The Japan Times

16/08/2025

"Rather than being killed and swarmed by flies, let's throw ourselves into the sea," Mitsuko Arakaki recalls her grandmother saying at the height of the fighting on Tinian Island during World War II.

16/08/2025

Young volunteers and experts are racing against time to recover the remains of Japanese soldiers who died during World War II, most of them abroad.

16/08/2025

"Japan is our neighbor across the sea as well as an indispensable partner in our economic development,” South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said said at a ceremony on Friday to mark the 80th anniversary of liberation.

The South Korean president has spoken harshly of Japan in the past, declaring in 2016 that 'Japan is an enemy country.”

16/08/2025

"Even amid all the uncertainty surrounding U.S. tariffs, business investment has also been growing steadily,” one economist said.

Better-than-expected economic growth gives Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba some good news as he fends off calls to resign after July's election setback.

16/08/2025

Japan’s brokerage industry is aiming to identify accounts owned by phishing scammers after fraudulent trades worth more than $4 billion rattled the nation’s stock market.

Criminals started hijacking online brokerage accounts in Japan and using them to drive up penny stocks around the world earlier this year.

15/08/2025

U.S. President Donald Trump said that he and Russian leader Vladimir Putin did not reach a deal to resolve the war in Ukraine after a nearly three-hour summit in Alaska, though he called the meeting "very productive."

The highly-choreographed spectacle saw the U.S. president greet Putin on American soil for their first face-to-face meeting of Trump’s second term.

15/08/2025

A Japanese woman and an American man whose grandfathers experienced the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki from opposite sides have forged an unlikely collaboration to publish a book calling for a world free of nuclear weapons.

15/08/2025

The deaths of two young Japanese boxers from fatal brain injuries suffered in the ring on the same night have cast a spotlight on the importance of emergency action plans.

15/08/2025

When did World War II end? A recent survey has found that 1 in 4 Japanese don’t know.

15/08/2025

A hiker in his 20s who went missing after a brown bear attacked him while he was descending a mountain in eastern Hokkaido has been found dead.

The man, in his 20s, went missing after a brown bear attacked him while he was descending a mountain in eastern Hokkaido on Thursday.

15/08/2025

Japanese authorities made their biggest drug bust ever after they found roughly a metric ton of dried cannabis — worth about ¥5.2 billion ($35.2 million) — in a ship from Vietnam that docked at a Tokyo pier in June.

15/08/2025

As attention spans get shorter, a Japanese startup is banking on short films as easily digestible entertainment.