A Chinese student and Seven-Eleven employee was arrested Friday in connection with the ¥55 million heist conducted via 7pay, the new mobile payment service launched by Seven-Eleven Japan. Yu Huiling is the third suspect to be detained in a case police think may be linked ...

Working-level talks between Japanese and South Korean export control officials ran over the intended time frame Friday, highlighting the complexity of the economic spat between the two Asian neighbors in the wake of Tokyo's decision to strengthen export evaluations on three chemicals key to ...

Japan plans to propose introducing an overall cap on Pacific saury catches by all eight member economies of the North Pacific Fisheries Commission (NPFC), officials have said. The country will put forward the proposal, designed to prevent overfishing in the northern Pacific, at an annual ...

It was three months after a dozen people were killed last July in mudslides triggered heavy rains in the town of Kumano, Hiroshima Prefecture, that five local residents formed a group aimed at reconstructing the area. The five didn't really know each other before the ...

The Okinawa Prefectural Assembly approved on Thursday a bill to launch an appeal against the central government over landfill work needed for the relocation of a U.S. base in the prefecture. The suit will call for the reversal of land minister Keiichi Ishii's decision to ...

The prime minister confirmed the “severe prejudice and discrimination” they endured as relatives of Hansen’s disease patients.

When is a ghost not a ghost? When it is, in fact, graffiti attributed to a 23-year old Australian tourist who this past May went on a spree of tagging the word "ghost" at various locations throughout the city of Kyoto, including bridges along the ...

Convenience store chain Seven-Eleven Japan Co. has agreed to allow shorter operating hours for a franchisee in Higashiosaka, Osaka Prefecture, company officials said Thursday. The franchiser's regional manager gave documentation containing the contract changes to Mitoshi Matsumoto, the owner of the Higashiosaka store, on Thursday, ...

Princess Mako paid a visit to Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra on Thursday in Lima during her trip to mark the 120th anniversary of the start of Japanese immigration to the South American country. "I feel Japanese Peruvians are treated very well in Peru. I'm grateful ...

China may remain the "primary threat" to the U.S. military for as long as a century after learning how to fight more effectively by watching American wars in the Middle East, President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Joint Chiefs of Staff said. "China went ...

Kim Jong Un has been formally named head of state of North Korea and commander-in-chief of the military in a new constitution that observers said was possibly aimed at preparing for a peace treaty with the United States. North Korea has also long called for ...

Like previous attacks, the hackers cleaned out the Japanese exchange’s “hot wallet,” forcing it to suspend all services. Customers lost ¥2.5 billion in Ripple and other cryptocurrencies.

A Chiba court said Friday a guilty verdict for a woman who was complicit in her husband's fatal assaults on their 10-year-old daughter has been finalized. Nagisa Kurihara, 32, did not appeal the ruling by Wednesday's deadline. The Chiba District Court sentenced her in late ...

A Tokyo-based nonprofit organization is focusing on the analysis of information related to the July 21 Upper House election in order to prevent voters from being swayed by false claims circulating online. In collaboration with media organizations, FactCheck Initiative Japan verifies remarks made by party ...

The top uniformed officer of the Self-Defense Forces said Thursday that Japan is in communication with the United States regarding President Donald Trump's plan for a military coalition to safeguard commercial shipping in the Middle East. "It's true that Japan and the United States are ...

Both the ruling and opposition parties are tapping social media, manga and even cosplay in an effort to drum up support from young voters ahead of the July 21 House of Councilors election. The renewed focus on younger voters follows the lowering of the voting ...

Kenichi Takemura, a political critic and journalist known for his trademark pipe and frank opinions, died of multiple organ failure on Monday at a Tokyo hospital, his family said Thursday. He was 89. Takemura started working at the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper in 1953 after graduating ...

The U.N. Human Rights Council voted on Thursday to set up an investigation into mass killings during Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's so-called war on drugs, a step that activists said was long overdue. Duterte's government says police have killed about 6,600 people in shootouts with ...

Tesla Inc. and Apple Inc. both suspect they were betrayed by driverless technology engineers who defected to the same Chinese startup. So Tesla is now asking for Apple's help in a lawsuit in which the electric carmaker accused an engineer who worked on its Autopilot ...

The Trump administration on Thursday scrapped one of its most ambitious proposals for lowering prescription medicine prices, backing down from a policy aimed at health insurers and raising the possibility of new measures focused on drug makers. The abandoned proposal would have required health insurers ...

A broader alliance expected between Ford Motor Co. and Volkswagen AG has the potential to transform the global automotive industry and increase pressure on other carmakers in areas including electric and autonomous vehicles, analysts said. If VW agrees to allow Ford to license its electric-vehicle ...

President Donald Trump's aggressive trade actions sparked a "shock" to business confidence that could impact the economy, and contributes to the case for cutting rates, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said Wednesday. While sentiment has recovered some in recent weeks, businesses around the country have ...

The mystery surrounding the disappearance of an Italian teenager 36 years ago deepened Thursday after two graves at the Vatican thought to possibly hold her remains were discovered to be empty. Not only was Emanuela Orlandi's body not found, the tombs did not even hold ...

More than 80 fighters were killed in clashes Thursday between regime and jihadist-led forces in northwest Syria, as violence raged on the edge of an opposition bastion despite a September truce deal. In nearby Afrin, a car bombing killed 13 people in the latest violence ...

Japan's participation in any coalition in the Persian Gulf region is far from a foregone conclusion

"Horizontal escalation" is a new strategy to shift a war to the enemy's weak spots. Unfortunately, it won't work on its own.

Of all the host venues of the Rugby World Cup, there are none with as tragic a recent past as the city of Kamaishi in Iwate Prefecture. In 2011, the Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent tsunami damaged and destroyed much of the Tohoku coast ...

I'm just going to say it: Episode 8 of "Terrace House: Tokyo 2019-2020" is the best episode of "Friends" that never made it to air. High jinks, misunderstandings, dating woes — it had everything. The show starts out typical enough. Kaori and Shohei are on ...

Ryota Murata regained the WBA middleweight championship Friday with a second-round technical knockout in a rematch with American Rob Brant. Murata's bout followed another world title fight at Edion Arena, where Kenshiro Teraji, whose ring name is Ken Shiro, successfully defended his WBC light flyweight ...

Scott McGough was planning to use his time off during the All-Star break to head down to Enoshima, Kanagawa Prefecture. He was going to walk around and see the sights and then maybe relax on a beach somewhere. That was the plan at least, before ...

Former England striker Peter Crouch announced on Friday his retirement from soccer after more than two decades as a professional. The 38-year-old former Tottenham Hotspur, Liverpool and Stoke City striker spent last season at Burnley but his contract ended last month. Crouch was capped 42 times ...

Yokozuna Hakuho and Kakuryu continued their unbeaten march at the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament on Friday, improving to 6-0 with victories over rank-and-file opponents. The two yokozuna are in a two-way tie for the lead at Dolphins Arena after the last two undefeated maegashira were ...