March 13, 2014
Most major manufacturers accepted their labor unions demands to implement hikes in base pay in this year’s shunto spring wage negotiations, according to management replies released Wednesday. Many leading automakers, electric appliance manufacturers, shipbuilders and heavy machinery manufacture...
WASHINGTON—Harvard Medical School Prof. Charles Vacanti, one of the coauthors of the articles on stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency (STAP) cells, says he has no intention of withdrawing the articles. Though issues have been raised concerning the two articles published in the British s...
The Defense Ministry decided Wednesday to dispatch four Self-Defense Forces aircraft to Malaysia to cooperate in the search for a missing passenger jet. This will be the first time for the ministry to send SDF aircraft overseas on a mission to search a missing plane. At the day’s meeting, Def...
In this year’s shunto wage negotiations, now in the final stretch, many big companies have offered large wage hikes, at levels unseen in recent years. Employees of major automakers and electric ap...
Whether Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s economic policies can lift the nation out of deflation hinges on the approval of pay-scale hikes by many major companies in this year’s spring wage negotiation...
OSAKA (Jiji Press)—Sharp Corp. is in tie-up talks with leading U.S. cable operator Comcast Corp., informed sources have said. In the possible tie-up, for which details are still unavailable, the ...
The Tokyo District Court on Wednesday found the eldest sister of former House of Representatives lawmaker Takeshi Tokuda guilty of violating the public offices election law in his campaign for the 20...
TRIPOLI (AP)—Libya’s parliament ousted Western-backed prime minister Ali Zidan in a Tuesday vote, removing the first democratically chosen leader who had struggled for 15 months to stem the count...
NEW YORK (AP)—Zach Galifianakis brought the ferns, and U.S. President Barack Obama opened a new avenue of presidential communication. The president urged young people to sign up for the new healt...
The business sentiment index for major Japanese companies in January-March hit the highest level on record, boosted by robust customer demand ahead of the April consumption tax increase, a government...
INGOLSTADT, Germany (Jiji Press)—Audi AG is considering sales of diesel cars in Japan, an executive of the German luxury automaker said Tuesday. Given Audi’s sporty designs coupled with superio...
VALPARAISO, Chile (AP)—Michelle Bachelet returned to Chile’s presidency Tuesday after a four-year break, facing an economic slowdown and student-led protests that have paralyzed the country in re...
VALPARAISO, Chile (AP)—U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has been discussing the “difficult situation” in Venezuela with other Latin American leaders attending Chile’s presidential inauguration o...
The Tokyo High Court on Wednesday upheld the death sentence for Kanae Kijima, 39, over the high-profile “black widow” murders of three men she met through online matchmaking services. Rejecting...
JERUSALEM (AP)—Israel’s prime minister on Tuesday expressed sorrow over the fatal shooting of a Jordanian judge and announced a joint investigation into the incident, seeking to ease tensions wit...
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP)—An Israeli airstrike killed three Gaza militants Tuesday near an area where an unmanned Israeli surveillance aircraft crashed earlier in the day, an official in the Pales...
KABUL(AP)—A Swedish journalist was shot to death while he was out reporting in an affluent and well-guarded area in Kabul Tuesday, highlighting fears of rising violence ahead of a crucial election ...
Japan’s tertiary industry activity index in January rose 0.9 percent from the previous month, thanks to last-minute demand ahead of the consumption tax increase on April 1, government data showed W...
SEOUL (Jiji Press)—Vice Foreign Minister Akitaka Saiki on Wednesday met with South Korean First Vice Foreign Minister Cho Tae Yong, possibly to seek a three-way summit among the two countries and t...
PRETORIA (AP)—Oscar Pistorius fired guns in public in the months before he killed his girlfriend—once out of a car sunroof on a road and once in a crowded restaurant, a onetime friend said at the...
Ozeki Kakuryu (3-1), left, escorts sekiwake Kotooshu (1-3) out of the ring on Wednesday’s fourth day of the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament at Osaka’s Bodymaker Colosseum. Both yokozuna forced out th...
Economic growth in most of the Group of Seven major industrial nations is expected to slow moderately in the first half of the year, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has said...
BEIRUT (AP)—The number of Syrian children affected by the civil war in their homeland has doubled in the past year to at least 5.5 million—more than half the country’s children—with devastati...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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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.
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