The United States and Japan will step up defense cooperation to deal with the threat from nuclear-armed North Korea as tensions in East Asia remain high, officials from the two allies said Thursday. "For this threat of North Korea, at this meeting we agreed to increase the pressure and to strengthen ...
Dozens of tourists were injured Friday when their sightseeing bus veered off a road and tipped over in Shimizu, Hokkaido, local firefighters said. The bus, carrying 46 tourists from Kanto region and three staff, was operated by Abashiri Kanko Kotsu, based in Ozora, Hokkaido. The accident ...
A nursing home in Gifu Prefecture is inspected after three deaths and two serious injuries occur there in just two weeks, putting staff under suspicion.
The second of eight public hearings on the structure, risks, and local rewards of building integrated casino resorts took place in Osaka on Friday, with concerns raised about problem gamblers, floor layouts and where the resorts would likely be most profitable. The public hearings come ...
A team of Japanese and British scientists has succeeded in producing fertile offspring from sterile mice made with a chromosomal abnormality by using induced pluripotent stem cells, better known as iPS cells, Kyoto University said Friday. The researchers, including professor Michinori Saito of Kyoto University, ...
A panel investigating fatal child abuse cases reported Thursday that more than 30 percent of the mothers of dead children did not receive prenatal checkups. Finding mothers who need support while they are pregnant is widely seen as one of the keys to preventing child ...
A U.S. MV-22 Osprey took part Friday in a joint exercise in Hokkaido between the Ground Self-Defense Force and the U.S. Marine Corps. The tilt-rotor transport aircraft joined the exercise amid local opposition spurred by the central government's decision to retract its request for the ...
A J-Alert test turns up glitches in the emergency warning system in areas deemed at risk from North Korea’s plan to launch missiles toward Guam.
A Maritime Self-Defense Force helicopter flipped during a drill Thursday at Iwakuni Air Base in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, leaving three servicemen hurt and another unwell, the MSDF said. The CH-101 chopper overturned at the MSDF base while descending during a drill for hauling cargo suspended ...
Japan Coast Guard members may be best known for their heroic rescue work after shipwrecks and other maritime accidents featured in the popular movie series "Umizaru" ("Sea Monkeys"). Offscreen, coast guard maritime traffic controllers are the unsung heroes of safe cargo transportation, and by extension, ...
The skipper, executive officer and master chief petty officer of the USS Fitzgerald will be relieved of duty over its collision with a freighter south of Tokyo Bay in June.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government said Thursday it has received a record 322,581 suggestions from the public for the name of the female giant panda cub that was born at Ueno Zoo in the capital in June. The previous record high for proposals for the name ...
Following is a gist of a joint statement issued by Foreign Minister Taro Kono and Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera, and U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Defense Secretary James Mattis, following their "two-plus-two" security talks in Washington on Thursday: — North Korea's recurring provocations ...
