A Japanese man in his 30s in Tokyo is being tested for possible Ebola infection after he developed a fever early Monday following his return to Japan from Sierra Leone ...
The Miyazaki Prefectural Government has begun slaughtering 42,000 chickens on a farm in the city of Miyazaki after a genetic test of dead fowl confirmed a highly pathogenic bird flu ...
Sony’s PlayStation reported that its network is back online and claimed that it had been attacked, three days after it and Microsoft’s Xbox went down in an outage. An allegedly ...
In a sign of warming ties, Japanese and Chinese officials agree to step up cooperation on energy conservation and environmental measures.
The 22-year-old university student was in his fifth day working part time at a Sukiya beef bowl outlet in Tokyo when his boss suddenly told him to run the shop from midnight to 9 a.m. all by himself. “I had no choice but to ...
After 13 years, the United States is winding down its war in Afghanistan, plagued by doubts about what was accomplished at such a high cost. Instead of a sense of triumph at the close of the longest conflict in America’s history, there is mostly ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is likely to pursue a variety of policies that may hold the key to Japan’s economic recovery in 2015.
It wasn’t until Nelson Agholor knocked down a desperation pass by Nebraska’s Tommy Armstrong Jr. inside the 10-yard line that Southern California coach Steve Sarkisian could exhale and celebrate. After blowing most of an 18-point, third-quarter lead, the No. 24 Trojans beat No 25 ...
An airplane crash in 1977 would inspire one JAL employee, Taeko Uchida, to get serious about union activism in a way that would decades later find her leading a legal and labor battle against Japan's flagship carrier.
With half the decade complete, we examine an industry that has significantly changed the way we think about ourselves.
For anyone raised in the West, the year-end holidays in Japan can be a jarring experience, at least for the uninitiated. Decorated trees, illuminated boulevards and carols in convenience stores coincide with Colonel Sanders statuettes remade into Santa Claus and mini-skirted chorus girls in ...
An independent panel's findings on the Asahi Shimbun's retraction of a series of past articles on the "comfort women" issue offer important lessons to reporters, editors and newspaper management.
The year 2014 was full of unexpected events, but none helped to jolt Japan's economy, politics or society out of a sense of being stalled.
Cuba Derangement Syndrome, a recurring fever, afflicts U.S. senators and others who argue that U.S. diplomatic relations and economic interactions lead to legitimizing Cuba's regime.
The military regime in Thailand appears to be trying to silence political critics of the monarchy by charging them with lese-majeste offenses.
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