Officials also claimed that Japan had avoided a nightmare scenario of a 25 percent tariff on exports of Japanese cars.

A Japanese comedy duo apologized after reportedly making a racist quip that tennis star Naomi Osaka, of Japanese and Haitian heritage, needed to pick up some "bleach." The relatively unknown female comedy pairing A Masso and their management firm released the apology on Tuesday after ...

A U.S. body representing Seven-Eleven convenience store owners said Thursday it will seek to work together with Japanese owners on tackling the issue of running 24-hour operations in a tight labor market. "We want to help (the Japanese franchisees) to get started in lobbying and ...

Amazon.com Inc. said on Wednesday it is developing a longer-range equivalent to Bluetooth and Wi-Fi wireless protocols that the largest U.S. online retailer hopes third parties will eventually use in smart devices. The Amazon Sidewalk, announced alongside a new range of Echo speakers and a ...

The Tokyo High Court on Thursday began hearing an appeal against a lower court ruling convicting a man of the murder of a 9-year-old Vietnamese girl in 2017, with prosecutors calling for a death sentence and the accused seeking acquittal. Yasumasa Shibuya, the 48-year-old former ...

Abe made the remarks after he touched on Japan-South Korea ties when meeting U.S. President Trump on the fringes of the U.N. General Assembly.

The city of Iki in Nagasaki Prefecture on Thursday became the country's first municipality to declare a "climate emergency," joining more than 1,000 local governments across the world resolved to tackle climate change. Iki said in the declaration that natural disasters and other phenomena caused ...

The exhibit “After ‘Freedom of Expression?’” was closed three days after the Aug. 1 opening over security concerns due to multiple threats to the festival.

A little more than a decade after the release of crested ibises back into the wild, the city of Sado and others are looking to the endangered birds as a possible tourism resource. This year marks the 11th anniversary of the start of a project ...

Set in 2019, cult '80s movie "Blade Runner" envisaged a neon-stained landscape of bionic replicants genetically engineered to look just like humans. So far that has failed to materialize, but at a secretive research institute in western Japan, wild-haired roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro is fine-tuning technology ...

Boeing has reached settlements with 11 families of victims from October's Lion Air crash, a plaintiffs attorney said Wednesday, in the first such agreements after two deadly crashes that killed 346 people and led to the global grounding of the top-selling 737 Max. The Wisner ...

According to the sources, the police believe the assailant entered the house intending to commit murder, as none of the rooms were ransacked.

Archaeologists have uncovered the first evidence that our prehistoric ancestors in Europe weaned their infants much the way we do now, using specialized baby bottles to feed them animal milk. The discovery casts rare light on childhood and child-rearing in ancient humans — an area ...

More than 2 million wild animals, including jaguars, pumas and llamas, have perished in weeks of wildfires that devastated huge swaths of Bolivian forest and grassland, environmental experts said Wednesday. The fires devastated the Chiquitania tropical savanna in the east of the country. "We have consulted ...

A team led by Japanese researchers said Thursday that it had created a miniature multiorgan structure from human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, in a world first. The one-centimeter structure consists of miniature versions of the liver, pancreas and bile duct, according to its report ...

New education minister Koichi Hagiuda on Wednesday said he wants to review the nation's teacher training system. "Teaching is a significant job linked to human resource development," Hagiuda, minister of education, culture, sports, science and technology, said in an interview with news organizations. Hagiuda raised questions ...

Rescuers battled along badly damaged roads and combed through toppled buildings Wednesday to reach victims of an earthquake that killed at least 38 people and injured hundreds more in northeast Pakistan. Authorities were still assessing the quake's impact in villages around the city of Mirpur ...

Israel's president tasked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday with assembling a new government after power-sharing talks with his strongest rival, Benny Gantz, failed following an inconclusive election. But right-wing Likud party chief Netanyahu, facing a looming indictment on corruption allegations he denies, still has ...

A group of Russian military specialists has arrived in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas, the Interfax news agency reported on Wednesday, as Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro meets with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, to improve cooperation. Moscow has been one of Maduro's biggest backers amid ...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that a deal to end a nearly 15-month trade war with China could happen sooner than people think. "They want to make a deal very badly. ... It could happen sooner than you think," Trump told reporters in ...

Jihadis aligned to Islamic State have killed one of six aid workers abducted in July in northeast Nigeria, charity group Action Against Hunger said Wednesday. The six Nigerian aid workers — one woman and five men — were seized by jihadis during an ambush on ...

Google said Wednesday it will not pay European media outlets for displaying their articles, pictures and videos in search results in France, a move that undercuts EU copyright law and could set up a legal fight between the U.S. tech giant and Brussels. Google routinely ...

Liberal democratic societies such as Japan should see the Hong Kong protests as the first volley in a protracted cyber struggle that could undermine their open societies.

Criminals get convicted all the time on evidence this strong.

British group Hot Chip mark 20th anniversary with new album, "A Bath Full of Ecstasy" and a world tour that includes dates in Osaka, Tokyo and Shizuoka Prefecture

The latest season of The Bachelor has dropped on Amazon Prime Video, bringing with it all the drama and absurdity of a Western reality show

England's players got the job done with a solid 45-7 bonus-point victory over the United States at the Rugby World Cup on Thursday against a determined Eagles side. With a four-day turnaround after its opening Pool C victory over Tonga, coach Eddie Jones rang the ...

Takahiro Norimoto allowed one hit over five innings for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles in a 7-1 thrashing of the Pacific League champion Seibu Lions on Thursday. Although the game completed both teams' regular season, they could meet again in the final stage of the ...

Australia wing Reece Hodge revealed he hadn't been trained on World Rugby's new protocol for policing high tackles as he was suspended at the Rugby World Cup, an official report of his disciplinary hearing revealed on Thursday. Hodge, banned for three games for a hit ...

New Zealand coach Steve Hansen on Thursday served as a one-day honorary chief of a police station in Beppu, where his team is training in its bid to secure a third successive Rugby World Cup title. Hansen said in an address to police officers in ...

Italy ran amok against Canada to bag its second bonus-point win in as many games with a 48-7 Rugby World Cup victory on Thursday. It was not a perfect performance as Italy slipped at times from flair and finesse to sloppy, but it did enough ...

High school student Yukime Sasaki and two other young girls were all beaming smiles to greet hundreds of visitors who stopped by on Wednesday afternoon before a Rugby World Cup game between Uruguay and Fiji. The three were there as "memory keepers" of the 2011 ...

Los Angeles Chargers running back Melvin Gordon is ending his holdout and will report to the team Thursday, multiple outlets reported Wednesday. According to NFL Network's Ian Rapoport, Gordon will not play this Sunday in Miami. ESPN's Josina Anderson reported Gordon expects this to be ...

One of rugby's perennial controversies has reared its head at this year's World Cup in Japan — does performing the haka give the All Blacks an unfair advantage over their opponents? The question crops up at most tournaments and — along with other recurring talking ...

Japan on Thursday left captain Michael Leitch out of its starting team for Saturday's clash with Pool A favorite Ireland as a fit-again Amanaki Mafi took his place in the back row as one of five changes from the Brave Blossoms' opening-day win over ...

Every top-flight team has signed new players and tweaked their rosters for the upcoming season, the B. League's fourth campaign. It'll take some time to get acclimated to all of the new faces in different places, but a handful of signings could prove to be ...