Russia will start administering its first approved antiviral drug to treat coronavirus patients next week, its state financial backer told Reuters, a move | Continue reading
The union’s policy is widely used as a standard-setter for annual wage negotiations across Japan each spring. | Continue reading
Public broadcaster NHK has apologized for its attempt to educate viewers on the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States, after its video on anti-r | Continue reading
HSBC Holdings PLC’s endorsement of a proposed Chinese security law in Hong Kong has begun to widen fault lines over the British institution’s relationship | Continue reading
The city of Yamato in Kanagawa Prefecture plans to set an ordinance intended to prevent smartphone use while walking. Through the ordinance, the city aims | Continue reading
The Diet enacted a bill Wednesday to create "super cities" where artificial intelligence, big data and other technologies are utilized to resolve | Continue reading
The government’s decision to lift the declaration highlights its strong desire to revive the nation’s faltering economy as quickly as possible. | Continue reading
At any given time, seven out of eight beds in the intensive care unit of St. Luke's International Hospital in Tokyo are taken up by critically ill coronavi | Continue reading
Birthdays, email addresses and other information of the account holders for game consoles such as Wii U and Nintendo 3DS online, could have been viewed. | Continue reading
For most of America’s history, the idea that people over the age of 65 would voluntarily herd themselves into special communities built around their needs | Continue reading
Doctors and other medical staff at designated COVID-19 hospitals in the capital say their situation is reaching a critical point. Interviewed by phone and | Continue reading
Ken Shimura, a veteran slapstick comedian and onetime member of rock ’n’ roll band and comedy group The Drifters, a household name in Japan in the 1970s an | Continue reading
The International Olympic Committee has decided to postpone the 2020 Tokyo Games because of the coronavirus pandemic, IOC member Dick Pound said on Monday, | Continue reading
To get permission to leave China's coronavirus epicenter and return to his job in Hong Kong, a Chinese banker needed two things: a letter from his company | Continue reading
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government will not extend its current request for school closures across Japan, and will allow classes to begin as scheduled in the new academic year. | Continue reading
Two independent WeWork directors are weighing all options, including legal action, after SoftBank Group Corp. advised the company's shareholders it may ren | Continue reading
How has Japan seemingly escaped the spread of the coronavirus when other countries have suffered so badly? | Continue reading
Japan was one of first countries outside of China hit by the coronavirus and now it's one of the least-affected among developed nations. That's puzzling he | Continue reading
The Tokyo High Court on Tuesday ordered ¥1 million in additional damages be paid each to some 300 evacuees from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, down b | Continue reading
Near the end of its two-week quarantine, 88 more people aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Yokohama tested positive for COVID-19, the health minist | Continue reading
Last March, months before the meltdown at WeWork, Masayoshi Son worked through the prospects for another one of his favorite portfolio companies — a startu | Continue reading
Japan was on high alert Friday due to the rising number of confirmed COVID-19 cases nationwide, including that of two taxi drivers and a doctor, as well as | Continue reading
Hot on the heels of the Mitsubishi Electric hack, NEC reveals that cyberattacks from 2016 to 2018 exposed 27,445 files that include work related to the Defense Ministry. | Continue reading
Sony's Vision-S electric car project may be a harbinger of its true comeback. | Continue reading
Everyone has seen warnings at the end of email saying, "Please consider the environment before printing." But for those who care about global warming, you | Continue reading
The women vastly outnumber the men at 88.1 percent of the total, which is now roughly 23 times the figure logged in 1989, according to the government. | Continue reading
The past 15 years have seen a boom in academic studies of anime, ranging from thematic and cultural analysis such as Susan J. Napier's "Anime from Akira to | Continue reading
Some people will shudder at Hiroki Enno's idea of a "social experiment," yet he believes the project could someday benefit society as a whole. The 28-year- | Continue reading
With the order to kill a top Iranian general last week, U.S. President Donald Trump may have rekindled Kim Jong Un's worst fears while simultaneously cemen | Continue reading
Tokyo Electric’s fourth delay is needed for more safety steps, including an enclosure for reactor No. 1 to prevent radioactive dust from spreading, the government said. | Continue reading
Changes to the charter of one of China's top universities — dropping the phrase "freedom of thought" and adding a pledge to follow the Communist Part | Continue reading
The 18 drives used by the Yokohama-based government should have been destroyed, but someone at the recycler sold them off, exposing potentially millions of taxpayers to identity theft. | Continue reading
As Netflix Inc. prepares for a bruising battle against the Walt Disney Co. and Apple Inc. for streaming subscribers, it's playing a card that may deliver e | Continue reading
Testing on the equipment and testing procedure will begin next year. | Continue reading
For foreign entrepreneurs, Japan has never been the easiest place to launch a startup for a number of reasons, including its conservative corporate culture | Continue reading
Yamagata University has announced the discovery of 143 geoglyphs on the Nazca Pampa and surrounding areas in Peru, including one found in a study using art | Continue reading
SoftBank Group Corp. has quietly completed an initial money-raising push for its second technology fund, at a fraction of its targeted $108 billion. The co | Continue reading
Japan’s teaching culture prizes conformity and docility, but the public is apparently getting fed up with the suffocating rules imposed to achieve that. | Continue reading
If you're a conspicuous non-Japanese living in the country, then you've likely experienced the empty-seat phenomenon with varying frequency and intensity. | Continue reading
Hong Kong's government may curb access to the internet in a bid to contain months of increasingly violent pro-democracy protests, a Cabinet member said Mon | Continue reading
Half a century after their debut, Japan's pager services will finally cease on Tuesday, bringing an end to what was once considered a must-have communicati | Continue reading
AI could conceivably eliminate the need for human labor in production and allow people to immerse themselves in intellectual activities. | Continue reading
For elementary school children in Japan, their weeks-long summer vacation isn't entirely a time for leisure. Instead, it's overshadowed by a stack of homew | Continue reading
The government plans to enforce an ordinance defining violations and setting penalties by May next year. | Continue reading
A research group says a growing number of countries are following China's lead in deploying artificial intelligence to track citizens. The Carnegie Endowme | Continue reading
"Kana," to call him by the nom de guerre he uses when he is competing in arcade game tournaments, is so good at The King of Fighters '97 that he can beat m | Continue reading
Dear Alice, I've spotted pairs of plastic Day-Glo orange baseballs sitting in polystyrene containers behind the counter at banks and convenience stores. My | Continue reading
Bookstores and anime-related shops around Japan are hosting exhibits of original artworks produced by Kyoto Animation Co., the operator of the studio hit b | Continue reading