Close to 95 percent of tourists from Asia who have visited western Japan would like to travel to areas off the beaten track, a survey showed Thursday. According to an online poll, conducted in June and July last year by the state-owned Development Bank of Japan, many of the respondents ...
Invoked Article 53 obliges Abe convene an extraordinary Diet session to deliberate on the brewing scandal, but still leaves room for the Cabinet to delay.
A junior lawmaker from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Thursday indicated her intent to resign following allegations that she physically and verbally attacked one of her secretaries, an LDP source said. The move by second-term Lower House lawmaker Mayuko Toyota comes as campaigning ...
William Schull, a U.S. geneticist who conducted pioneering research on the health effects of radiation from the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, died Tuesday of lung cancer in Houston, Texas, people close to him said. He was 95. Schull came to Japan in ...
Pharmaceutical manufacturer added acetaminophen imported from China to its own drug without the proper paperwork in an apparent bid to cut costs.
Ishikawa Gov. Masanori Tanimoto on Thursday retracted a remark he made Wednesday calling for cutting off food supplies to North Korea to starve its people. “We must drive the people of North Korea to starve to death by cutting off food (supplies),” Tanimoto said ...
The site of a fatal collision between a U.S. Navy destroyer and a cargo ship off Japan’s coast is notorious for congested sea traffic, particularly during the night when merchant ships are trying to reach Tokyo’s port by daybreak. The USS Fitzgerald and the ...
An Osaka clinic reports the successful births through a treatment in which a mother’s own mitochondria are injected into her eggs, but experts have voice concerns over safety.
With Japan increasingly aware of the child poverty problem in its midst, a growing number of businesses and nonprofit organizations are taking steps to help single mothers raising children alone. The help offered ranges from free consultations on legal matters like custody and alimony, ...
The education ministry released manuals on Wednesday for new national curriculum guidelines, introducing updates on teaching the legal process for constitutional revisions, the role of Self-Defense Forces, the abductions of Japanese nationals by North Korea, and the inherent parts of Japan’s territory to include ...
From veterans to rookies, male lawmakers from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party sliced tomatoes, grilled salmon and fried chicken as they exemplified ways in which husbands can share in household duties during a political event on Wednesday promoting female participation in the workplace. The ...
An innovative distribution method has made it possible to bring fish to consumers in Tokyo on the day they were caught, not via the controversy-mired Tsukiji or Toyosu markets, but through Haneda airport. At 10:20 a.m. one day in late May, a container of ...
Japan’s nearly 200,000-strong Brazilian immigrant community lives in pockets scattered across the middle of the country, clustered around auto parts factories and warehouses where they have jobs. To reach them, Brazilian companies have adopted mobile businesses, sending vans around the countryside selling traditional pastries, ...
