The labor ministry has decided to expand the scope of its youth job support initiative to cover people up to age 50 to cope with an increase in middle-aged people out of work, according to informed sources. The ministry now finds it necessary to give ...

A Pakistani man who has received notice of deportation after living in Japan for more than 30 years has filed a lawsuit with the Tokyo District Court, seeking special permission to remain in the country with his ailing wife. Mohamad Sadaq, 55, said he fled ...

The heatstroke death toll since July has reached 101 in Tokyo's 23 wards, topping 100 for the second straight year, officials at Tokyo Metropolitan Government's office of medical examiners said Monday. For 2018, the death toll stood at 164 in the heavily populated capital, according ...

U.S. President Donald Trump warned China that carrying out a Tiananmen Square-style crackdown on Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters would harm trade talks between the two countries. "I think it'd be very hard to deal if they do violence, I mean, if it's another Tiananmen Square," ...

Emperor Hirohito, known posthumously as Emperor Showa, wanted to express his regret and remorse over World War II in 1952 but was stopped from doing so by the prime minister at the time.

Japan logged a goods trade deficit of ¥249.6 billion in July, weighed down by a decrease in exports to China amid Beijing's ongoing trade conflict with Washington, according to government data released Monday. The preliminary reading for July followed a revised ¥589.6 billion surplus for ...

During one of her medical-interpreting lessons in July, teacher Yoshiko Ishizaka, 77, brought up the case of a former student who was dealing with schizophrenia. The principal of Tokyo-based International Medical Interpreter Academy used the example to engage her class in a discussion on the ...

The study by the University of Sydney says a decade of “delayed and unpredictable funding” for the U.S. defense budget has seen Washington lose its primacy in the Western Pacific.

Other hopefuls are Osaka, Wakayama and Nagasaki prefectures.

Consumers may pay a higher price to stay warm this winter if South Korea bans exports of heating fuel to Japan as the bilateral trade feud deepens. Kerosene is used as a fuel in portable stoves and fan heaters, particularly in the colder northern part ...

South Korea's Foreign Ministry on Monday summoned the economy minister from the Japanese Embassy in Seoul to discuss a reported plan to discharge waste water, contaminated due to the meltdown at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, into the Pacific Ocean. Ministry official Kwon Se-jung, ...

Organizers say they expect the Rugby World Cup to bring ¥437.2 billion in economic benefits, pinning their hopes on the 400,000 foreign visitors who are projected to visit Japan for the tournament. As that estimate only takes into account the impact before and during the ...

A group passing on the experiences of the Japanese detained in Siberia by the former Soviet Union after the war has begun new activities to prepare for a time when none of the dwindling former prisoners will be able to speak about their experiences ...

Influential Pacific island leaders have called for Australia to be ousted from the region's main regional grouping, criticizing Canberra's "neocolonial" attitudes and refusal to take urgent action on climate change. It comes after Australia was accused of muzzling leaders who wanted to use last week's ...

Trade tensions between the United States and China have sent a shiver across Southeast Asia, a region that depends heavily on both sides for its economic health, but when it comes to 5G, many countries have shrugged off a U.S. ban on Chinese telecommunications ...

As the unrelenting heat continues, people young and old are resorting to a low-tech way to stay cool this summer: portable electric fans. Stores selling the fans, some of which conveniently attach to the neck or wrist, say they are selling at a brisker pace ...

Australia's booming coal industry has made it the world's third-biggest exporter of potential carbon dioxide emissions locked in fossil fuels, placing it only behind oil giants Russia and Saudi Arabia. Australia makes up 7 percent of all global fossil fuel exports by carbon dioxide potential, ...

Iceland on Sunday honored the passing of Okjokull, its first glacier lost to climate change, as scientists warned that some 400 others on the subarctic island risk the same fate. As the world marked the warmest July on record, a bronze plaque was mounted on ...

A device called Onepedal has been developed by a small company to help reduce car accidents, by eliminating the possibility of drivers mistakenly pressing the accelerator instead of the brake. In recent years, there have been a series of accidents involving cars driven by elderly ...

Hong Kong demonstrators will need to look beyond mainland China for supplies of protest gear that's defined the look of the movement. Queries on Chinese e-commerce portals such as Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.'s Taobao for umbrellas, masks and helmets would return the searches as "item ...

Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. is counting on the resignation of its British chief executive officer, Rupert Hogg, to move beyond the tumult that saw its employees' participation in the Hong Kong protests draw the ire of Beijing. But will it be enough? Incoming CEO Augustus ...

President Donald Trump said Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook voiced concerns about chief competitor Samsung Electronics getting an edge because its products, unlike Apple's, won't be subject to tariffs when imported by the U.S. Cook and Trump had dinner on Friday night, while ...

U.K. opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn will promise to do "everything necessary" to prevent a no-deal Brexit as Prime Minister Boris Johnson prepares to take his threat to let Britain crash out of the EU to the heart of Europe. The Labour Party leader in a ...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday hailed progress in negotiations on an Afghanistan peace deal, saying that talks with both the Taliban and the Afghan government are going well. "We're having very good discussions with the Taliban. We're having very good discussions with the Afghan ...

Torture in Libya, war in Darfur, a home village in southern Sudan and the emblematic baobab tree in Senegal — the drawings displayed on the bridge of the Ocean Viking rescue ship tell of the lives of the migrants on board. As they wait for ...

Portugal's fuel-tanker drivers voted on Sunday to call off an indefinite strike, with their union agreeing to negotiate with employers in government-brokered talks due on Tuesday. Demanding better salaries and working conditions, the National Hazardous Goods Drivers' Union (SNMMP) started striking on Aug. 12 after ...

Hundreds of Turks on Sunday attended a piano recital by composer Fazil Say in protest at deforestation for the construction of a cyanide gold mine in northwestern Turkey. Canadian mining firm Alamos Gold Inc., which has bought the site near the town of Kirazli in ...

Washington and Beijing are working actively to revive negotiations aimed at ending the trade war that has rattled world markets, Donald Trump's chief economic adviser said Sunday. If teleconferences between both sides' deputies pan out in the next 10 days "and we can have a ...

Syrian pro-regime forces fought pitched battles Sunday with insurgents as they inched closer to a jihadi-run town in the northwestern province of Idlib, a war monitor said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said "fierce clashes" between loyalist forces, jihadis and allied rebels were ...

Chinese military aircraft conducted a drill in international waters of the East China Sea in late May that simulated the targeting of Self-Defense Force destroyers, according to Japanese government sources Sunday, in what the government considered "an extremely dangerous military action." Officials said the drill, ...

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is likely to visit Japan this month for talks on the situation in the strategic Strait of Hormuz, it was learned Sunday from diplomatic sources. Tehran and Tokyo have been making final arrangements for Zarif to visit in the ...

The dichotomy of the Trump administration is here to stay.

Education can help to prepare learners to be active and responsible contributors to sustainable development and world peace.

The word "yotei" can translate as "schedule" in English, but it also means "plans." That makes it very useful in and out of the office.

"Asedaku," "ase-kkaki," "asebamu" ... all of these words indicate that you're working up a sweat. Just how much sweat depends on the temperature and your nerves.

We look at Japanese-language coverage of the Will Eisner Awards.

An official from the International Olympic Committee's Coordination Commission for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics wants Japan to think long-term.

After the Great East Japan Earthquake, Fukushima native Bontaro Dokuyama began to focus on becoming an artist, explaining that he didn't see much expression from his home area: "If the audience enjoys having their thoughts provoked, that is enjoyable for me as an artist."

SoftBank Hawks reliever Arata Shiino threw three perfect innings and three pitchers kept the Seibu Lions at bay in a 2-1 win Monday. Shiino (4-2) replaced starter Yuki Matsumoto in the fourth inning and struck out two of the 13 batters he faced at Osaka's ...

Yuji Kondo is standing in the home dugout at Tokyo Dome with his hands braced on the back of the bench as he listens to a fellow broadcaster tell him about a humorous interaction she had with an NPB player recently while covering a ...

The deadly summer heat in Tokyo has been one of the major ongoing issues for athletes and organizers as Japan prepares to host the 2020 Olympics. And with the main event a year away, officials from many sports are looking for ways to tackle the ...