Shrine teaches old lion-dogs new tricks--after 800 yearskicker: STATUES UNLEASHED
ANIME NEWS: Osamu Tezuka’s heroines take center stage at Hyogo museum
INSIGHT: Tension spreads from national congress to all corners of China
TEPCO says 5.3 tons of tainted water leaked at nuclear plant
BASEBALL/ Uehara bucks tradition and keeps speaking his mind
FROM AROUND JAPAN/ Matsue: Spooky stories come to life following path of Lafcadio Hearn
TOKYO NOW AND THEN: Karaoke lullabies get nod over 'taxi hotels'
FIVE YEARS AFTER: Fukushima thyroid cancer patients’ families join forces
Court orders damages for girl's death in 2011 tsunami
EDITORIAL: A more sincere attitude needed in new talks on Futenma issue
Board apologizes after teacher belittles boy with leukemia
Angry parents demand more daycare as Abe's LDP shrugs
On Spratly islet, Taiwan argues Philippines case not watertight
VOX POPULI: Brussels’ bloody Holy Week calls for compassion, not hatred
Japanese held in Turkey while trying to join IS, sources say
Momii’s aptitude questioned again as Diet panel OKs NHK budget
Kansai Electric chief lambasted over ‘threats’ against plaintiffs
Principal pushes birth-giving role for women; outrage festers
College-educated foreigners give Japanese firms thumbs down
Dynamic battery for the future developed by Japanese team
March 24, 2016
SENDAI--The district court here ordered a municipal government to pay compensation to bereaved family members of a schoolgirl who was swept to her death in the 2011 tsunami...
March 24, 2016
Families of young thyroid cancer patients from Fukushima Prefecture diagnosed after the 3/11 disaster have formed a support group that also aims to pressure doctors and authorities...
March 24, 2016
NARA--Lion-dog and mythical lion statues will be freed from their den and unleashed on the public for the first time in 800 years at a famed shrine here.
March 24, 2016
Japanese ballplayers continue to fulfill their dreams of signing with major league teams, but veteran pitcher Koji Uehara won’t be cheering for his countrymen.
March 24, 2016
An estimated 5.3 tons of water contaminated with radiation leaked from a pipe in a building housing cesium removal equipment at the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, the facility's operator said.
March 23, 2016
Singer and famed J-pop composer Tetsuro Oda had a terrible birthday five years ago as he shared his own personal anniversary with that of the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami--March 11.
March 24, 2016
Manga giant Osamu Tezuka’s leading ladies are the subject of a special art event being held at the Osamu Tezuka Manga Museum in Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture.
March 24, 2016
About 12 decades before I ever set foot in Matsue, a writer named Lafcadio Hearn lived here for one year and three months as an English teacher. He lived the rest of his life in Japan, but his impressions of Matsue became the...
March 24, 2016
ITU ABA, South China Sea--On Itu Aba, in the Spratly archipelago of the South China Sea, Taiwanese coast guard officials proudly haul a small wooden bucket of water from one of several simple concrete wells on the coral...
March 23, 2016
Many university-educated foreigners cited poor pay and an uncertain future as major problems in working for Japanese companies, according to a government survey released March 22.
March 23, 2016
A lithium-ion battery more than three times as powerful as normal that could be used in vehicles and power grids has been developed by a team of academic and corporate researchers in Japan.
March 24, 2016
BEIJING--The concentration of power on President Xi Jinping was evident in the latest session of the National People’s Congress, held under the giant, red shining star decorating the ceiling of the Great Hall of the People.
