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 stati...
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TPP nations ax goal of deal this year
SINGAPORE (Jiji Press)—Japan, the United States and 10 other countries in Trans-Pacific Partnership trade talks ended a four-day ministerial meetin...
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Analysis / Kim concentrates power in his hands
SEOUL/BEIJING—By purging his right-hand man, Jang Song Thaek, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un revamped the power structure only two years after the...
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Kennedy visits Nagasaki, tours A-bomb museum
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Horse-drawn plaque
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Protesters, police in Kiev clash
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Economy watchers’ sentiment improves in Nov.
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Group C opener a ‘crucial’ hurdle for Samurai Blue
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Torre, La Russa, Cox elected to HOF
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McCown, Bears leave ’Boys in the cold
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Nuggets grind out frugal win
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Learning Japanese from the news / Skyscraper built at site of terrorism
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Miracle shot caps Miyazato’s 1st win
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Gold futures advance
NEW YORK (Bloomberg)—Gold rose Monday for the first time in three sessions in New York on speculation that demand for jewelry, bars and coins may increase and as a weaker dollar boosted the appeal ...
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Abe Cabinet approval rating drops to 55%
The approval rating of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Cabinet fell nine percentage points to 55 percent, the lowest since its launch in December in 2012, according to a nationwide opinion poll recentl...
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Kennedy visits Nagasaki, tours A-bomb museum
NAGASAKI (Jiji Press)—U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy made her first visit Tuesday to Nagasaki, one of the two cities atom-bombed by the United States in August 1945.
She visited Hirosh...
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Secrecy law to be enacted
The government decided Tuesday to have a controversial state secrecy law promulgated on Friday. The law, which is intended to protect designated state secrets while imposing stricter penalties on t...
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Premier emphasizes need for secrecy law
Commenting on Friday’s enactment of the state secrecy law, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stressed the need for the controversial law, despite lingering strong criticism. “It was necessary to seek e...
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Brent crude falls on German output as WTI’s discount narrows
NEW YORK (Bloomberg)—Brent crude tumbled after German industrial output unexpectedly fell, signaling an uneven recovery for Europe’s largest economy. The oil’s premium over West Texas Intermedi...
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Horse-drawn plaque
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Eda launched opposition study group in Diet
Kenji Eda, a defector from Your Party, and lawmakers from other opposition parties launched a study group on Tuesday with an eye on a possible realignment of Japan’s opposition parties. The group...
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New defense program budget to be increaseed
The government and ruling bloc plan to increase the budget for measures to be included in a planned new mid-term defense program, sources have said. The hike is intended to help strengthen the defe...
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MSDF vessel joins antipiracy mission
A Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer joined an international antipiracy task force on Tuesday in the Gulf of Aden off Somalia, Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera said. One of two destroyers Japan...
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Learning Japanese from the news / Skyscraper built at site of terrorism
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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Let's try! 算数の英語
算数を英語で楽しく学ぶ「Let’s try! 算数の英語」。今回は分数を使った計算の問題です。
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Christmas is around the corner.
The Christmas tree in Akiko’s...
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Leaders on the podium / ケネディ大統領の演説にあふれた「純真なアメリカ」
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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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Albania agrees to destroy Syria weapons
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INTERVIEW WITH AMBASSADOR KENNEDY / U.S. ‘has no truer friend than Japan’
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Japan, U.S. to up Senkaku surveillance
In response to China’s declaration of an air defense identification zone over the East China Sea that includes the Senkaku Islands in Okinawa Prefecture, the Japanese and U.S. governments have confi...
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Volcanic eruption raises new islet amid Ogasawara Islands
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Kennedy steps into new limelight
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Princess Masako attends more official functions
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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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Lower house pushes through state secret protection bill
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Kennedy arrives in Japan as new U.S. ambassador
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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...