Recent losses in Treasuries, which crescendoed Thursday into one of the worst days since Donald Trump was elected president, look like a buying opportunity for many investors who have a grim view of the economy's prospects. And it appears some are pouncing, with traders cashing ...

Facebook Inc. employees repeatedly chafed at what they viewed as anti-competitive or unethical practices by the company, internal chats show. But their concerns, voiced in 2012 and 2013, were overruled by senior managers including Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg, who argued that the survival ...

Communications minister Sanae Takaichi said Friday that she asked NHK to review costs related to its plan to distribute all of its TV programs in real time over the internet. The public broadcaster was asked to submit a report on the matter by Dec. 8. ...

Mount Sakurajima shot smoke and ash miles into the sky Friday in its biggest eruption in more than three years, the Meteorological Agency said. The plume erupted from the volcano's Minamidake crater at 5:24 p.m., sending smoke and debris 5.5 km (3.4 miles) into the ...

The 2019 Rugby World Cup, natural disasters and cashless payment inspired a large portion of the nominations for the annual buzzword of the year awards. The words selected for the 2019 U-Can Shingo Ryukogo Taisho (2019 U-Can New Words and Buzzword Awards) reflect the nation’s ...

The remains of at least 187 people dating back to the early 1900s or before were retrieved from the site of the new National Stadium in Shinjuku Ward before construction began, according to officials from the Tokyo Metropolitan Government. The site used to be the ...

Water has been fully restored to Haneda airport following a three-day disruption caused by saltwater intrusion, the operator of its domestic terminals said Friday. Japan Airport Terminal Co. suspended water to the buildings for terminals 1 and 2, used for domestic flights, on Wednesday morning ...

Rental apartment operator Leopalace21 Corp. posted net losses of ¥24.4 billion ($223 million) for the April-September period on Friday, with sales falling 13.3 percent to ¥221.5 billion from the same period last year. The firm, hit by scandals involving 30,000 defective buildings earlier this year, ...

The answer to the renewable energy industry's biggest challenge is emerging in the Australian Outback. Early next year, one of the first power projects that combine solar and wind generation with battery storage is planning to start up in northern Queensland. The Kennedy Energy Park, ...

The parade will begin at 3 p.m. Sunday when Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako leave the Imperial Palace for the Akasaka Estate to mark his enthronement.

The package, expected to be worth a few trillion yen, is the first in three years and will likely focus on funding efforts to recover from this year’s natural disasters.

Avid fans of all-girl pop act AKB48 braved a persistent drizzle outside Aichi Sky Expo on a recent Saturday morning, forming a long queue as they waited for a "handshaking" session with the group's idols to kick off. Some had traveled long distances for the ...

Japan’s teaching culture prizes conformity and docility, but the public is apparently getting fed up with the suffocating rules imposed to achieve that.

A U.S. F-16 fighter jet dropped a 230 kilogram dummy bomb onto private property near a bombing training site in Aomori Prefecture, Defense Ministry officials in Tokyo said Thursday. No one was injured and no buildings were damaged in the incident, which took place during ...

North Korea on Thursday unleashed an insult-laden diatribe against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, calling him an "idiot and villain" who should not even dream of setting foot in Pyongyang, and hinted at the possibility of missiles again flying over Japan after Abe criticized a ...

In a sign of the deep-seated rancor between Seoul and Tokyo, more South Koreans would back their neighbor to the north if it went to war with Japan, according to a new survey by a state-sponsored think tank in Seoul. The survey, conducted by research ...

A 76-year-old former Japanese municipal assemblyman was sentenced Friday to life in prison by a court in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou for smuggling drugs, his attorney said. Takuma Sakuragi, a former assemblyman from Inazawa, Aichi Prefecture, was detained by Chinese authorities in October ...

Revocations would be allowed for reckless driving to address public fears sparked by several road-rage cases over the past few years.

Finance Minister Taro Aso indicated a new openness to introducing 50-year government bonds, days after the country's central bank chief suggested such a move could be helpful. "This is one topic of our considerations," Aso told reporters Friday in Tokyo when asked about the potential ...

More than two-thirds of Japanese companies are feeling less pain from a sales tax increase last month than from the previous increase five years ago, which precipitated a recession, a Reuters poll has found. The results of the survey support the view of the government ...

Japan's Board of Audit said Friday that wasteful spending of tax money was at its second-lowest level in a decade in fiscal 2018, through March this year. A total of ¥100.23 billion ($917 million) in 335 cases was either wastefully spent by government agencies and ...

Japan's household spending increased at the fastest pace on record in September, boosted by last-minute buying ahead of a consumption tax hike starting Oct. 1, government data showed Friday. Spending by households with two or more people rose 9.5 percent in real terms to ¥300,609 ...

A record 400 kilograms of cocaine was seized by customs authorities in October at Kobe port, investigative sources said Thursday. The latest seizure, with an estimated street value of ¥8 billion, more than doubles the previous record set when 177 kilograms were found at Mikawa ...

The most contested plot of land in India has unleashed deadly riots and set Hindu against Muslim. Now the nation's top court will decide who owns it. In dispute is a scrap of land in Ayodhya, a sleepy northern temple town that is a holy ...

From browsing social media to watching videos and chatting with friends, Indonesian university student Tyas Sisianindita spends about eight hours a day on her phone. "I realize that I am addicted," the university student admitted, saying she checks her phone continuously from the time she ...

Vaping devices and the chemicals they deliver — increasingly popular among teens — may damage the cardiovascular system, a study said Thursday, adding to a growing chorus of concern over injury and deaths related to e-cigarettes. The latest findings, published in the journal Cardiovascular Research, ...

French President Emmanuel Macron has decided to scrap a €3 billion ($3.32 billion) shopping and leisure complex project that French retail group Auchan and Chinese conglomerate Dalian Wanda planned to build just outside Paris, the Elysee Palace said on Thursday. The EuropaCity project, which was ...

U.S. prosecutors charged Aventura Technologies Inc. and seven current and former employees with a 13-year scheme to illegally import and sell Chinese-made surveillance and security equipment to U.S. government agencies and private customers. The defendants, including founder Jack Cabasso, were charged with helping Aventura defraud ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on a visit to EU member Hungary repeated his threat Thursday to "open the gates" for millions of refugees eager to flee to Europe unless more international support was provided. Erdogan held talks with Hungarian nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban ...

A lawyer for Exxon Mobil Corp. mocked New York's fraud lawsuit against the oil giant, saying the state had falsely accused engineers and scientists of cooking up a massive scheme to mislead investors about the financial risks of climate change. "It's a cruel joke, your ...

A U.S. pharmaceutical firm has identified a new subtype of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and said the finding showed that cutting edge genome sequencing is helping researchers stay ahead of mutations. The strain, HIV-1 Group M subtype L, has been recorded in three people ...

The RCEP has the potential to be the world's largest free trade area.

Japan is running out of time. Where will migrants come from when the international competition for Asian workers heats up?

NTT East Corp. has launched a project to preserve Japan's cultural properties in an effort to conserve assets susceptible to damage from natural disasters or deterioration over time. Under the project, the telecommunication firm plans to digitalize cultural properties, such as paintings, architecture and historical ...

Britain is not unique in its stance as a nation obsessed with food; its contribution to the culinary canon speaks of rich flavors and nods to the country's history. Such is the thinking behind Prince Hotels and Resorts Timeless U.K. British Fair 2019. Intimate dinners ...

Hold on, are we watching "Terrace House" or a spinoff of "The Bachelor"? Because it looks like everyone is receiving a rose this week, as Haruka, Emika and Hana — who all have flower kanji in their names (hence the previous episode's title "The ...

Hideo Kojima, creator of the hugely anticipated Death Stranding game, released this week, turned a family obsession with film into a talent for making highly cinematic video games. Best known for his acclaimed Metal Gear series, Kojima spent nearly 30 years at Konami, a major ...

In today's world of visual entertainment, it's hard to argue that Japan has any stronger export than animation. The Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF), which this year ran from Oct. 28 to Nov. 5, seems to be waking up to that fact. From 2014 to ...

Playwright Kazumi Kobayashi, better known as Keralino Sandorovich, unveils his latest play, in which a fictional discovery of a lost Franz Kafka novel is made

Defending champion and world No. 1 Kento Momota battled past former No. 1 Viktor Axelsen to reach the Fuzhou China Open semifinals on Friday. The 25-year-old, who is chasing a 10th title of 2019, suffered a second-game wobble before winning 21-18, 12-21, 21-16 in their ...

England will return to Japan in July to face the Brave Blossoms in a two-test series, the RFU announced on Friday. Both sides excelled at the rugby World Cup as host Japan reached the quarterfinals for the first time, while England fell just short of ...

Seven-time Golden Glove Award winner Ryosuke Kikuchi will have a chance to move to the major leagues via the posting system, the Hiroshima Carp said Friday. The 29-year-old second baseman has won the CL's fielding award for excellence every season since he became a regular ...

Code-hopping All Blacks star Sonny Bill Williams confirmed Friday he is returning to rugby league and will join the Toronto Wolfpack in a deal that could make him the richest player in either code. The two-time rugby union World Cup winner said he had signed ...

Novak Djokovic can end his season with a flourish by equaling Roger Federer's record haul of six titles at the ATP Finals and pipping Rafael Nadal to the year-end No. 1 spot. Germany's Alexander Zverev shocked Djokovic in last year's final at London's O2 Arena ...

The second and final lottery for Japanese residents to buy tickets to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics will commence on Nov. 13, the organizing committee announced Friday. Applications will be accepted from the morning until 11:59 a.m. on Nov. 26. The lottery results will be announced ...

Opera performer Placido Domingo, who has been accused by multiple women of sexual misconduct, has withdrawn from a cultural festival planned in conjunction with the Tokyo Olympic Games, organizers said Friday. The 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic organizing committee said the renowned Spanish singer ...

Samurai Japan will head home to the Premier 12 super round having completed a sweep of Group B with an 8-1 win over group host Taiwan on Thursday. Both teams were playing for pride having already clinched a spot in the six-team round robin next ...

Athens Olympics women's marathon champion Mizuki Noguchi will likely be named to carry next year's Tokyo Olympic flame in March as it begins its journey in Greece, sources close to the matter said Thursday. The flame is scheduled to be lit in Greece on March ...