March 14, 2014
Police arrested a 52-year-old engineer on Thursday on suspicion of leaking key research data about a flagship memory product of Toshiba Corp. to a major South Korean competitor. Yoshitaka Sugita of Fukuoka Prefecture allegedly had access to the data for NAND-type flash memory while working as a r...
Seasonally adjusted core machinery orders in January rose 13.4 percent from the previous month, marking the second sharpest monthly growth since comparable data became available in April 2005, the Cabinet Office said. The surge came as a rebound from the record ever decline of 15.7 percent posted ...
SoftBank Corp. President Masayoshi Son, drumming up support for the idea of merging his Sprint Corp. with T-Mobile US Inc., said he can give U.S. Internet users a new option with lower prices and faster speeds. “I’d like to provide an alternative,” Son said in a speech on Tuesday at the Cham...
The Japan Association of Athletics Federations named Yuki Kawauchi to the men’s national squad headed to the Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea, when the list of runners was announced on Thursday. ...
FARO, Portugal (AP)—A flurry of goals at the start the second half helped Germany to a 3-0 victory over world champion Japan in the final of the Algarve Cup at Faro, Portugal, on Wednesday. The U...
WELLINGTON (AP)—In another sign the world economy is finally picking up steam after five years of recession and anemic growth, New Zealand on Thursday became the first developed nation to embark on...
BARCELONA (AP)—Barcelona eased into the Champions League quarterfinals for the seventh straight year, shaking off a slump that has dropped it to third place in the La Liga standings. Lionel Messi...
TAMPA, Fla. (AP)—Hiroki Kuroda gave up six runs and 10 hits over 3⅔ innings Wednesday as the New York Yankees and Detroit Tigers played to a 7-7 tie in 10 innings. Nick Castellanos drove in two...
Japan’s review of a 1993 apology over so-called comfort women will be limited to looking into intergovernmental talks with South Korea at that time, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga has said....
KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP)—The Atlanta Braves agreed Wednesday on a $14.1 million, one-year contract with Ervin Santana, bolstering their injury plagued starting rotation. The 33-year-old right-hander ...
MILAN (AP)—Italian Premier Matteo Renzi on Wednesday offered relief to workers and businesses alike in an ambitious package of economic reforms that he said would lay the groundwork for bigger stru...
The Japan Financial Services Association, a lenders’ organization that includes consumer loan companies, will create an antisocial forces database containing information about gangsters and others ...
SOCHI—Yoshiko Tanaka was sixth in the women’s sitting slalom event at the Sochi Paralympics Wednesday. Competing in her third consecutive Games, Tanaka immersed herself into trying to achieve a...
Tokyo Electric Power Co. plans to hire about 700 new high school and university graduates in spring 2015, about double the level for this year. The number will thus return to levels before the nucl...
GENEVA (AP)—United Nations officials confirm they have received allegations that Saudi Arabian princesses have been held against their will. But Xabier Celaya of the U.N.’s Office of the High Co...
SILICON VALLEY (Jiji Press)—A bitcoin “automated teller machine” will be shipped to Japan for the first time on Wednesday, U.S. developer Robocoin, announced Tuesday. The importer in Japan is...
Consumer sentiment worsened for the third consecutive month in February to hit a 29-month low, the Cabinet Office said Wednesday. The seasonally adjusted consumer confidence index in February decli...
ISTANBUL (AP)—Riot police clashed with antigovernment protesters in Istanbul and other Turkish cities following Wednesday’s funeral of a teenager, who had been in a coma since a police tear-gas c...
The number of suicides in the nation fell for a fourth consecutive year in 2013, dropping by 575, or about 2.1 percent, from the previous year to 27,283, according to data released by the Cabinet Off...
MOSCOW (AP)—The owner of a leading independent Russian news website has fired its chief editor following official complaints over the outlet’s coverage of Ukraine. Lenta.ru says Alexander Mamut...
SAN JUAN (AP)—Authorities in Puerto Rico said Wednesday that they have arrested 63 people accused of running a $10 million drug-trafficking operation in the island’s second largest city. U.S. At...
NEW YORK (AP)—A 1936 Nobel Peace Prize discovered at a South American pawn shop is heading to the auction block in the United States. The 1936 Nobel Peace Prize recipient was Argentina’s foreign...
Today, many Japanese entertainers have multiple skills to add value to their profession. For Ayaka Wada, a member of teenage pop idol group S/mileage, art is her favorite subject, regardless of whethe...
Japan was seen as an international leader in the field of art in the 18th and 19th centuries—the middle of the Edo period (1603-1867)—when ukiyo-e artists produced numerous masterpieces. This was ...
OSAKA—The recent confusion regarding articles published by scientific journal Nature on stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency (STAP) cells may cause adverse effects on Japan’s studies of...
When Daisuke Takahashi arrived in Sochi on Sunday, determined to deliver his best performance at the Olympic Games, his parents were back in his hometown of Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, planning to...
The Philippine ambassador’s official residence in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, where musician and artist Yoko Ono enjoyed cherry blossom viewing in her childhood, was unveiled as a Philippine national hist...
SOCHI (Jiji-Japan News)—Gold medalist Yuzuru Hanyu has given his exhibition program at the Sochi Olympics a theme: resurgence. The 19-year-old, who made history by becoming the first Japanese mal...
SOCHI—Four years since shedding bitter tears after her second-place finish at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, Mao Asada shed tears of joy at Sochi after delivering a near-perfect performance in the wo...
NEW YORK (Bloomberg)—J. Crew Group Inc., the retailer owned by TPG Capital and Leonard Green & Partners LP, is in talks about a potential sale to Uniqlo owner Fast Retailing Co., two people with kn...
The following is a translation of the Henshu Techo column from The Yomiuri Shimbun’s March 6 issue. * * * Haiku poet Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) supposedly said, “Any 3-shaku-tall [e...
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SENDAI—Clad in a brand-new, dark blue uniform, Iroha Ishikawa, 3, slipped past her mother who was trying to take a photo of her daughter with her smartphone, jumping around in front of the hina doll...
With his innovative presentation techniques, and a keen eye for beauty and political themes within daily life, German artist Wolfgang Tillmans has broadened the boundaries of photographic expression. ...
NISHINOMIYA, Hyogo—The Hyogo Performing Arts Center Orchestra is giving fans of the Romanticism movement a musical treat with plans to hold special monthly concerts, each featuring a Schumann sympho...
The Japan News has renewed its pages from the March 1 issue. The above is the new weekly schedule of main sections and articles in our print editions.
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