April 17, 2014
MOKPO, South Korea (AP)—Koo Bon Hee could see the exit. For half an hour, as the doomed ferry filled with water and listed severely on its side, the crew told passengers to wait for rescuers. With their breathing room disappearing, the 36-year-old businessman and some of the other passengers fl...
NEW YORK (AP)—Masahiro Tanaka allowed two bunt hits in eight dominant innings on a frigid Monday, Carlos Beltran homered for the third straight game and New York welcomed the Chicago Cubs to the current Yankee Stadium with a 3-0 victory in the opener of Monday’s day-night doubleheader. The 25...
SLOVYANSK, Ukraine (AP)—Pro-Russian insurgents commandeered six Ukrainian armored vehicles along with their crews and hoisted Russian flags over them Wednesday, dampening the central government’s hopes of re-establishing control over restive eastern Ukraine. The Ukrainian soldiers manning the...
BEIJING (AP)—China’s economic growth slowed further in the latest quarter but appeared strong enough to satisfy Chinese leaders who are trying to put the country on a more sustainable path withou...
If the town of Oshima on Izu Oshima island in Tokyo was hit by heavy rains equivalent to storms that triggered a deadly massive landslide last year, a new landslide could occur, propelling 210,000 cub...
The government has begun a project to computerize every medical service at hospitals. The project aims to put advanced information technology into practical use by utilizing patients’ medical data...
A House of Representatives by-election in Kagoshima Constituency No. 2 is under way in what is essentially a showdown between the ruling and opposition parties. The by-election is the first electio...
Major electronic manufacturers are expanding their lineups of so-called 4K ultrahigh-resolution TVs, as the companies look to these new products to be a driving force to stimulate their sluggish TV b...
Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima submitted a written request for improvements to a Japan-China fisheries agreement during his meeting with Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida on Wednesday. The request mainl...
WASHINGTON—In late March, when the U.N. Security Council condemned North Korea for test firing two medium-range missiles into the Sea of Japan, Pyongyang shot back, warning of “next-stage steps, w...
WASHINGTON—As President Obama looks at the Ukraine crisis, he sees an asymmetry of interests: Simply put, the future of Ukraine means more to Vladimir Putin’s Russia than it does to the U.S. or Eu...
The Yomiuri Shimbun Hideaki Wakui beat his old club for his first win with the Chiba Lotte Marines, calling the result against the Saitama Seibu Lions “an act of fate.” He also became the 13th pi...
BOSTON (AP)—Survivors, first responders and family members of those killed in the Boston Marathon bombing marked the anniversary Tuesday with tributes that combined sorrow over the loss of innocent ...
MILAN (AP)—Former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi was ordered Tuesday to spend four hours a week helping the elderly to repay society for his tax fraud conviction, a sentence that imposes few res...
BEIJING (Bloomberg)—China’s expansion moderated to the weakest pace in six quarters and property construction plunged, testing leaders’ commitment to keep reining in credit as risks mount of a ...
VIENNA (AP)—The United Nations will release a report this week certifying that Iran’s ability to make a nuclear bomb has been greatly reduced because it has diluted half of its material that can ...
NEW YORK (AP)—A special New York Police Department unit that sparked controversy by tracking the daily lives of Muslims in an effort to detect terror threats has been disbanded, police officials sa...
BRUSSELS (AP)—The European Union’s Parliament on Tuesday completed the biggest overhaul of the bloc’s financial system since the introduction of the euro currency, passing laws to minimize the r...
By-elections for Diet seat vacancies are often called “midterm elections,” and their results have the potential to affect the operations of government. One past example of this phenomenon is the...
KABUL (AP)—Gunmen abducted the Afghan deputy public works minister in Kabul on Tuesday, officials said, a grim reminder of the insecurity plaguing Afghanistan as most foreign troops prepare to with...
CANBERRA (AP)—The leader of Australia’s most populous state has quit as premier in the face of mounting evidence that he failed to declare a 3,000 Australian dollar ($2,800) bottle of wine that a...
As a temporary Fukushima prefectural government official dispatched to the town of Hirono, Hideaki Oda has listened to requests for public housing from disaster victims forced to evacuate due to the ...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP)—Yahoo Inc. is still prospering from its lucrative investments in Asia while the Internet company’s listless advertising sales are picking up, if ever so slightly, under CEO Mar...
OSAKA— Haruko Obokata, the lead author of Nature articles about stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency (STAP), said Wednesday that she “produced the STAP cells successfully more than 200 ...
The United States will deploy two more Aegis destroyers with ballistic missile defense capabilities in Japan by 2017, increasing the number in this country to seven, U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hage...
Stay abreast of current events and learn Japanese at the same time through articles originally printed in The Yomiuri KODOMO Shimbun. ＝＝＝＝＝
Stay abreast of current events and learn Japanese at the same time through articles originally printed in The Yomiuri KODOMO Shimbun. ＝＝＝＝＝
I have a question for you. How necessary is it to learn how to read music and understand formal music theory if you want to play music? I recently came across an interesting online discussion among m...
PARIS—An exhibition featuring world-renowned fashion designer Dries Van Noten reveals how his creative thought processes work and gives an insight into how a single design can inspire him. Exhibits ...
Motivation—or lack thereof—is a perennial issue for anyone trying to get things done, and views and beliefs differ regarding how to induce ourselves or others to take action. In his treatise “Rh...
HANYU, Saitama—“Welcome! Please come on in!” a hawker calls out to prospective customers under the dusky sky, accented by the sound of an evening bell. The street is lined with charming restaura...
Holiday in Nikko :)
I enjoyed a day trip to Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture, with my father on Sunday. It is easy to get there by train, and a rented car was a very useful means to visit sightseeing spo...
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...
The so-called Renkoji-zaka uphill street is a section of Kawasaki-kaido street. It connects an unnamed intersection near Minami-Tama Station of the JR Nanbu Line in Inagi, Tokyo and the Renkoji-sakaue...
