March 17, 2014
The parents of Megumi Yokota, who was abducted by North Korea nearly 40 years ago, met her daughter for the first time in Mongolia earlier this month, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned. Shigeru Yokota, 81, and his wife, Sakie, 78, met their 26-year-old granddaughter, Kim He Gyung, from March 10 to ...
Kyoto University will publicly seek candidates both at home and abroad for the next president of the university, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned. Aiming to attract excellent researchers and students from all over the world, the university concluded that it needs a strong leader, free of the shac...
SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine (AP) — Fireworks exploded and Russian flags fluttered above jubilant crowds Sunday after residents in Crimea voted overwhelmingly to secede from Ukraine and join Russia. The United States and Europe condemned the ballot as illegal and destabilizing and were expected to slap sa...
PARIS—Hello Kitty had many well-wishers for her 40th birthday, as people flocked to an event held here during Paris Fashion Week. Hello Kitty is a popular feline character of Sanrio Co., and produc...
From April, “Onomato Pera Pera” will appear in the JN LearningLab Pages of the Japan News.
Two and a half years after she first came onto the scene, there aren’t many people left who don’t know her. In high school, her friends called her “Kyary.” “Pamyu Pamyu” was her own addi...
Bogus smartphone apps that claim to be for existing stores have become increasingly common, exposing app users to theft of personal information. The fake apps are for such businesses as the Matsumoto...
This is the fourth installment in a series on the worsening relations between Japan and China. China has been waging a campaign to shift international public opinion to make it against Japan over...
SAN DIEGO (AP)—Veterinarians at the San Diego Zoo have performed an operation on a newborn gorilla that was delivered by cesarean section. The zoo says the two-kilogram female was born Wednesday b...
Octopus prices are rising ahead of spring, when demand is high, due chiefly to sharp drops in hauls off Morocco and Mauritania since last summer. Prices of frozen octopus have soared more than 30 p...
Nationwide efforts are on the rise to promote so-called health tourism, which takes a different approach to sightseeing by focusing on health. With many provincial regions facing declining population...
SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine (AP)—Russian forces backed by helicopter gunships and armored vehicles Saturday took control of a village near the border with Crimea on the eve of a referendum on whether the re...
Saori Yoshida held a photo of her deceased father while leading the procession into Tokyo’s Azusawa Gymnasium during the opening ceremony of the women’s World Cup team tournament. Yoshida, who l...
ALGIERS (AP)—About 100 Algerian activists from a new antigovernment movement staged a rare protest Saturday against the ailing president and his decision to run for a fourth term. While there was...
FALUN, Sweden (AP)—Akito Watabe of Japan won a Nordic combined World Cup ahead of Olympic gold medalist Joergen Graabak of Norway and third-place Alessandro Pittin of Italy on Saturday. Watabe ea...
OSAKA—In his third tournament as a top-division makuuchi wrestler, Egypt-born No. 11 maegashira Osunaarashi is in top form. On Sunday, Osunaarashi lost to No. 1 maegashira Endo, seeing his winnin...
KUALA LUMPUR (AP)—Malaysian authorities on Sunday were examining an elaborate flight simulator taken from the home of one of the pilots of the missing jetliner, after it was established that whoever...
SOCHI—Taiki Morii’s fourth attempt to win a Paralympic gold has ended in bitter disappointment. Once again, the 33-year-old came up short of achieving his dream. On Saturday, Morii finished seve...
SEOUL—In South Korea, where the smartphone penetration rate has reached more than 70 percent compared to 25 percent in Japan, more advanced fraud tactics have been reported. For example, a smartph...
‘A Decade Later, Genetic Map Yields Few New Cures,” said a New York Times headline in June 2010. It declared the failure of the $3 billion Human Genome Project and claimed that medicine had seen ...
BIRMINGHAM, England (AP)—Chelsea threw the Premier League title race wide open by losing 1-0 at Aston Villa on Saturday, ensuring Manchester City trimmed the gap to the leaders to six points with a ...
Computer-graphic images are projected onto the Sanmon gate of Chion-in temple, a national treasure, during a 15-minute light show that fascinated visitors to the Kyoto Higashiyama Hanatoro, an event i...
A powerful earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 6.2 jolted wide areas in the west of the nation early Friday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The quake, which struck at about 2:06 a.m., ...
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...
Senior RIKEN officials bowed deeply during a Tokyo press conference Friday to apologize for the fact research articles about stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency (STAP) cells were written i...
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 ...
OSAKA—The recent confusion regarding articles published by scientific journal Nature on stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency (STAP) cells may cause adverse effects on Japan’s studies of...
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...
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...
Japan and China, two East Asian regional powers, have been unable to hold summit talks since they started feuding with each other over the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea. Japan’s relations...
From April, “Onomato Pera Pera” will appear in the JN LearningLab Pages of the Japan News.
The following is a translation of the Henshu Techo column from The Yomiuri Shimbun’s March 6 issue. * * * Haiku poet Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) supposedly said, “Any 3-shaku-tall [e...
A few months ago I was on a business trip to Canada with some colleagues, and we ended up being invited to have dinner at a nice Italian restaurant with a friendly and engaging professor, whom I’ll ...
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. ...
The Japan News has renewed its pages from the March 1 issue. The above is the new weekly schedule of main sections and articles in our print editions.
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