Anxiety about employees trapped in Wuhan grows at Japanese firms
Focus With public transportation services suspended in Wuhan, anxiety is mounting over Japanese who might be trapped in the city at the origin of the deadly new coronavirus, which was confirmed in a third patient in Japan on Saturday. Many Japanese companies operating in China have ...
Decline of social engagement may betray democracy
Japan's three leading newspapers, disagreeing on much, agree on this: Japan's democracy is in crisis. "Democratic politics in Japan has become frayed," the Mainichi Shimbun said in an editorial on Jan. 1. "The recent deterioration of Diet deliberations is intolerable," the Yomiuri Shimbun said on Jan. ...
Kakeibo: Turning a dull aspect of Japanese life into social media gold
At some point in the past decade, the international notion of “weird Japan” — a view in which the country produces more quirky and wacky trends than many other nations, regardless if said example is actually widespread — took a back seat to “boring but ...
Okinawa base debate ignores the bigger picture
Like many construction projects supported by the public sector, the new U.S. Marine Corps air base being built in the Henoko district of Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, has seen its budget skyrocket since it was first proposed and its completion date postponed. When the project ...
5,000 attend ceremony for Tetsu Nakamura, a Japanese doctor murdered in Afghanistan
Sex crime victim describes experience to judges in seminar held at Supreme Court-related facility
In bid to attract more U.S. tourists, Japan touts attractions at New York travel show
In first, Japan highlights detailed tsunami risks from Nankai Trough quake
French investigators to move ahead with Ghosn prosecution over Versailles party
The prosecutor’s office will assign one or more judges to probe the party ex-Renault-Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn threw for his wife at the Palace of Versailles.
Dutch regulators order Suzuki to report on alleged SUV emissions fraud
For businesses worldwide, virus in crucial Wuhan fans fear and uncertainty
Mitsubishi Aircraft again delays passenger jet delivery, this time until next year — or later
From Texas to Tokyo, global LNG market poised for terrible year
Davos sees Trump's China love as short-term affair
Japan's largest bank offers users ¥1,000 to give up paper passbooks and go digital
China a '21st century surveillance state,' U.S. defense chief says
U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Friday that China's Communist Party had created a surveillance state that uses artificial intelligence to repress Muslim minorities and pro-democracy demonstrators. China has faced an outcry from activists, scholars, foreign governments and U.N. rights experts over what they ...
WHO calls virus 'emergency in China' but stops short of declaring international epidemic
China aims to build a hospital for virus coronavirus victims in 10 days
U.N. court orders Myanmar to prevent genocide against Rohingya
Earth's oldest crater found in Australia; asteroid may have helped thaw 'snowball Earth'
'Take her out': House is given tape of Trump calling for Ukraine ambassador's ouster
An associate of Rudy Giuliani has provided congressional investigators with a recording of President Donald Trump saying he wanted to get rid of the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, whose removal a year later is an issue in his impeachment, the associate's attorney told The ...
Huge swarms of migratory locusts destroy crops in East Africa
6.8 quake in eastern Turkey leaves at least 21 dead, 1,000 hurt
Ossifier of the law: Arizona driver uses fake skeleton to get into special lane
Trump campaign complains to presidential debate commission about fairness
SDF tests public support with next mission in Middle East
The Cabinet is expected to approve a Self-Defense Forces mission to the Middle East that will comprise a destroyer, patrol planes and 250 personnel as part of an intelligence-gathering operation. In addition, one of two P-3C maritime surveillance planes deployed at Japan's base in Djibouti ...
Could merger talks finally produce a credible opposition force in Japan?
Tohoku reactor restart: What is the state of Japan's nuclear policy?
Cherry blossom-viewing party: Breaking down Abe's latest cronyism scandal
Outsourcing of English tests stirs up storm in education
Pomp and splendor: What to expect from the ceremonies for Emperor Naruhito's enthronement
Measures meant to offer relief from sales tax hike pose baffling riddles instead
