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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From dawn till dust
Temple workers dust under the eaves of the main pavilion of Naritasan Shinshoji temple in Narita, Chiba Prefecture, before dawn Friday. The annual rit...
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Airlines expect profits to jump
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North Korea executes Jang
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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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General Motors to sell stake in PSA Peugeot Citroen
DETROIT (AP)—General Motors Co. has decided to unload its 7 percent stake in French automaker PSA Peugeot Citroen. The Detroit company said Thursday that it is selling all 24.8 million shares of PS...
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Ford to add 11,000 jobs in 2014
SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (Bloomberg)— Ford Motor Co. plans to add 11,000 jobs in the United States and Asia in 2014, with more than half of those hires coming in the latter region where the company is...
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Bitcoin startup raises $25 million
WASHINGTON (Bloomberg)— Coinbase Inc., a provider of online Bitcoin accounts and transaction services, raised $25 million in funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. Existing investors Union Square V...
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Airlines expect profits to jump
GENEVA (AP)—The global airline industry expects its profits to jump to a record high next year, helped by falling jet fuel prices, rising travel demand and cost-cutting.
The International Air Tran...
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JR group firms apply for fare hike
Six Japan Railway group companies have filed applications with the transport ministry on Thursday to change their fares to reflect the consumption tax increase in April. It will be the first fare i...
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Gold falls most in 10 weeks
NEW YORK (Bloomberg)—Gold capped the biggest drop in 10 weeks in New York on Thursday amid concern that the Federal Reserve Board will reduce its bond buying as U.S. lawmakers reached a budget agre...
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Power output down by 0.5% in Nov.
The amount of electricity the nation’s 10 regional power suppliers generated and purchased in November edged down 0.5 percent from a year before to 71.96 billion kilowatt-hours, down for the first ...
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Dollar briefly hits 5-year high near ¥104 in Tokyo trading
The dollar surged to a five-year high slightly below ¥104 at one point in Tokyo trading Friday, thanks chiefly to signs of improvement in U.S. consumption shown by economic data released overnight. ...
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Daiwa signs tie-up agreement with Malaysia investment bank
Daiwa Securities Group Inc. on Friday signed a business tie-up agreement with Malaysia’s Affin Investment Bank. Daiwa will provide information on Japanese stocks to institutional investors in Mal...
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Merrill agrees to pay $131.8 mil. to SEC
WASHINGTON (AP)—Merrill Lynch has agreed to pay $131.8 million to settle U.S. civil charges that it misled investors about risky mortgage bonds it sold ahead of the 2008 financial crisis. The Sec...
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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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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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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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Lower house pushes through state secret protection bill
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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...