Upper house panel passes secrecy bill
The House of Councillors’ Special Committee on National Security approved by a majority vote on Thursday afternoon a bill to tighten penalties for p...
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Washoku makes world heritage list
Washoku, or traditional Japanese cuisine, will soon be added to UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage List. The U.N. body’s Intergovernmental C...
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Hiroshima vote ruling finds state of unconstitutionality
HIROSHIMA (Jiji Press)—The Hiroshima High Court ruled Thursday that July’s House of Councillors election, which had a maximum vote-value disparit...
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Tamasaburo nurtures younger actors by performing in ‘Chushingura,’ more plays...
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Ukiyo-e remembering revenge
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Harmonic convergence: Armstrong, Jones team up
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MOVIE REVIEW / 'Red 2’: It’s a sequel, not an equal
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MOVIE REVIEW / ‘The Call’ dials up a shallow thriller
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A tour that feels like home: Experiencing new ways of life while on vacation
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TASTEFUL TRAVEL / Early-picked olives in season
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Big tree in the Big Apple
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Rockwell painting sells for $46 mil. at auction
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Stolen cobalt-60 abandoned in Mexico
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Tamasaburo nurtures younger actors by performing in ‘Chushingura,’ more plays
Bando Tamasaburo, one of the top kabuki actors for female roles, is taking on a new role—a mentor passing the torch to the rising stars of kabuki.
Tamasaburo is taking a step on this path while he ...
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Ukiyo-e remembering revenge
December is not just a time to celebrate Christmas. The 14th day of this month in the old calendar is remembered as the day when 47 samurai from the Ako clan avenged their master, who was forced to co...
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Harmonic convergence: Armstrong, Jones team up
NASHVILLE, Tenn.—Billie Joe Armstrong has a future in sales if the music thing doesn’t work out. Just ask Norah Jones, who had every intention of turning down an interesting but odd pitch from the...
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MOVIE REVIEW / 'Red 2’: It’s a sequel, not an equal
“Red,” the 2010 sleeper hit and graphic novel adaptation, felt refreshing. Not only were the movie’s heroes all older than 50, but the action-comedy paid as much attention to the comedy as to th...
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MOVIE REVIEW / ‘The Call’ dials up a shallow thriller
In countless films about emergencies, crimes and police work, the emergency dispatcher is but a bit player, an anonymous, robotic voice briefly heard on the other end of a breathless call made by our ...
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A tour that feels like home: Experiencing new ways of life while on vacation
ASUKA, Nara—A type of tourism called mimpaku, which involves staying over at someone’s house in a farming, mountain or seaside village, has become popular among tourists and students on school tri...
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TASTEFUL TRAVEL / Early-picked olives in season
SHODOSHIMA, Kagawa—It was the season to extract early-picked olives when I visited Shodoshima island, the largest olive-growing area in the country in early November.
The island is believed to hav...
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TROUBLESHOOTER / For years I’ve tried to have a baby, but nothing works
Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a woman in my 30s, and believe I am infertile. I’m married to a man a year older than I, and years have passed, but I still haven’t become pregnant. We went to a hospi...
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TROUBLESHOOTER / It takes me forever to read an entire newspaper
Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a woman in my 60s. Maybe because I didn’t like to read books during my childhood, I’m very slow at reading. It takes me about 2½ hours to read a newspaper. I can’t ...
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Thai king urges stability amid unrest
BANGKOK (AP)—Thailand put politics aside Thursday to celebrate the 86th birthday of the country’s revered monarch, who used his annual birthday speech to call for stability but made no direct refe...
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MUSINGS / Nov. 30, 2013
The following is a translation of the Henshu Techo column from The Yomiuri Shimbun’s Nov. 30 issue. * * * Philosopher Shuzo Kuki wrote in his poem titled “Jinsei no Odori” (A ...
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Learning Japanese from the news / Tofu makers in a pinch as soybean prices surge
Stay abreast of current events and learn Japanese at the same time through articles originally printed in The Yomiuri KODOMO Shimbun.
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The Nihongo Way / Dec. 2
◆DIALOGUE OVERVIEW◆
This is the romaji transcription of the conversation in the box above.
J-1: Toki no tatsu no wa hayai desu nee. Moo Shiwasu desu yo.
U-1: E? Shiwasu? Sore, nan desu ka?
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Carrying on Rikyu's search for beauty: Modern artists discuss new film exploring origins of master's quest
SAKAI—Sen no Rikyu (1522-91) built the foundation of today’s chanoyu (way of tea) in the late 16th century, making it a grand comprehensive art that many people still admire today. A film to be re...
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Tate exhibition shows Turner’s exploration of the mystery of nature
An exhibition showcasing the career of Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851), one of Britain’s greatest artists, is under way at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum in Ueno Park until Dec. 18, dis...
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BEYOND THE PAPER SCREEN / Refashioning of ‘Japaneseness’ required to develop global human resources
When I was growing up, studying abroad was still considered an endeavor of the privileged. By the time I became a college student, it was much more accessible, and its aura of rarity was quickly fadin...
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Albania agrees to destroy Syria weapons
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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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Volcanic eruption raises new islet amid Ogasawara Islands
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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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Kennedy steps into new limelight
If she did not bear the name Kennedy, articles reporting her appointment would have been headlined “first female U.S. ambassador to Japan.”
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Princess Masako attends more official functions
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10,000 typhoon deaths seen as Philippine aid delayed
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Kennedy arrives in Japan as new U.S. ambassador
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Experts discourage smartphone babysitting
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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...