East Japan Railway Co. and other railway operators warned on Thursday that services on many lines could be canceled on Saturday and Sunday, as "violent" Typhoon Hagibis threatens to slam wide areas of the nation. JR East said on its website that bullet trains and ...

Tokyo's major wholesale food market in Toyosu in Koto Ward is struggling to stem the decrease in the amount of fish traded there, as it marks a year after relocating from Tsukiji. The Toyosu market, which opened on Oct. 11, 2018, after a two-year delay ...

Apple Inc. on Wednesday removed from its app store an app that protesters in Hong Kong have used to track police movements, saying it violated rules because it was used to ambush police. The U.S. tech giant had come under fire from China over the ...

“I want young people today to have bold curiosity,” he said.

Indigenous-led protesters began a national strike in Ecuador on Wednesday after President Lenin Moreno refused to step down or overturn anti-austerity measures that have triggered the worst unrest in a decade. Streets were empty of traffic and businesses were closed in Quito and other cities ...

In a country drowning itself in plastic, the creators of a new app called MyMizu are attempting to change seemingly entrenched views and cultural norms regarding sustainability. It's a challenge the creators acknowledge, but they believe they are making inroads. Two weeks after the release ...

One of four teachers accused of bullying their colleagues at an elementary school in Kobe also encouraged pupils to defy authority and create chaos in class, the principal of the school said Wednesday, citing one of the bullying victims. Miki Nio said at a news ...

Social media companies scrambled on Wednesday to scrub footage of a shooting outside a German synagogue from their platforms, in the first major test of their systems since a massacre in the New Zealand city of Christchurch prompted a global outcry. The attacker in Germany, ...

Samsung Display Co. plans to spend 13.1 trillion won ($11 billion) developing and building next-generation displays, responding to a flood of supply and price pressure from fast-moving Chinese rivals. In an announcement event attended by South Korean President Moon Jae-in and Samsung Electronics Co. Vice-Chairman ...

About 3.85 million people studied Japanese at a record 18,604 institutions overseas in fiscal 2018, with the number of institutions soaring in Asia, according to a survey released this week. The number of Japanese-language institutions jumped nearly fourfold to 818 in Vietnam from the previous ...

Official campaigning began Thursday for the Upper House by-election in Saitama Prefecture, where a former governor is pitted against the head of a minor opposition party critical of public broadcaster NHK. Independent Kiyoshi Ueda, 71, is an established figure after serving as Saitama governor for ...

Convenience store chain operator Lawson Inc. said Wednesday that it will close around 100 outlets, less than 1 percent of its nationwide network of over 14,000 stores, on Jan. 1, 2020. The closure will be carried out on a trial basis as part of work-style ...

The future of Thierry Bollore at the helm of Renault looks increasingly precarious as the manufacturers prepare to reshape their two-decade partnership.

Akira Yoshino's winning of the Nobel Prize in chemistry has been greeted with surprise and gratitude in Japan. Yoshino was among three scientists given the award on Wednesday for their work on the development of lithium-ion batteries. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said Wednesday ...

A gunman killed two people in a synagogue and a nearby kebab shop on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year, in an attack in the German city of Halle that he livestreamed on a video-gaming platform. Before he began shooting on Wednesday, ...

More than 5 percent of older Boeing Co. 737 jets that underwent urgent inspections worldwide in the past week have cracks in a structure connecting the wings to the fuselage and will have to be temporarily grounded. Boeing officials shared the preliminary findings on 737 ...

Rolling blackouts set to affect millions of Californians began Wednesday as a utility company started switching off power to an unprecedented number of households in the face of hot, windy weather that raises the risk of wildfires. Pacific Gas & Electric, which announced the deliberate ...

The European Union hinted strongly it viewed Chinese tech group Huawei as a security risk to its roll-out of 5G networks in a report released Wednesday. The bloc-wide assessment of cybersecurity for 5G networks also stressed that "threats posed by states or state-backed actors are ...

Turkey launched a military operation against Kurdish fighters in northeast Syria on Wednesday just days after U.S. troops pulled back from the area, with warplanes and artillery striking militia positions in several towns in the border region. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, announcing the start ...

The head of the AFL-CIO labor union on Wednesday warned against speedy passage of the Trump administration's new trade pact with Mexico and Canada, saying he was especially concerned about labor protection measures in Mexico and adding that any vote on the plan before ...

In July, Japan tightened its control of exports of certain materials for semiconductor production to South Korea. On Aug. 28, the government took further action and removed South Korea from its whitelist of nations granted preferential trade procedure. South Korea responded to these actions by ...

Once willing to let others take the lead in foreign policy and defense, Japan is now employing a comprehensive security strategy.

The 47th Jiyugaoka Megami Festival will take place near Jiyugaoka Station in Tokyo's Meguro Ward on Oct. 13 and 14. The festival will feature music, cultural events and shops in the fashionable district. Some 600,000 visitors are expected to attend the festival with more than ...

The Bosai Startups in Japan event, described as an "ideathon" focusing on disaster risk reduction, was held on Sept. 29 in Tokyo. Under the slogan "Building a More Resilient Society," it served as a pre-event for the World Bosai Forum (WBF). At the Bosai Startups, ...

Encouraged by the craft beer boom, the city of Tono in Iwate Prefecture has been welcoming outsiders wanting to try new ways to revive its hop-growing industry and transform the community into a "beer town." Japan imports about 95 percent of hops for domestic beer ...

Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia holds its autumn screening event in Tokyo from Oct. 17 to 20, with 25 films being shown across a number of programs

After three decades in the business, Japan's best known ska band is in the midst of a full year of celebrations, including nationwide tours, gigs overseas and an upcoming album

Rihanna speared President Donald Trump as perhaps "the most mentally ill human being in America" over his position on gun rights in a candid Vogue interview published Wednesday that also touched on immigration and racism. Asked about the back-to-back shootings earlier this year in the ...

The Toronto Raptors and Houston Rockets wrapped up this year's NBA Japan Games with the second entertaining 48-minute spectacle of the week on Thursday night at Saitama Super Arena. There was plenty of star power on display with highlight-reel plays by Houston superstars James Harden ...

C.C. Mercedes, on more than one occasion, skipped off the mound at the end of a scoreless inning and pointed upward with his index finger. It wasn't meant to be a "No. 1" gesture, but that certainly fits. One more win in the books. One more ...

In the sumo ring, wrestlers from Mongolia rule the roost against their Japanese opponents. On the soccer pitch, Japan is clearly still king. Takumi Minamino scored in his third straight match, veteran defender Yuto Nagatomo netted his first international goal in 10 years and Junya Ito ...

Rugby World Cup organizers announced Thursday that two crucial pool games scheduled to take place on Saturday have been canceled to avoid the impact of a massive super typhoon set to hit the country. A decision on whether to go ahead with Japan's do-or-die Pool ...

Japanese Grand Prix organizers will not make any decision to postpone Saturday qualifying for another 24 hours but pledged that the safety of fans and drivers was their top priority as a massive storm bears down on Japan. Typhoon Hagibis is classed as "violent" — ...

Tennis star Naomi Osaka has decided to choose Japanese over American nationality with an eye on the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, NHK reported Thursday. Osaka, who has a Japanese mother and a Haitian father, told NHK she has completed an administrative step to obtain Japanese citizenship ...