Google to comply with Japan court order to remove search results
Google Inc. has decided to comply with a Japanese court order to remove some online search results found to infringe on a man's privacy rights, company officials said on Wednesday. The U.S. Internet giant has already deleted most of the online search results subject to ...
Georgian president seeks support from Japan, world in standing up to Russia
Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili said his country needs continuous support from Japan and the rest of the international community to maintain stability in the Caucasus region in the face of an increasingly assertive Russia. Speaking at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Tuesday, ...
Mount Fuji hiking fees to be spent partly on safety and conservation projects, prefecture says
An official in Shizuoka says the prefectural government there will spend funds from last year’s Mount Fuji hikers’ fees on six safety and conservation projects.
Japan Communist Party leader to visit South Korea, urge regional peace treaty
The Japanese Communist Party said its leader will visit South Korea starting Friday in a bid to improve relations between the two countries, which have soured over a territorial dispute and differing perceptions of wartime history. On Monday, Kazuo Shii will deliver a speech at ...
Number of tourists to visit Japan so far this year tops 10 million
More than 10 million foreigners are believed to have visited Japan so far this year, amid a weakening yen and relaxed visa restrictions for some nationals. Foreign arrivals in the January to September period soared 26 percent from the same period a year earlier to ...
Universities aim to boost their global ranking
The government has announced it will provide funding to 37 leading public and private universities in a bid to boost their global competitiveness. They will receive annual grants for up to 10 years to boost the number of foreign staff, secure more overseas admissions and ...
The government has decided to change the way it refers to the country of Georgia in Japanese, and will stop using a pronunciation derived from the Russian language, an official said. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is expected to notify visiting Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili of ...
Police baffled by apparently motiveless murder of female college student in Iruma
A week after the fatal stabbing of a female college student in Iruma, Saitama Prefecture, police are struggling to understand what drove the self-confessed knife man, described by acquaintances as a "nice young man," to commit a brutal murder. Shizuka Sato, 21, from Iruma, was ...
Body parts in Thai canal may be those of missing Japanese man
Police found severed body parts in a canal on Wednesday near Bangkok, after a local man being held by police said he had abandoned the body of a missing 79-year-old Japanese man. Police found the body parts, including a head and legs, in several plastic ...
Abduction delegation to meet North Korean officials in Pyongyang on Tuesday
Japan will begin two days of talks with North Korean officials in Pyongyang on Tuesday regarding the investigation into the fate of Japanese abductees, the government said. A delegation of around 10 officials, led by Junichi Ihara, director general of the Foreign Ministry's Asian and ...
Another Japanese man planned to join Islamic State in Syria, police say
Another Japanese man planned to join the Islamic State militant group along with a 26-year-old student who is already under investigation, police sources said on Wednesday. The unidentified man is suspected of planning to leave for Syria on Oct. 7, along with the Hokkaido University ...
Japan, U.S. to conduct joint military drill for island defense
The central government has said it plans to hold a bilateral military exercise with the United States in November to ensure smooth joint operations between the two countries' militaries and to bolster island defense capabilities. The field drill, called Keen Sword, is held every two ...
