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It might sound like pie in the sky, but the Japanese government is banking on a future with flying cars, launching an initiative Wednesday with ...

A panel of experts advising the prime minister started discussions Wednesday on revising the National Defense Program Guidelines (NDPG), a policy document that establishes the ...

A day after seeing his team’s nine-game win streak end, Kenji Akashi’s tie-breaking pinch-hit double sparked the SoftBank Hawks to a 7-0 Pacific League win ...

Ami Kondo had already established her status as one of the elite judoka in her weight class in the world. But now she is about ...

The dollar was firmer near ¥111.20 in Tokyo trading late Wednesday, after trimming earlier gains in tandem with Japan’s benchmark Nikkei stock average.At 5 p.m. ...

Japanese teenagers Sakura Yosozumi and Kensuke Sasaoka provided a next-generation entree to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics with gold medals in skateboarding at the Asian Games.The ...

Roger Federer made light of energy-sapping conditions to brush past Yoshihito Nishioka 6-2, 6-2, 6-4 in his opening match at the U.S. Open on Tuesday.Where ...

Former national team manager Akira Nishino admits he still has regrets about Japan’s exit from this summer’s World Cup in Russia, but he believes the ...

The four men’s national basketball team players who allegedly paid women for sex in Jakarta during the ongoing Asian Games have been handed a one-year ...

The United States, Australia, France and Britain will open new embassies in the Pacific, boost staffing levels, and engage with leaders of island nations more ...

The upheaval in Japan's demographics is causing a shake-up in the regional banking sector, requiring wise oversight by regulators.

Trump is wrong on the facts, but his complaints underscore the business threats to tech companies from growing and largely disingenuous complaints by right-wingers.

A new station being built on Tokyo’s Yamanote loop line was shown to the media Wednesday with around 70 percent of the construction work completed.The ...

A new station being built on Tokyo’s Yamanote loop line was shown to the media Wednesday with around 70 percent of the construction work completed.The ...

A 91-year-old historic residence in Tokyo will turn into a business hub starting next month with a goal of helping company executives and entrepreneurs cultivate ...

A total of 978 buildings at public elementary and junior high schools in Japan were not adequately resistant against earthquakes as of April 1, although ...

Opposition lawmaker Denny Tamaki, who was reportedly designated as a successor by Okinawa’s late governor and anti-U.S. base activist Takeshi Onaga, on Wednesday formally declared ...

The thriving British music scene of the mid-1990s was awash with techno, Britpop and newer genres like jungle and trip-hop. When Reef burst onto the ...

Shocked by gender inequality and wanting to do something about it, Noemi Inoue decided to naturalize and stand for her local council.

Chess pops up in a surprising number of feature films. Just look at all the documentaries and dramas about the outrageously gifted Bobby Fischer. Shogi, ...

As Japan continues to court more foreign tourists, the nation must learn to respect foreign languages as much as its own.

The work of the late novelist Yasushi Sato, who took his own life in 1990, has been enjoying a minor cinematic renaissance over the past ...

With about half a month left before the Sept. 16 retirement of pop singer Namie Amuro, a video recording of her last tour, both on ...

It’s the last week of August, when children who have spent their entire summer vacation slacking off suddenly realize with daunting dismay that they have ...