June 20, 2019
Schools dedicated to the training and support of female politicians are thriving. An increasing number of their graduates are running — and winning — in unified local elections, indicating that these schools are playing a vital role in nurturing female assembly members and Diet lawmakers. One ...
BEIJING (Reuters) — China’s President Xi Jinping has arrived in North Korea, Chinese state media said on Thursday. Xi will be in North Korea for two days, becoming the first Chinese leader to visit the reclusive country in 14 years, and could bring fresh support measures for its floundering, ...
Dozens of vessels gather from all over Japan at the Port of Kobe in Kobe on Thursday to guard Osaka Bay during the G20 summit being held on June 28-29. About 60 vessels of the Japan Coast Guard will cover the area around Intex Osaka, which is the main venue for the summit in Suminoe Ward, Osaka. The...
HALLE, Germany (AP) — Defending champion Borna Coric outlasted Portuguese qualifier Joao Sousa 7-6 (7-4), 5-7, 7-6 (7-4) to reach the quarterfinals of the Halle Open on Wednesday. Coric, who defeat...
Some might mock it as “only a monster movie for children,” but there are probably a variety of reasons why it has many fans. Recently, I watched the latest Hollywood film version of Godzilla calle...
Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a woman in my 30s. I work as a company employee, and I’d like some advice about my job. Ever since I was promoted to management last year, all kinds of people have bee...
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The International Boxing Association is near bankruptcy, days before a decision to formally exclude the body from the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. AIBA executive director Tom V...
FAISALABAD, Pakistan (AP) — At first, in her desperate calls home to her mother in Pakistan, Natasha Masih couldn’t bring herself to say what they were doing to her. All the 19-year-old would say...
Leaders of ruling and opposition parties should discuss domestic and international issues from a broad perspective. This must continuously be kept in mind. Ruling and opposition party leaders debated...
YouTube’s first live broadcast of a Major League Baseball game will be July 18 when the Philadelphia Phillies host the Los Angeles Dodgers. MLB and YouTube are partnering to live stream 13 games aft...
Japan is an archipelago frequently afflicted by disasters and surrounded by the sea. The nation must remain alert to the risk of tsunami. A powerful earthquake hit Niigata Prefecture and other areas...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Public prosecutors arrested the effective owner of a Japanese brokerage house and three others on Thursday on charges of illegally reimbursing customers for losses they posted ...
TOKYO (Reuters) — The Bank of Japan kept monetary policy steady on Thursday, preferring to save its dwindling ammunition as a darkening global growth outlook prompts other major central banks to dro...
DETROIT/PARIS (Reuters) — French automaker Renault SA, its Japanese partner Nissan Motor Co. and tech giant Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo are exploring a partnership to develop and use self-driving vehicl...
OTTAWA (Reuters) — Canada’s federal and provincial governments earned 186 million Canadian dollars ($140 million) in tax revenues from direct sales of cannabis in the first 5½ months of legaliza...
LONDON (AP) — Police who are investigating the death of Argentine soccer player Emiliano Sala arrested a man on Wednesday on suspicion of manslaughter. A single-engine aircraft carrying Sala and pi...
BEIJING (Reuters) — Former Interpol chief Meng Hongwei admitted his guilt during a court hearing on Thursday after Chinese prosecutors accused him of taking 14.5 million yuan ($2.11 million) in bri...
NEW DELHI (Reuters) — Cutting its stake in alliance partner Nissan is not on Renault’s agenda, the French carmaker’s chief executive, Thierry Bollore, said on Wednesday after a global vehicle la...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. has reached a basic agreement with a company in North America to launch talks over the proposed sale of 15 70-seater models of the SpaceJet, the first ...
NEW YORK (Jiji Press) — A Dubai company has sued Nissan Motor Co. for $386 million in damages, accusing the Japanese automaker of violating the terms of a distribution agreement between them, The Wa...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Japan Display Inc. said Wednesday that Chinese investment fund Harvest Tech Investment Management Co. will increase its investment in the ailing Japanese company to a maximum of...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The Diet enacted legislation on Wednesday to establish a scheme that will allow law students to complete their undergraduate studies in three years and take the bar exam while ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve left its key interest rate unchanged Wednesday, but signaled that it is prepared to start cutting rates if needed to protect the U.S. economy from trade confli...
An earthquake measuring upper 6 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale of 7 struck off Yamagata Prefecture on Tuesday night. A total of 26 people had been reported injured in Yamagata, Niigata, Miy...
Yamaha Motor Co. is weighing anchor on its boat rental and sharing services, allowing even top-of-the-line luxury boats to be rented short-term. Since marine recreation has a deep-rooted image of be...
One year has passed since the Private Lodging Business Law (also known as the minpaku law) came into effect, which allows travelers to stay in vacant rooms in houses for a fee. The number of such p...
Vegan options at restaurants and on supermarket shelves are increasing in Japan to better serve tourists from the United States and Europe, where diets free of animal products are common. Now efforts ...
E-commerce company Rakuten, Inc. and supermarket chain Seiyu GK announced Monday that they will offer a delivery service using drones. The Seiyu store in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, will transpor...
Payment for sumo wrestlers in the top two makuuchi and juryo divisions consists mainly of monthly salaries and bonuses, which depend on their performance. Monthly salaries range from ¥1.1 million fo...
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump said he’ll hold trade talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping next week at a summit of nations in Japan. And U.S. and Chinese negotiators will resume...
BEIJING (Bloomberg) — Huawei Technologies Co. founder Ren Zhengfei expects U.S. sanctions to curtail its revenue by about $30 billion over the coming two years, wiping out the networking giant’s g...
MUTSU, Aomori — Osorezan, an otherworldly volcanic area in Mutsu, northern Aomori Prefecture, is like a theme park of death and reincarnation, featuring glimpses of heaven and hell. There are crag...
The latest case of an erroneous survey result seems to show a lack of proper awareness that a new missile defense project is meant to establish important security policy-related facilities. The Defens...
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,...
Southampton may be known for Japanese football player Maya Yoshida, who plays for Southampton FC, or for its famous port where the RMS Titanic departed before sinking. The reason why I am studying he...
We were six large bodies crammed inside a five-seat sedan, laughing even as our hearts fluttered at the sudden braking and inconsistent lane-crossing the driver, our classmate, undertook to get throu...
In my childhood, summer was the season of kaiju, or oversized and grotesque monsters. Year after year, TV channels and movie theaters scheduled reruns of popular kaiju movies, and I would watch, at ho...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) — Pop singer and songwriter Taylor Swift has released a star-studded music video that scolded social media trolls and urged fans to sign a petition demanding U.S. legal protect...
The Summer Sonic music festival will mark its 20th edition in August, featuring a star-studded lineup of both overseas and domestic artists. Affectionately known as “Samasoni,” the musical extra...
