March 9, 2014
SOCHI—Japan celebrated a medal rush on the first day of the Sochi Paralympics on Saturday, with Akira Kano winning the men’s sitting downhill and Takeshi Suzuki finishing third as Kozo Kubo took the bronze in the men’s 7.5-kilometer sitting biathlon. It was the second Paralympic success for...
The Defense Ministry will set up a new section in April to promote joint research with universities to develop defense equipment, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned. Many technologies, including the Internet, were originally developed by defense authorities and later commonly used by civilians. The ...
KUALA LUMPUR (AP)—Search and rescue crews across Southeast Asia scrambled to find a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 that disappeared from air traffic control screens over waters between Malaysia and Vietnam early Saturday with 239 people aboard. Flight MH370, bound for Beijing from Kuala Lumpur, w...
She’s bright white, a bit cheeky and walks in a proud manner. Yes, it’s Marie, the fashionable cat featured in Disney’s animated film “The Aristocats” (Japan title: “Oshare Kyatto”). Li...
An exhibition by Tetsuya Noguchi featuring samurai armor, adorned with distinct concepts ranging from Chanel wear to outlandish “animal head” hats, is being held at Nerima Art Museum in Nerima War...
The following is the seventh installment of the “Message” series, this time featuring actor Masaya Kato, who started his career as a model and has appeared in a number of Japanese and U.S. films....
I printed my photos and brought them to members of the fashion press, without appointment. I just called or visited them, asking them to let me know if they have any plans to use Japanese or Asian mo...
KIRISHIMA, Kagoshima—As I drove into the Fukuyama district of Kirishima, Kagoshima Prefecture, a sweet-sour smell began drifting into the car through the open windows. The smell came from kurozu bla...
HOUSTON (AP)—The head of the white supremacist Aryan Brotherhood of Texas has pleaded guilty to a racketeering conspiracy that included murder, kidnapping and drug trafficking. Larry Max Bryan pl...
CAIRO (AP)—Egypt has announced that a team of European archaeologists have found a nearly 2-meter-tall alabaster statue of a pharoanic princess, dating from approximately 1350 B.C., outside the sou...
KUALA LUMPUR (AP)— A Malaysian court on Friday sentenced opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim to five years in jail on sodomy charges, overturning an earlier acquittal and throwing his political career ...
The Metropolitan Police Department started test operations of English-capable electronic displays at six koban police stations in Tokyo on Friday to prepare for an increase in foreign tourists. The...
SOPOT, Poland—Teenage sprinter Yoshihide Kiryu qualified for the semifinals of the 60 meters at the IAAF World Indoor Championships, finishing second in his first round in 6.65 seconds on Friday. ...
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (AP)—A couple charged with enslaving a mentally disabled woman for two years through intimidation, abuse and threats they would harm her young child were found guilty on Friday. ...
LONDON (AP)—Thousands of British lawyers have stayed away from court to protest legal aid cuts that they fear will devastate the country’s respected justice system. Dozens of court hearings wer...
AUSTIN, Texas (AP)—Surveillance. Online privacy. Robots. Food processing. Wearable computers. To get a sense of what’s on the minds of the tech industry’s thinkers, leaders and tinkerers, it’...
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP)—Golden State Warriors coach Mark Jackson asked his players a simple question during Friday’s morning shootaround: How many of them had ever been on a team 14 games over .500?...
KANAZAWA—The secretariat of a local photo exhibition awarded prizes in the names of the Toyama and Fukui governors without authorization, and even forged the Toyama governor’s official seal on an...
LONDON (AP)—Northern Ireland authorities say letter bombs have been found at two postal sorting offices, weeks after similar packages were sent to army facilities in England. The devices, found i...
UNITED NATIONS (AP)—Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared Friday that achieving equality for women and girls is “the great unfinished business of the 21st century.” The poten...
CAIRO (AP)—A group of 27 countries on the United Nations Human Rights Council expressed concerns Friday over the Egyptian government’s wide-scale use of violence against opposition protesters, th...
The Environment Ministry has unveiled new criteria that will allow people with Minamata mercury-poisoning disease to be recognized as victims through the single symptom of sensory impairment. The m...
Astronaut Koichi Wakata, now serving his second long-term assignment on the International Space Station, was set to become the first Japanese commander of the ISS on Sunday evening, Japan time. Waka...
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...
After returning from the Sochi Winter Olympic Games on Tuesday, Japanese Olympic medalists expressed their pride in winning big for Japan at a press conference. Among the athletes were Yuzuru Hanyu...
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 house of acclaimed writer Kobo Abe (1924-93) in Chofu, Tokyo, is being demolished, after serving as his writing place for many great works, such as “Suna no Onna” (The Woman in the Dunes), “...
The troubled radioactive water cleanup system at the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant was hit by a new problem Wednesday, operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said. An alarm went off at abo...
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...
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...
SHIZUOKA—It seems unlikely that a child would come out of a dental exam saying, “Mom, do we come here again?” as if she couldn’t bear to leave. But one pediatric dental clinic in Shizuoka is e...
The Japan News has renewed its pages from the March 1 issue. The above is our new weekly schedule of main sections and articles on paper 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...
