The Jing-Mei White Terror Memorial Park, housed on the campus of a former military school, is a chilling reminder of the excesses of Taiwan’s not-so-distant authoritarian past. | Continue reading
The bill will also end a ban on pregnant women remarrying within 100 days of divorce, ostensibly imposed to avoid disputes over paternity. | Continue reading
Musk is hardly the first U.S. business executive or celebrity to get tangled up in foreign policy, but his wealth and penchant for mischief make him harder to ignore. | Continue reading
The upcoming ‘Wagyu Olympics’ in Kagoshima Prefecture is expected to create much-needed buzz about the industry among consumers at home and abroad. | Continue reading
Despite an initial gain of more than 3.5% in the yen against the dollar, the surprise move hasn’t reversed the currency’s weakening trend. | Continue reading
From metalworking tours to “washi” paper-making workshops, a number of prefectures are holding events to welcome visitors interested in local businesses and craftspeople. | Continue reading
While others are digging deep into foreign-exchange reserves to mitigate the damage, the yuan and yen’s slump threatens the region’s mantle as a preferred destination for risk investors. | Continue reading
Xi Jinping speeches make clear that he is committed to spreading China’s model of communism around the world. | Continue reading
Lost billions, graft probes, and broken dreams are the result of over-ambitious goals to build a leading chip sector. | Continue reading
The buffet at Singapore’s Grand Hyatt hotel typically sets diners back about $70. Those on a tighter budget, and with an eye on sustainability, can fill a box for a tenth of that price. | Continue reading
Nestled in the upmarket Wada district of Tokyo's Suginami Ward, Renkoji Temple is a model of gentility. On weekday mornings, pensioners sit and sketch its | Continue reading
The Biden administration and many commentators are at pains to deny that the U.S. is in a recession, but history is not on their side. | Continue reading
COVID-19 has upended office routines worldwide, but in Japan, some say the shake-up was sorely needed. | Continue reading
Divisions over what aspects to revise and more pressing political issues for Prime Minister Fumio Kishida could delay change to the top law. | Continue reading
The former prime minister was attacked while giving a campaign speech ahead of Sunday's Upper House election. | Continue reading
When a ransomware attacker isn’t up to snuff, the damage might be limited. | Continue reading
While some, like Ukraine's leadership, have called for Russia to be cut off from the internet, others have noted access is key for opposition groups. | Continue reading
The au mobile brand operator has been scrambling to resolve the disruption to its nationwide network since early Saturday. | Continue reading
Despite recognizing the advantages of work from home, some are finding the benefits of in-person communication and collaboration hard to ignore. | Continue reading
An enigmatic woman wearing a frilly white dress stands silently outside Matsuzakaya department store in Yokohama's Isezakicho district during a local festi | Continue reading
Although the immediate danger seems minimal, efforts are needed to safeguard machine-learning models used in chemical and drug discovery. | Continue reading
For the first time in more than a decade, a narrow majority in Japan now supports restarting idled nuclear reactors. | Continue reading
Prices for some of the world’s most pivotal products — foods, fuels, plastics and metals — are rising beyond what many buyers can afford. That’s forcing consumers to cut back. | Continue reading
The Defense Ministry said Russia's increased military activity in the sea and airspace around Japan is a cause for concern amid the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. | Continue reading
Sumco shares surged as much as 11% in Tokyo on Thursday, their biggest intraday jump since March 2020, in the wake of the comments. | Continue reading
Japan’s top social media platform is drawing increased scrutiny about its operations, particularly in the wake of several high-profile cyberharassment incidents. | Continue reading
The vaccine enables the body to create antibodies that attach themselves to senescent cells, which are removed by white blood cells. | Continue reading
Most Japanese have an inherited component of the immune system that can more effectively kill various coronaviruses, including the one that causes COVID-19, scientists say. | Continue reading
After a series of weekly inoculations, two of seven immunized macaques remained uninfected after being exposed to simian human immunodeficiency virus. | Continue reading
Messages suspected of being linked to juvenile prostitution and financial scams are being targeted, with AI recognition helping stop drug deals. | Continue reading
Many scholars point to a variety of explanations for the sudden end of the fifth wave, but one research group says the coronavirus variant may have actually destroyed itself. | Continue reading
The coffee chain will require customers to return the rental cups within three days, including the day of purchase, after which the cups will be washed and reused. | Continue reading
Japan and Australia reached a major milestone in their security relationship when, for the first time ever, the SDF executed an "asset protection" mission with a non-U.S. military unit. | Continue reading
Various descended languages and peoples are thought to have spread across an area of some 8,000 kilometers. | Continue reading
Toyota says that different emissions-reducing car technologies are needed for different regions of the world. | Continue reading
The disruption stemmed from work to switch computer servers for devices using internet of things, or IoT, systems, including taxi fare payment terminals and vending machines. | Continue reading
The device, installed at a store inside a government ministry building in the Kasumigaseki district of Tokyo, restocks products by predicting sales based on the time and season. | Continue reading
Economists and policymakers expect to see the recent price rises reflected in official data in the coming months. | Continue reading
The weapons test came as campaigning for a crucial Oct. 31 Lower House election kicked off and as nuclear envoys from the U.S., South Korea and Japan held talks in Washington. | Continue reading
One of the big mistakes Washington has made during this chip shortage is to act like the U.S is the only victim and its needs usurp everyone else’s. | Continue reading
China’s AI isn’t so much a tool of world domination as a narrowly deployed means of domestic control. | Continue reading
As the world's electric grids struggle to find ways to produce clean energy, the innovative iron battery may provide a solution. | Continue reading
The service is only being offered to Tokyo residents initially and will be expanded nationwide in the future. | Continue reading
A crackdown on power consumption is being driven by rising demand for electricity and surging coal and gas prices as well as strict targets from Beijing to cut emissions. | Continue reading
The United States and Australia went to extraordinary lengths to keep Paris in the dark as they secretly negotiated a plan to build nuclear submarines. | Continue reading
In a bid to attract more long-term investors, Japan plans to reform its primary stock market. | Continue reading
Gen. Mark Milley was so worried in early January that Trump was out of control that he took secret action to prevent the outgoing president from sparking a war with China, a new book says. | Continue reading
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has condemned the launches, the second test-firing in less than a week, as an “outrageous threat to peace and security in the region." | Continue reading