A two-day international conference aiming to empower women kicked off Friday in Tokyo with a call for companies and the government to foster more female executives — an area of gender equality where Japan greatly lags behind the global norm. The fourth Women’s International Networking Conference in Tokyo was attended ...
Japan plans to defy the International Court of Justice by continuing its whaling in the Antarctic Ocean and Northwest Pacific after reducing its catch goals.
The Japanese widow of a Ghanaian who died after rough handling by immigration officials during deportation protests prosecutors' decision not to indict the officials.
Haruki Murakami's first collection of short stories in nine years generates a buzz as fans line up, light firecrackers and launch a countdown in front of bookstores.
One key mission of a group of 15 Maritime Self-Defense Force warships, including four of the nation’s six state-of-the-art Aegis destroyers, is generating a nationwide buzz on the Internet. The ships will gather Saturday at the MSDF base in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture. Why so ...
Tokyo’s education bureau announced Friday it found more than 130 cases of scoring errors on high school entrance examinations for 2014 that resulted in erroneous rejections at four schools. According to an inquiry conducted at 216 public high schools, the bureau found 139 errors ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe spoke by telephone to U.S. Vice President Joe Biden Friday on topics including the situation in Ukraine and trade negotiations, an Obama administration official said. U.S. President Barack Obama said Thursday that talks between Russia and Western powers aimed at ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe plans to seek U.S. President Barack Obama’s “acceptance” at their summit next Thursday of Tokyo’s consultations with Pyongyang on the abduction issue, a government source said Friday. The abductees in question were Japanese who were kidnapped by North Korean agents ...
Japan, the United States and South Korea began a two-day meeting of senior defense officials in Washington on Thursday to discuss potential responses North Korea, which has threatened to conduct a new form of nuclear test. The high-level meeting at the U.S. Department of ...
Although the government relaxed the country’s rules on exports of defense equipment this month, companies aren’t necessarily optimistic about sales chances overseas. Reactions to the looser export rules were mixed among representatives of some 50 companies who attended a Defense Ministry briefing on the ...
The city of Nagoya started collecting small household appliances for recycling in February and announced April 11 that it had received more than 31,000 kg of machinery in just two months — five times more than anticipated. The number for February alone was 15 ...
Pacifist Japan is gradually learning to love its military, with an apparent public relations campaign to soften its image featuring online popularity contests, a much-touted soprano vocalist and dating events. The armed forces are also visible in youth culture, with young teens tuning in ...
The government is sending 100 Ground Self-Defense Force members and radar to its western-most outpost, a tropical island off Taiwan, in a deployment that risks angering China with ties between Asia’s biggest economies already hurt by a dispute over nearby islets they both claim. ...
