July 21, 2017
TOKYO (Reuters) — The Bank of Japan kept monetary policy steady on Thursday but once again pushed back the timing for achieving its ambitious inflation target, reinforcing views it will lag well behind other major central banks in scaling back its massive stimulus program. With robust exports an...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The number of criminal offenses reported to police in the country in January-June fell 7.7 percent from a year earlier to 450,887, on track to hit an annual postwar low, a National Police Agency report showed Thursday. The annual crime figure has kept declining since peaking...
Tuesday will mark one of this summer’s “doyo no ushi no hi,” a traditional eel-eating day, and this year we are likely to be able to eat eel at slightly cheaper prices than last year. Thanks to larger catches of glass eels for farming compared to last season, the wholesale price of eels decl...
The superhero anime “The Reflection” will premier this Saturday at 11 p.m. on NHK-G. An original production depicting superheroes in American comic book style, the show is the brainchild of two ma...
COL D’IZOARD, France (AP) — On the highest mountain-top finish of the 104th Tour de France, in a rocky moonscape where the air thins, only the hardiest organisms survive. A few pine trees, tough ...
Indonesia has named waters in its exclusive economic zone that overlap with China’s expansive claim to the South China Sea as the North Natuna Sea, an assertion of sovereignty that has angered Beiji...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Regional Revitalization Minister Kozo Yamamoto on Thursday denied media reports that he told veterinary association officials about a new animal medicine faculty plan in a spec...
WASHINGTON (Jiji Press) — Toshihiro Nikai, secretary general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, handed U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., Japanese digestive medicine “Seiroga...
CHICAGO (AP) — While the Chicago White Sox are looking to the future as their top prospect made his debut with the club, the Los Angeles Dodgers are just fine in the present. The MLB-best Dodgers s...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The ruling Liberal Democratic Party and the main opposition Democratic Party agreed Wednesday to hold a House of Representatives committee meeting on Monday attended by Prime M...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The Consumer Affairs Agency on Wednesday accused GungHo Online Entertainment Inc. of running unfair advertising on its mobile games, including the popular Puzzle & Dragons, in ...
HIROSHIMA (Jiji Press) — The Hiroshima District Court rejected Wednesday a petition calling for the reversal of a Japanese government decision to exclude a Korean school from its tuition-free high ...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The Supreme Court is expected to release as early as autumn a unified ruling for 16 lawsuits designed to invalidate the July 2016 House of Councillors election due to wide vote...
WASHINGTON (Bloomberg) — President Donald Trump is now more likely than ever to end his first year in office without a single major legislative accomplishment. His Obamacare repeal collapsed Tuesda...
SEOUL (Jiji Press) — The South Korean government will set up a task force to examine the landmark 2015 bilateral agreement with Japan to resolve the so-called comfort women issue “finally and irr...
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — As the clock ticked down on the Spurs’ season and Manu Ginobili was pulled from the game, a thunderous roar from the home crowd guided him to the bench. Ginobili wore an apprec...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The United States and China failed on Wednesday to agree on major new steps to reduce the U.S. trade deficit with China, casting doubt over U.S. President Donald Trump’s eco...
MONTEVIDEO (AP) — Marijuana aficionados lined up at pharmacies across Uruguay on Wednesday to be among the first in the South American nation to legally buy pot as a law regulating its sale took fu...
HONG KONG/TOKYO (Bloomberg) — The Bank of Japan’s determination to press on with its unprecedented monetary stimulus leaves it out of step with developed world peers, which are either raising rat...
TOKYO (Reuters) — A Japanese campaign group whose members include lawyers and academics called on Wednesday for a change in psychiatric hospitals’ practice of putting patients under prolonged res...
LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) — The Chicago Bears on Wednesday signed quarterback Mitchell Trubisky, their first-round draft pick and the No. 2 overall selection in April. Trubisky gets a four-year contra...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Arizona Sen. John McCain, the 2008 Republican presidential nominee with a well-known maverick streak that often vexes his GOP colleagues, has been diagnosed with a brain tumor, hi...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Iran continues to be the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, the Trump administration said Wednesday in a new report that also noted a decline in the number of terrorist...
Blessed with unmatched battle skills and dubbed the strongest in the Iga ninja group, Mumon is greatly feared by his enemies. At home, however, he’s a bit lazy and a henpecked husband. Mumon is th...
The Japan Coast Guard will start training pilots of fixed-wing aircraft on its own, it has been learned. JCG pilots are currently trained by the Maritime Self-Defense Force. The importance of warn...
Dear junior high and high school students reading this paper. Hello again, it’s Hajime. As this column — which is also carried in The Yomiuri Chukosei Shimbun — is translated into English, I’...
The government is planning to further promote exports of environment-related infrastructure projects — including Japan’s already widely used waste collection and treatment systems — to developi...
The government plans to equip the Air Self-Defense Force’s F-2 fighters with a new air-to-ship missile from next fiscal year, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned. It will allocate several hundred milli...
CHIBA — The Giga Dinosaur Exhibition 2017, which exhibits reconstructed full-body skeletons and fossil specimens from many dinosaurs, opened at Makuhari Messe in Mihama Ward, Chiba, on Saturday. M...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — This year’s rainy season seems to be over in the eastern and western Japan regions of Kanto-Koshin, Tokai, Kinki, Chugoku and Shikoku, the Japan Meteorological Agency said Wed...
Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike met with Tamayo Marukawa, minister in charge of the 2020 Tokyo Games, and Toshiro Muto, director general of the Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games,...
The government is increasing its vigilance against Chinese government vessels entering Japan’s territorial waters, believing that China may have been intentionally repeating such acts. Two China Co...
The education ministry intends to establish international research centers, principally at regional universities, in a bid to promote world-class basic research in specific fields at such institution...
読売新聞日曜日付の英語面「えいご工房」で好評連載中のコラム「特派員直伝 とらべる英会話」の書籍版が研究社から出版されました。詳しくはこちらから
The following is a translation of the Henshu Techo column from The Yomiuri Shimbun’s July 8 issue. * * * Torahiko Terada (1878-1935) looked into a mirror to draw a self-portrait. Bu...
The following is a translation of the Henshu Techo column from The Yomiuri Shimbun’s July 5 issue. * * * A microphone placed somewhere in the baseball stadium picked up the conversa...
The concept for the exhibition “Sunshower: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia 1980s to Now” that opened recently at two major art museums in the Roppongi district of Tokyo — the National Art C...
After grueling auditions that lasted more than a year, five boys aged 10 to 15 will share the title role in “Billy Elliot the Musical” as the play prepares for its Japan premiere on July 25 in Tok...
“How can I make this a little brighter?” Children were speaking into handmade light-emitting diode devices that vary in their degree of brightness, depending on the sound captured by a microphon...
The Takahatafudoson Kongoji temple in Hino, Tokyo, is about 10-minute ride from the Asakawa river cycling path, a 20-kilometer route that connects the Tamagawa river in eastern Hino to a spot near Mt....
A sign reads “Watch Out For Mamushi Vipers” in the city of Akishima, western Tokyo, along the Tamagawa river cycling path. The Akishima Police Station and the city’s crime prevention association...
Two sets of wheels and their axles rest on the ground in the city of Akishima, Tokyo, by the Tamagawa cycling path. There was a head-on collision of trains on what is now the JR Hachiko Line on Aug. 2...
For cyclists riding on the Asakawa cycling path, a nice place to take a break is a footbath facility in the Kitano Disposal Center in Hachioji, Tokyo, which sits right next to the path. The 20-kilomet...
