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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U.S. urges China to release Liu Xiaobo
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Thai PM rejects resignation call
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Kanebo’s go-slow approach leaves victims red with rage
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‘Miracle tea’ served after surviving slides
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In the News / Shihoko Fujiwara / Tackling human trafficking in Japan
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New American Airlines emerges as deal closes
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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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Canada to include North Pole in claims
TORONTO (AP)—Canada intends to extend its seabed claims in the Arctic to include the North Pole in a bid to assert its sovereignty in the resource-rich region, the country’s foreign affairs minis...
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U.S. skeptical of N. Korea’s intent
WASHINGTON (AP)—The dramatic ouster of the uncle of North Korea’s young ruler has sidelined the reputed second-most powerful official in the secretive hierarchy but Washington is not banking on a ...
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U.S. urges China to release Liu Xiaobo
BEIJING (AP)—Five years after his detention, the U.S. is calling for the release of Chinese Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo and an end to his wife’s undeclared house arrest.
Washington rema...
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Thai PM rejects resignation call
BANGKOK (AP)—Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said Tuesday she would not resign ahead of national elections set for Feb. 2, her voice filling with emotion as she discussed her family’s role in ...
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Obituary / Eleanor Parker / Actress
LOS ANGELES (AP)—Eleanor Parker, who was nominated for Academy Awards three times for her portrayals of strong-willed women and played a scheming baroness in “The Sound of Music,” has died at 9...
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Putin tightens grip on news media
MOSCOW (AP)—President Vladimir Putin on Monday appointed a controversial news anchor to head a restructured state news agency, a move signaling the Kremlin’s intention to tighten control over the...
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Kanebo’s go-slow approach leaves victims red with rage
Five months after revelations that whitening products sold by Kanebo Cosmetics Inc. caused skin blotches, frustration among the victims is reaching boiling point.
“Kanebo does apologize, but it doe...
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Twitter-based TV rating system to be launched
A new system to measure viewers’ interest in TV shows through comments and opinions posted on Twitter will be introduced by TV ratings research company Video Research Ltd. and Twitter Inc. in June ...
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‘Miracle tea’ served after surviving slides
SHIZUOKA—Grateful to have a tea harvest despite major landslides in April, a local union of 37 tea farmers in the Sugi district in Harunocho in Tenryu Ward, Hamamatsu, has started selling “miracl...
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In the News / Shihoko Fujiwara / Tackling human trafficking in Japan
Human trafficking in such forms as forcing women into prostitution or labor by using violence and threats is a serious crime by international standards. This includes forcing runaway girls to engage ...
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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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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...