Japan asks for revision of 1996 U.N. report on ‘comfort women’
DPJ considers image change by fielding more female candidates
Coast Guard to ramp up surveillance of Chinese coral poachers near Ogasawaras
Camera buff escapes death while capturing eruption of Mount Ontakesan
Chinese ambassador says Beijing pleased with Abe’s efforts to improve ties
Japan will back U.N. resolution opposing use of nuclear weapons for 2nd year
U.S. military says goodbye to Cold War-era ‘Elephant Cage' in Misawa
Plans to remove cover over damaged Fukushima reactor draws concern
Cosmetics maker Kose uses iPS technology to take 30 years off man's skin
Japan lawmakers say open to limits on casinos in push for bill's passage
EDITORIAL: New defense guidelines could move beyond limits set by Constitution
VOX POPULI: Weaker throwing arms a sign of change in how children play
Poisonous red-back spiders feared to have started breeding in Tokyo
Hong Kong police use pepper spray on protesters, anger simmers over beating
Ranches, groups struggling to save retired racehorses
'Yokai Watch' newest smash craze with kids
Koreas' military talks end without agreement
Toyota recalls Lexuses in U.S. for fuel leak risk; among 3 recalls totaling 1.7 million cars
Idemitsu discovers accumulation of oil, gas in Barents Sea
Aeon to open 2nd shopping mall in Vietnam in November
October 16, 2014
KISO, Nagano Prefecture--Amateur photographer Keiji Aoki had climbed Mount Ontakesan since he was a young teenager, but on that beautiful fall day, he suddenly heard the chilling...
October 16, 2014
The Japan Coast Guard is dispatching a large patrol vessel to Tokyo's remote Ogasawara island chain to deter Chinese fishermen from poaching lucrative red coral.
October 16, 2014
The Japanese government asked for a partial revision of a 1996 report on wartime “comfort women” by a United Nations special rapporteur, but the request was immediately rejected.
October 16, 2014
The main opposition Democratic Party of Japan is considering introducing a quota system to increase the number of its women candidates, in an effort to revamp its image.
October 16, 2014
Amid local concerns of the further spread of radioactive materials, Tokyo Electric Power Co. announced plans to start dismantling the canopy installed over the destroyed Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant's No. 1 reactor building.
October 15, 2014
The Environment Ministry has completed briefings for landowners of a site to store radioactive waste from the Fukushima nuclear disaster, but attendance at the meetings was less than half the landholders.
October 16, 2014
Ever since an anime version of the "Yokai Watch" role-playing video game was first broadcast in January, products related to the game's cute, mascot-like “Yokai” (spirit) characters have been flying off store shelves.
October 16, 2014
A feature film adaptation of the "Psycho-Pass" animated TV series will hit theaters in Japan in January.
October 16, 2014
HONG KONG--Hong Kong police used pepper spray on Oct. 16 to stop pro-democracy protesters from blocking a major road near the office of the city's embattled leader amid public anger over the police beating of a protester a day ...
October 16, 2014
Cosmetics maker Kose Corp. has succeeded in taking the equivalent of about 30 years off the life of skin samples from a 67-year-old man using induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, the company said Oct. 15.
October 11, 2014
MATSUMOTO, Nagano Prefecture--The Shinshu University School of Medicine and Japan's leading auto parts maker Denso Corp. unveiled a jointly developed assistance robot that supports a surgeon's arm during operations.
October 16, 2014
The envisioned new guidelines for defense cooperation between Japan and the United States, as outlined by an interim report, would be based on dangerously stretched interpretations of the Constitution and the bilateral...