China announced the delivery and commissioning Tuesday of its second aircraft carrier — the first built domestically — while also revealing its name, the Shandong, state-run media reported. The carrier entered service at its new home, a naval base in Sanya on Hainan Island "at ...

The bill aims to keep one-sided deals in check by requiring shopping website operators to disclose terms with stores that use their platforms to sell products.

A ministry report concluded the SDF’s Mutsumi training area was the “only suitable place among state-owned lands to meet requirements” for deploying the system in the area.

The nation’s attempts to create “a society in which women shine” are falling well short of its G7 peers and much of the rest of the world.

Liner service Ogasawara Kaiun Co. is looking for participants for a 28-day, 27-night tour to the Ogasawara Islands, an archipelago of over 30 subtropical islands some 1,000 kilometers south of central Tokyo, highlighting a special chance to escape into nature. The company operates the Ogasawara ...

Japan will oblige domestic automakers to have all new and remodeled passenger cars equipped with automatic brakes from November 2021 amid a rise in the number of accidents involving elderly drivers, the government said Tuesday. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism will also ...

The agency may order the units to halt sales and some other operations after an on-site investigation found cases violating the insurance business law.

The capital punishment system may be an obstacle for Australia to conclude a security agreement with Japan during Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison's visit in January next year, The Australian reported Tuesday. The so-called Reciprocal Access Agreement (RAA) sets out a legal framework for Japanese ...

SMBC Nikko Securities Inc. is planning to introduce in fiscal 2020 a system that allows employees to work three or four days a week, according to President Yoshihiko Shimizu. The measure is intended to support workers who need to take care of their parents or ...

The government Tuesday decided against adding open-ended questions for Japanese and math to the country's new standardized university entrance exams due to start January 2021. Education minister Koichi Hagiuda said issues such as the potential for errors to be made by private-sector graders, which includes ...

Honda Motor Co. will be the first automaker in Japan to release a domestically produced car with "level three" autonomy, according to sources. Level three autonomous driving technology will be mounted on a new Legend luxury sedan scheduled to be launched as early as next ...

The Bank of Japan's next move will be to dial back its massive stimulus, according to an increasing number of polled analysts, reflecting receding market expectations of imminent monetary easing by the central bank. But any such withdrawal of stimulus will begin in 2021 at ...

Firefighters in Australia warned Tuesday they would not be able to contain some of the 100 fires still ablaze in the country before conditions are expected to deteriorate later this week. Temperatures across parts of the eastern state of New South Wales (NSW) are expected ...

The scene of olive trees bearing green and black fruit in November is growing familiar to residents of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, a city that often sees temperatures drop to below zero in the winter months. "When I heard the olive growing plan, I wondered if ...

Boeing Co. said Monday it is suspending production of its best-selling 737 Max jetliner in January, its biggest assembly-line halt in more than 20 years, as the consequences of two fatal crashes of the now-grounded aircraft look set to drag into 2020. Boeing, which builds ...

Struggling to revive profits as low yields persist, a handful of troubled regional banks are wading deeper into riskier credit such as near-junk rated overseas bonds, according to a Bloomberg survey. Weaker regional lenders are fighting for survival as the government presses for consolidation in ...

Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi, who begins a five-day trip to Moscow on Tuesday, will seek to restart stalled negotiations with Russia over a territorial row. Visiting the country for the first time since becoming foreign minister, Motegi will meet his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, on ...

Britain set a hard deadline of December 2020 on Tuesday to reach a new trade deal with the European Union, betting that the prospect of another Brexit cliff-edge would force Brussels to move more quickly than usual to seal an accord. Prime Minister Boris Johnson ...

The Metropolitan Police Department sent papers on the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan's Akihiro Hatsushika to public prosecutors last week over allegations he sexually assaulted a woman in a taxi in May 2015, according to police sources. Hatsushika, 50, in his third term ...

U.S. Democrats signaled Monday they were girding for battle over witnesses and fair process in the Senate trial of Donald Trump, days ahead of a historic House vote on impeaching the president for abuse of office and obstruction of Congress. Even as Trump faces disgrace ...

Germany will raise the price for carbon dioxide emissions from transport and heating buildings to €25 ($27.56) per metric ton from 2021 after a proposed €10 price tag was criticized for being too low, government sources said on Monday. The lower house of parliament last ...

Ibrahim Ali al-Jadari's four teenage daughters lie at home on intravenous drips that will soon run out as they, like tens of thousands of other Yemenis, battle a seasonal surge of dengue fever. Mosquito-borne dengue is the latest challenge facing Yemenis who have endured almost ...

E-cigarette use significantly increases the risk of developing chronic lung diseases like asthma, bronchitis, emphysema and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, according to a long term study published Monday that also found vaping was less harmful than smoking. The results of the research, published in the ...

In Japan's view, India's participation in the RCEP is crucial to prevent it from becoming a China-led trade block.

American journalism used to adhere to strict standards, then the U.S. media declared war on Donald Trump.

The country's embrace of religious nationalism is trampling on a tradition of secular liberalism that has served its people well

For Raymond Moriyama, an award-winning Canadian architect of Japanese descent, the lessons of culture and community he takes from his ancestry form the foundation of his aesthetics and architectural designs. When he faces challenges with his projects in adulthood, he often seeks inspiration and solutions ...

This year's kanji of the year is "令," but writer Paul Dargan posits a guess as to what the kanji of the decade might be while looking back on the annual tradition and what the top picks say about the state of the country.

Not to be confused with "to iu," the structure that uses "to itta" can help when you're providing examples for things in a designated category.

An English article looks at the latest on the Kumamoto "baby hatch," where women can drop their babies off safely and anonymously for adoption.

As the taboo-busting comic Joan Rivers used to say after pressing her audience's buttons, "Can we talk?" On the evidence of this year's Aichi Triennale, if it's about World War II atrocities, the answer seems to be "no."

Swimming star Rikako Ikee, who was diagnosed with leukemia earlier this year, said Tuesday she has been discharged from hospital and hopes to compete at the 2024 Paris Olympics. The 19-year-old was considered a medal favorite for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics but was forced to ...

Yuzuru Hanyu returns to the Japan Championships this week for the first time in four years. After winning the title four straight times (2012-15), Hanyu has missed the last three installments due to illness and injury. Coming off a disappointing second-place finish at the Grand ...

The Tampa Bay Rays have agreed to a two-year, $12 million deal with Yoshitomo Tsutsugo who was made available to major league teams through the posting system by the Yokohama BayStars. The Rays, who will pay a 20 percent release fee of approximately $2.4 million ...

The members of the Nadeshiko Japan soccer team that won the Women's World Cup in 2011 will open the domestic leg of the Olympic torch relay, the 2020 Tokyo Games organizing committee announced Tuesday. Organizers unveiled a detailed route for the relay covering all 47 ...

The U.S. Military Academy at West point said Monday it is investigating the apparent display of "white power" hand gestures by cadets over the weekend during the nationally televised annual Army-Navy football game. "The US Military Academy is fully committed to developing leaders of character ...