Новости за 21.11.2018

While deference usually invites bullying, standing up to China draws respect and a readiness to negotiate and make concessions.

There's one thing that's clear amid the uncertain future for this carmaking alliance: The Japanese company wants Ghosn gone.

Japan’s nuclear regulation body decided Wednesday to review the nation’s distribution system for iodine tablets against radiation exposure, with an eye on giving priority to ...

Nissan Motor Co. sank deeper into crisis Wednesday as it emerged the car giant could itself face charges over alleged financial misconduct that has already ...

Philippine government ministers met with a top adviser of Japan’s prime minister on Wednesday, in a effort to move forward major infrastructure projects, just hours ...

Seven years after corporate Japan was turned on its head when Olympus Corp. became the subject of a massive accounting scandal, a member of the ...

Saitama-based ramen noodle restaurant operator Hiday Co. revealed Wednesday that its workers had formed a labor union, with some 3,000 foreign employees — mostly part-timers ...

Quick: what’s a good spell against boredom? After getting off to a nimble start with “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” in 2016, J.K. ...

Heist movies play to everyone’s dream of easy money, earned by criminal smarts and daring. But a convention of the genre, going back to Stanley ...

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is considering visiting the Netherlands, Uruguay and Paraguay, in addition to a planned trip to Britain, in December, government sources said ...

Prosecutors on Wednesday demanded the death penalty for a man accused of killing two junior high school children in Osaka in 2015.During the trial at ...

The Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games hopes to move up the start times of the 2020 marathons by one hour to ...

Beyond making their audience laugh with punchlines, comedy duo Sandwich Man have two other missions.One is supporting the Tohoku area’s recovery from the 2011 Great ...

Ibaraki Prefecture is developing a series of new PR strategies after struggling for years to move up in a private think tank survey that ranks ...

Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. has won European Union approval for its takeover of Shire PLC, clearing the last major regulatory hurdle for the $62 billion acquisition ...

The Rising Sun flag has been removed from a classroom at a school on the outskirts of Vancouver after students started an online petition, according ...

Stocks lost further ground on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Wednesday following an overnight tumble on Wall Street.The Nikkei 225 slumped 75.58 points, or 0.35 ...

A Chinese environmental journalist’s account of police harassment while reporting on a chemical spill has sparked widespread condemnation online and an apology from the police.Chinese ...

Japan has less appeal for highly skilled foreign workers than other world economies, according to a Swiss survey.In the 2018 global survey by the International ...

The U.S. Navy’s Japan-based aircraft carrier arrived in Hong Kong on Wednesday, the military said in a statement, a day after the air force flew ...

The U.S. Navy’s Japan-based aircraft carrier arrived in Hong Kong on Wednesday, the military said in a statement, a day after the air force flew ...

Interpol announced Wednesday that Kim Jong-yang of South Korea had been chosen as its new president, beating a Russian official whose candidacy had unnerved Western ...

Diplomats expressed frustration Tuesday during a U.N. General Assembly session about long-overdue negotiations to reform the Security Council.Japan’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Koro Bessho, ...

The government on Tuesday called for quickly beefing up defenses against cyberattacks and threats from outer space as it unveiled a draft outline of the ...

The government on Tuesday called for quickly beefing up defenses against cyberattacks and threats from outer space as it unveiled a draft outline of the ...