The World Heritage Committee of UNESCO on July 6 named as World Heritage sites a collection of 49 tumulus sites in Osaka Prefecture dating back...
Donald Trump met Kim Jong Un at Panmunjom on the military demarcation line in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between the two Koreas on Sunday, June...
Shohei Otani, the designated hitter for the United States Major League team the Los Angeles Angels, hit for the cycle on Thursday, June 13, becoming...
A United Nations human rights representative is questioning freedom of the press in Japan, even while the world body maintains a deafening silence on the...
It is already 30 years since the Tiananmen Massacre of June 4, 1989, during which regular units of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army bloodily suppressed...
Representatives from members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) who spoke at a meeting in late April which adopted a report leaving in place a...
ICT (Information and Communication Technology), including robots, are starting to be utilized in the childcare industry. Increasingly, advanced technology is becoming available that supports...
An historical park is being created in an area which in ancient times is thought to have held the seiden (main palace) and cloisters...
California-based think tank Milken Institute convened the “JAPAN SYMPOSIUM 2019,” an economic forum, in Tokyo on March 25. It was the institute’s first event in...
Toyota Motor Corporation will undertake a program aimed at developing a fuel cell-powered vehicle capable of traveling more than 10,000 kilometers sequentially on the moon’s...
A ceremony marking the 30th anniversary of Emperor Akihito’s accession to the Chrysanthemum Throne took place on Sunday, February 24, under the sponsorship of...
Picture the scene: the freezing cold territory of the north. In a harsh climate stripped of all waste, this is a place where animals...
