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...
SAN FRANCISCO (Bloomberg)—Sony Corp.’s PlayStation 4 held the lead in U.S. video-game unit sales in February, while Microsoft Corp.’s higher-priced Xbox One generated more revenue, researcher N...
WASHINGTON (AP)—The International Monetary Fund warned Thursday that wide income inequality can slow economic growth and is proposing ways to reduce it. Its recommendations include: Raising prope...
OSAKA (Jiji Press)—Osaka Gas Co. announced a plan to increase investment in new business projects by 90 percent from the earlier planned level to ¥770 billion during the period through 2020. The ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday pledged $40 million in aid to Somalia to help the African country secure food, improve security and create jobs. Abe made the pledge at a meeting with visiting...
Tokyo police arrested a 36-year-old man Friday in connection with the vandalism of about 300 books at public libraries, including Anne Frank’s “Diary of a Young Girl.” The man, who lives in Ko...
Welcome to Lord of Links, your gateway to the very latest in otaku culture. Check here each week for new links selected by the Japan News. Note: The information contained in these pages is in Japan...
NEW YORK (AP)—Several lawsuits filed against McDonald’s on behalf of workers this week say the fast-food chain engages in a variety of practices to avoid paying employees what they’re owed. T...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe clearly denied Friday that his Cabinet will review a milestone statement in 1993 by then Chief Cabinet Secretary Yohei Kono on wartime “comfort women,” among whom are ma...
LOS ANGELES (AP)—Americans spent an all-time high of $55.7 billion on their pets last year and spending will creep close to $60 billion this year, an industry spokesman said Thursday. Pets across...
BEIJING (AP)—Four people were hacked to death in a knife fight at a market Friday in southern China, and one person was fatally shot by police, state media said. Conflicting reports said the viol...
NEW DELHI (AP)—A New Delhi court on Thursday confirmed the death penalty imposed by a lower court to four men convicted for the gang rape and murder of a young woman on a moving bus in 2012. A sp...
BEIJING (AP)—A popular Chinese instant messaging service has removed at least 40 accounts with content about political, economic and legal issues in a possible sign communist authorities are tighte...
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...
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 ...
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., ...
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...
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...
Stay abreast of current events and learn Japanese at the same time through articles originally printed in The Yomiuri KODOMO Shimbun. ＝＝＝＝＝
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...
