March 20, 2014
A Tokyo-based railway consulting company illegally paid about ¥100 million in kickbacks to civil servants and others of three countries, including Vietnam, from 2008 to 2012 in return for orders for official development assistance projects, which totaled about ¥6 billion, The Yomiuri Shimbun has ...
SEVASTOPOL, Crimea (AP) — Surrendering to Russia’s inexorable seizure of Crimea, Ukraine announced plans Wednesday for mass troop withdrawals from the strategic peninsula as Moscow-loyal forces seized control of Kiev’s naval headquarters here and detained its commander. Attempting to face d...
GENEVA—The dark matter mystery is the next challenge for the Large Hadron Collider, the European Organization for Nuclear Research’s particle accelerator in the suburbs of Geneva, which was open to the Japanese media on Tuesday. The LHC is used in experiments in which powerful electromagnets a...
Ten people have been arrested on suspicion of organizing illegal gambling at a location in Shibuya, Tokyo, rented under the name of the incumbent Ghanaian ambassador, the Metropolitan Police Departme...
Female giant panda Shin Shin makes her first public appearance in 14 days at Tokyo’s Ueno Zoo. The zoo stopped Shin Shin and her male partner Ri Ri from making public appearances on March 6, when th...
WASHINGTON—Following are excerpts from an interview with Fiona Hill, Director, Center on the United States and Europe, Brookings Institution, Washington D.C. Putin has a very different worldview. ...
WASHINGTON (AP)—The National Security Agency has been recording all of a foreign country’s phone calls, then listening to the conversations up to a month later, The Washington Post reported Tuesd...
Real estate investment, boosted by the business recovery and the Bank of Japan’s monetary easing policy, coupled with Tokyo’s hosting of the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, have led to the firs...
This is the seventh installment in a series on the worsening relations between Japan and China. On Dec. 5 last year, a dangerous incident erupted in the South China Sea between the USS Cowpens, a...
WASHINGTON—Here is what Democrats should learn from their party’s loss in a special House election in Florida last week: Wishy-washy won’t work. Republicans are obviously going to make oppositi...
Mark Zuckerberg is angry that the National Security Agency is violating Facebook users’ privacy, which is a bit like the Silicon Valley equivalent of “Get your government hands off my Medicare.”...
Japan logged a customs-cleared trade deficit of ¥800.3 billion in February, the 20th consecutive monthly deficit, the Finance Ministry said Wednesday. Marking the biggest deficit for February on re...
CAIRO (AP)—An Egyptian court on Tuesday convicted four police officers in the deaths of 37 detainees, most of them supporters of the ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, who suffocated in a po...
VIENNA (AP)—Iran and six world powers focused Tuesday on what an EU official called the “nitty-gritty” of a deal meant to curb Tehran’s nuclear program and end sanctions on the Islamic Republ...
Lawson Inc. plans to promote Chief Operating Officer Genichi Tamatsuka, 51, to president and chief executive officer of the major convenience store chain operator on May 1, sources said Wednesday. C...
WASHINGTON—In the weeks since the Ukraine crisis began, culminating in Tuesday’s decision by Russia to annex Crimea, President Vladimir Putin has ignored every gauntlet the United States and its ...
MOSCOW (AP)—Russian President Vladimir Putin made his case for taking Crimea back from Ukraine and explained his decision to defy the West despite the threat of sanctions. He also spoke to concerns...
Japan Display Inc., a major manufacturer of small and midsize liquid crystal display panels used in smartphones, made a weak debut on the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s First Section on Wednesday. The fir...
NEW YORK (Jiji Press)—Fast Retailing Co., the operator of Uniqlo casual clothing stores, has abandoned talks to buy U.S. rival J. Crew Group Inc., The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. Fast Re...
WASHINGTON (Jiji Press)—U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman said Tuesday that there is no deadline for Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade negotiations among Japan, the United States and 10 o...
As of the end of January, at least 97 people affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 11, 2011, had died unattended in temporary housing units in disaster-hit Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima p...
The key Nikkei stock average gained ground on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Wednesday on late futures-led buying backed by the yen’s weakness. The 225-issue Nikkei average closed up 51.25 points, or...
WASHINGTON (AP)—Fourteen men were charged with operating an online child exploitation network that investigators said preyed upon hundreds of boys across the United States and overseas, authorities...
A powerful earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 6.2 jolted wide areas in the west of the nation early Friday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The quake, which struck at about 2:06 a.m., ...
Today, many Japanese entertainers have multiple skills to add value to their profession. For Ayaka Wada, a member of teenage pop idol group S/mileage, art is her favorite subject, regardless of whethe...
Senior RIKEN officials bowed deeply during a Tokyo press conference Friday to apologize for the fact research articles about stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency (STAP) cells were written i...
Japan was seen as an international leader in the field of art in the 18th and 19th centuries—the middle of the Edo period (1603-1867)—when ukiyo-e artists produced numerous masterpieces. This was ...
OSAKA—The recent confusion regarding articles published by scientific journal Nature on stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency (STAP) cells may cause adverse effects on Japan’s studies of...
When Daisuke Takahashi arrived in Sochi on Sunday, determined to deliver his best performance at the Olympic Games, his parents were back in his hometown of Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, planning to...
Japan and China, two East Asian regional powers, have been unable to hold summit talks since they started feuding with each other over the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea. Japan’s relations...
SOCHI (Jiji-Japan News)—Gold medalist Yuzuru Hanyu has given his exhibition program at the Sochi Olympics a theme: resurgence. The 19-year-old, who made history by becoming the first Japanese mal...
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A few months ago I was on a business trip to Canada with some colleagues, and we ended up being invited to have dinner at a nice Italian restaurant with a friendly and engaging professor, whom I’ll ...
SENDAI—Clad in a brand-new, dark blue uniform, Iroha Ishikawa, 3, slipped past her mother who was trying to take a photo of her daughter with her smartphone, jumping around in front of the hina doll...
With his innovative presentation techniques, and a keen eye for beauty and political themes within daily life, German artist Wolfgang Tillmans has broadened the boundaries of photographic expression. ...
The Japan News has renewed its pages from the March 1 issue. The above is the new weekly schedule of main sections and articles in our print editions.
The Japan News is like no other English-language newspaper. Published by The Yomiuri Shimbun, the largest-circulation newspaper in the world, The Japan News is plugged into an extensive national and i...