Nissan Motor Co., trying to rebuild its tarnished reputation over failed corporate governance following the criminal investigation of two former executives, cut its operating profit outlook by a sharp 28 percent for fiscal 2019 to its lowest in a decade. At a news conference Tuesday ...

The current plan will relocate approximately 5,000 Marines, of whom about 1,700 will be permanently based on Guam and the remainder rotated every half year.

Tokyo's busy Shibuya district has decided to ban drinking alcohol on some streets during the Halloween season, officials said Monday. The prohibition applying to outdoor areas around Shibuya Station will possibly be introduced this fall after a number of incidents last year, including the overturning ...

The Defense Ministry will assign around 100 personnel to a unit to be created by fiscal 2022 to monitor space debris and satellites, according to sources. The Space Domain Mission Unit will track space debris such as used rocket parts and old satellites that pose ...

A Kochi astronomer has named the asteroid he found three decades ago after Reiwa, the name of the Japan's new era. On May 5, Tsutomu Seki, 88, made a proposal to the International Astronomical Union to call the asteroid he found in the west of ...

Beijing's latest retaliation against U.S. tariff hikes — an increase on $60 billion of U.S. imports from June 1 — could leave China running low on ammunition in the trade war. After China's retaliatory move was announced late Monday, the Office of the U.S. Trade ...

A UNESCO advisory panel has recommended adding two ancient tumulus clusters in western Japan, including the country's largest keyhole-shaped mound, to the World Cultural Heritage list, a government official said Tuesday. Among the sites is the mausoleum of Emperor Nintoku in Osaka Prefecture, officially called ...

Emperor Naruhito met Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday for his first official briefing about the current situation at home and abroad since he ascended to the Chrysanthemum Throne on May 1. The content of the discussions between the emperor, the prime minister and his ...

At a meeting with victims of the Christchurch mosque shootings, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Tuesday that hate speech is spreading online "like wildfire" and vowed the world body would lead efforts to extinguish the problem. Guterres visited the Al Noor mosque, one of two ...

Osakans on Tuesday welcomed a UNESCO advisory panel's recommendation to add two clusters of ancient burial mounds in the prefecture to the World Cultural Heritage List. "We are happy that the ancient tumulus clusters were deemed appropriate as World Heritage sites," Gov. Hirofumi Yoshimura said. ...

The surplus in the current account shrank for the first time in five years in fiscal 2018 to ¥19.41 trillion as China's economic slowdown curbed growth in exports and higher oil prices boosted imports, government data showed Tuesday. The surplus in the current account, one ...

Users’ personal information, purchase history and parts of credit card numbers may have been accessed, the Tokyo-based retailer said.

U.S. President Donald Trump's worldwide campaign to blackball Huawei Technologies Co. is looking like a failure. Attempts to persuade other governments to exclude Huawei equipment from the next generation of superfast mobile networks have hit a wall — even among close allies. So far, only ...

The moon is steadily shrinking, causing wrinkling on its surface and quakes, according to an analysis of imagery captured by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) published Monday. A survey of more than 12,000 images revealed that lunar basin Mare Frigoris near the moon's north pole ...

Just when you thought spiders couldn't get any more terrifying. A study published Monday has found that an arachnid species is capable of winding up its web to store up elastic energy, before releasing its grip and catapulting itself at furious speed toward its unsuspecting ...

Struggling regional lender Suruga Bank is seeking support from Shinsei Bank, according to sources with knowledge of the matter. A comprehensive tie-up between the two, including a capital partnership, will be announced as soon as Wednesday, the sources said Monday. The tie-up is expected to help ...

Empowering workers, installing social protection programs and monitoring organizations to implement those programs are key points to reducing 152 million children engaged in child labor worldwide — more than half of whom work in hazardous conditions that put their health and development at risk. That ...

Former U.S. national security adviser H.R. McMaster has said that the United States accepting North Korea as a de facto nuclear power would prompt Japan to debate whether or not it needed its own nuclear weapons, a claim that comes amid rekindled tensions on ...

Japan and China are making arrangements for President Xi Jinping to visit Tokyo as a state guest next year, rather than this year as initially planned, due to a tight schedule, according to sources familiar with the situation. During his visit to China last October, ...

Hodaka Maruyama was ousted after he asked the head of a group of former residents of disputed islands whether he would support a war with Russia.

Amazon.com Inc. is rolling out machines to automate a job held by thousands of its workers: boxing up customer orders. The company started adding technology to a handful of warehouses in recent years that scans goods coming down a conveyor belt and envelops them seconds ...

Uber shares went into a fresh skid Monday — more bad news for the global ride-hailing giant, which endured steep declines in its hotly anticipated market debut last week. Shares in Uber tumbled 10.75 percent to close at $37.10 on the second day of trade ...

Scientists in the United States have detected the highest levels of planet-warming carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere since records began, sounding new alarm over the relentless rise of man-made greenhouse gas emissions. The Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii, which has tracked atmospheric CO2 levels since ...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday objected to a judge's plan to fast-track his lawsuit seeking to block a congressional subpoena for information about eight years of his personal and business finances. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta in Washington proposed holding a trial on Tuesday, ...

Clashes on the edge of a jihadi bastion in northwestern Syria have killed 35 fighters in 24 hours, a monitor said Monday, after a regime bombardment on the region devastated health services. The northwestern region has come under increasing fire by the regime and its ...

A divided U.S. Supreme Court has given the go-ahead to an antitrust lawsuit accusing Apple Inc. of forcing consumers to overpay for iPhone software applications, a decision that could lead to billions of dollars in damages and put the company's lucrative way of selling ...

Bayer said on Monday its Monsanto unit, which is being investigated by French prosecutors for compiling files of influential people such as journalists in France, likely did the same across Europe, suggesting a potentially wider problem. French prosecutors said on Friday they had opened an ...

Cyberwars are driving the digital transformation of national security. This poses a grave challenge for Japan.

The plastic waste scourge is seriously imperiling the world's environmental well-being, including contaminating our freshwater and food chain.

A Polish group is suing Facebook for "private censorship" in a potentially landmark case.

The BOJ may have no choice but to end up providing permanent government support to avoid painful fiscal consolidation.

Actress Machiko Kyo, who starred in a number of films by legendary Japanese directors including Akira Kurosawa's "Rashomon," has died of heart failure, Toho Co. said Tuesday. She was 95. Kyo, whose real name was Motoko Yano, died on Sunday at a Tokyo hospital, according ...

As the Reiwa Era begins, Japanese music producer Daisuke Fujita, aka Meitei, is looking forward while sticking to the traditions of the past. Fresh from last year's spook-summoning album "Kwaidan," which featured in "Best Albums of 2018" accolades curated by the likes of Pitchfork ...

The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto's "Potter Kawai Kanjiro: Works from the Kawakatsu Collection" is just the fourth time it has presented such a substantial selection of works from its renowned Kawakatsu Collection of over 400 pieces.

May 25-26 Roppongi Art Night, an annual overnight multi-disciplinary art event, is celebrating it's 10th anniversary of contemporary art, photography, design, music, video and performances — most of which is free to view. This year's theme is "Night Journey, Daydream," and the event features 50 ...

May 20-June 16 In an exploration of the meaning of human existence and the human body, Aguri Uchida pushes the potential of contemporary nihonga (Japanese-style painting). This exhibition brings together Uchida's earlier figurative paintings of the 1970s and '80s, which express human emotions, with her more ...

May 23-July 7 After graduating the Tokyo College of Photography, Nobuo Shimose returned to his hometown of Hagashi, Yamaguchi Prefecture, to take over his family's photo studio. He also photographed the culture and nature of his local area, producing "Hagi" in 1989, a photo book ...

Actress Felicity Huffman pleaded guilty on Monday to paying to rig a college entrance exam for her daughter, part of a wide-ranging scandal in which wealthy parents used bribery and fraud to secure their children spots at prominent U.S. universities. The onetime star of the ...

Kohei Arihara threw four-hit ball over eight innings behind a strong defense on Tuesday as the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters opened a three-game series against the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles with a 13-1 win. The Fighters starter fanned seven at Rakuten Seimei Park Miyagi while ...

Yokozuna Kakuryu earned his third straight win on Tuesday and gained some breathing room as all three ozeki were defeated on Day 3 of the 15-day Summer Grand Sumo Tournament. The yokozuna survived a scare against top-ranked maegashira Kotoshogiku (1-2), when the former ozeki's elbow ...

Sumo's popularity abroad has exploded over the past few years. That's due in large part to recent changes making it possible to watch bouts in real time. A greater level of awareness of sumo has caused a spike in tourist demand for access to the sport. ...

Former world champion Formula One driver Michael Schumacher will be the subject of a new documentary by two German filmmakers in a production fully supported by his family, reports said Monday. Produced by the Hamburg-based company B/14 Film and directed by Michael Wech and Hanns-Bruno ...