1st security strategy OK’d to check China
The government has officially approved its first national security strategy, which is aimed at keeping China in check in view of repeated intrusions i...
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Jang’s widow skips Kim Jong Il event
SEOUL (Jiji Press)—Kim Kyong Hui, the aunt of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, was not seen at the leadership podium at a memorial ceremony to comm...
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Bayern cruises into Club World Cup final
AGADIR, Morocco (AP)—Bayern Munich closed in on its fifth trophy of 2013 by brushing aside Guangzhou Evergrande 3-0 Tuesday to reach the Club World...
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Kenta is coming!
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NSA program ‘likely unconstitutional’
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A STUDY OF BRANDS / Piaget in right place at right time
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Safer mochi sweets on way for elderly
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Game-playing ‘admirals’ flock to Yokosuka
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Oshima still haunted by scars of disaster
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Strumming along
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Royals fill hole at 2nd with Infante
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Team balks on Tanaka’s bid
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MagazineBrowsing
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Kenta is coming!
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NSA program ‘likely unconstitutional’
WASHINGTON (AP)—In a ruling with potentially far-reaching consequences, a federal judge declared Monday that the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of millions of Americans’ telephone re...
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Itai-itai disease case settled
TOYAMA (Jiji Press)—The issue of itai-itai disease, one of Japan’s four major pollution-related diseases, was fully resolved on Tuesday as the company that caused the pollution and a victims’ g...
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A STUDY OF BRANDS / Piaget in right place at right time
Piaget combines beauty on one hand with superb technology on the other—and it is a balance that has served the Swiss luxury watchmaker well.
In this 83rd installment in a series on the world’s ...
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A STUDY OF BRANDS / Timeless elegance of Piaget ticks on
The history of Piaget dates back to 1874, when watchmaker Georges Edouard Piaget set up a workshop in a small village at the foot of the Jura Mountains in Switzerland. Back then, the workshop mainl...
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Purge reveals Kim as an old-school Stalinist
North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un purged his powerful uncle, Jang Song Thaek, during a high-level meeting of the Political Bureau, part of the Central Committee of the Korean Workers’ Party. Footage...
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Safer mochi sweets on way for elderly
Five long-established wagashi confectionery stores in Kyoto are developing mochi rice cakes that are safer for the elderly, who often have difficulty swallowing the chewy delicacy. They plan to serve...
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Game-playing ‘admirals’ flock to Yokosuka
YOKOSUKA, Kanagawa—Kikiwan, tourism ambassador of the Oppama district in Yokosuka, was dressed as Haruna, a character in the popular online game “Kantai Collection,” as she boarded an excursion...
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Oshima still haunted by scars of disaster
For Masahiro Okayama, the scars of the deadly debris flows on Tokyo’s Izu Oshima island remain very raw.
“It’s as if I’m having a long nightmare,” murmured Okayama, 50, whose gas station ...
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Monet: A lasting impression
There are certainly few names in the history of art that carry such an aura of beauty and love of nature for people around the world as the name Monet. Another certainty is that the latest Monet exhib...
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Exhibition shows Hi-Red Center knew how to raise eyebrows
Among avant-garde art circles to come out of the mid-1960s in Japan, probably the most well-known today is the Hi-Red Center. The group’s name was created by connecting the English meaning of the fi...
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A closer look at Japanese collectivism
Recently a Japanese song I like very much but had not thought of for a while suddenly sprang to mind—“Zoo” by the rock band Echoes. The song has remained popular since its original release in 1...
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INTERVIEW WITH AMBASSADOR KENNEDY / U.S. ‘has no truer friend than Japan’
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Japan, U.S. to up Senkaku surveillance
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Volcanic eruption raises new islet amid Ogasawara Islands
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U.S. funding to relocate marines OK’d
WASHINGTON—The armed services committees of both houses of the U.S. Congress have effectively approved spending to relocate 4,000 U.S. marines stationed in Okinawa Prefecture to Guam from the U.S. f...
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Japan in Depth / Abe-Biden talks highlight efforts to counter China
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Abe, Biden lean on China to drop air defense zone
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Secrecy law enacted
The House of Councillors has passed into law a divisive bill to protect specially designated state secrets with a majority of support from the ruling bloc, despite fierce resistance from the oppositi...
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New grad job market still ‘highly selective’
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Lower house pushes through state secret protection bill
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Release of water into sea inevitable after purification at Fukushima plant
It is imperative to speed up efforts to contain contaminated water at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. A government panel on measures to dispose of contaminated wate...
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好評連載「私の英語勉強法」 電子書籍の第８巻が発売されました
ジャパン・ニューズの語学学習ページ、LearningLab（毎週木曜付）で４週に１度掲載している「私の英語勉強法」。その電子書籍第８巻（税込420円）が...
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読売夕刊の人気コラム「コレって英語で？」 電子書籍第12巻が10月25日発売！
読売新聞夕刊（東京本社版）で毎週木曜に好評連載中のコラム「ジャパン・ニューズ記者のコレって英語で？」の電子書籍、第12巻（420円、税込）が...
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Message to our readers
Today the English-language newspaper published by The Yomiuri Shimbun starts anew under the name of The Japan News.
Amid Japan's declining international presence, the nation is facing a chall...