority of the museum building and spans four floors. Allow yourself ample time to make your way through it.

April 13-July 28 Korean artist Jae-Eun Cho's "Dreaming of Earth Project" — a plan to help protect and preserve the natural environment of the Korean Demilitarized Zone — has attracted many high-profile names to the cause, including architects Shigeru Ban and Minsuk Cho, and artists ...

April 13-June 2 Bizen Province, now the southwest area of Okayama, was once known as the sword kingdom. Possessing talented bladesmiths and nearby high-quality raw materials accessible by water transportation, Bizen produced the most swords in Japan during the Heian Period (794-1185), beating Yamashiro, Yamato, Sagami ...

April 13-Sept. 1 Last year, The Towada Art Center launched "Where is Chiiki?," a project looking at the diversity and challenges of chiiki (regional) artworks, produced by Japanese artists collaborating with local communities. For this exhibition, two artists and one art group are presenting their ...

Actress Felicity Huffman and 13 other people have agreed to plead guilty to participating in what prosecutors call the largest college admissions scam uncovered in U.S. history, federal prosecutors said on Monday. The 14 are among 50 people accused by federal prosecutors in Boston of ...

Takeshi Kanamori and Serginho struck a goal each in stoppage time as the 10-man Kashima Antlers fought back for an improbable 3-2 win away to Gyeongnam FC in the Asian Champions League on Tuesday. The comeback at a windy and rain-soaked Changwon Football Center keeps ...

Christian Villanueva hit his first two home runs in Japan, and Shun Yamaguchi worked seven innings to lead the Yomiuri Giants to a 3-1 victory over the Chunichi Dragons on Tuesday. Villanueva, who hit 20 home runs last season as a rookie for the San ...

One day after Rizin Fighting Federation announced that it has signed a contract with boxing legend Manny Pacquiao, its CEO, Nobuyuki Sakakibara, made it clear that this is more like a promotional deal, not a fight contract. As the first step of the partnership, Rizin ...

The art of pitching past one's prime is being flexible — even when one's body isn't, Tokyo Yakult Swallows right-hander Ryota Igarashi said Sunday. Igarashi, who will turn 40 next month, is tied for third-oldest pitcher in Nippon Professional Baseball after the Yomiuri Giants' Koji ...

Former England and Wasps wing Christian Wade has signed a contract with the Buffalo Bills as he pursues his dream of forging a career in the NFL, the team announced on Monday. Wade shocked English rugby last year after announcing his plans to switch sports ...

Takumi Kanaya, who punched his ticket to a first Masters appearance with a victory in the Asia-Pacific Amateur in October, has been getting some advice at Augusta National from compatriot Hideki Matsuyama. "I have played two days with Hideki here, and he's taught me many ...