March 10, 2014
Japan’s current account deficit hit a monthly record of ¥1.59 trillion in January, expanding from ¥348.4 billion a year earlier, the Finance Ministry said Monday. The country suffered a current account deficit for the fourth straight month, the ministry said. January’s actual red figure w...
Japanese sitting skiers pulled off a one-two finish in the men’s super giant slalom at the Sochi Paralympics on Sunday, with Akira Kano defending his title and Taiki Morii grabbing the silver medal. Kano, who also won the event at the 2010 Vancouver Paralympics, clocked 1 minute 19.51 seconds, ...
Mt. Gox K.K., the collapsed trading platform for the bitcoin digital currency, came under so-called distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks aimed at shutting its servers by overloading them with massive volumes of data in early February, it has been learned. Also between February and earlier...
In areas devastated by the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, many children suffer anxiety disorders for such reasons as the deaths of relatives in the disaster and subsequent drastic changes to...
Confusion over official recognition of people as sufferers of Minamata disease still continues today. We hope the situation will improve, even if only a little, as the Environment Ministry has recentl...
It’s becoming increasingly difficult to be an effective English teacher these days without an understanding of ESP. I’m not referring to the Extra Sensory Perception that informs teachers as to h...
KUALA LUMPUR (AP) — Vietnamese aircraft spotted what they suspected was one of the doors of a missing Boeing 777 on Sunday, while troubling questions emerged about how two passengers managed to boa...
OSAKA (Jiji Press)—Four candidates registered for the Osaka mayoral race after Toru Hashimoto resigned to seek reelection and promote his administrative realignment plan for the city and Osaka Pref...
With the 15th anniversary of her debut to celebrate this December, expectations are high for singer Mai Kuraki, who never loses her zeal for music. “I hope this will be a year in which I can find ...
About 10 years ago when I was trying to decide whether I should stay in Japan or not, I decided to translate “Hyakunin Isshu” (“One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each,” compiled in the 13th century...
The following is the eighth installment of the “Message” series, featuring Peter MacMillan, a translator, poet and artist who has been active in introducing and promoting Japanese literature and ...
NAGOYA—London Olympian Ryoko Kizaki sealed a spot on the squad for the Asian Games by finishing third in the Nagoya Women's Marathon on Sunday. The race served as a qualifier for the Asian Games, a...
BERLIN (AP)—Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukraine’s former prime minister, has begun medical treatment at Berlin’s Charite hospital, but the doctors caring for her said Saturday it’s too soon to say how ...
WASHINGTON— Hollywood has finally taken an unflinching look at slavery. It’s past time for the rest of the country to do the same. I wanted to wait a few days before writing about the best pict...
PARIS (AP)—The Louvre has always showcased nudes. Never quite like this. Paris police say they arrested six women Saturday for baring their breasts and more outside the pointy-pyramid entrance to...
Last fall, when the Nobel Prize in economics went to two scholars with opposing views on the efficiency of markets, my physicist friends raised their eyebrows: What kind of science is that? Now the U...
AUSTIN, Texas (AP)—Fugitive WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, speaking over Skype from the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, said his living situation is a bit like prison—with a more lenient visitor...
The government will begin full-fledged work to compile measures to safeguard energy supply bases, aimed at minimizing the impact of large-scale disasters on economic activities. The measures will b...
As leading Japanese companies diversify and globalize their businesses, an increasing number of firms are appointing female and foreign executives to make executive ranks more diversified. With the ...
NEW YORK (AP)—A mystery man. A splashy reveal. A media frenzy. Newsweek staked its return from the dead on a story it knew would get attention. A cover story claiming it had uncovered “the face b...
BEIRUT (AP)—Syrian government forces seized a town from rebels near the Lebanese border on Saturday, their latest attempt to cut off opposition fighters’ fluid supply lines from the country, stat...
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...
After returning from the Sochi Winter Olympic Games on Tuesday, Japanese Olympic medalists expressed their pride in winning big for Japan at a press conference. Among the athletes were Yuzuru Hanyu...
The house of acclaimed writer Kobo Abe (1924-93) in Chofu, Tokyo, is being demolished, after serving as his writing place for many great works, such as “Suna no Onna” (The Woman in the Dunes), “...
The troubled radioactive water cleanup system at the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant was hit by a new problem Wednesday, operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said. An alarm went off at abo...
It’s becoming increasingly difficult to be an effective English teacher these days without an understanding of ESP. I’m not referring to the Extra Sensory Perception that informs teachers as to h...
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.
The Japan News is like no other English-language newspaper. Published by The Yomiuri Shimbun, the largest-circulation newspaper in the world, The Japan News is plugged into an extensive national and i...
