May 17, 2012
Now that acclaimed U.S.-born scholar Donald Keene has obtained Japanese citizenship, Tokyo's Kita Ward wants to make sure the whole country knows he's one of its own.
May 13, 2012
The plight of a sick Russian toddler, whose father joined relief efforts here after the Great East Japan Earthquake, has spurred a Facebook site seeking donations for her costly medical care.
May 13, 2012
ICHINOSEKI, Iwate Prefecture--A craft beer maker in this northern city is using a yeast strain that barely survived last year's tsunami to create a brew that is helping to fund rebuilding efforts.
May 12, 2012
When Qian Zhuhui joined Nissan Motor Co. eight years ago, she was bewildered by the reactions to her suggestions about the legal risks of a new project.
May 11, 2012
SAPPORO--It began in May 2011 as a humble gathering of five people. Now, there's a waiting period of several months to book lectures by a man once known as “Chernobyl Shigeo.”
May 09, 2012
The Foreign Ministry will invite 10 overseas bloggers to northeastern Japan to write and report from areas stricken by the Great East Japan Earthquake.
May 08, 2012
The moment she received the e-mail, He Peirong knew that Chen Guangcheng, a blind Chinese human rights activist, had escaped from house arrest.
May 08, 2012
YAO, Osaka Prefecture--Throughout her life, Mai Yabumoto has endured stares and finger-pointing by strangers, as well as discrimination and utter rudeness, just because she looked different.
May 05, 2012
When Miyoko Takamatsu starts her first professional “keirin” cycle race in July, she will be the oldest male or female debutant in the sport’s more than 60-year history in Japan.
May 04, 2012
Climbers determined to conquer the highest peaks in the Himalayas call it the death zone.
May 04, 2012
In what is music to a performer's ear, an instrument maker in Nagoya said he has hit upon the right formula for recreating the sound of a Stradivari violin that was originally produced in Italy about three centuries ago.
May 03, 2012
FUKUOKA--Tears spilled from Chie Yasutake’s eyes when she was taken to a hospital, unable to stop her convulsions or end the relentless pain.
April 27, 2012
OSAKA--Naoaki Nakagawa likes nothing better than the "hunt." But the only things he actually "shoots" are passenger jets as they take off and land at airports around the nation.
April 27, 2012
Maung Maung Sein had been waiting 20 years for an "Asian Spring" to arrive in his native Myanmar, when political, economic and social reforms would bring change to the country's repressive military rule.
April 17, 2012
GENEVA--Film star Angelina Jolie will use her powerful box office fame to draw attention to some of the world's worst humanitarian disasters, the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said on April 17.
April 17, 2012
Tadashi Yamamoto was a truly international individual who personified how much a private-sector person in Japan could accomplish through deep dialogue with the world, and his initiatives for joint efforts toward a common vision.
April 17, 2012
HONOLULU--Internationally acclaimed writer Haruki Murakami gave a lecture and reading to a standing-room only crowd at the University of Hawaii's Manoa campus.
April 17, 2012
In 1940, the Japanese literature scholar Donald Keene came across an English translation of the acclaimed 11th-century Japanese novel “Genji Monogatari" (The Tale of Genji) in a bookstore in Times Square.
April 16, 2012
Tadashi Yamamoto, a pioneer in promoting private-sector international exchange, especially between Japan and the United States, since the 1960s, died of gallbladder cancer on April 15. He was 76.
April 15, 2012
NAGASAKI--A-bomb survivor Masahito Hirose knows that female high school students in Fukushima city need reassurance as they worry about the future ramifications of the radiation from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.