May 22, 2013
Twenty short films will be showcased in the CG Competition category at the Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2013.
May 22, 2013
Nissin Foods Holdings Co. will become the first Japanese instant noodle maker to enter the untapped African market when it starts sales of instant noodle products in Kenya in September.
May 22, 2013
Japan Display Inc. said May 21 that it has developed a small-size organic light-emitting diode display prototype with full high-definition resolution.
May 22, 2013
Mitsubishi-Hitachi Metals Machinery Inc. said on May 22 that it will acquire all the shares in India's leading supplier of continuous casting machines, Concast (India) Ltd. (CIL), to expand its business in India.
May 22, 2013
The TOMODACHI Initiative and SoftBank Corp. announced on May 22 that 100 Japanese high school students from the disaster-affected prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima have been selected to participate in the TOMODACHI Summer 2013 SoftBank Leadership Program.
May 22, 2013
PYONGYANG—A “special envoy” for North Korean leader Kim Jong Un left Pyongyang on May 22 for China, the country’s only major political and economic benefactor.
May 21, 2013
KYOTO--Walking with slow, careful steps, Yao Hongwei helps one of her patients, an elderly man with brain disease, complete his walking exercises at Takeda General Hospital.
May 21, 2013
The unusual government decision to publicize the moves of foreign submarines near Japanese territorial waters is not serving as a deterrent as initially hoped for.
May 21, 2013
Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto’s mouth was flapping again on May 20 in defense of his views on “comfort women,” saying even the South Korean military was guilty of using women for sex during wartime.
May 21, 2013
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe raised the bar with Pyongyang on May 20, saying all Japanese believed to have been abducted by North Korea must be repatriated to resolve the long-standing issue.
May 21, 2013
Tourism figures at the world's tallest free-standing broadcasting structure have gone sky-high.
May 21, 2013
Hundreds of residents and evacuees from just outside Fukushima Prefecture say they have been unfairly denied full compensation despite high radiation levels in their area caused by nuclear disaster in 2011.
May 21, 2013
WASHINGTON--President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping will hold their first meeting since Xi became president in March when they sit down for a June 7-8 summit in Rancho Mirage, California, the White House announced on May 20.
May 21, 2013
Mongolian yokozuna Hakuho and Japanese ozeki Kisenosato demolished their opponents to remain unbeaten on the 10th day of the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament at Tokyo's Ryogoku Kokugikan on May 21.
May 21, 2013
WASHINGTON--President Barack Obama told Myanmar's president during a long-awaited White House visit that he appreciates the leader's efforts to lead the Asian country on its long, and sometimes difficult, path to democracy and assured him of U.S. support.
May 21, 2013
WASHINGTON--The Pentagon on May 20 appeared to play down North Korea's six short-range missile launches over the past three days, describing tensions on the Korean peninsula as relatively low.
May 21, 2013
BEIJING--China's Internet is brimming with disclosures of officials collecting bribes, homes and luxury accessories as casually as they do mistresses.
May 21, 2013
What is design? If you have ever pondered that question, the “Design Ah!” Exhibition now showing at 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT facility in the Tokyo Midtown complex in Tokyo's Roppongi district might give you the answer.
May 21, 2013
A fishing vessel from Fukushima Prefecture caught fish in waters south of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant on May 20 to test them for levels of radiation contamination, as local fishing cooperatives hope to soon resume fishing in the area.
May 21, 2013
OSAKA--Engineers say they have created a flood-prevention system that runs on the forces of nature, eliminating the risk to human operators and problems caused by power outages.