March 10, 2014
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...
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 Prefecture. Hashimoto, 44, filed his candidacy on the ticket of his regional political group, Osaka Is...
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 o...
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 ...
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...
INZELL, Germany (AP)—Heather Richardson of the United States did it again on Saturday, claiming her second speed skating World Cup win over 500 meters one day after her first. Shani Davis won 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 ...
Momo, a 15-year-old mixed-breed dog who survived the 2011 earthquake and ensuing tsunami, has been bringing solace to people in temporary housing in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture. Because Momo is old—...
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...
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...
In a room sits a band of peculiar-looking animals made of trash, beaming with cute expressions. These are the creations of 27-year-old contemporary artist Natsumi Tomita of Mitaka, Tokyo, who has bre...
There is growing concern that communities to be rebuilt under land-use reallocation projects in areas hit by the Great East Japan Earthquake could be left with many empty lots, as a number of local r...
SOPOT, Poland—Japanese teen sprinter Yoshihide Kiryu finished sixth in his men’s 60-meter semifinal heat at the IAAF World Indoor Championships on Saturday, coming up just shy of a spot in the fi...
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 ...
KABUL (AP)—In 2009, the United States gave Wazhma Frogh the International Woman of Courage award for her women’s rights activism in Afghanistan. Prominently displayed in Frogh’s office is a pic...
CAIRO (AP)—Egypt’s interim president on Saturday issued a much-anticipated decree governing an upcoming presidential election that clears the way for a vote many expect will be won by the country...
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...
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...
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...
SHIZUOKA—It seems unlikely that a child would come out of a dental exam saying, “Mom, do we come here again?” as if she couldn’t bear to leave. But one pediatric dental clinic in Shizuoka is e...
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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