If the meeting takes place, it will be the first between defense ministers of the two countries since October last year amid frayed bilateral ties.

A month after Typhoon Hagibis roared through central and eastern Japan, friends, family members and neighbors mourned the victims of the powerful storm, which claimed at least 90 lives and flooded tens of thousands of homes. The typhoon made landfall on Honshu on Oct. 12, ...

Apple Inc. pitches its new card as a model of simplicity and transparency, upending everything consumers think about credit cards. But for the card's overseers at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., it is creating the same headaches that have bedeviled an industry the companies had hoped ...

WeWork is considering a candidate with deep ties to its majority shareholder SoftBank Group Corp. as its new chief executive officer, people familiar with the matter have said, in hopes of turning around the troubled coworking company. T-Mobile US Inc. head John Legere has spoken ...

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. is looking to develop an upgraded version of Japan's mainstay next-generation H3 rocket capable of delivering heavy payloads deeper into space, company officials said. The firm's move comes after the country agreed this fall to take part in missions to the ...

Nissan, whose financial performance has been in the doldrums for nearly two years, also cut its forecast for operating profit by ¥80 billion for the year through March.

From transportation to holiday homes, the "sharing economy" is gaining traction worldwide, and in typhoon- and earthquake-prone Japan the concept is increasingly seen as instrumental to disaster management. On Monday this year's Share Summit, one of the largest public-private conferences in Japan on the burgeoning ...

Police on Tuesday referred to prosecutors the case of an 88-year-old former senior bureaucrat who was involved in a Tokyo car crash that left a toddler and her mother dead and prompted many elderly Japanese to surrender their driver's licenses for fear of causing ...

With Washington reportedly demanding that South Korea pay more to have U.S. troops stationed in the country, a former South Korean foreign minister says he has a solution for Seoul: the development of its own nuclear arsenal. Song Min-soon, who also once served as the ...

Two days after he escaped custody in Osaka Prefecture, prosecutors on Monday caught a man indicted on drug charges who fled while being transferred to the police after his bail was revoked. Ryotaro Oue, who was indicted for using illegal stimulants and possessing marijuana, was ...

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc., known as Tepco, said Tuesday the group will sell electricity to households across Japan, with the exception of Okinawa Prefecture, from Wednesday. The group hopes to acquire customers in new regional markets while keeping users who leave the greater ...

Top U.S. military officer Gen. Mark Milley said Tuesday that South Korea's decision to scrap an intelligence-sharing pact with Japan is on the agenda for talks he is holding with both nations. "It'll be a point in discussion there (in South Korea). So we want ...

Midway through the 1800s, the English scientist Michael Faraday had the forethought to deliver a series of lectures on an object that was commonplace in Victorian Britain, as a way to get young minds hooked on science. He chose a candle. A century later, a newly ...

Japanese sake sellers are looking to tap into China's growing taste for traditional rice wine to counter its falling consumption back home. Fueled by an increasing number of Japanese restaurants and rising Chinese household incomes, sake, while still considered a treat, can now be found ...

On the morning of Aug. 6, 1945, 13-year-old Setsuko Nakamura was on the second floor of a wooden building in Hiroshima with her classmates when a blue flash of light engulfed her. "I floated in space and lost my senses," she said, recalling the U.S. ...

The SDF is working to coordinate disaster waste and rubble removal efforts through officers dispatched to municipalities affected by the 19th named storm of the season.

Parts of the Yamanote and Keihin-Tohoku lines, major transportation arteries in Tokyo that carry millions of passengers every day, will be partially out of service for most of Saturday due to construction at Shinagawa Station and preparations leading up to the opening of Takanawa ...

Dozens of fires fanned by gale-force winds, scorching temperatures and tinder-dry bushland burned out of control in eastern Australia on Tuesday, as residents up and down the coast were warned it was now too late to leave. Thousands of firefighters had spread out across New ...

Sony Corp.'s gaming arm will establish its first Southeast Asian video game studio in Malaysia in 2020. Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC and the Malaysian government jointly said the studio, named Sony Interactive Entertainment Worldwide Studios Malaysia Sdn. Bhd., will provide art and animation to develop ...

The World Bank announced Monday it was cutting back a vocational education project in China's Xinjiang province, even though an internal investigation did not back up claims the program was linked to the mistreatment of minority Muslim Uighurs. The Washington-based development lender launched a review ...

Huge slabs of pink Rajasthan stone, carved pillars and bricks from across India are already waiting to form a Hindu temple to be built on the site of a demolished mosque at the center of decades of deadly turbulence. Enough stone to build a small ...

The Fukuoka High Court on Monday ordered the government and four construction materials makers to pay some ¥350 million in damages to former construction workers and bereaved relatives in the Kyushu region over health problems caused by asbestos, such as lung cancer. The four companies ...

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter was admitted to an Atlanta hospital on Monday for a procedure to relieve brain pressure from bleeding caused by recent falls, the Carter Center has said in a statement. Carter, 95, the country's oldest living president, was admitted to Emory ...

The agency will ban firms from taking in new trainees if they are found to have violated the program’s conditions and their trainees have gone missing.

The start of public impeachment hearings in the House this week are likely to push the race for the White House into a new phase, testing whether Democratic efforts to investigate President Donald Trump risk hurting the party in the 2020 election. Democratic front-runner Joe ...

Soon after Alex Chow Tsz-Lok fell off the edge of a parking garage in Hong Kong, the allegations began spreading online. Posts circulating in chat groups and on social media claimed the 22-year-old student was chased — and maybe even pushed — by police who ...

The government said Monday it will avoid using the term "hog cholera," opting instead for "classical swine fever," as officials hope to allay public concerns about the outbreak of the disease, which is harmless to humans. "We will standardize the term 'CSF' to counter reputational ...

The United States on Monday condemned "unjustified use of deadly force" in the latest Hong Kong violence and urged police and civilians alike to de-escalate the situation, a senior Trump administration official said. In a separate statement, U.S. State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus urged Beijing ...

U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday he plans to meet with vaping industry representatives as he considers whether to ban flavored e-cigarette products following a deadly epidemic of vaping-linked lung injuries. "Will be meeting with representatives of the Vaping industry, together with medical professionals and ...

Kay Wilson packed up her life in a hurry and moved to Los Angeles ... only to find that what she paid in Pennsylvania for a nice studio apartment would only get her a 2.9-sq.-meter box in California. Her new home is a capsule, inspired ...

The United Nations' nuclear watchdog said it had detected uranium particles at an undeclared site in Iran in its latest report on the country's nuclear program issued on Monday. The report from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), seen by AFP, says: "The agency detected ...

Boeing Co. on Monday said it expected U.S. regulators to approve the return to commercial service of its grounded 737 Max jet in the coming weeks, and its shares jumped as investors grew more hopeful the plane-maker had addressed software problems at the heart ...

President Donald Trump seethed on Monday as Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives prepared to enter a crucial new phase — the first public hearings — in their impeachment inquiry centered on his request that Ukraine investigate political rival Joe Biden. On Wednesday and ...

Three simultaneous bombings killed at least six civilians in the Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli in northeastern Syria on Monday, a Kurdish security source and a Britain-based monitor said. There was no immediate claim for the bombings, but they occurred shortly after the Islamic State group ...

As the world's attention turns to climate change, Japan is in prime position to lead.

When technology is used to connect people who are in different locations and allow them to share the experience of eating together in virtual space, using a smartphone, for example, it will help reduce the problems linked to eating alone.

The kanji for "naka" is used in many different ways. A rectagle with a line cutting it in half, the kanji is also one of the easiest to remember.

With your friends, giving and asking for advice in Japanese can be done in several ways. Just make sure you don't accidentally use these structures with your boss!

A Kyodo article looks at good news for non-Japanese individuals studying in Japan with regards to their chances of landing a job after graduation.

Japan had usually been able to find a way to come up with the big hit or big play when it absolutely needed to at this Premier12. The difference on Tuesday night was the Japanese found themselves against an opponent who was always ready with ...

World No. 1 Kento Momota unexpectedly withdrew from the Hong Kong Open on Tuesday without playing a match, leaving Indian challenger Kidambi Srikanth to advance to the second round. The shock departure comes only a few days after the 24-year-old beat Taiwan's world No. 2 ...

Yokozuna Hakuho flattened new komusubi Asanoyama on Tuesday to recover from his first loss of the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament, while a trio of rank-and-filers jumped out into the lead. Hakuho (2-1) took charge from the start of the final bout on the third day ...

In early 2004, two massive Estonians moved to Japan to join professional sumo. Ott Juurikas became a member of the Irumagawa stable but was complaining about feeling out of place almost immediately, and after just a single outing, he quit the sport and returned home. Juurikas ...

Ukyo Shuto might not need his bat and glove. But he can still be a difference maker for Samurai Japan in the Premier 12 and beyond. Monday's game against Australia in its Super Round opener was a great example of that. Down 2-1 in the seventh ...

Satoko Miyahara earned the silver medal in her Grand Prix season debut at the Cup of China on Saturday, finishing behind Russian teen Anna Shcherbakova. The 21-year-old Miyahara put on another classic performance, displaying beautiful line and edge, but was well behind Shcherbakova, who won ...

Matt Clark got the fastball he was looking for and crushed it. The ball landed near the stairs leading to the concourse in the rear portion of the stands in right field at Tokyo Dome and Clark took a slightly familiar trot around the ...

The Mexican team had to travel to Japan from Mexico this week to compete in the Premier12 Super Round. The experience should make things easier next year, because its looking increasingly like Mexico will be back in 2020. Jonathan Jones and former Chunichi Dragons player Matt ...

Seiya Suzuki changed his bat for the Super Round of the Premier12, but he didn't really have a good reason for doing so. "There's really no reason," he said on Monday night, after helping Japan to its fourth straight victory, 3-2 over Australia, of the ...

For the second time in four games during the Premier12, Samurai Japan had its feet held to the fire. So far, manager Atsunori Inaba’s team has been able to outrun the flames. Seiya Suzuki homered in the fourth, Ukyo Shuto put a charge into the ...