March 13, 2014
Police arrested a 52-year-old engineer on Thursday on suspicion of leaking key research data about a flagship memory product of Toshiba Corp. to a major South Korean competitor. Yoshitaka Sugita of Fukuoka Prefecture allegedly had access to the data for NAND-type flash memory while working as a r...
FARO, Portugal (AP)—A flurry of goals at the start the second half helped Germany to a 3-0 victory over world champion Japan in the final of the Algarve Cup on Wednesday. Substitute Nadine Kessler’s first touch was a goal from the edge of the area in the 46th minute, and Anja Mittag doubled t...
Seasonally adjusted core machinery orders in January rose 13.4 percent from the previous month, marking the second sharpest monthly growth since comparable data became available in April 2005, the Cabinet Office said. The surge came as a rebound from the record ever decline of 15.7 percent posted ...
SoftBank Corp. President Masayoshi Son, drumming up support for the idea of merging his Sprint Corp. with T-Mobile US Inc., said he can give U.S. Internet users a new option with lower prices and fast...
NEW YORK (AP)—A 1936 Nobel Peace Prize discovered at a South American pawn shop is heading to the auction block in the United States. The 1936 Nobel Peace Prize recipient was Argentina’s foreign...
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank will start an investment fund business targeting mega solar power plants, in a move to ensure stable fund management through investment in renewable energy projects. The ...
Suntory Beverage & Food Ltd. has launched De’ Koffie coffee drinks in 130-milliliter plastic bottles in Indonesia. The Suntory Holdings Ltd. unit believes demand for canned and bottled coffee dri...
Stocks erased early gains to end slightly lower on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Thursday, weighed down by selling on disappointing Chinese economic data. The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average slumped 14.4...
The average retail price of regular gasoline as of Monday was up ¥0.3 from a week earlier to ¥158.2 per liter. The increase is the first in seven weeks, the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy ...
PRETORIA (AP)—A South African police officer swung a cricket bat at Oscar Pistorius’ bullet-marked bathroom door during his murder trial on Wednesday, using two key pieces of evidence to re-enact...
The dollar softened to levels around ¥102.50 in Tokyo trading on Thursday, as weaker-than-expected Chinese factory output and retail sales data fueled concerns about the world’s second-largest eco...
NHK received about 20,600 viewer complaints regarding its president, Katsuto Momii, from Jan. 25, when he assumed the post, to Wednesday, Momii said Thursday. Of about 31,900 comments relating to M...
The Tokyo District Court is considering allowing a real estate firm to buy the premises of the former Tokyo headquarters of the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, also kn...
Novelist Kyojin Onishi died of pneumonia at his home in Saitama early Wednesday. He was 97. Consistent in his rebellious stance against authority throughout his career, Onishi wrote mainly about wa...
Naraha Middle School students tearfully sing their school song during a graduation ceremony Thursday in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, where they evacuated from their hometown Naraha because of the Fuku...
YOKOHAMA—Kanagawa Police Station has sought an arrest warrant for a company employee in his 30s on suspicion of killing a woman in her late teens. He is currently undergoing voluntary questioning b...
WASHINGTON (AP)—President Barack Obama expressed a glimmer of hope Wednesday that a referendum on the future of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula can be halted, as he met with the new leader of the for...
The mood was dark as the national women’s wrestling team began its final preparations for this weekend’s World Cup while trying to come to grips with the sudden loss of Eikatsu Yoshida, the fathe...
BOISE, Idaho (AP)—A handful of Idaho hockey fans sued a Boise arena on Tuesday, saying they were duped into thinking a $7 beer contains more brew than a $4 beer. The lawsuit says CenturyLink Aren...
LENZERHEIDE, Switzerland (AP)—Maria Hoefl-Riesch will miss the rest of the ski season after crashing in a World Cup downhill on Wednesday, leaving Anna Fenninger as the favorite to win the overall ...
With the growing exodus of Japanese engineers overseas, many of the nation’s firms are exposed to increased risk of information leaks, a danger highlighted by the recent arrest of an engineer for a...
DALLAS (AP)—Rich Peverley will not play again this season after collapsing on the bench during a game. Whether the Dallas Stars’ forward will ever play again won’t be known until after more e...
INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AP)—Milos Raonic rode his big serve to a 4-6, 7-5, 6-3 victory over Andy Murray in the fourth round of the BNP Paribas Open on Wednesday, giving the young Canadian his first w...
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...
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...
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...
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.
The Japan News is like no other English-language newspaper. Published by The Yomiuri Shimbun, the largest-circulation newspaper in the world, The Japan News is plugged into an extensive national and i...
