March 2, 2015
Job-hunting activities by university students who are scheduled to graduate from university in spring 2016 kicked off Sunday, three months later than last year under the new rule. Starting this academic year, companies are allowed to conduct recruiting activities, such as holding explanatory meet...
With March 11 marking the fourth anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake, evacuees of the massive quake are now facing tough choices on how to rebuild their lives. Despite their yearning to regain economic independence, the future seems uncertain as ever. In the quake’s aftermath, survivo...
The Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology intends to start clinical studies on preimplantation genetic screening sometime this year at the earliest. At its board meeting in Tokyo on Saturday, the JSOG officially approved a plan for clinical studies, saying the trial sites would be decided so...
Chen Ge, a Chinese student, earnestly picks out manga comics in Chinese, translated from the original Japanese, one after another at Uchiyama Shoten bookstore — which specializes in books written in...
Keisuke Nagatani’s home may look a bit age-worn from the outside, but its interior is quite new. Nagatani bought his 33-year-old condominium in Yokohama two years ago and gave it a drastic renovatio...
ATHENS (AP) — Greece won’t seek a third bailout deal, the prime minister said Saturday, having succeeded in separating the loan agreement from the “disastrous” austerity conditions imposed wi...
An increasing number of graves have been abandoned across the nation as no one is taking care of them due to lower birthrates and depopulation. A range of serious problems have arisen, including unke...
Kyoto University Prof. Shinya Yamanaka stressed his efforts toward greater clinical use of the induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells he created, while Nagoya University Prof. Hiroshi Amano described p...
Children can learn a lot from nature and when they play with other children outdoors. Serigaya Boken Asobiba (Serigaya adventure playground) in Machida, western Tokyo, serves as a “secret base” i...
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — Ryo Ishikawa shot a 65 to finish up his second round of the Honda Classic on Saturday, moving up into 10th place at 1-under 139 at the PGA National Resort and Spa course (...
Tokyo Yakult led the Central League in runs scored last season, and the Swallows on Sunday showed what they can do with a little bit of defense and pitching added into the mix. Second-year right-hand...
Attention is being focused on whether to grant Self-Defense Forces troops more authority to use weapons during international cooperation activities, in talks on new legal arrangements on national sec...
Kawazu-zakura, a variety of cherry tree known for blooming early, are shown in all their glory in their native Kawazu, Shizuoka Prefecture. About 800 trees line both sides of a four-kilometer stretch ...
A year after winning a bronze medal at the Sochi Olympics, freestyle skier Ayana Onozuka finally reached the top of the podium at a World Cup event. On Saturday in Park City, Utah, the 26-year-old w...
BEIJING (AP) — Wild giant pandas in China are doing well. The latest census by China’s State Forestry Administration shows the panda population has grown by 268 to a total of 1,864 since the las...
MOSCOW (AP) — Maybe it was Islamic extremists who killed Boris Nemtsov. Or someone offended by his love life. Or agents of a Western power that will stop at nothing to disfigure President Vladimir P...
FALUN, Sweden — The Japan men’s ski jumping team was close to winning its first medal at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships since 2009, but slipped from second to fourth in the second round on...
ACAPULCO, Mexico — Kei Nishikori fell in straight sets to world No. 9 and second-seeded David Ferrer 6-3, 7-5 in the final of the Abierto Mexicano on Saturday. Nishikori missed out on his opportunit...
Forty-four people died in solitude in 2014 at temporary housing units for evacuees from areas in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures, which were devastated in the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake,...
SEOUL — South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Sunday repeated her demand for Japan to settle as soon as possible the issue of so-called comfort women, in a speech marking Korea’s 1919 uprising a...
Follow the adventure of Kenta the office dog who lives with Shiba-kun’s family and commutes to office everyday, where his job is to heal stressed humans. Shiba-kun’s daughter, Hachiko, is the only...
Michi no Eki rest areas along national highways and other major roads across the country, which sell local specialties, are drawing a great deal of attention as centers for the government’s ongoing ...
TOMIOKA, Fukushima (Jiji Press) — The last section of the Joban Expressway, designed to connect the Tokyo metropolitan area with the Tohoku northeastern region, opened to traffic on Sunday after de...
After a review of its reports on the so-called comfort women issue, which has become a huge thorn in the side of Japan-South Korea ties, The Asahi Shimbun has admitted its mistakes in the reports—al...
The Asahi Shimbun admitted that its May article on the so-called Yoshida file concerning the crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant was incorrect and removed Nobuyuki Sugiura from the post...
The government believes a video of two Japanese hostages released on the Internet by the Islamic State extremist group may have been doctored, due to such questionable elements as differing shadows o...
E-mails and documents that were translated through a free online service have been leaked onto the Internet and are visible to the public, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned. At least 30 cases have bee...
A video claiming to show what appears to be the body of Haruna Yukawa, one of two Japanese nationals detained by a group believed to be the Islamic State, was posted on the Internet on Saturday night....
A group that claimed to belong to the Islamic State, a radical Islamic militant group, threatened to kill two Japanese hostages unless they receive $200 million in ransom within the next 72 hours, ac...
A video purporting to show the execution of hostage Kenji Goto was posted early Sunday morning by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militant group. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe strongly c...
The Environment Ministry and a local diving association have confirmed the discovery of one of the nation’s largest single-species colonies of coral. The coral, which was discovered in Nagura Bay...
The Japanese and U.S. governments are making arrangements to issue a joint statement that will set forth a stronger Japan-U.S. alliance, based on their bilateral relationship over the 70 years since ...
This column features reports by Japanese students currently studying overseas on their life on and off campus. * * * The word “diversity” popped into my mind when I was asked to ...
まるで世界（world）のてっぺんに立っているように、この表現（ひょうげん）は最高にうれしい、意気（いき）揚々（ようよう）としたときに使いま...
The following is a translation of the Henshu Techo column from The Yomiuri Shimbun’s Feb. 17 issue. * * * Novelist Ango Sakaguchi (1906-1955) reportedly gave tax authorities a hard...
Malice By Keigo Higashino Little, Brown 281pp It looks like an open-and-shut case. A man has been murdered, a police detective has identified the murderer, and the murderer has voluntarily given ...
Comedian Kiyotaka Nambara and Nomura Manzo, a kyogen artist of the Izumi school, have joined forces to present the ninth installment of the “Gendai Kyogen” (modern kyogen) series, “Gendai Kyogen...
KAGOSHIMA — After I set up my camera about four kilometers from one of Sakurajima’s craters, a huge pillar of fire suddenly erupted in the dark night sending lava spewing down the mountain and tur...
Tama Monorail is seen in Hino, western Tokyo, from the cycling path along the Asakawa river. Tama Monorail runs north to south for 16 kilometers in Tokyo’s Tama area, connecting Kamikitadai Station...
The Japan News has published an e-book titled “Verification of ‘Comfort Women’ Issue: How were the historic facts distorted?,” which examines how false information was distributed regarding t...
The Japan News has published an English booklet, “Myth and Truth in East Asia.”
The letter-sized, 22-page booklet is compiled from articles from The Yomiuri Shimbun on such diplomatic issues as...
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