Tag: Tokyo

TOKYO: Japan's famously diligent workers spend more hours at the office than employees in almost any other country. But to avoid traffic chaos at...

TOKYO: Japanese prosecutors Thursday re-arrested Carlos Ghosn on fresh allegations of financial misconduct, as the former auto tycoon slammed an "outrageous and arbitrary" detention and...

TOKYO: Tokyo is trying to verify if a drawing of a rat holding an umbrella that has been sprayed near a monorail station is...

TOKYO: Amid concerns about the 2026 Winter Games bidding process, a legal case hanging over a powerful International Olympic Committee member and lingering questions...

TOKYO: Italian Camila Giorgi dashed Caroline Wozniacki's hopes of a winning a third consecutive Pan Pacific Open title with a stunning ambush of the...

TOKYO: A medical school in Japan's capital has for years altered the admission test results of female applicants to keep the number of women...

TOKYO: A fire broke out at an office building under construction in Tokyo's western suburbs on Thursday, killing at least four people and injuring...

Ben Lecomte dived into the Pacific Ocean Tuesday, kicking off an epic quest to swim 9,000 kilometres (5,600 miles) from Tokyo to San Francisco,...

TOKYO: Across Japan’s capital, delicate pink and white cherry blossoms are emerging, but the famed blooms are facing a potentially mortal enemy, experts say:...

TOKYO: Fasten your seatbelts for a flight departing to Paris, and never leave the ground. That’s exactly what 12 passengers did at First Airlines in...

TOKYO: Tokyo 2020 organisers Friday unveiled a "significant" cut in their budget for hosting the games, as the city comes under pressure to keep...

A flame from the 1964 Tokyo Olympic torch that was supposed to be kept alight eternally actually went out four years ago, it emerged...

TOKYO: A district court in Fukushima prefecture on Tuesday ruled that Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) and the Japanese government are liable for damages in...

TOKYO: Newly crowned world number one Garbine Muguruza trounced France's Caroline Garcia 6-2, 6-4 on Friday to reach the semi-finals of the Pan Pacific...

Veteran politician Yuriko Koike was elected on Sunday as Tokyo’s first woman governor, partial results showed, and immediately vowed to get a grip on...

  Japan’s economy slipped into recession for the second time since Prime Minister Shinzo Abe came to power nearly three years ago, data showed Monday,...

TOKYO: Honda Motor Co., the Japanese automaker at the center of an air-bag defect scandal, says its president Takanobu Ito will step aside. The decision follows...