Japan's communications ministry on Tuesday gave major electronics maker Fujitsu Ltd. the country's first preliminary license to build a local fifth-generation, or 5G, communications network. It also plans to grant preliminary licenses to industry peer NEC Corp. and other firms, along with local governments. The ministry ...

Major general contractor Taisei Corp. on Tuesday showed the media a bridge built using a 3D printer. The prestressed concrete bridge, which has undergone an intensity test, marks a first in Japan, according to the company. Taisei plans to accelerate research and development with the aim ...

The health ministry is struggling to keep non-Japanese updated on the rapidly escalating situation in a timely manner, hampered by a dearth of staff proficient in foreign languages.

Nissan Motor Co.'s new chief executive said Tuesday he will accept being fired if he fails to turn around Japan's second-biggest automaker, which is grappling with plunging sales in the aftermath of the scandal surrounding former Chairman Carlos Ghosn. Addressing shareholders for the first time ...

A total of 6,000 surgical masks have been lost at a hospital in Kobe, it was learned Tuesday. The Hyogo Prefectural Police is investigating the incident as a case of theft. The masks, worth ¥40,000, had been kept at a machine room on the third ...

When Emi Tanimura failed to find a day care slot for her newborn daughter, the need to avoid long periods away from her job at communications firm Sunny Side Up made it necessary to take what is a radical step in Japan; she started ...

With Japan taking a hit from the unabated outbreak of the coronavirus soon after a plunge in its economic performance in the last quarter of 2019, some fear the country may be on the brink of recession. The COVID-19 viral outbreak is thought to be ...

The deadly coronavirus outbreak is sparking anti-Asian bigotry, hysteria and violence around the globe as the spread of rumor and misinformation grips people with fear. On Feb. 4 in Bolivia, three Japanese tourists in their 20s visiting the Uyuni salt flats were quarantined at a ...

Investors managing $37 trillion in assets urged Japan to slash the country's carbon emissions, saying Monday that a strong signal from Tokyo could help galvanize international climate action ahead of a U.N. summit in Glasgow in November. Institutional investors, traditionally wary of singling out governments ...

Gripping a scalpel, Vladislav Zaitsev makes an incision in the fold of skin between his client's thumb and index finger and pushes in a small glass cylinder. Alexei Rautkin, a 24-year-old programmer in a hoodie, is having a chip inserted in his hand so he ...

Lawson Inc. unveiled for the media Tuesday an experimental checkout-free convenience store that will allow customers to make purchases using a smartphone app. The "grab and go" shop is part of the major chain's attempts to address Japan's labor shortage. Advanced technology allows customers to ...

A scramble intensified Monday to trace passengers from a U.S. cruise liner that were allowed to disembark in Cambodia, after at least one traveler was later diagnosed with the deadly new coronavirus COVID-19. There are fears scores of cruisegoers have been scattered across the world ...

Canada said 32 of its citizens aboard the stricken Diamond Princess have now tested positive for the new coronavirus, according to a report by the Toronto Star. The report said that Global Affairs Canada had confirmed that 32 out of 256 Canadians on the ship ...

China's elite politics are a black box, and the country's leaders like to keep it that way. That's what makes the events of this weekend so perplexing — even to seasoned China watchers. On Saturday, the ruling Communist Party's top theoretical publication, Qiushi Journal, released ...

Last March, months before the meltdown at WeWork, Masayoshi Son worked through the prospects for another one of his favorite portfolio companies — a startup from India called Oyo. In a spacious conference hall at his Tokyo headquarters, the billionaire huddled with lieutenants from the ...

The South Korean government is sending a presidential plane to Japan on Tuesday afternoon to evacuate several citizens on a coronavirus-stricken cruise ship docked in Yokohama, a government official said Tuesday. The plane is returning to Seoul early Wednesday with four South Koreans and the ...

At least 10 people were killed in a suicide blast that hit a police vehicle in southwestern Pakistan on Monday, officials said. Two police personnel were among those killed in the blast in the city of Quetta, the capital of Balochistan province, which borders Afghanistan ...

Indonesia's nuclear authorities said on Monday they would investigate the radioactive contamination of a patch of land in a housing complex outside Jakarta, and called for calm. The Nuclear Energy Regulatory Agency (Bapeten) issued a statement on Friday telling residents to stay away from a ...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stepped up U.S. warnings about Beijing's global telecommunications ambitions, saying Chinese operator Huawei Technologies Co. must be prevented from controlling the next generation of wireless networks. Pelosi said autocracy in China makes Huawei a threat to Western countries as they prepare ...

Had the capture of Iwo Jima taken place in the summer of 1944 as the Tojo Cabinet was collapsing, the war probably would have taken a different course and many lives could have been spared.

This is the month when students find out whether months or even years of exam preparation have finally paid off or not.

Japan is facing a trifecta of challenges with severe economic consequences.

The discovery of an 18th-century book titled "The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes" leads our writer on a journey into the Japanese terms used for apple-polishers and bootlickers.

Using the grammatical structure "X kuse ni Y" has the same effect as "despite X, Y" and can be used to convey a feeling of ill will.

A Kyodo article slams us with some sumo-related vocabulary and information on how the traditional Japanese sport will figure into Olympic festivities.

A late goal from Leandro gave FC Tokyo a 1-0 win Tuesday over Australian side Perth Glory in the Asian Champions League. Following a 1-1 draw away to Ulsan Hyundai in their opening Group F clash, Kenta Hasegawa's men looked set for another stalemate until ...

Vietnam's inaugural Formula One Grand Prix will take place in Hanoi in April as planned, organizers told AFP Tuesday, avoiding the fate of the Chinese Grand Prix, which was postponed over the deadly coronavirus. The Vietnam Grand Prix will be held as "scheduled" on April ...

"United by Emotion" was revealed as the motto for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics on Monday as organizers look to hammer home the message of diversity and inclusion. Tennis player Naomi Osaka narrated the motto's promotional video. "We are each different, and all so much ...