November 26, 2012
LONDON--Michael Woodford, the former CEO-turned-whistleblower of Japan's Olympus, is close to signing a movie deal with the British film production company run by the sons of spy thriller author John le Carre.
November 22, 2012
Twenty-year-old ex-Lotte Marines pitcher Shogo Yamaguchi was the youngest pitcher at a professional baseball tryout at Sendai's Miyagi Baseball Stadium on Nov. 9.
November 16, 2012
A chubby South Korean rapper with a pair of sunglasses and a "cheesy" dance has succeeded in making a huge splash in America—despite making barely a ripple in Japan.
November 16, 2012
A free application that turns a smartphone into a lecture-delivery aid has had thousands of downloads--and it is all the work of a 13-year-old schoolgirl.
November 13, 2012
OMIYA, Saitama Prefecture--The road to China's breakdown in relations with Japan began here--a sleepy Tokyo suburb that is home to the reclusive real-estate investor at the center of the explosive property deal that enraged Beijing.
November 01, 2012
A baker who developed a way to put bread in cans has helped feed people in hunger and disaster zones worldwide, and his bakery is working flat out to meet demand for emergency food stocks within Japan itself.
November 01, 2012
In the delirium following the San Francisco Giants’ victory in the World Series, players tossed their gloves, drenched their caps with champagne and tore off their uniforms in celebration.
October 31, 2012
Often clad in her favorite kimono even among demonstrators and shielding her fair skin under a parasol, Yui Kimura may not look like your typical rabid anti-nuclear activist.
October 30, 2012
In the music business, one of the capstones to any career is to perform live at Tokyo's Nippon Budokan.
October 28, 2012
Shortly before the end of World War II in 1945, 10-year-old Tsuyoshi Amemiya noticed a group of young Koreans, not much older than himself, planting seedlings and cultivating wasteland near his parents' home in the Mikawa region of Aichi Prefecture.
October 28, 2012
The soccer ball leaped and fell as if alive, and then it stuck to his body as if a magnet was involved. Kotaro Tokuda topped off his dance-like performance of ball juggling, or freestyle soccer, by kicking the ball above his head; he then did a backflip and caught the ball between his knees and nailed the landing.
October 27, 2012
BIRMINGHAM, England--The father of a Pakistani girl shot in the head by the Taliban for advocating girls' education said on Oct. 26 she would "rise again" to pursue her dreams after hospital treatment.
October 25, 2012
More than eight years ago, famed kabuki actor Ichikawa Danjuro XII was diagnosed with acute premyelocytic leukemia as he was performing a well-known kabuki play.
October 23, 2012
YANGPYEONG, South Korea--The near-death of an actress in an accident while filming nearly ended director Kim Ki-duk's career four years ago, but after making "Pieta," which took best picture at this year's Venice film festival, he is now South Korea's most feted auteur.
October 22, 2012
A model from Tosu, Saga Prefecture, became the first Japanese woman to win the Miss International title.
October 20, 2012
Empress Michiko, who turned 78 on Oct. 20, expressed concerns for thousands of victims of the Tohoku disaster but said Japan still has had many positive things to celebrate in 2012.
October 20, 2012
Joichi Ito, a two-time dropout and once a critic of traditional media, is now an outside director at one of world’s most influential newspapers on a mission to “save journalism.”
October 18, 2012
Film director Koji Wakamatsu, known for his works themed on politics, violence and eroticism, including the award-winning “Caterpillar,” died on Oct. 17 at a Tokyo hospital. He was 76.
October 15, 2012
ISLAMABAD--The Pakistani schoolgirl shot by Taliban gunmen for pushing for girls to be educated has been sent to the United Kingdom for medical treatment, a military spokesman said on Oct. 15.
October 15, 2012
Impressed by the wit and humor in British literature, Saiichi Maruya tried to move away from the characteristic of Japanese writing that emphasized events closely linked to the author's life.