Japan to use Osprey aircraft for overseas rescue operations: sources
The government plans to introduce a special operations variant of the U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 tilt-rotor Osprey aircraft for Self-Defense Forces to conduct dangerous and covert missions abroad.
WAW/W20 talks close with a call for men to be more involved in women's issues
Key to empowering women is changing people’s mindsets and involving men in dealing more with women’s issues, participants at the joint World Assembly for Women and Women 20 summit hear.
Official campaigning for the Osaka mayoral election begins, with former Gov. Ichiro Matsui facing off against a ruling Liberal Democratic Party-backed challenger Hirofumi Yoshimura.
Japan wants more foreign nationals to join regional revitalization programs amid graying population
Foreign nationals living in Japan will be encouraged to join regional revitalization programs outside greater Tokyo and other big cities.
Spain's Socialist party in the lead, poll finds, but short of majority
Over 10,000 Philippine bikers stage protest against newly introduced license plate regulation
Polls close in Thailand's first general election since 2014 coup
Norway tugs begin towing stricken liner after hundreds of passengers are airlifted to safety
Jair Bolsonaro says Brazil owes world nothing on environment
Base-laden Okinawa vies to become tourism magnet
Just a couple minutes from the Okinawa Prefectural Government building and the busy shopping street Kokusai-dori, Sora Shokudo offers jerk chicken on the menu — a Caribbean cuisine that goes well with rum — which is now also produced in Okinawa and attracting interest ...
Options for next era name likely to include terms adapted from Japan classics
Survey finds that 50% of home care providers experienced harassment in 2018
Tsunami-hit railway in northeast Japan resumes regular services
Fugu grow faster and without deadly toxin at hotelier's hot spring farms in Tohoku
Japan plans to develop home-made long-range anti-ship missile to counter threat
Small Japanese firms fear foreign laborers will abandon them when new visas kick in
Companies still reluctant to relocate from Tokyo despite tax breaks, survey finds
The government's five-year program to promote the relocation of company headquarters from central Tokyo to regional areas has made limited progress, a Kyodo News survey found Sunday. In a survey of 1,768 municipalities conducted since November, 76 percent said they had seen little or no ...
Apple's iPhone struggles unravel ambitions of Japan Display
30% of Japanese companies keen to increase hiring of new grads in 2020: poll
Tepco unit to tie up with JXTG on hydrogen production for fuel-cell vehicles
Bank of Japan's tankan likely to show slump in manufacturing sentiment, projections say
Now what? Special counsel Robert Mueller has concluded his Trump-Russia investigation and on Friday delivered his final report to Attorney General William Barr. But what the report looks like isn't clear. Justice Department regulations required only that Mueller give the attorney general a confidential report that ...
Several of Theresa May's ministers plotting to oust her from top job: newspaper
Tens of thousands in southern Africa need help after cyclone
Change to 737 Max controls may have imperiled planes, experts say
Yokozuna Hakuho extended his career championship haul to 42 on Sunday after winning the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament with a record 15th undefeated run. Needing a win against fellow Mongolian yokozuna Kakuryu to avoid a championship playoff, Hakuho was pushed to the limit in a ...
Former Gonzaga center Robert Sacre replicates Bulldogs' success for Sunrockers
Spanish manager Milagros Martinez Dominguez becomes first woman to win in JFL
Sunwolves' demise may lead to new dawn for Japanese rugby
Yuzuru Hanyu gushes about retiring baseball star Ichiro Suzuki
If you want to fix the problem of over-tourism then just look overseas
I was speaking with a woman the other day who had recently been to Japan. She acknowledged that Japan is the "in" place to travel to and, as if to qualify this fact, complained that "Kyoto was so crowded, I couldn't even get a ...
Confessions from behind a mask ... and from the sickbed
In search of family and friends in Japan
Fumi Nagasaka: When Japan is neither in nor out of the picture
For Fumi Nagasaka, photography was born from making friends.
Tamiya: A model business for creative, fun-loving customers
Hiroki Ogasawara: Looking for a truly multicultural Japan
At family-run izakaya Kurasuno, the secret ingredient is a smile
Rakushin: Some food can't be improved upon
An impeccable new biography of Richard Sorge, one of Russia's master spies
Soviet spy Richard Sorge's story remains largely unknown to the Western world, but that's about to change with the publication of a remarkable new biography, "An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin's Master Agent," by Owen Matthews.
William Gibson's 'Idoru': Tokyo sci-fi becomes full-blown reality
Yusuke Kimura's 'Sacred Cesium Ground and Isa's Deluge': Tohoku refuses to be silenced
Haruki Murakami: Writing in a parallel universe, connecting with a global readership
Tower Records goes all in on the vinyl trend with its new store, Tower Vinyl
The perpetrators of atrocities want to cause mayhem and kill, but they also seek fame and notoriety. They must be denied that spotlight.
The government can and should do more to prevent disasters from killing people who survive the initial danger.
Beijing is now consolidating its gains and its control in the contested region.
to stay relevant, the World Bank needs to blend financing with its expertise in problems of rapid urbanization, alarming demographic shifts and rising income disparities.
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