March 17, 2014
The parents of Megumi Yokota, who was abducted by North Korea nearly 40 years ago, met her daughter for the first time in Mongolia earlier this month, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned. Shigeru Yokota, 81, and his wife, Sakie, 78, met their 26-year-old granddaughter, Kim He Gyung, from March 10 to ...
Kyoto University will publicly seek candidates both at home and abroad for the next president of the university, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned. Aiming to attract excellent researchers and students from all over the world, the university concluded that it needs a strong leader, free of the shac...
SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine (AP)—Residents of Ukraine’s Crimea region voted on Sunday in a contentious referendum on whether to split off and seek annexation by Russia. The vote is regarded as illegitimate both by the acting Ukrainian government and by the West, but is widely expected to pass. Crimea...
Octopus prices are rising ahead of spring, when demand is high, due chiefly to sharp drops in hauls off Morocco and Mauritania since last summer. Prices of frozen octopus have soared more than 30 p...
Nationwide efforts are on the rise to promote so-called health tourism, which takes a different approach to sightseeing by focusing on health. With many provincial regions facing declining population...
SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine (AP)—Russian forces backed by helicopter gunships and armored vehicles Saturday took control of a village near the border with Crimea on the eve of a referendum on whether the re...
Saori Yoshida held a photo of her deceased father while leading the procession into Tokyo’s Azusawa Gymnasium during the opening ceremony of the women’s World Cup team tournament. Yoshida, who l...
ALGIERS (AP)—About 100 Algerian activists from a new antigovernment movement staged a rare protest Saturday against the ailing president and his decision to run for a fourth term. While there was...
FALUN, Sweden (AP)—Akito Watabe of Japan won a Nordic combined World Cup ahead of Olympic gold medalist Joergen Graabak of Norway and third-place Alessandro Pittin of Italy on Saturday. Watabe ea...
OSAKA—In his third tournament as a top-division makuuchi wrestler, Egypt-born No. 11 maegashira Osunaarashi is in top form. On Sunday, Osunaarashi lost to No. 1 maegashira Endo, seeing his winnin...
KUALA LUMPUR (AP)—Malaysian authorities on Sunday were examining an elaborate flight simulator taken from the home of one of the pilots of the missing jetliner, after it was established that whoever...
SOCHI—Taiki Morii’s fourth attempt to win a Paralympic gold has ended in bitter disappointment. Once again, the 33-year-old came up short of achieving his dream. On Saturday, Morii finished seve...
SEOUL—In South Korea, where the smartphone penetration rate has reached more than 70 percent compared to 25 percent in Japan, more advanced fraud tactics have been reported. For example, a smartph...
‘A Decade Later, Genetic Map Yields Few New Cures,” said a New York Times headline in June 2010. It declared the failure of the $3 billion Human Genome Project and claimed that medicine had seen ...
BIRMINGHAM, England (AP)—Chelsea threw the Premier League title race wide open by losing 1-0 at Aston Villa on Saturday, ensuring Manchester City trimmed the gap to the leaders to six points with a ...
Computer-graphic images are projected onto the Sanmon gate of Chion-in temple, a national treasure, during a 15-minute light show that fascinated visitors to the Kyoto Higashiyama Hanatoro, an event i...
A “cherry blossom” train is running on a subway line in Taipei to promote the Tohoku region as a travel destination for Taiwan tourists. The six-car train adorned with cherry blossom photos ins...
The government has decided to allow regional chambers of commerce and nonprofit organizations to register trademarks for so-called B-class cuisine, commercial jingles and even colors, a move expected...
CAIRO (AP)—An Egyptian singer known for his antigovernment songs said Saturday that authorities stopped him from performing at an arts festival attended by the country’s interim president and mil...
NEW DELHI (AP)—India’s top court on Saturday temporarily stayed the hanging of two of the four men convicted for the 2012 gang rape and murder of a young woman on a bus in New Delhi. The Suprem...
CHIBA—To learn the art of drawing shojo manga—comics for girls—like a proper artist, learning from a pro may be the fastest way. An illustration school at Aeon Mall Makuhari New City in Chiba se...
SINSHEIM, Germany (Jiji-Japan News)—Japan forward Shinji Okazaki scored two goals for Mainz 05 as the away team beat Hoffenheim 4-2 on Saturday. With the double, Okazaki extended his scoring tota...
Congratulations, taxpayers! Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage-finance companies whose September 2008 bailout set off a financial fireball, just repaid you in full. You even made a small profit...
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., ...
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...
Senior RIKEN officials bowed deeply during a Tokyo press conference Friday to apologize for the fact research articles about stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency (STAP) cells were written i...
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...
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...
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A few months ago I was on a business trip to Canada with some colleagues, and we ended up being invited to have dinner at a nice Italian restaurant with a friendly and engaging professor, whom I’ll ...
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. ...
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.
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