Tokyo Broadcasting Television Inc. (TBS) on Jan. 20 said it will scrap a regular TV program featuring Masahiro Nakai, the celebrity entertainer caught up in a sex scandal. “Nakai Masahiro no ...

The reports, which emerged last month, said that Masahiro Nakai, a 52-year-old former member of the hugely popular group SMAP, had paid a woman a lump sum of ¥90mil. That was to settle what most ...

Masahiro Nakai, one of Japan’s biggest boy band stars and a celebrity television host, lost several of his shows on Japanese TV this month following media reports he had paid a large financial ...

Barbara Kingsolver has put royalties from her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel to work in the region it portrayed, starting a home for women in recovery. By Alexandra Alter Whether you're looking ...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Breathing Room” has a highly anticipated new book centered around a wedding. Gail Baines struggles to navigate her relationship with her ex-husband, Max ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. Barbara Kingsolver has put royalties from her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel to work in the region it portrayed, starting a home for ...

A test run of Japan’s first hydrogen hybrid train called Hybari was shown to the media on the JR Tsurumi Line in Kanagawa Prefecture on Feb. 28. The train, which runs on electricity generated ...

Approximately 10 percent of online postings asking for assistance in a recent natural disaster have been determined to be false, according to a government research institute. The reason for those ...

Boyle’s novel “Saint of the Narrows Street” captures the feel of a Brooklyn neighborhood and the characters whose lives are shaped by violence. “I Dream of Joni” by Henry Alford and ...

Astronaut candidates Ayu Yoneda and Makoto Suwa become officially certified as Japan's youngest and oldest astronauts at the time of certification, with the sky being the limit on their future spa ...

A cross-party group of pro-Taiwan Japanese lawmakers announced it will send a delegation to Taiwan for the May 20 inauguration of Lai Ching-te as the island’s new president. The delegation ...

NIIMI, Okayama Prefecture--Mio Hashimoto, 15 years old when the Great Hanshin Earthquake struck, was traumatized when she realized nearly how many lives were lost in her neighborhood in the disaster.