June 12, 2021
Hong Kongers living in Japan gathered in a park in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo, on Saturday to commemorate the second anniversary of the beginning of the 2019 anti-government protests that rocked China’s semiautonomous territory and to call on the international community to support Hong Kong’s pro-dem...
Tokyo confirmed 467 new cases of the novel coronavirus on Saturday, up 31 from a week earlier. The daily tally was higher than the figure logged on the same day of the previous week for the first time in 30 days. According to the Tokyo metropolitan government, the number of seriously ill COVID-...
Ozeki Asanoyama was slapped with a six-tournament suspension and a six-month pay cut of 50% by the Japan Sumo Association at an extraordinary meeting of its board of directors Friday. The punishment was handed to the ozeki after it came to light that the wrestler had violated the JSA’s anti-cor...
Amid growing concern over unreasonable school rules, the Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Ministry has urged schools and local boards of education to reconsider whether their codes o...
What should the nation’s supreme law be? It can be said that Japan has finally overcome a small hurdle toward a full-scale debate on the Constitution. The revised National Referendum Law was passe...
A general shareholders’ meeting is the most important forum for corporate decision-making. It would be problematic if Toshiba Corp. and the government worked together to distort the operation of the...
Visitors enjoy roughly 2,500 hydrangeas of 40 varieties bringing vivid color to the early summer season at Hasedera temple in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Saturday. This year’s flowers along th...
The approval of a new Alzheimer’s drug by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is a major step in the fight against dementia, but challenges remain for getting it into practical use. The FDA ha...
A security robot has been developed that will fight off intruders by emitting smoke, major security firm Secom Co. announced Thursday. If the AI- and 5G-equipped robot Cocobo encounters anyone suspic...
Saturday marked two months since the start of Japan’s COVID-19 inoculation campaign for people aged 65 and up. According to a Yomiuri Shimbun review of vaccination progress in the nation’s 74 ...
Need a break from the headlines? Here’s your daily dose of humor, curated by The Japan News. New comics are available every day, so ’toon in to both our print and web editions for a satirical l...
The latest in our series of stories related to the COVID-19 pandemic and the vaccination situation in Japan are presented below. Also, clicking on “Latest coronavirus data” will lead to graphics t...
The following series of graphics can help visualize the spread of the novel coronavirus and the vaccination progress in Japan. Also included is a chart comparing global cases as a percentage of popula...
An almost 90-year-old heritage-listed building in Minato Ward, Tokyo, is now being used as a shared office space after renovation work was completed for its conservation. The Hori Building, a natio...
Japanese companies are actively participating in the march toward decarbonization, with moves stepping up to switch the energy needed to run office buildings and shops to renewable sources. Aeon Co...
KOCHI — Is Kochi Castle “the only place where you can capture both an otemon main gate and a castle tower in one picture?” It’s a promotional phrase that people often use on Instagram when ...
KYOTANGO, Kyoto — “I was surprised by how much the French respect silk.” So said Hideyuki Imai, chairman of the Tango Textile Industrial Association. Silk textiles from the Tango region of nor...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Scientist Eiichi Negishi, a winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, died in Indianapolis, Indiana, on Sunday, Purdue University has said. He was 85. Negishi, who was dist...
CARBIS BAY, England (AP) — Group of Seven leaders brought pledges to share vaccine doses and make a fairer global economy Friday to a seaside summit in England, where British Prime Minister Boris J...
CARBIS BAY, England (Reuters) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Friday gave the Tokyo Olympics a show of public support at a meeting with Japan’s Yoshihide Suga and welcomed efforts to en...
K-pop supergroup BTS has achieved another historic milestone, landing at No. 1 on the Billboard’s main singles chart with its latest single, “Butter.” “BTS’ “Butter” bounds in at No. 1 o...
Saima [not her real name], 15, was leading a regular teenage life of this generation, making videos on popular mobile app TikTok, before she was trafficked to India with the promise of a better job. ...
The Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) plans to demand that three major mobile phone carriers review their relationships with mobile phone resellers, claiming that the carriers’ systems of evaluat...
The latest in our series of stories related to the COVID-19 pandemic and the vaccination situation in Japan are presented below. Also, clicking on “Latest coronavirus data” will lead to graphics t...
The following series of graphics can help visualize the spread of the novel coronavirus and the vaccination progress in Japan. Also included is a chart comparing global cases as a percentage of popula...
Need a break from the headlines? Here’s your daily dose of humor, curated by The Japan News. New comics are available every day, so ’toon in to both our print and web editions for a satirical l...
There were no deaths associated with adverse reactions to the COVID-19 vaccine made by U.S.-based Moderna after about 190,000 doses had been administered by June 4, the health ministry has announced. ...
Games-related events in Tokyo are being canceled amid the pandemic, with just over a month to go until the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics. Sumida Ward has decided to cancel the Community L...
The Japanese publisher of the popular U.S. picture book “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” publicly criticized The Mainichi Shimbun after the daily carried a satirical cartoon using the book’s chara...
Local governments are accelerating preparations for vaccinating people under 65 years old against COVID-19. Fourteen of Tokyo’s 23 wards plan to begin their vaccination programs by the end of this m...
A summit meeting of the G7 industrialized nations will be held in Cornwall, southwest England, from Friday to Sunday, marking the first time in two years that their leaders will meet in person. Las...
Shigeru Omi, chairman of the government’s subcommittee on measures against the novel coronavirus, has proposed that Tokyo Games-related public viewing events be canceled. “If public viewings are...
COVID-19 vaccines not only protect individuals, but also help prevent the novel coronavirus from spreading in society as a whole. It is essential to secure medical personnel who can administer vaccine...
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. 
Ana Maricic 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 authori...
Celine Chan Hui Juan 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 governmen...
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...
The fishermen are pleased with the day’s bountiful catch. Even their dog looks happy. Men in the background powerfully haul a fishing boat onto the beach. Amid the bustle of the scene, another man...
To quote “In the Heights” itself, the streets are made of music in the first genuinely cheerful, splashy, exuberantly life-affirming movie of the summer. King Kong might have stomped his way back...
