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.
April 05, 2012
OTSU, Shiga Prefecture--As a former president of the Atomic Energy Society of Japan, Akimi Serizawa was moved to take action when he saw the crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant unfold on TV.
April 01, 2012
Jean-Claude Ellena's ideal perfume has much in common with haiku--simple, but stimulating one's imagination as it focuses on an instant in time.
April 01, 2012
In the National Diet Library, one of Shigeru Otake's most feared enemies is the bookworm--not the many patrons who spend their days there--but the more insidious insects that feed on binding and paste.
March 31, 2012
IBM Japan Ltd. is turning to a senior executive from its parent company in the United States to help turn around the company's performance.
March 24, 2012
CAIRO--Veteran diplomat Sadako Ogata, president of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), has taken issue with the government's drive to export nuclear plant technology.
March 24, 2012
IITATE, Fukushima Prefecture -- Nobuyoshi Ito is an unlikely renegade. The 68-year-old former systems engineer spends much of his time alone, working quietly at his computer in a remote farmhouse.
March 24, 2012
FUKUSHIMA--Ju Mi-sun thought she was leaving Japan for good when she fled home to South Korea two days after the Great East Japan Earthquake.
March 23, 2012
BERLIN--Memorabilia of the family of Anne Frank, whose diary about life hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam has touched millions of people around the world, will return to the place of her birth.
March 21, 2012
An athlete planning to compete in the 2012 London Paralympic Games has published a calendar featuring her posing seminude with her prosthetic leg to help finance her trip and stay in Britain.