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The Chiba Jets wrapped up a perfect January in league play by topping the Shimane Susanoo Magic on Friday night. The Jets' 90-79 victory, their ninth straight, included veteran forward Michael Parker's 27-point, 15-rebound, five-assist, two-steal, two-block performance in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture. Parker made 12 of ...
The Cabinet approved bills on a tax reform package for fiscal 2020 on Friday in an effort to encourage business investment in advanced communications infrastructure and startups with innovative technologies. The government will submit the bills to the Diet soon, with the aim of having ...
Hitachi Ltd. reported Friday its group net profit for the April to December period sank 33.3 percent from a year earlier to ¥55.15 billion ($505 million) because of falling sales in China and elsewhere in Asia. The industrial machinery and electronic device manufacturer also said ...
Hitachi Ltd. reported Friday its group net profit for the April to December period sank 33.3 percent from a year earlier to ¥55.15 billion ($505 million) because of falling sales in China and elsewhere in Asia. The industrial machinery and electronic device manufacturer also said ...
If his Middle East peace proposal is any indication of how U.S. President Donald Trump will deal with other international issues, Japan should be worried.
Jewish settlements are not the primary obstacle to peace with the Palestinians.
A farm ministry panel on Friday approved a plan to allow the preventive culling of healthy pigs within 3 km of confirmed African swine fever outbreaks. The measure will be included in the ministry's guidelines under the revised law on controlling domestic animal infectious diseases, ...
Thai international striker Teerasil Dangda has returned to the J. League with the Shimizu S-Pulse on a full transfer, the first-division club announced Friday. The 31-year-old Teerasil spent the 2018 season with Sanfrecce Hiroshima on loan from Thai club Muangthong United, where he returned in ...
Hot on the heels of the Mitsubishi Electric hack, NEC reveals that cyberattacks from 2016 to 2018 exposed 27,445 files that include work related to the Defense Ministry.
Tokyo stocks turned sharply higher Friday, tracking an overnight comeback in U.S. equities after Thursday's World Health Organization emergency meeting eased heightened concerns over the new coronavirus. The 225-issue Nikkei average of the Tokyo Stock Exchange gained 227.43 points, or 0.99 percent, to end at ...
The dollar was higher above ¥109 in Tokyo trading late Friday, as concerns eased about the pneumonia-causing new coronavirus spreading further to disrupt the global economy. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥109.03-04, up from ¥108.85-86 at the same time Thursday. The euro was ...
Bantamweight Naoya Inoue, the WBA's super champion and IBF champion, will face WBO title holder John Riel Casimero of the Philippines on April 25 in Las Vegas, his gym said Friday. The 26-year-old Inoue will fight for the first time since winning the bantamweight final ...
The coronavirus outbreak is posing myriad challenges for the Japanese economy, including a key Abe administration policy initiative — the promotion of inbound tourism. In recent years, inbound tourism has been one of the few sectors to see rapid growth in the long-stagnant Japanese economy. ...
Lance Conrad wrote in "The Price of Nobility" that "only a fool would underestimate a man with nothing to lose." It is a mantra that perhaps should be taken up by the coaches of the 12 Super Rugby sides that take on the Sunwolves this ...
To halt the Wuhan epidemic, foreign travelers will be denied entry to Japan starting Saturday if they have been to Hubei province in the past 14 days.
Democrats appeared to have fallen short Thursday in their bid to secure the votes needed to call witnesses in President Trump's impeachment trial, clearing the way for Trump's likely acquittal as early as this weekend. Democrats had urged a handful of Republicans to support their ...
After weeks of eavesdropping, listening to second-hand accounts of conversations and dropping very obvious signals, Hana and Vivi finally come face to face with some harsh truths about their respective crushes on Ryo. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like there's going to be a happy ...
An assault on rebel-held northwest Syria by government forces has pushed some 700,000 people to flee toward the Turkish border and raised the specter of an international crisis, U.S. Special Envoy for Syria James Jeffrey said on Thursday. Backed by Russian air power, government forces ...
Chinese accounted for a quarter of the total with 418,327, followed by 401,326 Vietnamese and 179,685 Filipinos, the labor ministry says.
The number of foreign nationals who entered Japan in 2019 came to 31.19 million, logging a record high for the seventh consecutive year, the Immigration Services Agency said in a preliminary report Friday. The figure was based on the number of foreign tourists last year ...
