September 26, 2017
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday announced he will dissolve the House of Representatives at the beginning of the extraordinary Diet session to be convened Thursday. The general election is expected to be held on Oct. 22, with official campaigning starting on Oct. 10. “I will dissolve the Hou...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike said Monday that she will create and lead a new political party, “Kibo no To” (party of hope), aiming to engage in national politics while serving as head of the Japanese capital. Under Koike’s leadership, the new party is set to take part in th...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The female giant panda cub born at Ueno Zoo in Tokyo in June has been named Xiang Xiang, the metropolitan government said Monday. The name was picked through 320,000 suggestions made by the public and decided after discussions at a selection committee and other steps. Xian...
MADRID (AFP-Jiji) — The regional leader of Spain’s Basque Country, where nationalist sentiments run high, urged Madrid on Sunday to allow independence referendums like those held in Scotland and ...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis’ committee of advisers on protecting children from sexually abusive priests is expanding its workload to include the needs and rights of children fathered by Roma...
WARSAW (Reuters) — Polish President Andrzej Duda unveiled proposals on Monday for judiciary reform that is viewed by the European Union and critics of the government as a crucial gauge of Warsaw’...
YANGON (AP) — Myanmar police said Monday that they have discovered at least 28 slain Hindu women and boys in two mass graves in the Southeast Asian country’s conflict-torn northern Rakhine State....
ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) — Voting started on Monday in an independence referendum organized by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq, ignoring the threats of the Kurds’ neighbors ...
BEIRUT (AP) — Airstrikes have targeted rural Aleppo in northern Syria on Sunday for the first time in months since a ceasefire took hold in the province, killing one, activists and a war monitoring...
OSAKA (Jiji Press) — An Osaka prefectural hospital started performing autopsies to investigate causes of death at police request in April for cases in which foul play is not strongly suspected, in ...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Children are more likely to become crime victims after returning home than on their way to and from school, a Tokyo police expert panel pointed out Monday. In its recommendat...
OI, Fukui (Jiji Press)—The mayor of Oi on Monday gave his consent to Kansai Electric Power Co.’s plan to restart two nuclear power reactors in the town in Fukui Prefecture. Oi Mayor Hiroshi Na...
PARIS (AFP-Jiji) — French President Emmanuel Macron’s new centrist political party suffered its first electoral setback in Senate elections on Sunday in which the right-wing Republicans party stre...
KUSHIRO, Hokkaido (Jiji Press) — The government hopes to allow former residents of the northern territories to make more air trips to visit their deceased relatives’ graves there, a senior officia...
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, used his personal email account on dozens of occasions to communicate with colleagues in the White House, his lawyer sai...
BERLIN (Reuters) — Swept into parliament by those Germans angered at the arrival of more than a million refugees and migrants, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) had a stark message for Cha...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Six U.S. airstrikes on an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) desert camp in Libya killed 17 militants and destroyed three vehicles, the U.S. military said Sunday, th...
PHOENIX (AP) — Of course it was J.D. Martinez who got the hit that secured home-field advantage in the wild-card game for the Arizona Diamondbacks. He’s been getting big hit after big hit ever ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday slapped new travel restrictions on citizens from North Korea, Venezuela and Chad, expanding to eight the list of countries covered by hi...
DETROIT (AP) — The Atlanta Falcons escaped Detroit, holding on for a win thanks in part to an NFL rule that went in their favor. Matthew Stafford’s pass to Golden Tate was ruled to be just short ...
MANILA (Reuters) — The Philippines has assured Vietnam of a fair and thorough investigation into the deaths of two of its fishermen during a sea chase incident at the weekend, during which warning ...
ATLANTA (AP) — Justin Thomas is the FedEx Cup champion, a surprise to no one who saw him power his way to scoring records, his first major at the PGA Championship and more PGA Tour victories than an...
LONDON (Reuters) — London Mayor Sadiq Khan said Sunday that it would be wrong for Britain to host U.S. President Donald Trump on a state visit, describing some of the U.S. leader’s views on Islam...
The Shinagawa Shukuba Matsuri festival kicked off on Saturday around the Kyu-Tokaido street in Shinagawa Ward. The festival is held annually to re-create the din and bustle of the Shinagawa-juku rest...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will hold a press conference Monday to announce his intention to dissolve the House of Representatives for a general election, with official campaigning starting Oct. 10 and ...
Yokozuna Harumafuji stumbled early on in the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament, but he landed on top on Sunday’s final day. Harumafuji (11-4) powered ozeki Goeido out of the ring at Tokyo’s Ryogoku Kok...
Chief negotiators from Japan and 10 other countries of the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement failed to resolve differences in their two-day meeting in Tokyo that ended Friday. The 11 sig...
WASHINGTON — The Japanese and U.S. governments are making arrangements to enable the automatic extension of a bilateral nuclear energy cooperation agreement due to expire in July 2018, The Yomiuri S...
Central and Eastern European country Romania is one of the fastest-growing economies in the European Union. Ilan Laufer, Romania’s business environment, commerce and entrepreneurship minister, rece...
BEIJING/SEOUL (Reuters) — China’s earthquake administration said on Saturday it had detected a magnitude 3.4 earthquake in North Korea that was a “suspected explosion,” raising fears the isol...
Yuzuru Hanyu performs in the short program at the Autumn Classic International figure skating competition in Montreal on Friday. He received 112.72 points, breaking his own world short-program scoring...
OSAKA (Jiji Press) — A 4.3-kilogram part that dropped from a KLM Royal Dutch Airlines passenger airplane hit a moving car in Osaka on Saturday, the Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minis...
KAWAJIMA, Saitama — Fueki Syoyu Brewing Co., a soy sauce maker with a history of more than 200 years in Kawajima, Saitama Prefecture, demonstrated the process of building a new wooden brewing barrel...
読売新聞日曜日付の英語面「えいご工房」で好評連載中のコラム「特派員直伝 とらべる英会話」の書籍版が研究社から出版されました。詳しくはこちらから
The following is a translation of the Henshu Techo column from The Yomiuri Shimbun’s Sept. 3 issue. * * * Automobiles are said to have entered a period of revolutionary change that...
KAWAJIMA, Saitama — Fueki Syoyu Brewing Co., a soy sauce maker with a history of more than 200 years in Kawajima, Saitama Prefecture, demonstrated the process of building a new wooden brewing barrel...
Assignment, commission, duty, objective, pursuit, quest, undertaking — these are all fine words. But they lack the intensity of “mission,” be it the breathtaking associations with space travel, ...
Featuring actors’ expressions and movements but little to no dialogue, nonverbal theater is becoming an increasingly popular form of nigthtime entertainment in Japan as performers dazzle audiences w...
The Takahatafudoson Kongoji temple in Hino, Tokyo, is about 10-minute ride from the Asakawa river cycling path, a 20-kilometer route that connects the Tamagawa river in eastern Hino to a spot near Mt....
A sign reads “Watch Out For Mamushi Vipers” in the city of Akishima, western Tokyo, along the Tamagawa river cycling path. The Akishima Police Station and the city’s crime prevention association...
Two sets of wheels and their axles rest on the ground in the city of Akishima, Tokyo, by the Tamagawa cycling path. There was a head-on collision of trains on what is now the JR Hachiko Line on Aug. 2...
For cyclists riding on the Asakawa cycling path, a nice place to take a break is a footbath facility in the Kitano Disposal Center in Hachioji, Tokyo, which sits right next to the path. The 20-kilomet...
