A 22-year-old professional wrestler with bubble gum pink hair was reportedly found dead in her apartment on May 23, with a suicide note addressed to her...
On May 23, Hana Kimura, a member of the cast for the Fuji Television series Terrace House distributed by Netflix, was found dead in her Tokyo...
Major League Baseball is coming back. After contentious negotiations between the owners and the Major League Baseball Players Association led to an impasse...
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has precipitated a decoupling movement, as states try to disentangle their supply chains and political commitments from an increasingly...
On the evening of June 16, North Korea blew up the Inter-Korean Joint Liaison Office in the city of Kaesong near its border with South...
The Japan Football Association on Monday pulled out of the running for the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup, three days before the scheduled announcement. ...
In these turbulent times, nothing seems certain. But a sense of normalcy returned to Nippon Professional Baseball and this baseball-crazed nation on Friday, aka Opening Day....
There is no sign of the prevalent novel coronavirus infections letting up in India as of the end of May. Nevertheless, India’s central government has...
A slogan which many have been sharing in Japan on SNS and mainstream media is “Corona ni makeruna!” It roughly translates as “Don’t let yourself...
At one time shipbuilders in Japan accounted for around half of all new ships built in the world. However, from the 1990s the...
The global spread of the coronavirus has raised urgent concerns over the pharmaceutical sector’s excessive dependence on China. China produces many of the active...
The prestigious Præmium Imperiale award, which recognizes the achievements of artists from all over the world, will officially not be held in 2020. The...