Education chief reveals email challenging ex-Abe aide's account in Kake vet school scandal
The Kake Gakuen scandal takes another twist as education minister Yoshimasa Hayashi reveals an old email that undermines the testimony of a former Abe aide.
LGBTQ voices: Embracing progress
Ahead of Tokyo Rainbow Pride week later this month, we hear from from people in the LGBTQ community about recent moves to raise awareness of sexual minorities in Japan.
Professionals from Japan and India brainstorm on future IT ties at Tokyo tech event
As the domestic market faces a shortage of information technology engineers, Japan has turned its eyes on India's abundance of IT talent to prepare for the anticipated "internet of things" society. At the Bengaluru Tokyo Technology Initiative event, held Friday in Tokyo's Minato Ward, policymakers, ...
Sumo incident in Kyoto rekindles gender debate in the ring
In Japan's ancient Shinto religion, purity comes before morality. Indeed, purity is morality. Women are impure. They menstruate and bear children. The exclusion of women from certain religious and ceremonial functions went unquestioned for millennia. It no longer does — but it is not ...
Could jealousy link the Financial Ministry scandals together?
'Chikan,' the Japanese term for groping, is increasingly being recognized abroad
Tokyo police panel recommends computerizing crime prevention by tapping AI, big data
Ministry to let My Number cards be used as health insurance cards from 2020
In first, Chinese aircraft carrier performs drills in Pacific, Japanese Defense Ministry says
Abe sends ritual offering to war-linked Yasukuni on first day of spring festival
Former Bank of Japan employee nabbed after allegedly stealing gold coins
In new walkouts, U.S. students look to turn outrage over guns into action
Once again, they filed out of class. In a new wave of school walkouts, they raised their voices against gun violence. But this time, they were looking to turn outrage into action. Many of the students who joined demonstrations across the country Friday turned their ...
U.S. actress Mack from 'Smallville' charged with sex trafficking for cult-like group
Dozens of neo-Nazis serving in German police and army, report says
FAA orders emergency inspections after Southwest Airlines' engine failure
In historic ruling, court says Italian state negotiated with mafia
EU suspects massive tax fraud at China's new 'Belt and Road' gateway to Europe
European Union and Italian authorities are investigating suspected wide-scale tax fraud by Chinese criminal gangs importing goods via Greece's largest port of Piraeus, a trade gateway between China and Europe, officials said. "The VAT is completely evaded, with enormous damage to the national tax authorities ...
Japan's top three mobile carriers to be asked to stop charging customers who switch providers
Japanese drugmaker Takeda adds more cash to Shire bid, sending offer past $60 billion
G-20 finance chiefs wary of trade friction but short on solutions
Wells Fargo to pay $1 billion penalty for mortgage, auto lending abuses
North Korea’s suspension of nuclear and long-range missile tests draws wary praise and skepticism from experts less than a week before a pivotal inter-Korean summit.
Kim Jong Un antes up as he pursues equal footing with U.S. as nuclear power
Moscow slams U.S. for refusing to give Bolshoi prima ballerina a visa
Decades of development for North Korea's nuclear and missile programs
Person to person: North and South Korea get neighborly with direct hotline
Internet piracy taking major bite out of Japan's famed manga culture
Japan's renowned manga culture is facing a crisis. The spread of smartphones and tablet computers allows people to read e-comics anywhere at any time. According to the Research Institute for Publications, annual sales of digital comics last year grew 17.2 percent from the previous year ...
Abe's route to revising Article 9 crosses minefield of legalese
In Japan's Diet, is there such a thing as too much time for questions?
Japan's staff-heavy banks downsize and turn to technology for survival
Japan's dramatic surge in syphilis cases, with particularly high incidence in Tokyo, puzzles experts
Japan set to bank ¥40 billion per year for tourism sector with new departure tax
