Weapons watchdog receives Nobel Peace Prize
OSLO (AP)—Recalling the “burning, blinding and suffocating” horrors of chemical weapons, the head of a watchdog trying to consign them to histo...
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Obama hails Mandela as ‘last great liberator’
JOHANNESBURG (AP)—Amid cheers and song for the prisoner who became peacemaker, U.S. President Barack Obama energized tens of thousands of spectator...
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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 stati...
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Learning Japanese from the news / Gyudon restaurants feeling the squeeze
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Analysis / Kim concentrates power in his hands
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McCown, Bears leave ’Boys in the cold
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Yomiuri International Forum / Self-defense, electoral reform seen as keys
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Protesters, police in Kiev clash
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Kennedy visits Nagasaki, tours A-bomb museum
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Nuggets grind out frugal win
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Obituary / Eleanor Parker / Actress
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‘Miracle tea’ served after surviving slides
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In the News / Shihoko Fujiwara / Tackling human trafficking in Japan
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ANA announces new Haneda slots
All Nippon Airways has announced it will add six new international destinations to its current 10 at Haneda Airport, as the number of overall daytime departures and arrivals at the airport will be in...
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Learning Japanese from the news / Gyudon restaurants feeling the squeeze
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Analysis / Kim concentrates power in his hands
SEOUL/BEIJING—By purging his right-hand man, Jang Song Thaek, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un revamped the power structure only two years after the launch of his regime, concentrating more power in...
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McCown, Bears leave ’Boys in the cold
CHICAGO (AP)—Neither the brutal cold nor the league’s worst defense could stop Josh McCown and the Bears.
Instead, Chicago jumped right back into the playoff race.
McCown threw for a career-hi...
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Yomiuri International Forum / Self-defense, electoral reform seen as keys
“The Resolve toward ‘Politics that Makes Decisions,’” the autumn session of the Yomiuri International Forum 2013 under this year’s theme of “A Time of Global Turbulence—Rising to the Cha...
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Business sentiment among major firms remains positive
Business sentiment among major companies fell back in October-December after hitting a record high in the previous quarter, a quarterly government survey showed Tuesday. The business sentiment index...
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Protesters, police in Kiev clash
KIEV (AP)—Riot police and antigovernment protesters confronted one another throughout the night on the snow-slicked streets of Ukraine’s capital and a top opposition party said heavily armed secu...
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Kennedy visits Nagasaki, tours A-bomb museum
NAGASAKI (Jiji Press)—U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy made her first visit Tuesday to Nagasaki, one of the two cities atom-bombed by the United States in August 1945.
She visited Hirosh...
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Obama plumps for bigger playing field
LOUISVILLE, Ky.—The debate over the Affordable Care Act can stay small, focusing on website failures and other short-term difficulties facing the law. Or it can get bigger, with wider insurance cove...
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DiCaprio backs team in new electric car circuit
MONACO (AP)—Catch him if you can: Leonardo DiCaprio is getting into the electric race-car business. The Oscar-nominated actor announced Monday he’s partnering with Venturi Automobiles and will ...
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Learning Japanese from the news / Gyudon restaurants feeling the squeeze
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Learning Japanese from the news / Skyscraper built at site of terrorism
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Let's try! 算数の英語
算数を英語で楽しく学ぶ「Let’s try! 算数の英語」。今回は分数を使った計算の問題です。
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Christmas is around the corner.
The Christmas tree in Akiko’s...
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Mystery of drumming: Kodo’s performance beautifully stylized but free
SADO, Niigata—Kodo, a renowned taiko drum troupe based on Sado Island, will launch a new show in Tokyo and Yokohama this month that draws heavily on Japanese folklore. Titled “Mystery,” the show...
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Dots of color that changed Western art
An exhibition under way at The National Art Center, Tokyo, in Roppongi covers an assortment of painters who used Pointillist methods—applying numerous tiny colored dots of paint—from the end of th...
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Maiko guides give Kyoto show a colorful twist
KYOTO—With the cameras rolling, two apprentice geiko, called maiko, approach the deputy chief priest of Matsuno-o Taisha shrine in Kyoto, and begin their interview with the phrase, “Okini, otano m...
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INTERVIEW WITH AMBASSADOR KENNEDY / U.S. ‘has no truer friend than Japan’
The United States “has no more important ally than Japan,” new U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy said during an exclusive interview with The Yomiuri Shimbun, in which she described the imp...
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Japan, U.S. to up Senkaku surveillance
In response to China’s declaration of an air defense identification zone over the East China Sea that includes the Senkaku Islands in Okinawa Prefecture, the Japanese and U.S. governments have confi...
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Volcanic eruption raises new islet amid Ogasawara Islands
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Japan in Depth / Abe-Biden talks highlight efforts to counter China
The meeting between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday underscored the significance of the Japan-U.S. alliance in countering China’s establishment of an air defen...
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Abe, Biden lean on China to drop air defense zone
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and visiting U.S. Vice President Joe Biden Tuesday agreed to urge China to eliminate its newly established air defense identification zone that includes airspace over the Sen...
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Lower house pushes through state secret protection bill
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New grad job market still ‘highly selective’
University students and others set to graduate in spring 2015 cannot be overly optimistic during this year’s job hunting season, which officially started Sunday, as companies are generally willing t...
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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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LOOKING EAST / ‘J-Melo’: Helpful expert for overseas J-pop fans
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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
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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！
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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...