February 23, 2019
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — An Israeli spacecraft rocketed toward the moon for the country’s first attempted lunar landing, following a launch Thursday night by SpaceX. A communications satellite for Indonesia was the main cargo aboard the Falcon 9 rocket, which illuminated the sky as it took...
The Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games intends to impose a total smoking ban at Games venues in 2020, including the entirety of both indoor and outdoor areas of each site, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned. According to sources, it would be the first time for such a measure...
TOKYO (Reuters) — Finance Minister Taro Aso said on Friday that U.S. President Donald Trump has never mentioned currencies when discussing trade with Japan. Aso, speaking to reporters, said Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe have agreed that currencies would be discussed between each ...
Amazon Japan, the Japanese unit of e-commerce giant Amazon.com Inc., will expand its point program in May, it has been learned. Through the new program, customers will receive points equivalent to ...
DETROIT (Reuters) — Ford Motor Co. said on Thursday it has hired outside experts to investigate its vehicle fuel economy and testing procedures after employees raised concerns, and did not know whe...
TOKYO (Reuters) — Japan’s annual core consumer inflation accelerated slightly in January but remained distant from the central bank’s 2 percent target, reinforcing market expectations the count...
LONDON (Jiji Press) — The economic partnership agreement between Japan and the European Union will cease to apply to Britain if Britain exits the EU at the end of March without a deal, the British ...
NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Kraft Heinz Co. recorded a $15.4 billion non-cash charge to write down assets including some of its most well-known brands, a striking acknowledgment that changing consumer t...
PARIS (Reuters) — The e-commerce marketplace JOOM, whose mobile shopping app sells products from China at cut-rate prices directly to buyers, is recruiting French brands to bolster its merchant ros...
CHICAGO (Reuters) — DowDuPont Inc. has won the final international regulatory approval needed, from the Philippines, for a global launch of a new line of genetically engineered soybeans, the compan...
DETROIT (Reuters) — Consumer Reports on Thursday pulled a recommendation for Tesla Inc.’s Model 3, citing reliability problems, and the influential U.S. magazine turned up the pressure on other a...
HONG KONG (Reuters) — Two sisters from Saudi Arabia were intercepted at Hong Kong airport by the kingdom’s diplomats en route to Australia, their lawyer said, the year’s second high-profile cas...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The United States will leave “a small peacekeeping group” of 200 American troops in Syria for a period of time after a U.S. pullout, the White House said Thursday, as Pre...
FRANKFURT (Bloomberg) — Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda called on U.S. President Donald Trump to make a “careful and appropriate decision” on whether car imports to the United States a...
SINGAPORE (Reuters) — Facebook’s new effort to bring outside experts into its content review process promises to be complicated and possibly contentious, if discussions this week at a meeting in ...
BEIJING (Reuters) — Chinese search engine operator Baidu Inc. beat market estimates for fourth-quarter revenue and profit on Thursday, as its core online marketing business stayed resilient and rev...
NEW YORK (Reuters) — Sports betting media startup The Action Network said on Thursday it has raised $17.5 million of funding from private equity, team owners and media and esports investors. The ...
SYDNEY (AFP-Jiji) — Former Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop announced her retirement from politics Thursday in a fresh blow to the conservative government already struggling just months ahe...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The government adopted at a Cabinet meeting on Friday a bill to allow the sale of unclaimed land plots under certain conditions. The government would submit the bill to the Ho...
The TSUMUGU Project: Promoting, Restoring and Preserving the Beauty of Japan’s Art — a joint initiative among the Cultural Affairs Agency, the Imperial Household Agency and The Yomiuri Shimbun to ...
BRUSSELS (Reuters) — The European Union should spend hundreds of billions of euros combating climate change during the next decade, its chief executive said Thursday, responding to a Swedish teen w...
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Milwaukee Bucks shook off any All-Star break hangover in a hurry. Antetokounmpo scored 12 of his 30 points in the fourth quarter, Khris Middleton hit ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Nike said it’s investigating why Duke freshman Zion Williamson split a shoe open during a game against rival North Carolina. But the sportswear giant says it’s an “isolated occ...
A strong earthquake hit a wide area in Hokkaido on Thursday night, registering lower six on the Japanese seismic intensity scale of seven in the town of Atsuma in the prefecture. No tsunami warning wa...
The supermoon astronomical phenomenon was seen in Japan in places such as Hokkaido and western regions on Tuesday evening. The phenomenon occurs when the moon’s orbit comes very close to Earth. Th...
An F-2 fighter jet from the Air Self-Defense Force’s Tsuiki Air Base in Fukuoka Prefecture crashed in the Sea of Japan off Yamaguchi Prefecture, about 130 kilometers northeast of the base, around 9...
MOSCOW (Reuters) — Russia will respond to any U.S. deployment of short or intermediate-range nuclear weapons in Europe by targeting not only the countries where they are stationed, but the United S...
SYDNEY (AFP-Jiji) — Australia officially declared a Great Barrier Reef rodent extinct on Tuesday, making it the first mammal believed to have been killed off by human-induced climate change. The r...
Komatsu Ltd. has told the Defense Ministry that it plans to halt development of new Self-Defense Forces vehicles because the major machinery manufacturer cannot anticipate making profits commensurate ...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The Trump administration said Tuesday that it plans to cancel $929 million awarded to California’s high-speed rail project and wants the state to return an additional $2....
CHICAGO (AP) — A federal judge gave the green light Tuesday to a parks-advocacy group’s lawsuit that aims to stop for good the delayed construction of former U.S. President Barack Obama’s $500 ...
The following is a translation of the Henshu Techo column from The Yomiuri Shimbun’s Feb. 8 issue. * * * In a book titled “Hyogen no Gijutsu” (Techniques of expression) by Taku...
The Osaka prefectural police searched the house of a man on suspicion he attempted to illegally export to China the fertilized eggs and sperm of wagyu Japanese cattle breeds (see below), The Yomiuri S...
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. 
The following is a translation of the Henshu Techo column from The Yomiuri Shimbun’s Feb. 8 issue. * * * In a book titled “Hyogen no Gijutsu” (Techniques of expression) by Taku...
OSAKA — Celebrated architect Tadao Ando hopes that a new library he has designed, which will open in Osaka in March 2020, will inspire children, giving them the strength to live their own lives and ...
The comment seemed to slip from Teruyoshi Uchimura’s lips — “Somehow, I just feel happy,” he said. He was referring to his appearance as the main host of the 2018 Kohaku Uta Gassen (Red & Whit...
It’s just the long-winded conversations of three middle-aged men in a park, nothing more. What they have in common is they all own Shiba dogs. The drama series “Shiba-Park” features an unusual ...
