The suspect in the recent Kyoto Animation Co. studio arson was spotted at locations featured in one of its works on several days before the attack, investigative sources said Sunday. Police are investigating the motives of Shinji Aoba, 41, for spreading and igniting gasoline at ...

Renovation work begins in the Upper House of the Diet after two people with severe physical disabilities are elected to the Reiwa Shinsengumi political group.

The unusually long and cool rainy season has dampened demand for apparel, furniture and other goods, with some retailers reporting steep drops in sales of merchandise.

Last week’s test to control traffic volume on the Tokyo Metropolitan Expressway during the 2020 Olympic Games achieved a reduction far smaller than the targeted 30 percent, the land ministry says.

Russian police rounded up more than 1,000 people in Moscow on Saturday in one of the biggest crackdowns of recent times against an increasingly defiant opposition decrying President Vladimir Putin's tight grip on power. The detentions came around a protest to demand that opposition members ...

Japanese citizens angry at South Korea's role in a diplomatic row over their wartime history that has spilled into trade have found some unlikely allies: South Korean commentators using YouTube to attack their own president, Moon Jae-in. The South Korean leader has drawn the ire ...

Foreign resident Kim Min-joong is expecting his working holiday visa to soon be replaced by a new type Japan introduced in April to bring in more workers. "Two years in school are not enough to master Japanese cuisine. Thanks to the revised law, I believe ...

It is premature to think that a decline in the public pension benefits is inevitable given to the aging of the population and the low birthrate.

After seeing off Theresa May, Britain's new prime minister may find there's another female party leader he can't ignore.

Increasing numbers of firms in Japan are trying to make work-life balance a priority, but in a business culture where overtime is still the norm, this is easier said than done.

Tokujin Yoshioka's design for Homme Plisse Issey Miyake/Aoyama, Issey Miyake Homme Plisse's first flagship, includes gravity-defying clothing rails, raw concrete minimalism and a showstopping special pleating machine.

Striking designs can come from unusual inspirations. This month looks at designer collaborations with Japanese veteran manufacturers, including a laboratory glassware maker, and an injection mold specialist.

With concern, but little surprise, I read an article by Daphne Rousseau in The Japan Times on July 2 about a mass extinction of insects in Krefeld, Germany, near the Dutch border. There, based on a study going back almost 30 years, entomologist Martin Sorg ...

Human trafficking is just as much a problem in Japan as it is in other countries. One American woman has decided to fight it and she hopes you will, too.

The attention-loving Panjuro, who was first featured here in October 2017, has found a home in Osaka with Yuka Mori (pictured here) and her father, Seiki Mori. The Moris, who had also adopted their previous dog from ARK, lavish Panjuro with all the attention they ...

Ariel Miranda allowed three hits over six scoreless innings as the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks beat the Orix Buffaloes 9-2 on Sunday to preserve their slim lead in the Pacific League. Miranda (4-3), who struck out four and walked one, won for the first time since ...

Takanori Nagase won the gold medal in the men's 81-kg division at the Zagreb Grand Prix on Saturday, the second day of the three-day judo competition in the Croatian capital. Nagase, a former world champion and bronze medalist at the 2016 Rio Olympics, scored an ...

Chicago Cubs pitcher Yu Darvish on Saturday criticized Japan's high school baseball system's failure to protect young ballplayers. Darvish, himself a nationally famous former high school pitcher, spoke at Milwaukee's Miller Park about the controversy surrounding one high school holding back its best pitcher on ...

World champion and world No. 1 Kento Momota defended his men's singles title with a straight-sets win, while Akane Yamaguchi beat Nozomi Okuhara in an all-Japanese women's singles final at the Japan Open on Sunday. Playing in front of a cheering home crowd, Momota won ...

Japan qualified for both the men's and women's 4x100-meter medley relay swimming event at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics by advancing to their respective finals at the world championships on Sunday. Japan finished third overall in the men's heats and eighth overall in the women's heats. ...