May 23, 2019
As companies hurry to prepare for the acceptance of foreign workers that they hope will solve their labor shortages, other businesses are offering services to help foreigners obtain visas under the new system and help them in their daily lives. Matsuya Foods Co., which runs a major chain of beef-...
The government’s committee on ceremonies relating to the Imperial succession has settled on the parade route the Emperor and Empress will take on Oct. 22 for the Imperial procession by motorcar after the Ceremony of the Enthronement. The procession, featuring the Imperial couple in a convertib...
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency will hold an international robotics competition in the Japanese Experiment Module Kibo on the International Space Station in 2020, the Yomiuri Shimbun has learned. This will be JAXA’s first attempt to demonstrate the accuracy of manipulating a robot in zer...
HONG KONG (AFP-Jiji) — Shady middle-men are openly advertising on Chinese social media to smuggle blood samples of pregnant women to Hong Kong to skirt the mainland’s ban on gender testing, an AF...
CANNES, France (AP) — Twenty-five years after premiering “Pulp Fiction” in Cannes, Quentin Tarantino returned to the French film festival with neither great vengeance nor furious anger but a ge...
GENEVA (Reuters) — The risk of nuclear weapons being used is at its highest since World War II, a senior U.N. security expert said on Tuesday, calling it an “urgent” issue that the world should...
SEATTLE (AP) — Gov. Jay Inslee signed legislation Tuesday making Washington the first state to approve composting as an alternative to burying or cremating human remains. It allows licensed facil...
MADRID (Reuters) — Jailed Catalan separatists, far-right lawmakers, a record number of women and the biggest Socialist group in years held a rowdy opening session on Tuesday of a parliament that re...
BEIRUT (AP) — Thousands of documents purportedly collected from abandoned Syrian government offices during the country’s civil war reveal the reach of President Bashar Assad’s shadowy, labyrinth...
WASHINGTON (AP) — More Democrats are calling — and more loudly — for impeachment proceedings against U.S. President Donald Trump after his latest defiance of Congress by blocking his former Whit...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. envoy for Libya warned Tuesday that the oil-rich nation “is on the verge of descending into a civil war” that could divide the country and imperil the security of...
JAKARTA (Reuters) — Demonstrations over the outcome of last month’s presidential election gripped the heart of Indonesia’s capital on Wednesday after an overnight face-off between police and pr...
TOROKSZENTMIKLOS, Hungary (Reuters) — Several hundred radical nationalists, including hard-line extremists, protested in a small town in eastern Hungary on Tuesday against what they call “Roma cr...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Japan and the United States are considering holding a ministerial session under their trade negotiation framework in Tokyo this weekend, ahead of a bilateral summit next week, i...
KIEV (AP) — Ukraine’s new president on Tuesday formally ordered Ukraine’s parliament to dissolve and called an early election for July, hoping to ride the wave of his electoral success to get h...
TORONTO (AP) — With a weary Kawhi Leonard fighting through fatigue, the Toronto Raptors found enough energy to pull away from the Milwaukee Bucks. Kyle Lowry led the way. Lowry scored 25 points,...
NEW YORK (AP) — With Dallas’ Luka Doncic and Atlanta’s Trae Young leading the way, the top five NBA draft picks from 2018 have been selected as the top five NBA rookies this season. Doncic an...
In 2018, American women gave birth to the fewest number of children since 1986, according to U.S. government data released last week. The decline since 2007, when a record 4.2 million children were bo...
Acceptance of foreign workers under a new system is coming into full effect. It is essential to create an environment in which they can lead stable lives and not cause any friction in local communitie...
LONDON (Reuters) — Britain’s expensive housing market has so far weathered the uncertainty swirling around the country’s planned departure from the European Union, but average prices are unlikel...
The ongoing confusion in Ukraine, which lies between Europe and Russia, adversely affects the security of Europe as a whole. To improve the situation, it is critical for Ukraine to achieve political s...
PARIS (AFP-Jiji) — The OECD on Tuesday cut its forecast for the world economy, urging governments to resolve their trade disputes as the latest flare-up in the U.S.-China trade war threatens to cri...
BEIJING (Reuters) — China’s three biggest airlines have asked U.S. planemaker Boeing Co. to compensate them for losses caused by the grounding and delayed deliveries of 737 MAX jets, just as regu...
Let’s go with “Abe Shinzo,” not “Shinzo Abe.” Foreign Minister Taro Kono and Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister Masahiko Shibayama, among others, have proposed a re...
Major private railway operators are expanding efforts to make their services more convenient for passengers. The performance of each firm has been solid due to the increase in the number of foreign vi...
The Defense Ministry is considering a plan to employ former Maritime Self-Defense Force members as crew on MSDF vessels for the first time, to make up for a worsening shortage of personnel due to a sh...
Following calamities such as a major earthquake or torrential rain, the spread of rumors via social media has repeatedly occurred, often causing confusion among residents in the disaster-hit areas. ...
The government on Monday demanded that the South Korean government agree to the establishment of an arbitration committee to resolve a lawsuit filed by former Korean wartime requisitioned workers in ...
So-called newcomer vegetables have recently become more common on store shelves. These vegetables, imported or improved through selective breeding, are introducing one new taste after another. Amid a ...
WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) — Beijing is ready to resume trade talks with Washington, Chinese Ambassador to the United States Cui Tiankai said, as a top U.S. business lobby in China said nearly hal...
Following is an interview with culinary school operator Yoshiki Tsuji, who shares his thoughts on washoku traditional Japanese cuisine. I’ve long seen the forefront of food cultures in Europe, th...
The Heisei era (1989-2019) has experienced kaleidoscopic changes in women’s fashion, which reflects the times in which women are living — gorgeous “sauvage” wavy hairstyles in the days of the ...
TOKYO (Reuters) — Japan’s economic growth unexpectedly accelerated in January- March, driven by net contributions from exports and defying forecasts for a contraction in the world’s third-large...
The Japan News has partnered with media startup inkl, a news service that curates articles from the world’s leading publishers for users to read on mobile devices. A selection of articles from The Japan News and The Yomiuri Shimbun is now available to read on inkl, which hosts titles from about 20 countries. 
As one of the measures to strengthen the national soccer team ahead of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, German coach Dettmar Cramer was invited to Japan. He must have studied the traditional culture of Japan,...
Dear Troubleshooter: I am a man in my 80s. I am worried about my two sons in their 50s. I live with my eldest son. A high school graduate, he’s never had a steady job and hasn’t worked over the...
I’m Colin Gamm, a third-year ALT in Ena, Gifu Prefecture. I teach at five elementary and junior high schools. I’m from Portland, Ore., in the United States, but have also lived in China and Nepal...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Smithsonian’s initiative on documenting Asians in America started humbly enough two decades ago, with a borrowed exhibit in a borrowed museum wing and a tiny staff. There wa...
Art museums all over Japan are reopening after undergoing refurbishments. Museums that have completed construction after a long period of closure are thinking of new ways to cultivate new visitors and...
It’s the graduation season again here in the United States, and my university, too, just went through its commencement festivities. The last few years, I had many com-mencement-related tasks as an a...
