Japan, Philippines agree on airspace
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Philippine President Benigno Aquino on Friday agreed the two countries will cooperate on the issue of China’s newly d...
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3rd-graders to learn English from 2020
Education minister Hakubun Shimomura said Friday that English will be a formal subject for fifth- and sixth-year students at primary schools starting...
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From dawn till dust
Temple workers dust under the eaves of the main pavilion of Naritasan Shinshoji temple in Narita, Chiba Prefecture, before dawn Friday. The annual rit...
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Putin defends conservative values
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Republicans back budget deal
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U.N. confirms Syria chemical attack
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Missing American in Iran was ‘on CIA mission’
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An ice time in Ginza
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White German shepherd certified as guide dog
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Airlines expect profits to jump
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North Korea executes Jang
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Uchimura scores Japan Grand Prix
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Rangers see diamond in QB Wilson
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New Zealand PM goes ‘unidentified’
WELLINGTON (AP)—Spare a thought for New Zealand Prime Minister John Key, or as he is known in the rest of the world, the “unidentified guest.” Domestically, polls show he’s been a popular l...
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Pilots to train for low-visibility Beijing
BEIJING (AP)—Chinese aviation authorities will soon require captains of domestic flights into Beijing to master low-visibility landings to combat chronic flight delays that have been worsened by he...
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Gas blast at Chinese coal mine traps 22
BEIJING (AP)—A gas explosion on Friday trapped 22 workers underground in a coal mine in western China. The blast at a coal mine in Changji prefecture occurred at 1:26 a.m. Friday when 34 miners w...
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Attacked Chinese boy gets prosthetic eyes
BEIJING (AP)—A 6-year-old Chinese boy whose eyes were gouged out in an attack more than three months ago was discharged Thursday from a hospital in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, where he w...
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Jang was seen as regent
SEOUL (AP)—While hereditary leader Kim Jong Un is the unquestioned ruler of North Korea, until last weekend his uncle, Jang Song Thaek, was thought to be the country’s second-most-powerful figure...
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Putin defends conservative values
MOSCOW (AP)—President Vladimir Putin cast Russia Thursday as a defender of conservative values against the “genderless and infertile” Western tolerance that he said equates good and evil.
Put...
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Republicans back budget deal
WASHINGTON (AP)—The Republican-dominated House of Representatives passed a compromise spending plan Thursday easing across-the-board federal spending cuts and designed to prevent future government s...
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U.N. confirms Syria chemical attack
UNITED NATIONS (AP)—Chemical weapons were probably used in four locations in Syria this year, in addition to the confirmed attack near Damascus in August that forced the government to abandon its s...
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Missing American in Iran was ‘on CIA mission’
WASHINGTON (AP)—An American who vanished nearly seven years ago in Iran was working for the CIA on an unapproved intelligence-gathering mission that, when it came to light inside the government, pr...
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EU pledges more aid for Ukraine
BRUSSELS (AP)—Ukraine’s deputy prime minister said Thursday his financially troubled country will soon sign a trade and cooperation deal with the EU after the bloc promised more aid to the former...
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Hi, Annie! / drive up the wall（すごくイライラさせる）
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MUSINGS / Dec. 7, 2013
The following is a translation of the Henshu Techo column from The Yomiuri Shimbun’s Dec. 7 issue. * * * A passage in “Kokoro” (The heart of things), a novel by Soseki Natsume (...
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Learning Japanese from the news / Gyudon restaurants feeling the squeeze
Stay abreast of current events and learn Japanese at the same time through articles originally printed in The Yomiuri KODOMO Shimbun.
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Culture
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Mystery of drumming: Kodo’s performance beautifully stylized but free
SADO, Niigata—Kodo, a renowned taiko drum troupe based on Sado Island, will launch a new show in Tokyo and Yokohama this month that draws heavily on Japanese folklore. Titled “Mystery,” the show...
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Dots of color that changed Western art
An exhibition under way at The National Art Center, Tokyo, in Roppongi covers an assortment of painters who used Pointillist methods—applying numerous tiny colored dots of paint—from the end of th...
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Maiko guides give Kyoto show a colorful twist
KYOTO—With the cameras rolling, two apprentice geiko, called maiko, approach the deputy chief priest of Matsuno-o Taisha shrine in Kyoto, and begin their interview with the phrase, “Okini, otano m...
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INTERVIEW WITH AMBASSADOR KENNEDY / U.S. ‘has no truer friend than Japan’
The United States “has no more important ally than Japan,” new U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy said during an exclusive interview with The Yomiuri Shimbun, in which she described the imp...
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Japan, U.S. to up Senkaku surveillance
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Volcanic eruption raises new islet amid Ogasawara Islands
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U.S. funding to relocate marines OK’d
WASHINGTON—The armed services committees of both houses of the U.S. Congress have effectively approved spending to relocate 4,000 U.S. marines stationed in Okinawa Prefecture to Guam from the U.S. f...
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Japan in Depth / Abe-Biden talks highlight efforts to counter China
The meeting between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday underscored the significance of the Japan-U.S. alliance in countering China’s establishment of an air defen...
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Abe, Biden lean on China to drop air defense zone
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and visiting U.S. Vice President Joe Biden Tuesday agreed to urge China to eliminate its newly established air defense identification zone that includes airspace over the Sen...
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New grad job market still ‘highly selective’
University students and others set to graduate in spring 2015 cannot be overly optimistic during this year’s job hunting season, which officially started Sunday, as companies are generally willing t...
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Secrecy law enacted
The House of Councillors has passed into law a divisive bill to protect specially designated state secrets with a majority of support from the ruling bloc, despite fierce resistance from the oppositi...
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Lower house pushes through state secret protection bill
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LOOKING EAST / ‘J-Melo’: Helpful expert for overseas J-pop fans
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好評連載「私の英語勉強法」 電子書籍の第８巻が発売されました
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読売夕刊の人気コラム「コレって英語で？」 電子書籍第12巻が10月25日発売！
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Message to our readers
Today the English-language newspaper published by The Yomiuri Shimbun starts anew under the name of The Japan News.
Amid Japan's declining international presence, the nation is facing a chall...