The Samurai Blue have highest chances to progress to World Cup

Japan’s national soccer team has the best chances to progress from group stage at World Cup, as they have been Read more ...

Author: Tokyo Times 19 hours ago

Japan creates world’s thinnest condoms

A group of Japanese scientists claim to have created the thinnest condoms in the world, which measure 0.01 millimeters – Read more ...

Author: Tokyo Times 19 hours ago

Japan is not spending enough on child abuse – study

Japan had to pay around Y1.6 trillion ($15.7 billion) in fiscal 2012 as indirect costs assigned to child abuse, according Read more ...

Author: Tokyo Times 19 hours ago

Japan secretly sends whaling vessels for annual hunt

One surveillance ship and two whaling vessels were sent by Japan on Saturday to the Antarctic Sea for the annual Read more ...

Author: Tokyo Times 1 day ago

Yoko Ono fights against childhood hunger, inspired by own experience

Yoko Ono supports WhyHunger’s “Imagine There’s No Hunger” campaign to fight childhood hunger around the world and says that was Read more ...

Author: Tokyo Times 4 days ago

Abe approves $182 billion package to pull Japan out of deflation

On Thursday, Shinzo Abe’s cabinet voted for a $182 billion package to shrink the deflation in Japan. However, there are Read more ...

Author: Tokyo Times 4 days ago

Bruno Mars includes Japan in new tour

Grammy award-winning singer Bruno Mars will include Japan, together with other Asian countries such as Singapore, Taiwan and the Philippines, Read more ...

Author: Tokyo Times 4 days ago

New action movie based on manga series “Attack on Titan”

Manga series “Attack on Titan”, written and illustrated by Japanese manga artist Hajime Isayama, will inspire a live-action movie adaptation. “Attack Read more ...

Author: Tokyo Times 4 days ago

Japanese cuisine is now officially added to UNESCO list

Japanese cuisine was nominated to enter the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List in October, and now it is official: “washoku”, Read more ...

Author: Tokyo Times 4 days ago

2011 quake in Japan left ‘scar’ on Earth’s gravity

GOCE, a European satellite collecting data about the Earth’s gravity has shown that the violent 9.0 earthquake that hit Japan Read more ...

Author: Tokyo Times 4 days ago