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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North Korea executes Jang
PYONGYANG (AP)—North Korea said Friday that it executed Kim Jong Un’s uncle as a traitor for trying to seize supreme power, a stunning end for the...
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Uchimura scores Japan Grand Prix
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Rangers see diamond in QB Wilson
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Jordan's 'flu' shoes sell for $104K
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Bolts shock Peyton, Broncos
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Exclusive: Prime Minister Abe on Asia / Japan, ASEAN can play ‘proactive role fo...
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Hi, Annie! / drive up the wall（すごくイライラさせる）
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Japan focuses on hospitality to woo international tourists
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Exclusive: Prime Minister Abe on Asia / ‘A future vision for ASEAN and Japan’...
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Letta govt wins confidence votes
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Pope Francis brings the freshness of the Gospel
For all those assessing the meaning of Pope Francis’ rise and its implications for one of the world’s most powerful transnational institutions, the pontiff has already offered a warning. “If one...
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Uchimura scores Japan Grand Prix
Gymnast Kohei Uchimura became a two-time winner of the Japan Grand Prix when the honors were announced Friday in Tokyo at the 63rd Japan Sports Awards.
Uchimura, 24, this year won his unprecedented f...
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Obama gesture trumps Putin’s money in Cuba
Are the 1950s coming back? The United States and Russia appear to be vying for influence on Cuba again, one with a handshake and the other with money. The White House says Barack Obama’s handshake ...
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A relentlessly pragmatic diplomacy
ABU DHABI—This has been a year when America re-embraced diplomacy after a frustrating decade of war, displaying a relentlessly pragmatic approach that recalls the days of such deal-making former sec...
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Japan tour drops 1 event for '14 season
The Japan men’s pro golf tour plans to stage one less tournament in 2014, although the number could be increased, the Japan Golf Tour Organization announced Thursday. The JGTO, in revealing a 24-...
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Women win, men struggle in curling
FUSSEN, Germany—The Japanese women continued their strong start at the Sochi Olympic curling qualifying tournament on Thursday, while the men saw their hopes of making it to Russia all but end with...
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Injured moguls skier Ito still aims for Sochi
Moguls skier Miki Ito was diagnosed with a damaged right knee ligament suffered in a training fall, but remains determined to recover in time for the Sochi Olympics, the Japan Ski Association announc...
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Rangers see diamond in QB Wilson
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP)—Yes, Russell Wilson loves baseball. But, for now, the Seattle Seahawks’ quarterback is thinking about getting his team to the Super Bowl.
Wilson was selected by the ...
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Jordan's 'flu' shoes sell for $104K
SALT LAKE CITY (AP)—Michael Jordan’s shoes from the famous flu game of the 1997 NBA finals were sold for more than $100,000 in an online auction Thursday.
The Nike Air Jordan XII shoes were own...
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Nets top Clippers as ex-Celts, coach reunite
NEW YORK (AP)—Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett share a championship with Doc Rivers and a bond that didn’t break when they ended up on opposite coasts. “I’ll always have a special place for Do...
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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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Lower house pushes through state secret protection bill
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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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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
ジャパン・ニューズの語学学習ページ、LearningLab（毎週木曜付）で４週に１度掲載している「私の英語勉強法」。その電子書籍第８巻（税込420円）が...
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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！
読売新聞夕刊（東京本社版）で毎週木曜に好評連載中のコラム「ジャパン・ニューズ記者のコレって英語で？」の電子書籍、第12巻（420円、税込）が...
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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...