March 11, 2014
Tuesday marked the third anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake. The catastrophe left 15,884 people dead and 2,633 missing as of Monday, according to the National Police Agency. Many people in coastal areas of Fukushima, Iwate and Miyagi prefectures that were struck by massive tsunami praye...
KIEV (AP)—The Crimean parliament voted Tuesday that the Black Sea peninsula will declare itself an independent state if its residents agree to split off from Ukraine and join Russia in a referendum. Crimea’s regional legislature on Tuesday adopted a “declaration of independence of the Auton...
University of Yamanashi Prof. Teruhiko Wakayama, who coauthored two articles about stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency (STAP) cells with RIKEN researcher Haruko Obokata and others, has called on all the researchers involved to withdraw the articles, saying there are many questionable poi...
The dollar drifted in a narrow range moderately above ¥103 in Tokyo trading on Tuesday, as the Bank of Japan decided to keep its monetary policy unchanged in line with market expectations. At 5 p....
WASHINGTON (AP)—The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from a school that tried to ban students from wearing “I (heart) Boobies!” bracelets to promote breast cancer awareness, ending a ...
ISE, Mie—A preseason game between two tradition-rich teams took place in a different atmosphere Monday, as the Yomiuri Giants and Hanshin Tigers each wore the uniform number of a legendary pitcher ...
MORIOKA—“I will stay here,” Daiki Sato, 18, declared to a photograph of his late mother, Sakiko. He spoke to the photo on March 1 in the Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, disaster housing unit where h...
Haruki Onodera, a 17-year-old student in his second year at Motoyoshi Hibiki High School in Miyagi Prefecture, lost his parents and grandmother in the disaster. Now, he has made up his mind to become...
More than 1,500 children lost one or both of their parents in the Great East Japan Earthquake. Today, those survivors are striving to live the best lives they can, accompanied by the memories of thei...
Eikatsu Yoshida, the father of three-time Olympic wrestling champion Saori Yoshida, died Tuesday after suffering a brain hemorrhage while driving in Mie Prefecture, police reported. Yoshida, 61, wa...
CARACAS (AP)—The opposition mayor of San Cristobal said Monday that Venezuelan government forces attacked and dismantled barricades raised by protesters at key intersections in his city and fired t...
SAN SALVADOR (AP)—Authorities in El Salvador began the final count of votes Monday in a presidential runoff whose razor-close margin led the conservative challenger to announce his party is on “a...
OTSUCHI, Iwate—“I wonder if you’ll have a grandchild by the time you read this.” In January, a letter from a woman who remains missing after the March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake reach...
INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AP)—Defending champions Rafael Nadal and Maria Sharapova were upset in the third round of the BNP Paribas Open on Monday. First, Sharapova went down to qualifier Camila Giorg...
Kei Nishikori was ousted by Germany’s Tommy Haas in the third round of the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, Calif. on Monday, denying the Japanese star a chance to face former world No. 1 Roger F...
Takanobu Okabe, a member of Japan’s gold medal-winning ski jump team at the 1998 Nagano Olympics, will retire after this season, it was learned Tuesday. Okabe, 43, will become a coach of his curr...
A 35-year-old man prays for the soul of his uncle, who became a victim of the March 11, 2011, tsunami, at the site where his uncle’s house stood in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, early Tuesday...
DALLAS (AP)—When the pounding of their sticks on the boards didn’t get the attention of the officials, Dallas Stars players jumped off the bench and onto the ice while the game was going on. Te...
As the sun rises in the morning of March 11, 2014, local residents are seen vowing to reconstruct the disaster-hit area on the top of Mt. Hiyori in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture.
KUALA LUMPUR (AP)—One of the two men traveling on a missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner with a stolen passport was a 19-year-old Iranian man believed to be trying to migrate to Germany, and had no te...
SUGAR LAND, Texas (AP)—Retired NBA star Tracy McGrady is moving closer to his dream of playing professional baseball. The Sugar Land Skeeters have invited the 34-year-old McGrady to spring traini...
Stocks staged a rebound on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Tuesday, helped by buybacks after the previous day’s fall. The 225-issue Nikkei average climbed 103.97 points, or 0.69 percent, to end at 15,224...
AMSTERDAM (AP)—In a blow to the Netherlands’ World Cup hopes, midfielder Kevin Strootman appears certain to miss the tournament due to a serious knee injury. AS Roma said Monday the 24-year-old...
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 ...
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...
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It’s becoming increasingly difficult to be an effective English teacher these days without an understanding of ESP. I’m not referring to the Extra Sensory Perception that informs teachers as to h...
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...
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