June 19, 2019
An earthquake measuring upper 6 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale of 7 struck off Yamagata Prefecture on Tuesday night. A total of 26 people had been reported injured in Yamagata, Niigata, Miyagi and Ishikawa prefectures as of 9:45 a.m. Wednesday, according to the Fire and Disaster Managemen...
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump said he’ll hold trade talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping next week at a summit of nations in Japan. And U.S. and Chinese negotiators will resume talks before the leaders meet. Financial markets greeted the news with relief Tuesday. The Dow Jo...
One year has passed since the Private Lodging Business Law (also known as the minpaku law) came into effect, which allows travelers to stay in vacant rooms in houses for a fee. The number of such properties registered with local governments has increased to more than 17,000, about eight times the...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The Diet enacted on Wednesday antimonopoly law amendments designed to provide companies involved in anticompetitive practices with stronger incentives to cooperate in investiga...
GENEVA (Reuters) — Developing countries, not rich Western nations, are bearing the brunt of the world’s refugee crisis and are hosting most of the record 70.8 million displaced people who have fl...
SINTRA, Portugal (Reuters) — The European Central Bank will ease policy again if inflation fails to accelerate, ECB President Mario Draghi said Tuesday, signaling one of the biggest policy reversal...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The Diet enacted on Wednesday bills that are aimed at better preventing child abuse by making it easier for child consultation centers across the nation to step into mistreatme...
TOKYO (Bloomberg) — The Bank of Japan is widely expected to leave its stimulus unchanged Thursday within hours of the Federal Reserve’s policy decision though speculation is growing that Fed moves...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Japan asked South Korea on Wednesday to choose a third country to select a member for an arbitration panel tasked with resolving the issue of court orders for compensation by J...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — U.S. authorities seized 15,000 kilograms of cocaine from a ship at Philadelphia’s port in what they described as one of the largest drug busts in American history. They said...
MPONDWE, Uganda (AP) — Several well-trodden paths crisscross this lush area where people walk between Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda to visit nearby family and friends and go to the busy ma...
LE BOURGET, France (Reuters) — Boeing won a major vote of confidence at the Paris Airshow on Tuesday as British Airways owner IAG signed a letter of intent to buy 200 of its 737 MAX aircraft that ha...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — An advisory panel recommended on Tuesday that the government promote the development of new materials, such as biodegradable plastics, to prevent marine pollution by plastic wa...
TOKYO (Bloomberg) — Nomura Holdings Inc. surged the most in more than two years in Tokyo trading after it announced a surprise $1.4 billion share buyback along with plans to reduce its chairman’s...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Acting U.S. Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan stepped down Tuesday before his formal nomination ever went to the Senate, citing a “painful” family situation that would hurt hi...
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) — Guatemala has not yet committed to becoming a “safe third country” for U.S.-bound migrants seeking asylum, but is analyzing with the United States how to contain flow...
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Jabbing at the press and poking the eye of the political establishment he ran against in 2016, U.S. President Donald Trump officially kicked off his reelection campaign Tuesday...
A team of National Museum of Nature and Science researchers and others plans to attempt to row a dugout canoe from Taiwan to Japan’s westernmost point, recreating the journey the ancestors of the Ja...
SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) — Facebook Inc. announced ambitious plans on Tuesday to launch a new global cryptocurrency called Libra, part of an effort to expand into digital payments that imme...
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump said he’ll hold trade talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping next week at a summit of nations in Japan. And U.S. and Chinese negotiators will resume...
BEIJING (Bloomberg) — Tesla Inc. is revamping its organization in Asia to put more focus on China as the company prepares to start manufacturing in the world’s largest electric-car market, people...
WASHINGTON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) — Blacksburg was already well prepared when the U.S. government announced in April that the Virginia town would be home to the country’s first commercial dr...
The governing body of track argued in court that Olympic champion Caster Semenya is “biologically male” and that is the reason she should reduce her natural testosterone to be allowed to compete ...
An earthquake measuring upper 6 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale of 7 struck off Yamagata Prefecture on Tuesday night. A total of 26 people had been reported injured in Yamagata, Niigata, Miy...
Yamaha Motor Co. is weighing anchor on its boat rental and sharing services, allowing even top-of-the-line luxury boats to be rented short-term. Since marine recreation has a deep-rooted image of be...
Floral designers and practitioners of traditional Japanese flower arranging put their skills to the test in a “hanaike flower arranging battle” held in Ota Ward, Tokyo, in late May. The event had ...
Vegan options at restaurants and on supermarket shelves are increasing in Japan to better serve tourists from the United States and Europe, where diets free of animal products are common. Now efforts ...
More than one-fourth of all workers who were injured or died in work-related accidents were aged 60 and older last year, according to statistics compiled by the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry. I...
One year has passed since the Private Lodging Business Law (also known as the minpaku law) came into effect, which allows travelers to stay in vacant rooms in houses for a fee. The number of such p...
E-commerce company Rakuten, Inc. and supermarket chain Seiyu GK announced Monday that they will offer a delivery service using drones. The Seiyu store in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, will transpor...
OSAKA — A man was arrested Monday morning on suspicion of attempted murder over the stabbing of a police officer in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, the previous day. Following the attack on the officer, ...
In late April, representatives from more than 100 countries, including 37 leaders of foreign governments, were in Beijing to attend the second “One Belt One Road” Forum for International Cooperati...
Payment for sumo wrestlers in the top two makuuchi and juryo divisions consists mainly of monthly salaries and bonuses, which depend on their performance. Monthly salaries range from ¥1.1 million fo...
The Japan News has partnered with media startup inkl, a news service that curates articles from the world’s leading publishers for users to read on mobile devices. A selection of articles from The Japan News and The Yomiuri Shimbun is now available to read on inkl, which hosts titles from about 20 countries. 
As one of the measures to strengthen the national soccer team ahead of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, German coach Dettmar Cramer was invited to Japan. He must have studied the traditional culture of Japan,...
Southampton may be known for Japanese football player Maya Yoshida, who plays for Southampton FC, or for its famous port where the RMS Titanic departed before sinking. The reason why I am studying he...
We were six large bodies crammed inside a five-seat sedan, laughing even as our hearts fluttered at the sudden braking and inconsistent lane-crossing the driver, our classmate, undertook to get throu...
In my childhood, summer was the season of kaiju, or oversized and grotesque monsters. Year after year, TV channels and movie theaters scheduled reruns of popular kaiju movies, and I would watch, at ho...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) — Pop singer and songwriter Taylor Swift has released a star-studded music video that scolded social media trolls and urged fans to sign a petition demanding U.S. legal protect...
The Summer Sonic music festival will mark its 20th edition in August, featuring a star-studded lineup of both overseas and domestic artists. Affectionately known as “Samasoni,” the musical extra...
