U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis hinted Monday that Washington retained military options against nuclear-armed North Korea that he said would not leave Seoul at risk of devastating retaliatory strikes. Mattis declined to elaborate when pressed, according to a transcript of his remarks, but echoed U.S. ...
Amid heated global competition over developing next-generation cars such as self-driving automobiles and electric vehicles, Toyota Motor Corp. unveiled Tuesday a new sports car brand inspired by its expertise in motor sports. [video_embed number="1"] Under the brand name GR, which comes from Toyota's motor sports brand ...
It was at the end of 2015 when an all-girl junior high school affiliated with Japan Women's University received an inquiry from a mother of an elementary school student, asking if her daughter would be eligible to apply for enrollment. The mother said her daughter ...
Social security reform is expected to be a key policy for the ruling LDP if Prime Minister Abe calls a snap Lower House election in October.
U.S. investigators wiretapped former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort under secret court orders before and after the 2016 election, CNN reported Monday. The New York Times, citing two people close to the case, also reported that prosecutors told Manafort they planned to indict him. Federal ...
McDonald's Japan took a series of hits starting in 2014 that threatened to crack its golden arches: a supplier was selling expired chicken, a human tooth was found in french fries and a child was injured by a plastic shard in a sundae. Sales plummeted ...
China's rentable sex dolls have been yanked from the market and the firm responsible for them has apologized, just days after the "shared girlfriends" began strutting their silicon stuff. Chinese sex-products retailer Touch said in a statement Monday that it "will actively explore healthier and ...
The sirens are going off about the state of ambulance services. Demand for ambulances, which respond to calls made to the emergency hotline, 119, has grown rapidly along with the population's pace of aging. As ambulances have been mobilized with greater frequency, emergency services are ...
