February 20, 2019
South Korean authorities collected samples of bottom sediment core in territorial waters and a contiguous zone near Takeshima islands in Shimane Prefecture without Japan’s prior consent several years ago, it has been learned. The seafloor survey activities, including bottom-sediment core sampli...
TOKYO (Reuters) — Honda Motor Co. announced Tuesday it would shut its sole British plant by 2021, a decision the Japanese automaker said was not related to Brexit but which Britain deemed deeply disappointing. Honda, which said the decision was based on changes in the global auto market, will a...
Finnish governmental organization Business Finland and the Embassy of Finland announced Tuesday that they will build a pavilion as an official hospitality house for the Finnish Olympic and Paralympic team and tourists, among other entities, during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — When Nikita Kucherov is at his best, there is little opposing teams can do to stop the Tampa Bay Lightning. Kucherov had two goals and three assists, and the Lightning beat th...
MONACO (Reuters) — World No. 1 tennis player Novak Djokovic crowned a winning return to the courts after surgery with the Laureus sportsman of the year award on Monday, while American gymnast Simone...
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Now that Kyler Murray has decided to play in the NFL instead of reporting to spring training as a first-round draft pick by baseball’s Oakland Athletics, the questions can...
LONDON (AFP-Jiji) — Paul Pogba drove Manchester United into the F.A. Cup quarterfinals and pushed Chelsea manager Maurizio Sarri closer to the sack as the troubled holder crashed to a 2-0 defeat on ...
MILAN (AFP-Jiji) — Italian third-tier side Pro Piacenza was excluded from Serie C on Monday after it fielded a team of just seven players in a 20-0 defeat by league rivals Cuneo, governing body Lega...
RIYADH/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) — Yemen’s warring parties have agreed to start withdrawing forces from the main port of Hodeidah under a U.N.-sponsored deal, the United Nations said, following we...
Qatar Open champion Elise Mertens was upset 5-7, 6-4, 7-5 by Chinese qualifier Zhu Lin after a battle lasting nearly three hours in the first round of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championship on Monday...
BRUSSELS (Reuters) — Ukraine’s foreign minister asked the European Union on Monday for hundreds of millions of euros in loans and aid for infrastructure and businesses in its troubled east and so...
WELLINGTON (Reuters) — Liam Squire is the latest All Blacks player to confirm he is leaving New Zealand after this year’s Rugby World Cup, with the loose forward saying on Monday he has agreed to ...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The Japanese government adopted at a Cabinet meeting Tuesday a bill to revise the civil execution law in order to ease the requirements for handovers of children between divorc...
NEW YORK (AP) — A scientist who raised early alarms about climate change and popularized the term “global warming” has died. Wallace Smith Broecker was 87. The longtime Columbia University pro...
OLIETE, Spain (AFP-Jiji) — “They’re over 500 years old,” says Sira Plana proudly as she points to Oliete’s olive groves, many of which are thriving now thanks to an adoption scheme that has ...
Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a woman in my 50s. I need your advice about my relationship with a friend from elementary school. She underwent a medical checkup and was found to have a disease. She told...
Dear Troubleshooter: I am a female office worker in my 40s and I recently lost my mother. Every day I end up thinking about being with my mother again. When she was alive, the two of us lived togeth...
MIAMI (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday pleaded with Venezuela’s military to support opposition leader Juan Guaido and issued a dire warning if they continue to stand with President Ni...
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Bruce Bochy has always managed with his gut. Those same instincts told him it’s nearly time to retire. Bochy announced Monday this will be his last season managing the Sa...
The traditional craftwork of “Akita Cedar Pails and Barrels” began many years ago in Akita Prefecture, and its techniques were utilized in the making of this tumbler. The cultured Akita cedar, w...
Kusudama, brocade bags containing scents and medicinal herbs, are traditional goods that in old times were kept in order to ward off evil. This product revives the kusudama as a contemporary interior ...
The National Institute of Infectious Diseases announced on Tuesday that 167 people have been infected with measles so far this year — a higher number than usual. Many of the cases have occurred in O...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Japan’s Institute of Cetacean Research, which has conducted research whaling with the Fisheries Agency’s permission, plans to start selling whale meat online for restaurant...
The Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry is considering making telecom equipment makers and software management companies subject to the telecommunications business law, in addition to the tel...
The number of female prosecutors working at the Public Prosecutors Office and other places is increasing. As of the end of March 2018, 482, or 25 percent, of the nation’s 1,957 prosecutors were wome...
Cedar trees forming two groups of concentric circles are seen in Nichinan, Miyazaki Prefecture. The obisugi cedar trees were planted in a local forest to examine the growth and strength of the variety...
The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry’s assessment committee on regenerative medicine approved Monday a clinical trial by Keio University’s team to transplant human induced pluripotent stem (iPS)...
An izakaya is a Japanese tavern — a place where you can drink and eat various small plates like in a Spanish tapas bar. But there’s not quite any precisely accurate word for izakaya in English. ...
This series discusses the present and future of washoku traditional Japanese cuisine. This installment features rice, an indispensable part of washoku. During the Showa era (1926-89), Koshihikari a...
ISHINOMAKI, Miyagi — A piano donated by U.S. pop singer Cyndi Lauper to a municipal hospital in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, to support reconstruction efforts after the 2011 Great East Japan Earth...
LONDON (AP) — The family of a British teenager who ran away to join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militant group and now wants to return to Britain said Sunday she has given birth...
The government is planning to simplify some of the procedures small and midsized companies must go through to change the residence status of foreign students they wish to hire, sources said. The c...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has been found guilty by the Vatican of sex abuse and defrocked, as calls rose Saturday for Pope Francis to reveal what he knew about the once...
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. 
It’s just the long-winded conversations of three middle-aged men in a park, nothing more. What they have in common is they all own Shiba dogs. The drama series “Shiba-Park” features an unusual ...
Internationally, Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) is surely the most famous Japanese artist of all time. A large part of that fame comes from the many-faceted artistry of his best-known woodblock print ...
Sometimes the value of a thing is hard to gauge. There are many facets to the idea of value — monetary, utilitarian, sentimental, symbolic — that often compete against one another. Think, for exam...
