President Barack Obama calls on national security leaders to develop destructive cyberwarfare capabilities that could be triggered with "little or no warning" against global adversaries.

Nippon Ishin lawmaker: Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party) Lower House member Nariaki Nakayama wades into the "comfort women" fray by claiming Korean ...

In the nearly three dozen casinos of Macau, the world's biggest gambling market, there is only one game that matters: baccarat. Almost all of Macau's $38 ...

Nicaragua is trying to revive a centuries-old dream of building an interocean canal, a project experts say could take 11 years to build, cost $40 ...

Jim Morrison famously wrote in the poem "Celebration of the Lizard" that he was "the Lizard King," a name that stuck. So when a paleontologist ...

In 1995, the late University of Illinois professor David G. Goodman observed that when serious disagreements arise between Japanese people and foreigners, the former invariably ...

As the 24th anniversary of the Tiananmen incident passed on June 4, the Chinese leadership under Mr. Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Communist Party ...

Regarding Amy Chavez's June 1 column, "Everyone's own path to enlightenment": Chavez should be ashamed of herself. She is old enough to know that religion produces ...

I read with interest Masaaki Kameda's May 29 article, "Education panel touts more global approach." Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's exhortation that Japanese universities establish super-global ...

I arrive at the inn where I am to stay in Kyoto and lug my bag up the steep stairs to my room. The inn ...

The Atlantic Puffin population in North America is at risk, and there are signs the seabirds are in distress in other parts of the world. In ...

Nihongo Drills for Intermediate Learners: Grammar 
Advance to JLPT level 2 with these essential grammar drills!

"Do what no one has done before," was the rallying cry that Jiro Yoshihara, founder of the postwar Japanese art group the Gutai Art Association, ...

Though everyone is fretting about Japan's economic future, the young people who are destined to become tomorrow's leaders have had little opportunity to share their ...

If you watch the home broadcast for one of Yu Darvish's starts for the Texas Rangers, you will, at some point, hear play-by-play man Steve ...

Takahiro Arai hit a go-ahead two-run homer in the fourth inning, Atsushi Nomi went the distance on one-run ball, and the Hanshin Tigers held on ...

His dramatic and delightful French Open semifinal was 4½ hours old — and 14 games into the fifth set — when Rafael Nadal raced from ...

Robbie Keane celebrated his national record 126th appearance for Ireland by grabbing a hat trick in a 3-0 win over Faeroe Islands in World Cup ...

When young athletes leave their home nation for a bigger challenge, nobody can really halt their overflowing passion and hope. But at times, the athletes ought ...

Italian soccer legend Roberto Baggio has paid tribute to the strides Japan has made under manager Alberto Zaccheroni, but the former FIFA World Player of ...