June 21, 2021
Ammonia is expected to become a next-generation fuel that will be a boon for the global trend of decarbonization, with the shipping industry also pinning its hopes on this commodity. Emitting no carbon dioxide when burned, ammonia’s use as fuel for thermal power plants is expected to expand. The...
The state of emergency declared to counter the novel coronavirus ended on Sunday in nine prefectures, of which seven — Hokkaido, Tokyo, Aichi, Kyoto, Osaka, Hyogo and Fukuoka — shifted to priority measures on Monday. According to an analysis by the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Scie...
NARA — Donning special protective gear, a daughter was reunited with her centenarian father for Father’s Day on Sunday at a special nursing care facility in Nara. In-person visits have been suspended at the Heijoen home for the elderly since December due to the pandemic, with only online meeti...
HONG KONG (Reuters) — Hong Kong pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily will be forced to shut “in a matter of days” after authorities froze the company’s assets under a national security law, an...
The central and local governments have accelerated their efforts to make tax payments cashless. Measures appropriate to the current situation are needed to prevent a hasty shift from causing confusio...
The Myanmar junta that took power in a coup is continuing to make its rule an established fact. Failure to intervene on the part of the international community is tantamount to consenting to the curr...
Leading automakers are ramping up efforts to overcome one of the biggest current roadblocks to the full electrification of vehicles — a steady supply of lithium-ion batteries. As more decarboniza...
The United States said on Sunday it saw as an “interesting signal” North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s comments that he is ready for “dialogue and confrontation,” but added that Washington wa...
This year marks 25 years since the introduction of the system of combining single-seat constituencies and proportional representation in House of Representatives elections. Has this made Japanese pol...
The Financial Services Agency aims to issue a business improvement order to Mizuho Financial Group, Inc., possibly within this month, over the computer system failures it suffered in February and Mar...
A local movie theater in Ome, Tokyo, the city’s first in 50 years, opened its doors on June 4 after the easing of government requests for the closure of theaters and museums in the face of the coron...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. President Joe Biden will meet at the White House with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and the chairman of Afghanistan’s High Council for National Reconciliation Abdullah...
SEOUL (Reuters) — The United States’ new top envoy for North Korea was scheduled to meet counterparts from South Korea and Japan during a visit to Seoul on Monday, amid an impasse in denuclearisa...
MOSCOW (Reuters) — Armenia’s acting prime minister, Nikol Pashinyan, claimed victory in a parliamentary election on Sunday after his Civil Contract party took an early lead as votes were counted....
Meng Tao had long been leading his team in the research and development of gearboxes and other highly precise industrial machine tools at Kofon Motion Group, a company based in Huanggang, Hubei Provin...
South Korea said on June 9 it will accelerate travel bubble talks with the likes of Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand to allow quarantine-free package tours for those who are fully vaccinated from as ear...
More than 20,000 workers in the Sunsari-Morang industrial corridor were laid off after almost half of the factories shuttered amid the lockdown. The prohibitory orders have lasted more than four weeks...
TOKYO (Reuters) — Organizers of the Tokyo Olympics opened the athletes’ village to the media on Sunday, showing off apartments and a timber-laced shopping plaza where 11,000 athletes would stay a...
The Olympic torch relay continues along its difficult road, recently entering its 40th prefecture — Miyagi, an area severely battered by the Great East Japan Earthquake. As a result of the pandemi...
Measures against the novel coronavirus were relaxed Monday in Tokyo and eight other prefectures as the state of emergency issued in those areas ended Sunday. Seven of the nine prefectures — Hokka...
The Tokyo metropolitan government is considering canceling the Olympic torch relay on some public roads because emergency-level priority measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus will be in e...
Riding the train is likely to cost a little bit more in the near future as the transport ministry is looking into using an additional tariff to help pay for accessibility improvements at stations. T...
The government plans to retire Shigeru Kitamura, secretary general of the National Security Secretariat (NSS), this summer and appoint Vice Foreign Minister Takeo Akiba as his successor. Kitamura, ...
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...
Vantage Point is a series of interviews with people who have come to Japan from around the world, showcasing their impressions of life in Japan and tales from their homelands. It was launched this Apr...
Players who are trying to perform in the sink-or-swim world of Nippon Professional Baseball are oceans away from their families, but it often feels like worlds away for some. The coronavirus pandemic...
Riding the train is likely to cost a little bit more in the near future as the transport ministry is looking into using an additional tariff to help pay for accessibility improvements at stations. T...
In response to both a shrinking domestic market and the accelerating shift toward electric vehicles, Japan’s automakers are reviewing their lineups and discontinuing the production of some widely b...
Japanese female athletes are constantly being exploited by others who use their images for sexual purposes, and there are growing calls for stronger countermeasures. The Tokyo Summary Court last mon...
A member of the Ugandan Olympic team tested positive for the novel coronavirus upon arriving in Japan, according to the Cabinet Secretariat. The Ugandan team landed at Narita Airport on Saturday ...
The Tokyo metropolitan government is considering canceling the Olympic torch relay on some public roads because emergency-level priority measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus will be in e...
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...
In January, Netflix users came across a new series about a charming con man out to avenge the death of his father. The mystery thriller, “Lupin,” quickly picked up a following — despite the fact...
“Eden,” a new Netflix-exclusive animated series that debuted on May 27, depicts the life of Sara Grace, a young human girl growing up in a world inhabited solely by robots. The series, consisting ...
Despite the social disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic, one pianist is pushing ahead with her concert schedule. Fuzjko Hemming had a major hit as a professional pianist in 1999 with the CD “Kiseki n...
