Japan does not believe it needs to do more to settle the issue of Korean “comfort women” over and above the deal already struck, Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said Friday after Seoul requested additional measures to address the victims’ feelings. “Japan believes that there is no agreement whatsoever about additional ...
A meeting between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi is set to be held in Tokyo in mid-November, with a civil nuclear cooperation pact likely to be signed, a source said Friday. The pact would pave the way for Japan ...
The presenter of a weekly news program was sacked on Friday following uproar over a blog in which he suggested kidney dialysis patients should not be treated on the public purse. Yutaka Hasegawa, 41, who presented “News Real Friday, was sacked by Television Osaka ...
Tokyo’s Metropolitan Police Department on Friday launched English services at two police boxes in the capital in a bid to better deal with an increasing number of foreign visitors to Japan ahead of the 2020 Olympics. The foreigner-friendly police boxes are located in Shinjuku ...
In Japan, where women do five times as much housework as men, three male politicians have donned “pregnancy” vests in a campaign urging men to help out more at home. In a video titled “The Governor is a Pregnant Woman”, the three men, who ...
An inquiry into corner-cutting at a polluted site selected to become Tokyo's main fish market has failed to identify who changed construction plans and why.
Whether the ¥35 billion gambit is working to block the inflow of groundwater remains unclear six months after it started freezing underground soil.
Akira Oshima, 38, and his wife sought the disclosure after a photo of their daughter taken during a demonstration in August 2014 was attached to a tweet.
The internal affairs ministry has called for better palliative care for cancer patients at core regional hospitals. It said some hospitals are failing to help reduce the physical and mental pain that cancer sufferers typically face. It urged the health ministry to address the ...
Tokyo 2020 Olympics officials decided at a liaison meeting Thursday to examine a proposal to turn weekdays during the games into holidays under special legislation to facilitate the hosting of competitions using ordinary public roads. They also decided to consider introducing daylight-saving time during ...
Another unintentional side effect of “Pokemon Go” fever has emerged — and it’s not in the form of traffic violations or accidents. Instead, the smartphone app is playing a positive role at one of the nation’s notorious suicide spots, discouraging people from killing themselves. ...
Scientists have uncovered one of the largest-ever dinosaur footprints, measuring just over 1 meter in length and 0.77 m in width. The print was found in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert. It is not an indentation but a cast, formed in what was probably the footprint ...
The starting pistol has been fired on construction of the new National Stadium, less than four years before the Tokyo Olympics.
