March 30, 2021
The first Michi-no-Eki, a roadside rest area, opened 30 years ago this October, as an experiment in Yamaguchi Prefecture. As of July 2020, 1,180 Michi-no-Eki facilities exist. Michi-no-Eki facilities are established by local governments and other entities and are registered by the Land, Infrastruct...
When teachers are removed from their posts due to misconduct, not only their names but also the reasons for their termination will be made public in an official government gazette starting April 1, in a move by the Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Ministry that aims to bolster pro...
Tokyo confirmed 234 new cases of coronavirus infection on Monday, marking the 10th consecutive day that the daily figure has exceeded the number from the same day in the previous week. The number of COVID-19 patients with serious symptoms in the capital decreased by one to 40. The average daily ...
Sophia University in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, began holding belated entrance ceremonies on Monday for students who entered as freshmen in 2020. The attendees, who will be sophomores from April, were to ...
UTSUNOMIYA — When Miyoko Kuboniwa, 73, finished her leg of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic torch relay in Motegi, Tochigi Prefecture, on Sunday, a torchbearer from the 1964 Tokyo Olympic torch relay was wait...
This is the fourth installment in a series reviewing the first six months of Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s administration. The approval rating of the Cabinet led by Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga...
The global rush toward technologies such as electric vehicles and the fuel cells that power them is pushing Japan to establish a domestic hub to recycle rare metals needed to create such rechargeable ...
The number of people infected with the novel coronavirus in areas far from Japan’s major metropolitan centers has been increasing rapidly since mid-March. Miyagi, Yamagata, Ehime and other local gov...
A new memorial park opened Sunday in the Minamihama district of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, which was decimated in the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, and townspeople visited to offer prayers to...
The international community is using sanctions to heighten pressure on China over its repression of the Uighur minority. China has a responsibility to allow an independent investigation and clarify t...
Some people in the field of education have voiced concerns about the digitization of textbooks. Before work is accelerated to spread the use of digital textbooks, efforts must be made to dispel these...
Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers have launched a group aiming for a change in the law that would allow married couples to use different surnames, but another LDP parliamentary group that is expected...
Sony’s prototype electric car, the VISION-S, was publicly unveiled in Japan for the first time on Sunday at the EV: Life Futakotamagawa event held in Setagaya Ward, Tokyo. Equipped with Sony’s ...
The Japan News print edition will be featuring new and additional content for our readers. A new series called Vantage Point will appear on select weekends featuring interviews of expatriates in Jap...
The novel coronavirus pandemic has buffeted railway companies, as more people work from home rather than commute to the office on trains. In an interview with The Yomiuri Shimbun, Tokyo Metro Co. Pre...
Keep track of the coronavirus epidemic as it unfolds in Japan. Relevant stories and graphics appear below covering events up to and including the current state of emergency and the future outlook. ...
The following charts give a visual representation of the spread of the novel coronavirus in Japan and around the world. The first shows the extensiveness of cases in relation to a nation’s populatio...
Satoshi Dobara, 61, a Japanese painter living in Florence, is seeking information about children’s drawings and calligraphy presented by Empress Teimei, the wife of Emperor Taisho, to the Italian q...
It has come a little earlier than usual this year, but now is the season to view a phenomenon in which chunks of snow float on the surface of the reservoir of the Aburumagawa Dam in Uonuma, Niigata Pr...
Izakaya pub chain outlets have been closing at an accelerated pace amid the prolonged coronavirus crisis, with 12.5% fewer of the Japanese-style pubs open at the end of 2020 than a year earlier. Alth...
A museum dedicated to Odakyu Electric Railway Co.’s much-loved Romancecar express train is scheduled to open in Ebina, Kanagawa Prefecture, on April 19. Located near Ebina Station on the Odakyu Line...
Japan Airlines flight attendants will be hired as temporary employees of the government of Edogawa Ward, Tokyo, in April, as the airline has been affected by passenger numbers declining due to the ou...
Call it the ultimate bonus. Aiming just for enough wins to earn promotion back to ozeki, sekiwake Terunofuji not only achieved that, but walked off with his third career tournament title as well. ...
Keep track of the coronavirus epidemic as it unfolds in Japan. Relevant stories and graphics appear below covering events up to and including the current state of emergency and the future outlook. ...
The following charts give a visual representation of the spread of the novel coronavirus in Japan and around the world. The first shows the extensiveness of cases in relation to a nation’s populatio...
Sony’s prototype electric car, the VISION-S, was publicly unveiled in Japan for the first time on Sunday at the EV: Life Futakotamagawa event held in Setagaya Ward, Tokyo. Equipped with Sony’s ...
OSAKA — The Osaka District Court handed down a ruling in February saying it was not illegal for a high school to regulate its students’ hair, in a damages suit brought by a 21-year-old former stud...
Major telecommunications companies are making efforts to use “flying base stations” in the sky to send and receive the radio waves that are needed to support cell phones on the ground below. W...
The global coronavirus pandemic has changed the way diplomacy is conducted. With cross-border travel restricted, world leaders are increasingly using telephone conversations for communication, instea...
YONAGUNI, Okinawa — To this westernmost point of territorial Japan, a Ground Self-Defense Force detachment was deployed on March 28, 2016, and has been stationed on the west of Yonagunijima island ...
The global rush toward technologies such as electric vehicles and the fuel cells that power them is pushing Japan to establish a domestic hub to recycle rare metals needed to create such rechargeable ...
Fever, sore arms and other side effects of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine have been reported at a markedly higher rate for the second dose than the first, according to interim survey results presented o...
HATSUKAICHI, Hiroshima — Millions of people from all corners of the globe have traveled to Miyajima Island in Hiroshima Prefecture to stand in awe at Itsukushima Shrine’s picture-perfect 16.6 mete...
The Japan News has partnered with media startup inkl, a news service that curates articles from the world’s leading publishers for users to read on mobile devices. A selection of articles from The Japan News and The Yomiuri Shimbun is now available to read on inkl, which hosts titles from about 20 countries. 
Gwendolen Jones shares her experiences as participant of the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Programme, which is administered through the collaboration of Japan’s local and national government aut...
Jenny Nash shares her experiences as participant of the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Programme, which is administered through the collaboration of Japan’s local and national government authorit...
Leilani Rapaport shares her experiences as participant of the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Programme, which is administered through the collaboration of Japan’s local and national government au...
Japanese-born British writer Kazuo Ishiguro’s latest novel “Klara and the Sun” was released on March 2. This is his first novel since he was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature. A Japanes...
Art Fair Tokyo 2021, one of the largest art fairs in Japan, attracted nearly 41,000 visitors during its four-day run this month and gave the domestic art industry a much-needed boost following a tough...
An interest in pets has been on the rise as people tend to stay home amid the coronavirus pandemic. Among all the various types of pets, cats have remained the most popular nationwide since the numbe...
