Month: January 2023

Prosecutors in Sapporo have indicted a 67-year-old man who set fire to a two-floor apartment building for homeless people, in which he also lived, killing two people, last September, Hokkaido ... ( read original story ...)

Cutting-edge technology is helping food chains reach the holy grail of flawless, contactless, low-budget dining ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's Ryoyu Kobayashi won his second ski jumping World Cup event of the season and 29th overall on home snow Sunday, scoring a co ... ( read original story ...)

On the eve of the Chinese Lunar New Year, the iconic Tokyo Tower in the Japanese capital was lit in red to celebrate the traditional festival. In its fifth run this year, the special illumination ... ( read original story ...)

It was a vintage performance from the 30th seed, a two-time Grand Slam finalist. She sent down six aces and lost just 11 points in her nine service games and, on this form, must be rated a danger to a ... ( read original story ...)

Parks' Nagoya Diamond Dolphins highlighted an otherwise difficult game day with a 90-71 win over the Ibaraki Robots at the Kamisu Disaster Prevention Arena. ( read original story ...)

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Sunday that he would take the April economic situation into account when choosing the next Bank of Japan (BOJ) governor, keeping markets guessing who may ... ( read original story ...)

While most parts of the first urban park in this northern Japan city that opened in the Meiji era (1868-1912) have since been turned into r ... ( read original story ...)

Hato is restarting its foreign-language bus tours after nearly three years, anticipating a rebound in overseas tourists. With Lunar New Year approaching, the company begins with a route around the ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is considering visiting Kyiv in February and holding talks with Ukraine's President Volodomyr Zelenskiy, the Yomiuri newspaper said, citing Japanese government ... ( read original story ...)

The drama of I am boat racer, while fictional, centres on the very real realm of a sport that is one of a strictly limited handful on which gambling is legal in Japan — others include horseracing, ... ( read original story ...)

A descendant of Commodore Matthew C. Perry of “Black Ships” fame visited a distant island south of Tokyo carrying a pocket watch that the U.S. naval officer had with him when he dropped anchor there ... ( read original story ...)

Japan scored their third win Saturday in the World Pastry Cup, seeing off France and Italy, at Sirha, the plum event for catering and hotel professionals.Feted French pastry chef and chocolatier ... ( read original story ...)