Renault SA is considering reducing its 43.4 percent stake in Nissan Motor Co. in a bid to gain support from its Japanese partner for the revival of its merger plan with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.V., according to sources close to the matter. The merger proposal ...

A single capital murder charge was filed on Sunday against the man accused of killing 20 people and wounding more than two dozen others at a Walmart store in El Paso, a mass shooting authorities are viewing as a case of domestic terrorism. Texas Gov. ...

The release of the names of 10 of the 35 people who died in last month's arson attack on a Kyoto Animation Co. studio has prompted mixed responses from the public, including concerns over the privacy of grieving families. Friday's disclosure by the Kyoto Prefectural ...

A Japan-U.S. joint research organization opened one of its radiation research facilities in Hiroshima to the public Monday to raise awareness of the effects of radiation on human health, ahead of the anniversary on Tuesday of the atomic bombing of the city. Although the Hiroshima ...

The exhibit featured artworks that had earlier been rejected or removed by other exhibition organizers. It was halted just three days after the opening of the 75-day-long art festival.

South Korea's fair trade commission has ordered four Japanese companies to pay fines totaling 9.2 billion won (¥803 million) for rigging bids on auto parts supplied to South Korean automakers. According to media reports Sunday, the four are Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Hitachi Automotive Systems Ltd., ...

Almost all judgments in the cases investigated have been preserved, but most of the other documents related to hearings during the trials were not, resulting in a loss of valuable historical records.

Is it a car? Is it a plane? NEC Corp. unveiled a prototype "flying car" quadcopter Monday after months of work on the design. The vehicle roared into the air for an unmanned hover test in the presence of journalists. [video_embed number="1"] The aircraft resembles a drone ...

After trying to placate Donald Trump for more than a year only to face tariffs on virtually all of its shipments to the United States, China is signaling it's ready to play hardball. In a stark escalation of the trade war that has roiled financial ...

Plans by the Russian military to hold live-fire exercises off the disputed Northern Territories prompted a rebuke by Tokyo late last week, the chief government spokesman said Monday. The drills are planned for waters around Kunashiri, a land mass that is clearly visible from the ...

Top Japanese companies including Sony Corp., Ricoh Co. and Asics Corp. are orchestrating shifts in production away from China, joining manufacturers from other countries seeking to sidestep U.S. tariffs. Sony said last week that trade-war levies may cause it to raise prices or move production ...

Political parties seem undecided right now over how to contest next year's gubernatorial election in Tokyo, or even whether to field candidates at all. Gov. Yuriko Koike is expected to run for a second four-year term. Her first term of office is set to end ...

South Korea and the United States kicked off joint military drills Monday, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported, despite warnings and weapons tests from North Korea in recent weeks. The two allies will stage drills with a command-post exercise mostly involving computer simulations, not mobilization ...

In what experts say is a shift in attitudes toward death in rapidly graying Japan, donations of bodies for anatomical training have increased dramatically in recent years. Some 296,000 people had offered to donate their bodies to universities as of March 31 last year, compared ...

It's a challenging time in the digital media industry. BuzzFeed Inc. and Vice Media Inc., which defined a generation of news startups, dismissed hundreds of employees this year in cost-cutting maneuvers. But a glimmer of hope is coming from a software company in Tokyo. SmartNews ...

United Nations investigators urged world leaders Monday to impose targeted financial sanctions on companies linked to the military in Myanmar, and said foreign firms doing business with them could be complicit in international crimes. A panel of human rights experts identified scores of companies tied ...

Kobe Steel Ltd. tumbled as much as 13 percent in Tokyo to hit the lowest level in almost seven years after Japan's third-biggest steelmaker swung to a first-quarter loss and warned that full-year profit will collapse. The shares sank the most since 2017 after the ...

Australia on Monday ruled out hosting ground-based U.S. missiles after talks with Washington's top defense and diplomatic officials. Following an announcement that the United States plans to deploy intermediate-range missiles in Asia — widely seen as an effort to contain China — Australia scotched the ...

Japan, China and South Korea are currently arranging to hold their annual three-way summit in December, diplomatic sources said Sunday. But relations between Japan and South Korea have worsened recently due to historical and trade issues, and the scheduling of the trilateral summit may be ...

The South Korean military is considering conducting defense drills this month on islands in the Sea of Japan that are at the center of the nation's territorial dispute with Japan, South Korean media reported Sunday. The islands, known as Takeshima in Japan and Dokdo in ...

Armed with assault rifles and clad in combat gear, two white men methodically gunned down nearly 30 people over the weekend, underscoring fears that "white terrorism" is now the main threat in the United States. Amid rising grief and a clamor for action after the ...

The overlapping crises of climate change, mass species extinction and an unsustainable global food system are on a collision course toward what might best be called an ecological land grab. Coping with each of these problems will require a different way of using of Earth's ...

Russia's anti-Kremlin opposition said it was planning a nationwide protest next weekend despite police forcibly detaining over 1,000 people on Saturday for attending what they said was an illegal march in Moscow to demand free elections. Saturday's protest, conceived by opposition activists as a peaceful ...

Sudhir Gharpure and his sales team sat chatting at a big Maruti Suzuki dealership on the outskirts of Mumbai some two hours after its doors were opened on a recent Saturday morning — not a single customer was in sight. "There used to be close ...

Israel, a world leader in hi-tech, is around 30 years away from its ambition of deploying robot forces, and for now will chose between three prototypes of semi-automated armored vehicles to cocoon its troops in battle, defense officials said on Sunday. Israel has long eyed ...

Defense Secretary Mark Esper said he heard questions from people in the White House about a Pentagon cloud-computing contract valued at as much as $10 billion, but wasn't directed to order the review that's under way. President Donald Trump stunned technology companies, the Defense Department ...

Two people were killed in a blast targeting workers for an Afghan television station Sunday, while elsewhere in the war-torn nation at least seven police officers died in an "insider attack" by Taliban loyalists, officials said. The deadly attacks come amid surging violence across Afghanistan ...

Shopkeepers and residents in Syria's Idlib city have found relief from airstrikes but remain wary after a cease-fire halted fierce government bombing against the rebel foothold. For three months, an army offensive backed by Russia has killed at least 400 people in northwest Syria and ...

If there is to be any amendment to the Constitution, the substance of the Abe Cabinet's 2014 reinterpretation of Article 9 to allow collective self-defense should be made part of the proposal or withdrawn entirely.

Japan and South Korea made need a few more decades before reaching a true rapprochement.

Protests in Hong Kong and Russia show the limits of what many see in the West as autocratic power.

Folding out with a wealth of linguistic and cultural lessons, the index can act as a makeshift classroom for the imaginative.

The adjectives "ureshii" and "tanoshii" are used specifically to mean "happy and "enjoyable," respectively. When it comes to fun times, though, there's a slight difference in how they are interpreted.

The world of television gives a nod (two nods, to be precise) to Japan's most well-known decluttering expert.

Some comedians get caught in a scandal and now they need to "save their own skin."

Yuji Nishino got the win in his first start in two years, as the Chiba Lotte Marines overpowered the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles 8-1 on Monday. Daichi Suzuki went 2-for-4 to lead a balanced Marines attack that saw seven different batters combine for nine hits. After ...

Newly crowned Women's British Open champion Hinako Shibuno said Monday she was thrilled by the response in Japan following her historic victory. A day after clinching the title on the final hole at Woburn Golf Club, the 20-year-old LPGA of Japan Tour rookie was still ...

Japan's summer heat may be starting to ramp up, but most of the country's elite swimmers are entering a cool-down period. The majority of Japan's swimmers wrapped up their 2019 season on Sunday with the conclusion of the FINA World Cup Tokyo meet. But there will ...

Olympic hopeful Aori Nishimura added another gold medal for Japan at the X Games in Minneapolis after posting the best run in the women's skateboard street contest on Sunday. Nishimura scored 92.00 points for a run that featured a massive gap-to-lip slide, knocking compatriot Momiji ...

Things looked so simple in the Central League at the All-Star break. The Yomiuri Giants were in first place when the second half started on July 15, with the closest object to them in the rearview mirror 9½ games back. But, as they say, life comes ...