Just before 11am on August 9, 1945, Yoshiro Yamawaki, 11, and his twin brother said farewell to their father, an engineer, as he went off to work. They were sitting on the veranda of their house ...

NAGASAKI--Yoshiro Yamawaki, a rare voice among hibakusha because he made a point of learning English in his later years to get his message across to a wider audience, has died at the age of 88 ...

Japanese women used Yoshiro Mori’s own sexist words against him and quickly generated a wave of protest against the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee chief and misogyny in society. The hashtag ...

The fund-raising campaign was launched in May this year, asking for donations of 5,000 yen ($34.80) or more to a bank account named, “Mori Yoshiro sensei honor project.” The donor drive is not ...

Yoshiro Mori, 83, was quoted as saying women talk too much and that meetings with many female board directors would "take a lot of time". The remarks set off a firestorm of protest and Mr Mori ...

Prosecutors have interviewed Yoshiro Mori, former chief of the Tokyo Olympics organizing committee, three times in connection with a bribery scandal involving sponsors for the Games, investigative ...

So it was, literally, a 10,000 steps meter. The device was an early pedometer, based on the work of Dr Yoshiro Hatano, a young academic at Kyushu University of Health and Welfare. Dr Hatano was ...

Hashimoto, 56, takes over from former prime minister Yoshiro Mori, who resigned amid a furore over comments criticized as being sexist. At a news conference on Thursday, she vowed to prioritize pe ...

Yoshiro Mori will resign as head of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee following a week of widespread criticism over his sexist remarks, several sources said on Feb. 11. Although Mori ...

Seiwa Seisaku Kenkyukai, or the Abe faction, the largest in the LDP, has produced four prime ministers since 2000—Yoshiro Mori, Junichiro Koizumi, Abe and Yasuo Fukuda. But it was exposed that ...

Yoshiro Mori, chief of the Tokyo Olympics organizing committee, has come under fire for saying that “competitive” women prolong meetings with their need to talk. Mori made the remarks Feb. 3 ...