March 9, 2014
Japanese sitting skiers pulled off a one-two finish in the men’s super giant slalom at the Sochi Paralympics on Sunday, with Akira Kano defending his title and Taiki Morii grabbing the silver medal. Kano, who also won the event at the 2010 Vancouver Paralympics, clocked 1 minute 19.51 seconds, ...
Mt. Gox K.K., the collapsed trading platform for the bitcoin digital currency, came under so-called distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks aimed at shutting its servers by overloading them with massive volumes of data in early February, it has been learned. Also between February and earlier...
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...
Ozeki Kakuryu slaps down maegashira No. 1 Endo on Sunday’s opening day of the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament at Osaka Prefectural Gym. Kakuryu has a chance to move up to the yokozuna rank with a stron...
Ten major electronics makers are expected to agree to a uniform basic pay increase of ¥2,000 in this year’s shunto spring wage negotiations, according to sources. The Japanese Electrical Electron...
About 30 percent of companies plan to hire more new university graduates in the spring of 2015 than this year, according to a Jiji Press survey. The number of firms planning to add more new graduat...
CHIBA—A survival knife was likely used in the recent robbery and murder of a corporate employee allegedly committed by a 24-year-old man in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, according to investigative sou...
BEIJING (AP)—China will tighten environmental legislation and force polluters to pay compensation following renewed blasts of toxic air, the country’s top legislator said Sunday. Zhang Dejiang ...
OSLO—Teenage ski jumper Sara Takanashi won her 13th World Cup event this season, extending her personal-best winning streak to five. Takanashi, who has already clinched her second straight overall ...
CLEVELAND (AP)—On a night of celebration, there were two surprising, strange sights: LeBron James back on Cleveland’s bench. The Knicks back in the NBA playoff chase. Carmelo Anthony shook off a...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been actively undertaking summit diplomacy thanks to Diet deliberations progressing as smoothly as the ruling parties expected. It looks as if the envisaged Diet reform ...
TACOMA, Wash. (AP)— Immigrant-rights activists rallied outside the Northwest Detention Center in Washington state on Saturday, while at least 750 detainees protested their treatment with a hunger s...
NANJO, Okinawa—Thailand’s Onnarin Sattaya won the Japan LPGA Tour season opener on Sunday, edging defending champion and 2013 money leader Rikako Morita by two strokes. Sattaya had six birdies a...
Yasuki Hayashi scored the go-ahead try in the second half as the Panasonic Wild Knights downed the Toshiba Brave Lupus 30-21 on Sunday at Tokyo’s National Stadium to win its fourth Japan Championshi...
KUALA LUMPUR (AP)—Malaysia intelligence agencies are investigating how up to four passengers with suspect identities were able to board the missing Boeing 777 jet, the government said, as planes and...
PYONGYANG (AP)—North Koreans went to polling stations on Sunday to approve a new national legislature. The vote for the Supreme People’s Assembly is the first in five years and the first under l...
DORAL, Fla. (AP)—Ian Poulter criticized Hideki Matsuyama on Twitter and referred to him as an “idiot” for damaging the 13th green at Doral with his putter and not repairing it. Matsuyama apolog...
DORAL, Fla. (AP)—In only his second year on the PGA Tour, Patrick Reed already is used to playing in the final group on Sunday—and winning. But not against a field of stars at a World Golf Cham...
DALLAS (AP)—The Dallas Stars got a huge lift from Tim Thomas after a big hit knocked Kari Lehtonen out of the game. Erik Cole scored on a breakaway with 4:49 to play, and the Stars rallied to def...
SOPOT, Poland (AP)—Ashton Eaton won yet another gold medal and again proved himself the “world’s greatest athlete,” the title which traditionally goes to the best multi-event competitor in at...
More than 40 percent of residents in three Tohoku prefectures hope to sell their land or move away from areas subject to land-use reallocation projects drawn up in the wake of the 2011 Great East Jap...
JUPITER, Fla. (AP)—Matt Carpenter called agreeing to a new $52 million, six-year deal with St. Louis a no-brainer. The Cardinals are hoping their third baseman sticks even longer than that. “He...
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...
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...
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...
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