The new wireless service is about 100 times faster than 4G and is expected to help develop technology for driverless cars, construction machinery and robots.

Activist investor Dan Loeb has disclosed a $1.5 billion stake in Sony Corp. and pushed the company to make dramatic changes, including spinning off its semiconductor business and listing it in Japan. Sony's shares rose 3.1 percent in Tokyo after Loeb's Third Point published a ...

Tankers like those apparently attacked Thursday in the Gulf of Oman operate through increasingly treacherous waters, facing mounting dangers from piracy and collision as well as geopolitical hazards. Around 60 million barrels of petroleum product move each day on the seas globally, according to the ...

Researchers say people worldwide could be ingesting 5 grams of microscopic plastic particles every week — equivalent in weight to a credit card. Coming mostly from tap water and especially bottled water, nearly invisible bits of polymer were also found in shellfish, beer and salt, ...

Retail giant Aeon Co. plans to purchase $1 billion worth of products from Vietnam in 2025, with the nation seen as having great potential as a supplier of quality food for Japanese consumers. The company will double the value of products it procures from Vietnam ...

The results confirm that many young Japanese now view switching jobs as beneficial, casting further shade on the Japanese tradition of lifetime employment.

Tokyo-based Spring Valley Brewery Co. will start a monthly subscription service to allow customers to try one glass of a selected beer each weekday. Customers will be able to choose a 250-milliliter glass of beer from a lineup of up to 17 varieties each weekday ...

Half of all outbreaks of the deadly Ebola virus never get detected, researchers said Thursday, as Uganda confirmed a second death from the disease that has claimed hundreds of lives in neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo. Ebola, which spreads among humans through contact with bodily ...

The government said Friday it plans to provide multilingual information and free Wi-Fi access on 300 public transport routes as it steps up efforts to boost inbound tourism. As a first step, foreign language support and free Wi-Fi will be made available on 100 local ...

Chinese censors are working hard to erase or block news of the Hong Kong protests on social media and search platforms amid a surge in interest from mainland internet users. Reports and images of clashes this week between Hong Kong police and demonstrators protesting against ...

A peer-inspired dieting competition triggered the unhealthy lifestyle, but it wasn't only an eating disorder that haunted Sayaka Hashiba's late sister. Hashiba, a 34-year-old Tokyo office worker, said her younger sister's behavior became visibly erratic when she was around 12 years old. An athletic, upbeat girl ...

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has embarked on an ambitious endeavor to play the role of international mediator in the hope of charting a course for dialogue between Tehran and Washington. As the first Japanese prime minister to visit Iran since 1978, Abe received assurances from ...

Kao Corp., a major maker of toiletry and chemical products, suspended a promotional project Thursday the day after its launch after some of its employees pointed out the title could imply racial discrimination. Kao's #BeWhite project was aimed at encouraging households to split chores equally ...

Japan’s first prime minister to visit Iran in 41 years tried to win the release of at least four Americans, including a sailor sentenced to a decade in prison.

Twitter Inc. on Thursday said it removed thousands of accounts linked to coordinated, state-backed activities it believes were from the Iranian government and archived them to its public database launched last year. In the latest purge of information, the company said it believes 4,779 accounts ...

World oil prices rose Thursday following apparent attacks on two tankers in the Gulf of Oman, worsening frayed tensions in the crude-rich Middle East region. The rise in oil prices — jumping as much as 4.5 percent before pulling back somewhat — boosted share prices ...

Central American migrants eager to beat a crackdown by Mexico on its southern border with Guatemala scrambled into the country on Thursday as the government prepared to send thousands of National Guard members to plug gaps in the porous frontier. Mexico has agreed with the ...

Amanda Knox, the U.S. exchange student jailed for four years then acquitted for the 2007 murder of her roommate in the Italian town of Perugia, returned to Italy on Thursday to address a conference on wrongful convictions. The Seattle native was 20 years old at ...

Europe's Baltic states are at risk from further Russian money laundering, a top European police official said after several big banks were hit by scandals centered on the region. Pedro Felicio, who is responsible for fighting money laundering at European police agency Europol, told Reuters ...

Donald Trump on Thursday reignited the political storm that has threatened to engulf his presidency by insisting he has the right to use dirt provided by foreign governments on political opponents without informing the FBI. In an interview aired late Wednesday by ABC News television, ...

Two leading U.S. senators warned President Donald Trump's administration Thursday to not use Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei's access to the U.S. market as a negotiating tool in trade talks with Beijing. Republican Marco Rubio and Democrat Mark Warner, both members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, ...

Behind the declining child population and the lingering income gap between Japanese men and women is the fact that husbands and wives do not take part in raising their children together.

The best approach for the U.S. now is to return to a greater focus on allies, partners and friends.

Art meets nature on the Utsukushigahara Highlands, where an idyllic mountain hike offering gorgeous views of the Japan Alps ends with a stroll through a quirky open-air sculpture museum.

The forests are what draw people to Yakushima, famous for inspiring the scenery of Studio Ghibli's 1997 film, "Princess Mononoke."

The Chiba Lotte Marines invited the band from nearby Narashino High School to sit in left field and power their cheering section on Friday night. Turns out, the kids ended up helping to provide the perfect soundtrack for an entertaining pitcher's duel between 20-somethings Yuya ...

Kawasaki Frontale captain Yu Kobayashi equalized in the second half to salvage a 1-1 draw against Consadole Sapporo on Friday. In the return to J1 action following the international break, the two-time defending champions fell behind against the run of play when Consadole striker Musashi ...

After two seasons as an NCAA Division I college basketball player, Honoka Ikematsu has learned that mental strength and physical skills are equally important. The Robert Morris University guard is an integral part of the team, and recognizing how to use both sets of skills ...

Four-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome has undergone a successful four-hour operation following a devastating crash and could be back racing in six months, his surgeon said Thursday. Froome was airlifted to a hospital in Saint-Etienne for emergency surgery after slamming into a wall ...

Lee Chong Wei's tearful retirement was not just a sad conclusion to one of badminton's great careers, it also ended his remarkable rivalry with China's Lin Dan. The duo reigned over the sport for more than a decade and have only relinquished that hold in ...

A law that prohibits ticket scalping for concerts and sports events came into force Friday ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics. The legislation, which was approved by the Diet last December, prohibits the resale of tickets at prices higher than that at which ...

A Monica own goal completed a remarkable turnaround by Australia at the Women's World Cup on Thursday, as the Matildas came from two goals down to stun Brazil 3-2, while China beat South Africa in Paris. Li Ying's first-half strike gave former runner-up China a ...

Ascendant star playmaker Takefusa Kubo is departing FC Tokyo for a move to Spanish giant Real Madrid, it was announced on Friday. Just days after making his Japan national team debut on Sunday against El Salvador in a pre-Copa America friendly in Rifu, Miyagi Prefecture, ...