Roughly 120,000 Akita Prefecture residents are ordered or advised to evacuate as the risk of flooding and landslides rose following torrential rain over parts of the Tohoku region.
The threats of terrorism and financial ruin are a constant worry for modern Olympic host cities, but Tokyo 2020 organizers face the added risk of a devastating earthquake or tsunami.
Over 70 percent of Japan’s 47 governors think tougher measures are needed to reduce passive smoking, but less than half support the government’s proposal to basically ban indoor smoking at restaurants.
Actress Kazuyo Matsui’s very public battle against her actor husband Eiichiro Funakoshi, whom she has accused of adultery, takes on a new life with a YouTube posting in English
For two months, Robert Mueller — the lanky, 72-year-old independent prosecutor investigating the Russia scandal — has worked in virtual silence in a nondescript government office building in downtown Washington.But even without saying a word, the former FBI director and no-nonsense prosecutor has deeply ...
Japanese companies are accelerating preparations to seize Olympic business opportunities to ensure money will keep rolling in after the quadrennial sporting spectacle ends in 2020.“The mission for the business community is to realize the expected economic effects,” said Sadayuki Sakakibara, chairman of the Japan ...
The attack by Islamic State group-affiliated militants on a Philippine city has galvanized its Southeast Asian supporters and spells trouble for the region, a top terrorism researcher said Friday as the occupation of Marawi nears two months despite a sustained military offensive.In a new ...
Major tech firms have been keen to sell speakers equipped with voice-based artificial intelligence agents recently.The debuts of smart speakers are seen as the prelude to an AI era, ushering in a new technological age in which virtual assistants are expected to become as ...
