Her breast cancer was discovered at an early stage by the Imperial Household Agency’s hospital.

Apple Inc. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. rolled out a virtual credit card on Tuesday, which will help the iPhone-maker diversify from device sales and also build out the Wall Street bank's new consumer business. With the card, Apple aims to draw in iPhone owners ...

Over the next few months, the government is expected to debate the structure of a new regulatory committee that will oversee so-called integrated resort complexes containing casinos and draft a basic policy specifying the selection criteria for such facilities. For Osaka, considered the frontrunner of ...

In the flat scrubland of Pakistan's scorching Thar Desert, hundreds of workers have been toiling for two years in the vast open pit of the Sindh Engro Coal Mining Co. Taking three-hour breaks during the hottest part of the day and living in a ...

The government is expected to replace J.C. Flowers & Co. as the top shareholder of Shinsei Bank after the institution said Thursday that the U.S. investment firm will sell most of its stake in the bank. J.C. Flowers concluded that its investment in the bank ...

Attendees at Comic Market, the nation's largest fair for self-published manga, showed support for the arson-hit Kyoto Animation Co. on Friday in Tokyo by raising funds for the studio through sales of exhibitors' creations. The organizers of the four-day fair, which opened Friday and is ...

Japan has become the first nation to receive permission from Thailand to export pork to its consumers. Japan's agriculture ministry announced the move on Friday. The two governments agreed to begin the trade in late July. The change means Thai shoppers may find Japanese pork in stores ...

South Korea's Environment Ministry said Thursday it will tighten radiation checks on coal ash imports from Japan because they might be contaminated. Coal ash, a byproduct from thermal power plants, can be used to make cement. The move is seen as Seoul's first counterattack after ...

Although Nara has become a favorite of international tourists in recent years, the city, which served as the nation's ancient capital from 710 to 784, has historically been a bit off the beaten path. Heijokyo, or Heijo Palace, as Nara was then known, was the ...

Not everyone needs to become a vegetarian, much less vegan, to keep the planet from overheating, but it would probably make things a lot easier if they did. That is the ambiguous and unsatisfying conclusion of the most comprehensive report ever compiled on the link ...

Japan Post Bank Co. and Japan Post Co. will limit the amount of funds that can be sent via their overseas bank transfer service to tackle money laundering. Overseas remittances will be limited to ¥5 million per day. The move is aimed at preventing illegal ...

A record 5,160 business facilities employing foreign technical intern trainees were told in 2018 to correct practices that violated labor-related laws, the labor ministry has said. The number shot up from 4,226 in 2017, in line with an increase in foreigners working under the country's ...

Twenty years ago Friday, Russian President Boris Yeltsin appointed his fourth prime minister in less than 18 months: Vladimir Putin, a relatively unknown security services chief with scant experience in politics. The departing Yeltsin was casting around for a successor, and few could have predicted ...

Fujitsu Ltd. plans to introduce a system this fiscal year that better rewards highly skilled workers, Takahito Tokita, president of the electronics firm, said Thursday. The move is aimed at strengthening the company's competitiveness in the hiring market, Tokita said in his first interview since ...

Nagasaki marked the 74th anniversary Friday of the atomic bombing of the city, with Mayor Tomihisa Taue using the memorial ceremony to call on the government to immediately sign a U.N. treaty banning nuclear weapons. "As the only country in the world to have experienced ...

The Air Self-Defense Force concluded Friday that the April crash of an F-35A stealth fighter in the Pacific Ocean was caused by "spatial disorientation" on the part of the pilot and not by any mechanical problem. The conclusion is in line with an interim investigative ...

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. and three other companies are considering jointly setting up a new firm to construct and manage a planned nuclear power plant in Aomori Prefecture, informed sources said Thursday. The three partners are Chubu Electric Power Co., Hitachi Ltd. and ...

Shinjiro Koizumi, a rising star in the Liberal Democratic Party, is ready to become a Cabinet minister and is qualified to run as a successor to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga has said. Speaking with Koizumi, 38, in an interview to ...

Manicured children strut down the catwalk at a Beijing fashion show, one of thousands of events driving huge demand for child models in China that insiders warn leaves minors vulnerable to physical abuse, 12-hour-days and unrelenting pressure from pushy parents. The kids' apparel market is ...

The White House is holding off on a decision about licenses for U.S. companies to restart business with Huawei Technologies Co. after Beijing said it was halting purchases of U.S. farming goods, according to people familiar with the matter. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, whose department ...

Oil-reliant Tokyo is looking to compromise because it doesn’t want to offend Tehran by formally joining Washington’s shipping coalition in the Strait of Hormuz.

Pro-democracy activists kicked off three days of rallies at Hong Kong's airport on Friday, hoping to win international support from arriving passengers as the protests that have rocked the city enter a third month. The rallies, promoted on social media with a mock boarding pass ...

Consumer spending remains resilient, but the slowdown in exports is taking its toll, the government says.

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. on Friday projected that the storage tanks for the treated contaminated water at its Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant would reach full capacity in three years despite plans to expand storage space, complicating the government's efforts to tackle ...

Seventy-four years after the end of World War II, high school students in Aichi Prefecture are working to pass down stories of students who lived through wartime air raids. Through the activities, they have come to think that the war is not something just in ...

Scandal-hit artists' agency Yoshimoto Kogyo Co. is being urged to exchange written contracts with the comedians, actors and athletes on its books. The recommendation came after the first meeting of a management advisory panel that Yoshimoto set up after the revelation that several of its ...

A worker at a Tokyo Olympics construction site was found unconscious Thursday and was later confirmed dead at a hospital, the Tokyo Organizing Committee said, with police saying heatstroke may have been the cause. Soaring temperatures have killed at least 57 people across the country ...

The United States hit China with new import duties Thursday on more than $4 billion in imported wooden cabinets and vanities, after finding manufacturers there benefit from unfair subsidies. The Commerce Department's preliminary finding comes just a week after Washington announced new punitive duties on ...

For the fourth time in two weeks, North Korea has tested an increasingly sophisticated, hard-to-track missile system that could wipe out South Korean and Japanese cities — not to mention U.S. forces based in both countries. Yet Donald Trump says he's not worried. The president ...

The leader of Italy's ruling League party, Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, said on Thursday the governing coalition had broken down and the only way forward was to hold new elections. The shock announcement follows months of bickering between the right-wing League and its coalition ...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson unveiled plans Thursday for a new fast-track visa route for "the brightest and best," in a bid to attract the world's top scientists to Britain after Brexit. The "shake-up" of immigration rules is aimed at encouraging elite researchers and specialists in ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday took a step closer to sparking a currency war in the escalating conflict with China, saying he is not happy with the strong dollar. Trump has pursued a policy of maximum pressure, including subjecting all Chinese goods to punitive tariffs ...

Renewed fighting in northwest Syria after a brief cease-fire has triggered "total panic," a top U.N. official said Thursday, warning that a possible government offensive in the area was "like playing with fire. The jihadi-run bastion of Idlib, the last major opposition stronghold in Syria, ...

Two people were killed and a nearby city reported a spike in radiation levels when a rocket engine blew up at a testing site in northern Russia on Thursday, forcing authorities to shut down part of a bay in the White Sea to shipping. The ...

China has a powerful trade-war weapon: an overwhelming dominance in the production of rare earths.

Today's refugee wave is a direct consequence of U.S. interference in Latin America's political and economic development.

Get your fill in Yokohama, home to Chinatown and Cup Noodles.

There wasn't all that much love triangle drama this week and I am so okay with that. Instead, we got an eyeful of Shohei, Kaori dealing with a mini existential crisis and the appearance of an advice-dispensing silver fox. But first, guys, is Shohei a ...

Country legend Willie Nelson has canceled the rest of his tour set to run for 30 more shows over a breathing problem. "To my fans, I'm sorry to cancel my tour, but I have a breathing problem that I need to have my doctor check ...

Around a thousand Beatles fans came together in London on Thursday to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the band making their iconic zebra crossing picture for the "Abbey Road" album cover. Beatlemania broke out as fans mobbed the pedestrian crossing outside the Abbey Road Studios, ...

The Yomiuri Giants got knocked down. The Tokyo Yakult Swallows, however, didn't quite knock the Kyojin out. Kazuma Okamoto hit a game-tying three run homer in the eighth and Yoshiyuki Kamei won it with a pinch-hit sacrifice fly in the 10th inning as Yomiuri surged late ...

Fresh off a surprise win on her major debut at the Women's British Open, 20-year-old Hinako Shibuno stole the spotlight in the first round of the Hokkaido Meiji Cup on Friday. Rainy conditions did not stop fans from turning out to see Japan's newest golf ...

Ai Yoshida and Miho Yoshioka teamed up on Friday to finish second in the women's 470 class world championships, making them the first Japanese sailors to earn spots in next year's Tokyo Olympics. In the waters near the Enoshima Yacht Harbor that will host the ...

Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka advanced to the Rogers Cup quarterfinals on Thursday to set up their first meeting since the American's infamous row with an umpire overshadowed last year's U.S. Open final. Osaka won her first career Grand Slam at Flushing Meadows but the ...