Three French policemen will face trial on charges of falsifying evidence in a case brought against a British activist, prosecutors said Wednesday, a decision hailed by human rights organisations. France's CRS riot place had accused Tom Ciotkowski, a council worker from Stratford upon Avon, of ...

Japan Airlines Co. said Wednesday it will ease domestic flight reductions from later this month as it expects a recovery in travel demand following the lifting of a state of emergency over the new coronavirus epidemic in May. Between next Monday and June 30, JAL ...

Observers say Japan has been concerned that taking too hard of a line with China on Hong Kong could alienate Beijing just as stability returns to Sino-Japanese ties.

One of the key architects of Japan’s coronavirus strategy has hailed the country’s response to the pandemic, saying its approach was more effective than those implemented by Western nations. "Data clearly indicates that the measures taken by Japan have been more effective than those taken ...

Osaka Mayor Ichiro Matsui said Wednesday he will aim to hold a referendum on Nov. 1 on whether to restructure the city into a metropolis like Tokyo to achieve more effective governance. Matsui said that the referendum for the Osaka metropolis plan will be held ...

Across Japan, 45 new infections were confirmed Tuesday, raising the total number of cases to 17,929, with 936 deaths.

The government will consider making convicted sex offenders wear GPS tracking devices in an effort to strengthen measures that prevent recidivism, a source familiar with the matter said Wednesday. The idea, along with tougher punishments for school teachers who commit sexually lewd acts, was added ...

While treatments for Kawasaki disease have been mostly established, its cause has yet to be determined.

Population-wide face mask use could push COVID-19 transmission down to controllable levels for national epidemics, and could prevent further waves of the pandemic disease when combined with lockdowns, according to a British study released Wednesday. The research, led by scientists at the Britain's Cambridge and ...

Japanese media outlets such as Shukan Bunshun, a weekly magazine, had issued reports doubting that the governor graduated from the university.

A total of 10 people were indicted over the scam and all the other nine have already been convicted in district court rulings.

The World Health Organization said it’s still unclear how readily the novel coronavirus is spread by people who don’t develop symptoms, a day after a top official sparked debate by saying such transmission is "very rare.” Maria Van Kerkhove, head of WHO’s emerging diseases and ...

The move comes as more expect the fight against the virus to continue for some time.

The system transcribes teachers' speeches into subtitles, allowing students to quickly check parts they missed and review lessons afterward.

South Korea’s jobless rate jumped to a 10-year high in May as businesses continued to reel from the coronavirus pandemic. The unemployment rate climbed to 4.5 percent last month, from 3.8 percent in April, data from the statistics office showed Wednesday. Economists expected a rise ...

The House of Representatives Wednesday approved a draft second extra budget for fiscal 2020 totaling ¥31.91 trillion ($296 billion), to provide additional funding to front-line medical workers and support people reeling from the coronavirus pandemic. The country's largest-ever supplementary budget, submitted to parliament by the ...

Takara Bio USA Inc. collaborated with bioSyntagma Inc. and their partners to develop the new method, which is expected to speed up the testing process.

The Chinese firm sees Japan's entertainment exports as being ripe for optimization, with better distribution and marketing generating vastly greater revenues.

Australian officials and leading universities on Wednesday rejected China's claims students should be "cautious" in choosing to study Down Under because of concerns over racist incidents during the coronavirus pandemic. China's ministry of education warned students on Tuesday there had been "multiple discriminatory incidents against ...

Orders from manufacturers inched down 2.6 percent to ¥334.18 billion, while those from nonmanufacturers plummeted 20.2 percent to ¥406.33 billion.

Beijing dismissed as "ridiculous" a Harvard Medical School study of hospital traffic and search engine data that suggested the novel coronavirus may already have been spreading in China last August, and scientists said it offered no convincing evidence of when the outbreak began. The research, ...

SoftBank Group Corp.’s Vision Fund is preparing to cut staff by about 15 percent after reporting record losses for the last fiscal year, according to people familiar with the matter. Rajeev Misra, head of the London-based Vision Fund, expanded the number of planned cuts in ...

Some said having Tokyo in the nickname would mislead foreign travelers into believing that the airport was located in Tokyo.

Both North Korea and left-leaning supporters of South Korean President Moon Jae-in want him to restore economic ties broken by security tensions. But pleasing them would mean angering U.S. President Donald Trump. On Tuesday, North Korea said it was closing down communication links set up ...

The agreement is intended to set a legal framework for Japanese Self-Defense Forces and Australian military personnel when in each other's territories.

An initial hack in April compromised 160,000 accounts and a further 140,000 breaches have been discovered since then, Nintendo said.

Production has been halted at car factories in Ohio and Turkey, as well as at motorcycle plants in India and South America.

There were 1,390,370 Japanese nationals living overseas in 2018, according to Foreign Ministry estimates.

The tests, conducted between May 12 and Monday, covered 38,216 employees of SoftBank Group businesses and client companies plus 5,850 medical workers.

While the coronavirus pandemic is accelerating the death of coal in developed nations, the dirtiest fossil fuel is alive and kicking in Asia. Demand for electricity plunged — and with it the need for coal — as factories around the world sat dormant and people ...

The toppling of a statue of a 17th century slave trader in the English port city of Bristol was hailed by some as a long-overdue reckoning with Britain's imperalist past and denounced by others as a criminal act. Now one of Bristol's most influential figures, ...

Public broadcaster NHK has apologized for its attempt to educate viewers on the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States, after its video on anti-racism demonstrations came under fire for lacking context on racial injustice and the police brutality that had spurred such ...

Japan has too few good journalists because mainstream media reporters unconsciously begin their stories from the point of view of prized informants.

Cyber capabilities are much less expensive to develop and easier to acquire than traditional warfare — and can be just as destructive.

Universities have a duty to stand up for them in the name of academic freedom.

The mainstream Japanese media continues to mess up on issues of race. It's time for a new generation of talking heads.

Things won't be the same when sumo resumes amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

SoftBank's Oscar Colas wants to change the terms of his deal in order to pursue a career in MLB.

The IOC has confirmed athletes will be prohibited from taking part in any protests or demonstrations in Olympic venues.

The J. League first division will play through international windows sanctioned by FIFA when it restarts following a roughly four-month break brought about by the coronavirus crisis, J. League Chairman Mitsuru Murai said Tuesday. While the J1 normally pauses to accommodate clubs with national team ...

The league's current VAR facilities require operators to work in close quarters.

The Japan Swimming Federation will uphold the selection of divers who have already qualified for the 2020 Games.