August 18, 2019
The organizing committee of the Rugby World Cup in Japan, which will start on Sept. 20, and the international governing body World Rugby have compiled an emergency response plan for cases in which it is judged impossible to hold matches due to typhoons or earthquakes, according to sources. In pri...
The government has tightened the criteria on bidding for security-related research and study projects and other contracts that handle confidential information in order to screen out companies that could possibly channel such intelligence to foreign countries, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned. Wit...
Temperatures rose Saturday mainly in the Kanto region from the morning, as Typhoon No. 10 brought in warm air from the south. The heat wave is expected to continue for a week or so, increasing the danger of heatstroke after the Bon holiday period. According to the Meteorological Agency, the temper...
LAMPEDUSA, Italy (Reuters) — A charity rescue ship carrying 134 migrants, mostly Africans, was stranded off the coast of Italy on Friday as a political battle in Rome stopped it from docking and ev...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Hundreds of Google employees are calling on the company to pledge it won’t work with U.S. Customs and Border Protection or Immigration and Customs Enforcement. It’s the lat...
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump is warning of an economic crash if he loses reelection, arguing that even voters who personally dislike him should base their ballots on the nation’s ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) — New York City’s chief medical examiner determined on Friday that suicide by hanging was the cause of death for financier Jeffrey Epstein, whose body was found six days ago in...
WASHINGTON/JERUSALEM (Reuters) — U.S. congresswoman Rashida Tlaib on Friday rejected an offer by Israel to let her travel to the West Bank, the latest twist in a dispute drawing U.S. President Dona...
GIBRALTAR (AP) — The captain of an Iranian supertanker at the center of a diplomatic standoff no longer wants to keep command of the ship, which is in need of repairs that could impede its immediate...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) — Oscar nominated actor Peter Fonda, who played a cool and introspective motorcyclist in the 1969 film “Easy Rider” that captured the spirit of the era’s counterculture ...
HONG KONG (Reuters) — Several thousand Hong Kong schoolteachers and supporters braved thunderstorms on Saturday to start a weekend of anti-government protests, despite fears that police could adopt...
NEW DELHI (AP) — Authorities in Indian-administered Kashmir began restoring landline phone services on Saturday after a nearly two-week security crackdown and news blackout following a decision to ...
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) — Ratings agencies Fitch and Standard & Poor’s downgraded Argentina’s sovereign debt rating on Friday, flagging higher chances of a default in the wake of a shock primary...
SEOUL (AP) — North Korea on Saturday said leader Kim Jong Un supervised another test-firing of an unspecified new weapon, seen as an attempt to pressure Washington and Seoul over slow nuclear negot...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — One of the two government planes that were decommissioned in March has been put up for sale on an online market for used aircraft at $28 million. On the Controller website are...
TOKYO (Reuters) — High levels of E.coli bacteria forced Tokyo officials to cancel the swimming segment of Saturday’s Paratriathlon World Cup, a test event for next year’s Paralympics. The hea...
SINGAPORE/WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The U.S. Commerce Department is expected to extend a reprieve given to Huawei Technologies that permits the Chinese firm to buy supplies from U.S. companies so that...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The Japanese, Chinese and South Korean foreign ministers will hold a meeting in China on Wednesday, the Foreign Ministry announced on Friday. They are expected to discuss mai...
SEOUL (Jiji Press) — South Korea’s Environment Ministry said Friday it will tighten radiation checks on imports of waste plastics, tires and batteries from Japan. The move comes after the minis...
Languages less familiar to the Japanese are also learned at some high schools. “What do you do?” “Where do you work?” In late June, Vietnamese phrases were heard at the private Kanto Internat...
TASIILAQ, Greenland (AP) — Greenlanders are giving Donald Trump the cold shoulder. Although amused, they’re definitely not warming up to the U.S. president’s talk of buying the semiautonomous...
NEW YORK (AP) — Aaron Judge was happy with his first multihit game in nearly two weeks, but it was a defensive gem by teammate Brett Gardner that had the right fielder buzzing. In a game with a p...
The city of Saijo in Ehime Prefecture faces the Seto Inland Sea to the north and Mt. Ishizuchi, the tallest mountain in western Japan, to the south. Here, 87-year-old Setsuko Saeki has lived with a ro...
The Japan-made K supercomputer, one of the world’s top supercomputers, which has been in operation for eight years at the RIKEN Center for Computational Science in Kobe, was ending its role Friday. ...
The Emperor used the words “deep remorse” during his address at a national memorial service held Thursday in Tokyo to mark the 74th anniversary of the end of World War II. The Emperor, who ascen...
JR Hiroshima Station is nearly empty Thursday with few people passing by, as all trains scheduled to arrive at and depart from the station were suspended for the whole day due to Typhoon No. 10, which...
With Thursday marking the 74th anniversary of the end of World War II, the number of people who experienced the tragedies of the war has been declining year by year. Amid this situation, a 94-year-ol...
HONG KONG (Reuters) — China’s Hong Kong Liaison office said on Wednesday that anti-government protesters were no different to “terrorists,” as U.S. President Donald Trump said Chinese troops w...
OSAKA (Jiji Press) — An increasing number of Japanese companies are working to improve the quality of sleep of their workers, with some seeking business opportunities from “sleep technologies” ...
Remember the film “The Bodyguard,” the blockbuster movie starring Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner? It was turned into a musical in London, and it’s coming to Japan in September. “And I —...
More than 10 percent of high schools in Japan are offering foreign language classes other than English, with the number increasing as globalization progresses. With less than a year remaining until th...
The Emperor showed his determination to pass down the memories of World War II at the memorial service for the war dead held on Thursday, occasionally using his own words in his speech but mainly foll...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met with top officials at the Prime Minister’s Office on Thursday to discuss Japan’s response to a U.S.-led maritime security mission aimed at ensuring security mainly i...
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. 
As one of the measures to strengthen the national soccer team ahead of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, German coach Dettmar Cramer was invited to Japan. He must have studied the traditional culture of Japan,...
Southampton may be known for Japanese football player Maya Yoshida, who plays for Southampton FC, or for its famous port where the RMS Titanic departed before sinking. The reason why I am studying he...
We were six large bodies crammed inside a five-seat sedan, laughing even as our hearts fluttered at the sudden braking and inconsistent lane-crossing the driver, our classmate, undertook to get throu...
Remember the film “The Bodyguard,” the blockbuster movie starring Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner? It was turned into a musical in London, and it’s coming to Japan in September. “And I —...
LOS ANGELES (AFP-Jiji) —The release of a film criticized by conservatives as portraying a group of liberals hunting supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump has been indefinitely postponed, Univers...
Young people today hate to carry things. They prefer going out empty-handed if possible. Middle-aged or elderly people will likely think, alright, this jacket has a lot of pockets, so you can put y...
