March 10, 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...
OSAKA (Jiji Press)—Four candidates registered for the Osaka mayoral race after Toru Hashimoto resigned to seek reelection and promote his administrative realignment plan for the city and Osaka Prefecture. Hashimoto, 44, filed his candidacy on the ticket of his regional political group, Osaka Is...
AUSTIN, Texas (AP)—Fugitive WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, speaking over Skype from the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, said his living situation is a bit like prison—with a more lenient visitor...
NEW YORK (AP)—A mystery man. A splashy reveal. A media frenzy. Newsweek staked its return from the dead on a story it knew would get attention. A cover story claiming it had uncovered “the face b...
BEIRUT (AP)—Syrian government forces seized a town from rebels near the Lebanese border on Saturday, their latest attempt to cut off opposition fighters’ fluid supply lines from the country, stat...
In a room sits a band of peculiar-looking animals made of trash, beaming with cute expressions. These are the creations of 27-year-old contemporary artist Natsumi Tomita of Mitaka, Tokyo, who has bre...
There is growing concern that communities to be rebuilt under land-use reallocation projects in areas hit by the Great East Japan Earthquake could be left with many empty lots, as a number of local r...
SOPOT, Poland—Japanese teen sprinter Yoshihide Kiryu finished sixth in his men’s 60-meter semifinal heat at the IAAF World Indoor Championships on Saturday, coming up just shy of a spot in the fi...
As leading Japanese companies diversify and globalize their businesses, an increasing number of firms are appointing female and foreign executives to make executive ranks more diversified. With the ...
KABUL (AP)—In 2009, the United States gave Wazhma Frogh the International Woman of Courage award for her women’s rights activism in Afghanistan. Prominently displayed in Frogh’s office is a pic...
CAIRO (AP)—Egypt’s interim president on Saturday issued a much-anticipated decree governing an upcoming presidential election that clears the way for a vote many expect will be won by the country...
Astronaut Koichi Wakata became the first Japanese commander of the International Space Station on Sunday, assuming the leadership of a six-man crew on a mission lasting through May. In a ceremony ab...
KATMANDU (AP)—An Indian jetliner caught fire while landing in Nepal’s capital on Saturday, but there were no casualties reported among the 170 people on board, officials said. The right wheels ...
PHOENIX (AP)—Astronaut twins Mark and Scott Kelly will help NASA study the effects of spaceflight on the human body. NASA announced Friday that the twin brothers will participate in 10 different ...
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 ...
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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