Two players from the Uruguay team tackled a staff member and damaged property at a restaurant in the city of Kumamoto during a drinking session following their final game of the Rugby World Cup, police said Wednesday. The police are investigating the alleged assault and ...

Areas devastated by Typhoon Hagibis in Nagano Prefecture and the Tohoku region are struggling to respond after the most powerful typhoon to hit Japan in decades caused record-breaking rainfall, massive flooding, mudslides and outages of electricity and water supplies. In Marumori, Miyagi Prefecture, damage was ...

Tokyo faced crisis last Saturday, with water levels in the Tama River quickly climbing as heavy rains and winds from Typhoon Hagibis inundated the Kanto region.

The government was forced to make sense of Koizumi’s recent vow to make Japan’s fight against climate change “sexy” after an opposition lawmaker requested an official interpretation of his remarks.

The funds will be used to set up temporary toilets and send necessities such as water, food and bedding to shelters in areas flooded by record-breaking rainfall over the weekend.

Designers of machine translation tools still mostly rely on dictionaries to make a foreign language understandable. But now there is a new way: numbers. Facebook researchers say rendering words into figures and exploiting mathematical similarities between languages is a promising avenue — even if a ...

Mizuho Financial Group Inc. is extending riskier types of corporate credit to fend off competition in a country that's awash with easy money. Japan's third-largest bank by market value will offer companies more subordinated loans and other types of mezzanine finance, said Koji Fujiwara, CEO ...

Many stores and restaurants in wide swaths of central and northeastern Japan suspended operations Tuesday after Typhoon Hagibis caused flooding and disrupted supply chains. Convenience store operator FamilyMart Co. closed 35 outlets, while rival Seven-Eleven Japan Co., a unit of Seven & I Holdings Co., ...

Although marine plastic has become a prominent environmental issue in recent years, plastic is too valuable a resource to ever truly go away, so effectively managing such waste and placing it in a circular economy system would be the most efficient way to solve ...

The BOJ is laying the groundwork for deepening negative interest rates, analysts polled by Reuters said, with two-thirds expecting the central bank to loosen monetary policy this month.

Creating meat from cells is no longer the realm of science fiction — a Russian cosmonaut recently did it aboard the International Space Station, and it is just a matter of time before these products arrive on supermarket shelves. Tests carried out in space in ...

A court on Wednesday ruled July's Upper House election was in a "state of unconstitutionality" due to disparities in the weight of a single vote between urban and rural constituencies. But the high court in Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, turned down the plaintiffs' demand to nullify ...

South Korea's central bank warned Wednesday that economic growth would be weaker than forecast after cutting its policy rate for the second time this year as a global downturn pummels exports and weighs on prices. Wednesday's rate cut comes amid a wave of rate cutting ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has made yet another improbable trek to the top of 2,744-meter-high (9,003-feet-high) Mount Paektu, which the country calls "the sacred mountain of the revolution" — and this time, he did it atop a white steed. But behind the grandiose ...

Google LLC on Tuesday unveiled its latest Pixel 4 smartphone series with higher-quality cameras allowing clear pictures to be taken even in the dark, with the models hitting shelves globally Oct. 24. The phone also has a sensor which tracks hand gestures, although this function ...

Mos Food Services Inc. said Tuesday that it will begin a program in 2020 to help Vietnamese acquire a Japanese visa for foreign workers with designated skills. The Tokyo-based hamburger chain operator will partner with the national Danang Vocational Tourism College to train some 350 ...

With the U.K. looking to secure its economic future and seize the purported benefits of Brexit, London has been ramping up its negotiating capacity and making overtures to trade partners.

Three-year-old Asahi Watanabe, who was born with a genetic disease that requires the use of a feeding tube for hydration, receives care from nursery staff at his Tokyo home — an unusual arrangement in Japan where family members of children with disabilities are often ...

General Motors Co. and the United Auto Workers union were near a deal on Tuesday to end a 30-day strike that has cost the automaker about $2 billion after Chief Executive Mary Barra and President Mark Reuss took part in contract talks, according to ...

The second interstellar object ever spotted passing through the solar system is a comet that appears quite like those formed in our neighborhood of the cosmos, providing fresh evidence that other planetary systems may be very similar to our own. Astronomers on Monday provided some ...

Pratt & Whitney recommended checks on engines on Airbus A220 aircraft and some Embraer jets after a Geneva-bound Swiss jet diverted to Paris with an engine problem, prompting the grounding of the rest of the airline's A220 fleet. French air accident investigators classified the problem ...

Wagyu full of fat, sent as gifts by some municipalities in return for tax-deductible donations, has drawn a flurry of donor complaints. The town of Misato in Miyazaki Prefecture and the city of Ichikikushikino in Kagoshima Prefecture apologized to those who made donations under the ...

It will be impossible to nurture human resources suitable for Society 5.0 unless drastic curriculum reforms are carried out to make universities an arena for a liberal arts education.

The remedy for the financial woes of people in developing countries isn't going to come from Facebook.

The joyful curiosity my mother had toward Japan when she visited reminded me of what made life here so special when I first arrived.

With hoodies and scarves covering their heads, a group of Japanese high school students point and whisper in awe upon entering the main hall of Tokyo Camii as Muslim worshippers prostrate beneath a glittering dome set against a bright sky. Located just five minutes from ...

Takahisa Zeze unveils his latest feature, an ambitious film based on two short stories by best-selling author Shuichi Yoshida

Shinichiro Ueda, best known for 2017's "One Cut of the Dead," releases his second solo feature, again using a largely unknown cast

Singer Misia possesses an astonishing vocal range of five octaves but equally impressive is her humanitarian work abroad. The artist, who asks to go by her stage name, has been working tirelessly on a wide range of humanitarian causes on the African continent since the ...

Japanese idol Tomohisa Yamashita is to star in a chilling new thriller set in the Antarctic called "The Head. A clip from the series — co-created by Ran Tellem of "Homeland" fame — was shown Tuesday at MIPCOM, the world's biggest entertainment market in Cannes. The ...

With Japan reaching the Rugby World Cup quarterfinals for the first time, fans are scrambling to get their hands on official merchandise. Except the Brave Blossoms have become so popular, demand is far outpacing supply. World Rugby has said more than 200,000 jerseys have been ...

Tomoya Machino is not the first Japanese player to set the lofty goal of becoming an NFL player. There have been others in the past who had been labeled as "the player closest to the NFL," and tried to reach the game's premier circuit. What ...

Japan's Rugby World Cup heroes on Wednesday vowed to go for broke in their historic quarterfinal against South Africa on Sunday, insisting the Brave Blossoms have "nothing to lose" after reaching the knockout round for the first time. "The goal for the Japan team was ...

Typhoon Hagibis raged across Japan last weekend leaving in its wake a trail of devastation both deep and wide-ranging. Compared to the loss of life, and destruction of homes that occurred on Saturday, the cancellation or postponement of sporting events feels barely worth mentioning. A herculean ...

Scotland attempted to block a Rugby World Cup misconduct charge on Wednesday, questioning whether the action was "appropriate" following its comments about a deadly typhoon. World Rugby has taken Scotland to a disputes panel over what it called "disappointing" remarks before its final pool match ...

A controversial decision by J. League second-division side Machida Zelvia to rebrand as FC Machida Tokyo has dominated water-cooler discussions in the Japanese soccer world this week. The announcement by club owner CyberAgent last Friday at a fan meeting was met with instant disapproval, both ...