May 23, 2013
HINOEMATA, Fukushima Prefecture—Hikers and alpinists gathered at the Miike climbing gate on May 23 for a ceremony to mark the opening of the mountains in the Oze National Park region.
May 23, 2013
Tokyo Skytree lit up the night sky of Sumida Ward in a blaze of color on May 22 to mark the first anniversary of the landmark tower's opening.
May 23, 2013
IMABARI, Ehime Prefecture--After Masatoshi Takeda tinkered with some century-old looms, he changed the entire concept of weaving.
May 23, 2013
In Asia, there is much room left for the development of institutional investors.
May 23, 2013
Zargham Zadeh Shahram long suffered from a splitting headache caused by a tumor in his brain. But he refused to seek medical treatment.
May 23, 2013
Hate demonstrations targeting Koreans are spreading in certain areas of Tokyo and Osaka that have sizable Korean communities. The demonstrators usually march along streets, chanting slogans like "Koreans, get out" or "Kill Koreans."
May 23, 2013
Concerned that it has become too homogenous, the University of Tokyo is taking bold steps to create a more varied student body. The nation’s top university has become desperate for the brightest students, from home and abroad, who could influence other students for the better.
May 23, 2013
Caught in political strife, Su Shi, poet and bureaucrat of China’s Song Dynasty (960-1279), was banished twice. As a bureaucrat he was competent, but he spoke so frankly and without reservations that he made enemies.
May 23, 2013
Kyoto University will become the first Japanese institution of higher education to offer a course on the rapidly expanding edX, the international consortium that offers free courses online by some of the world's top professors and universities.
May 23, 2013
Makoto Raiku’s “Animal Land,” a story that follows a raccoon dog named Monoko who raises human boy Taroza, won the children’s category prize in the 2013 Kodansha Manga Awards, publisher Kodansha Ltd. announced.
May 23, 2013
PYONGYANG--After months of ignoring Chinese warnings to give up nuclear weapons, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sent a high-level confidant to Beijing on May 22, in a possible effort to mend strained ties with his country's most important ally and a sign that he may be giving diplomacy a chance.
May 23, 2013
With the aim of creating a global biofuel business network, Tokyo-based Itochu Corp. and its subsidiary Itochu Enex Co. have invested in a 50-million-gallon per year, next-generation biodiesel fuel (BDF) project.
May 23, 2013
Nissan Motor Co. and long-time China partner Dongfeng Motor Group will jointly develop and produce a new-generation medium-duty truck later this year at the Nissan plant in Avila, Spain, the Japanese carmaker said May 23.
May 23, 2013
Dentsu Inc. announced May 23 that Aegis Media, part of its global operating unit Dentsu Aegis Network Ltd., has acquired Social Embassy BV, the leading social media agency in the Netherlands.
May 23, 2013
NTT Docomo Inc. said May 22 it has acquired MCV Guam Holding Corp. (MCV), the largest cable television and Internet service provider in Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, for $129.8 million (12.7 billion yen).
May 22, 2013
Inspired by a manga he read as a child, Mitsuru Izumo set out to develop a "magical" food capable of curing the real-world problems of hunger and malnutrition. The result—a form of algae known as euglena—may have the potential for use in everything from feeding the world's poorest countries to cleaning up the environment.
May 22, 2013
Although Japanese failed to jump on the worldwide mega-hit "Gangnam Style" bandwagon last year, they'll soon get a second chance when images of South Korean rapper Psy's chubby face start blanketing their country.
May 22, 2013
Long accused of tolerating “kidnapping,” Japan on May 22 approved a bill to join the Hague convention on resolving cross-border abductions of children from broken international marriages.
May 22, 2013
A United Nations committee on May 21 called on Japan to prevent hate speech and other actions that degrade former “comfort women” and portray them as prostitutes for Japanese troops in World War II.
May 22, 2013
Shintaro Ishihara defended his fellow co-leader of the Japan Restoration Party on May 21, saying Toru Hashimoto’s proposal for U.S. troops to use legal sex-related services is understandable under the current circumstances.