A public health center in the city of Niigata has launched one of Japan's first drive-thru clinics to test for COVID-19 amid growing demand for tests of the deadly virus. The drive-thru clinic, which was launched this month and comes after South Korea won plaudits ...
A major cultural and technological complex to be built near Tokyo's Haneda airport has a name: Haneda Innovation City, or HICity for short. Haneda Future Development Co. announced plans in May 2018 for the complex, which will be located near the airport's international terminal. Some ...
The National Public Safety Commission says it “tightened” its approach toward dangerous driving in January 2018.
Fuji Television Network has apologized to families of the victims of the July 18 arson attack on a Kyoto Animation studio after misquoting a friend of anime director Yasuhiro Takemoto, who died in the blaze, as saying "there was no idiot like him" during ...
When Foreign Minister Taro Kono wrote on Twitter that he would order his ministry to look into the contentious issue of maiden names on passports in response to a tweet in early June, he may not have been aware of the minefield he was ...
The annual milestone came 30 days later than last year, and temperatures will likely start rising to dangerous highs.
Some 60 percent of mothers with children who attend elementary school are worried about being able to give them proper meals during the summer vacation, according to a survey by Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. The survey, which polled 400 mothers during June and July, found that ...
Sony Corp. opened an exhibition Monday in Tokyo's bustling Ginza district to mark the 40th anniversary of its signature Walkman. The handheld audio player debuted on July 1, 1979, offering portable music to ears across the world. In the years that followed, over 400 million ...
The Yoshida trail, the most popular of the four routes taken to climb Mount Fuji, will open Monday for the climbing season, but climbers using the trail won't yet be able to reach the summit. The route is still blocked by a rock-slide caused by ...
Well-dressed and sporting jackets and white gloves, Japanese taxi drivers chauffeur locals and tourists to their destinations in comfortable, air-conditioned cars with doors that open automatically. But comfort comes at a steep price: Japan has the second-highest taxi fares in the world. According to research commissioned ...
