After posting only its first third quarterly loss in 11 years, Nissan Motor Co. on Thursday again cut its annual profit forecast due to weak demand and economic uncertainties. To make matters worse, the ongoing COVID-19 epidemic will likely weigh on the automaker, which is ...

Japan was on high alert Friday due to the rising number of confirmed COVID-19 cases nationwide, including that of two taxi drivers and a doctor, as well as the nation's first death blamed on the virus. The latest cases bring the number of people who ...

Surrounded by bustling downtown streets, shopping malls and high-rises, Kawasaki Station and its vicinity are, on the surface, a paragon of urban development. Just a short distance away, however, this veneer of prosperity gives way to an eerie quiet that persists in the underbelly of ...

With thousands to be tested before the quarantine ends on Wednesday, the outgunned health ministry is mum about the idea of an extension.

An experimental Gilead Sciences antiviral drug prevented disease and reduced the severity of symptoms in monkeys infected with Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), an infection closely related to the fast-spreading coronavirus that originated in China, a study published on Thursday found. The results, reported in ...

Russia on Thursday announced the death at 103 of veteran Soviet spy Alexei Botyan, whom it hailed as a hero for "saving" the Polish city of Krakow from the Nazis, although Poland disputes Moscow's version of events. Russia's SVR military intelligence agency said Botyan, who ...

Honda Motor Co. said Friday it will postpone the restart of its plants in Wuhan, the epicenter of China's coronavirus outbreak, by a week at the request of local authorities. Honda will push back the resumption of production to Feb. 24 or later after the ...

Toshiba Corp. said Friday it posted a group net loss of ¥145.63 billion ($1.32 billion) in the April-December period due to the sluggish performance of its affiliated semiconductor business. The loss is a sharp drop from the profit of ¥1.02 trillion it reported in the ...

Bombardier Inc. said Thursday it is completing its exit from commercial aviation by selling its remaining stake in the A220 jetliner for nearly $600 million (¥65.86 billion). Bombardier said it agreed with Airbus SE and the Quebec government to transfer its shares to Airbus and ...

Jim Murren, MGM Resorts International's longtime chairman and chief executive officer, plans to step down before his contract expires, departing as the casino company copes with fallout from the deadly new coronavirus. Murren, 58, will remain on the job until a successor is named, the ...

Cupid's avocado for dinner, heart-shaped messages for the crew, but also painful separation: For those trapped aboard the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship, it was no ordinary Valentine's Day. Wearing a red dress and a red hair tie, the ship's entertainment manager Natalie posted a ...

An expert panel of the Meteorological Agency has proposed that a red and white checkered flag be used to swiftly convey tsunami warnings to people with hearing impairments at seaside resorts. A test conducted at a beach in Yokohama found that a red and white ...

The stunt involving two knives taped to a pole at Ochanomizu University Junior High School won Kyoto resident Kaoru Hasegawa a suspended 18-month sentence.

Seiko Hashimoto, minister for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, on Friday denounced South Korean-made posters showing an Olympic torch relay runner wearing a hazmat suit and what appears to be radioactive material spewing from the torch. The posters were reportedly drawn up by the ...

Economists estimate the economy shrank at an annualized rate of 3.8 percent in the third quarter and that the virus will likely push Japan into recession.

The transport ministry said Thursday it has completed tests for new flight paths to Haneda Airport, which involved arriving aircraft flying over central Tokyo at a low altitude for the first time. The tests were conducted over seven days between Feb. 2 and Feb. 12. ...

China took action on two fronts to gain control of the spiraling coronavirus outbreak gripping the country: reporting a dramatic increase in cases and ousting top officials who failed to check the disease's expansion. First, health authorities revealed Thursday that cases in Hubei province, where ...

The central government and Kyoto authorities Thursday approved a delay in the relocation of the Cultural Affairs Agency from Tokyo to Kyoto from the original schedule of before March 2022. Construction work at the new site in the city is taking longer than expected due ...

Over the years, Rodrigo Duterte's regular rants about the U.S. appeared to amount to little more than bluster. This week the Philippine leader finally moved to dismantle an alliance that has endured since World War II. Duterte's administration on Tuesday notified the U.S. it would ...

Last month was the hottest January on record, surpassing a previous high recorded in 2016, the U.S. climate service said Thursday. Land and ocean surface temperatures surpassed the 20th century January average of 53.6 degrees Fahrenheit (12 degrees Celsius) by 2.05 degrees F (1.13 C), ...

Fires across Australia's most populous state are now contained for the first time in nearly six months, authorities said on Friday, as heavy rains aid firefighters and boost some dam levels to their highest in nearly two years. Australia has been battling hundreds of blazes ...

Fear. Surprising moments of levity. Soul-crushing boredom. Life on the Diamond Princess, the cruise ship quarantined in Yokohama port where scores of people have tested positive for the new coronavirus, means experiencing all these things, according to interviews with passengers and a growing stream of ...

China on Friday reported another sharp rise in the number of people infected with a new virus, as the death toll neared 1,400. The National Health Commission said 121 more people had died and there were 5,090 new confirmed cases. The number of reported cases has ...

Scientists in Antarctica have recorded a new record temperature of 20.75 degrees Celsius (69.35 Fahrenheit), breaking the barrier of 20 degrees for the first time on the continent, a researcher said Thursday. Brazilian researcher Carlos Schaefer told AFP the reading at a monitoring station on ...

U.S. Attorney General William Barr on Thursday pushed back against Donald Trump after the president's attacks on the prosecutors, judge and jury in the trial of a longtime adviser, saying Trump should stop tweeting about Justice Department cases and that he would not be ...

A federal court has ordered a temporary halt in Microsoft's work on a $10 billion military cloud contract that Amazon was initially expected to win. Amazon sued in December to revisit that decision, alleging that President Donald Trump's bias against the company hurt its ...

A letter bomb exploded at a bank headquarters in Amsterdam on Thursday, a day after two other businesses were targeted in what Dutch police said was an extortion attempt. One person was treated for smoke inhalation but there were no other injuries in the blast ...

At least 19 children were wounded when at a elementary school was hit by shelling in Myanmar's Rakhine state, a lawmaker and a military spokesman said on Thursday. Clashes between government troops and ethnic insurgents have intensified in Rakhine, from where tens of thousands of ...

Over 140,000 Syrians have been displaced in the last three days alone by violence in the country's northwest, bringing the total of those uprooted in a Syrian government offensive against the last opposition stronghold to over 800,000, the United Nations said Thursday. The U.N. said ...

A vaguely hourglass-shaped icy object called Arrokoth residing in the far reaches of the solar system — the most distant body ever explored by a spacecraft — is giving scientists intriguing clues about the formation of the planets including Earth. Scientists on Thursday offered the ...

The Justice Department has added new criminal charges against Chinese tech giant Huawei and two of its U.S. subsidiaries, accusing the company in a plot to steal trade secrets from competitors in America, federal prosecutors announced Thursday. The company is also accused of installing surveillance ...

The publisher of the Miami Herald, The Kansas City Star and dozens of other newspapers across the country is filing for bankruptcy protection. McClatchy Co.'s 30 newsrooms, including The Charlotte Observer, The News & Observer in Raleigh, and The Star-Telegram in Fort Worth, will continue ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday lashed out against former White House chief of staff John Kelly for being disloyal after the ex-adviser came to the defense of a former national security aide who offered key testimony in the impeachment inquiry. The president's comments targeting Kelly ...

China's global ambitions are no longer something that can be ignored.

The belief that Chinese missiles are numerous, but inaccurate, is likely now outdated.

The Chernobyl disaster played a big part in making the Soviet public ripe for regime change. Could the coronavirus have a similar effect in China?

Yukiko Mishima addresses the dangers of traditional gender roles with her latest film, "Shape of Red," adapted from a Rio Shimamoto novel.

A slew of Japanese artists are set to appear at the South by Southwest Music Conference and Festival in Austin, Texas, between March 16 and 22.

After a record-setting 2019 season that saw larger crowds than ever attending games from Hokkaido to Okinawa, the J. League is committed to keeping both its fans and players safe. Following a similar request to reporters covering last weekend's Super Cup at Saitama Stadium, media ...

Shogo Akiyama got into the batter's box and took his first swing with the Cincinnati Reds at spring training. He barely made contact. "I was very embarrassed," Akiyama said through translator Luke Shinoda. "I'm looking forward to tomorrow now." He'll get plenty more chances. Cincinnati signed Akiyama ...

With a somewhat unusual last name, it's perhaps a little difficult for Raita Akaho to not be noticed that he's from a distinguished basketball family. Naturally, he carries high expectations and pressure on his shoulders. But Akaho insists he is who he is, considering himself just ...

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar smiled as he rattled off the names of his former high school teammates and opponents. The Hall of Fame center was intently watching video of one of his New York high school championships when he starred for Power Memorial Academy 55 years ago. ...

Pele sought to reassure fans on Thursday that he was doing fine, after his son alluded to depression and said the aging star now barely leaves home. "Thanks for your prayers and your worry. I am doing fine. I will be 80 this year," Pele, ...

Jayson Tatum didn't want to smile. But sometimes the moment calls for it. The Celtics were trailing 124-123 in the final minute of overtime in their back-and-forth slugfest with the Clippers and Tatum found himself defended by Landry Shamet and Montrezl Harrell. Tatum hesitated, sidestepped ...

Colin Kaepernick can add author and publisher to his resume. The former NFL quarterback who knelt during the national anthem to protest racial injustice and police brutality announced Thursday he's writing a memoir through his own publishing company. It's called Kaepernick Publishing, and the audio version ...

Yanni Gourde scored a short-handed goal and Andrei Vasilevskiy finished with 29 saves to lift the Tampa Bay Lightning to their ninth straight victory, 3-1 over the Edmonton Oilers on Thursday night. Tampa Bay also won its 10th in a row at home. Vasilevskiy improved to ...

The acquisition of Kenta Maeda took the Minnesota Twins longer than they anticipated. The trade that was made to get him, the team believes, will be well worth the wait and the price. Maeda joined the AL Central champions on Thursday morning, three days after the ...