March 15, 2014
“Significant discrepancies” in the process of preparing articles on stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency (STAP) cells have been found, RIKEN President Ryoji Noyori said at a press conference Friday. “I would like, first and foremost, to express my deepest regrets that articles pub...
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. and IHI Corp. are likely to launch a business and funding alliance in the field of aircraft engine production, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned. The new venture is intended to boost the firms’ competitiveness, in a market where increasing demand for aircraft is p...
Responding to the disruption and diminished functions of local medical care systems caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011, the government will conduct a drill to test the functions of private vessels put into service as hospital ships, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned. In the eve...
GENEVA (Jiji Press)—Panasonic Corp. reclaimed its spot as the most prolific filer of patent applications in 2013, the World Intellectual Property Organization said Thursday. The electronics maker...
WASHINGTON (AP)—Human Rights Watch criticized the United Nations Thursday for raising the possibility of Myanmar contributing U.N. peacekeepers, describing the nation’s military as among the most...
HAT YAI, Thailand (AP)—Thai authorities on Thursday detained 220 suspected Turkish migrants hiding in a secluded camp in the deep south and believed to be victims of a trafficking ring. Acting on...
WASHINGTON (AP)—The U.S. government is running a deficit that is 23.6 percent lower than in the same period a year ago through the first five months of this budget year, another sign of improvement...
The Japan Basketball Association is being urged to make an organizational overhaul. In an unusual move, the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) has indicated Japan might not be afforded the us...
KABUL (AP)—An Afghan election commission official says four election coordinators were kidnapped in Afghanistan’s restive Nangarhar Province, which borders neighboring Pakistan. Sareer Ahmed Ba...
The Japanese Bankers Association (JBA) said Thursday that it will set up a separate organization to calculate the Tokyo interbank offered rate, or Tibor, on April 1. The new organization, the JBA T...
AMSTERDAM (AP)—Shell’s Chief Executive Officer Ben van Beurden says the company will cut capital spending in the United States by 20 percent in 2014 after setbacks in its shale gas operations and...
SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine (AP)— Ukraine’s largest bank says customers in the nation’s Crimean Peninsula are lining up to withdraw cash from their accounts as the region occupied by Russian troops pre...
The QB House chain of haircut shops popular for the single price of ¥1,000 for a quick cut, will raise its price in April for the first time since its launch. With the consumption tax hike from 5 ...
Japan Post Holdings Co. agreed to raise the monthly base salary of regular employees by ¥1,000 on average, the first pay scale hike in six years. The government-affiliated postal service group rea...
Top maegashira Endo took a deep breath after his bout on Thursday, having just finished his rotation through the highest-ranked wrestlers. “I was thinking I wouldn’t even win one bout,” Endo sa...
WASHINGTON (AP)—Failings exposed last spring at a U.S. nuclear missile base, reflecting what one officer called “rot” in the ranks, were worse than originally reported, according to Air Force d...
SAN SALVADOR (AP)—El Salvador’s electoral court on Thursday declared leftist candidate Salvador Sanchez Ceren the winner of the tight presidential election, making him the first former rebel comm...
The dollar fell below ¥102 in Tokyo trading Friday, reflecting uncertainties over the situation in Ukraine and the global stock market slump. At 5 p.m., the dollar was quoted at ¥101.75-76, down ...
British literary magazine Granta and Japanese literary magazine Waseda Bungaku have collaborated to create “Granta Japan with Waseda Bungaku,” a pair of special edition publications compiled by ...
JERUSALEM (AP)—The Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad said Thursday it had agreed to halt a wave of rocket fire on Israel, signaling an end to the heaviest fighting between the sides since 20...
At a Cabinet meeting Friday, the government adopted a bill aimed at promoting the crowdfunding method of raising small amounts of money from a large, indefinite number of investors via the Internet. ...
A powerful earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 6.2 jolted wide areas in the west of the nation early Friday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The quake, which struck at about 2:06 a.m., ...
WASHINGTON (AP)—The Securities and Exchange Commission levied a $7.5 million fine against movie studio Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. for failing to properly disclose its role in a complex debt-equ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 following is a translation of the Henshu Techo column from The Yomiuri Shimbun’s March 6 issue. * * * Haiku poet Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) supposedly said, “Any 3-shaku-tall [e...
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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...
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