March 15, 2014
LONDON (AP)—The West braced Friday for a vote by the Crimean Peninsula to secede from Ukraine—and likely be annexed by Russia—as the last attempt for diplomacy broke down despite threats of costly international sanctions and other imminent penalties against Moscow for forcibly challenging a p...
“Significant discrepancies” in the process of preparing articles on stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency (STAP) cells have been found, RIKEN President Ryoji Noyori said at a press conference Friday. “I would like, first and foremost, to express my deepest regrets that articles pub...
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. and IHI Corp. are likely to launch a business and funding alliance in the field of aircraft engine production, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned. The new venture is intended to boost the firms’ competitiveness, in a market where increasing demand for aircraft is p...
Dog or cat lover? In his latest game, Neko Pitcher takes to the mound and discovers the pet preferences of the batters he faces. The POP☆COOL section is produced in cooperation with Sports Ho...
In the recent case of a leak of key research data on flash memory technology from Toshiba, police were able for the first time to successfully build a criminal case for the prosecution of illegally di...
The 52-year-old engineer arrested on suspicion of divulging Toshiba Corp. research data on flash memory to a major South Korean competitor may have been rewarded with a large sum of money from the fi...
Koichi Wakata, the first Japanese commander of the International Space Station, sends greetings from space Thursday night during his first press conference after assuming the post. “I want to steer...
To help Saudi Arabian students who are studying in Japan find work here, the cultural office of the Saudi Arabian Embassy held a job fair in Tokyo this week. About 130 Saudi Arabian students, inclu...
YOKOSUKA—A matchmaking event for servicemen of the Self-Defense Forces and civilian women selected from a pool of applicants was held last weekend at the Central Hotel in Wakamatsu, Yokosuka. Fifty...
AUSTIN, Texas (AP)—A driver fleeing police gunned a gray Honda Civic through a street barricade and into a crowd of South By Southwest festival attendees early Thursday, killing a Dutch man on a bi...
LONDON (AP)—Just try sugar-coating this: The World Health Organization says your daily sugar intake should be just 5 percent of your total calories—half of what the agency previously recommended,...
WASHINGTON—Religion makes a lot of mistakes. Faith traditions can be so harsh that they drive away everyone but the self-righteous scolds. Or they can so indulge in therapeutic comfort and manufact...
MUNICH (AP)—Bayern Munich president Uli Hoeness was found guilty and sentenced to 3½ years in prison on Thursday for evading millions of euros in tax through an undeclared Swiss bank account. Bay...
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. and IHI Corp. aim to create a finished-product manufacturing firm in the aircraft engine field that will lead the world, a major advance from their current status as ...
The Cultural Affairs Agency will ask UNESCO to add a package of ceremonies involving festival floats across the country to its list of intangible cultural heritage. Two of the 32 yama, hoko and yata...
SAN FRANCISCO (Bloomberg)—Sony Corp.’s PlayStation 4 held the lead in U.S. video-game unit sales in February, while Microsoft Corp.’s higher-priced Xbox One generated more revenue, researcher N...
WASHINGTON (AP)—The International Monetary Fund warned Thursday that wide income inequality can slow economic growth and is proposing ways to reduce it. Its recommendations include: Raising prope...
OSAKA (Jiji Press)—Osaka Gas Co. announced a plan to increase investment in new business projects by 90 percent from the earlier planned level to ¥770 billion during the period through 2020. The ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday pledged $40 million in aid to Somalia to help the African country secure food, improve security and create jobs. Abe made the pledge at a meeting with visiting...
Tokyo police arrested a 36-year-old man Friday in connection with the vandalism of about 300 books at public libraries, including Anne Frank’s “Diary of a Young Girl.” The man, who lives in Ko...
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NEW YORK (AP)—Several lawsuits filed against McDonald’s on behalf of workers this week say the fast-food chain engages in a variety of practices to avoid paying employees what they’re owed. T...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe clearly denied Friday that his Cabinet will review a milestone statement in 1993 by then Chief Cabinet Secretary Yohei Kono on wartime “comfort women,” among whom are ma...
Today, many Japanese entertainers have multiple skills to add value to their profession. For Ayaka Wada, a member of teenage pop idol group S/mileage, art is her favorite subject, regardless of whethe...
A powerful earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 6.2 jolted wide areas in the west of the nation early Friday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The quake, which struck at about 2:06 a.m., ...
Japan was seen as an international leader in the field of art in the 18th and 19th centuries—the middle of the Edo period (1603-1867)—when ukiyo-e artists produced numerous masterpieces. This was ...
OSAKA—The recent confusion regarding articles published by scientific journal Nature on stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency (STAP) cells may cause adverse effects on Japan’s studies of...
When Daisuke Takahashi arrived in Sochi on Sunday, determined to deliver his best performance at the Olympic Games, his parents were back in his hometown of Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, planning to...
The Philippine ambassador’s official residence in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, where musician and artist Yoko Ono enjoyed cherry blossom viewing in her childhood, was unveiled as a Philippine national hist...
SOCHI (Jiji-Japan News)—Gold medalist Yuzuru Hanyu has given his exhibition program at the Sochi Olympics a theme: resurgence. The 19-year-old, who made history by becoming the first Japanese mal...
SOCHI—Four years since shedding bitter tears after her second-place finish at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, Mao Asada shed tears of joy at Sochi after delivering a near-perfect performance in the wo...
The following is a translation of the Henshu Techo column from The Yomiuri Shimbun’s March 6 issue. * * * Haiku poet Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) supposedly said, “Any 3-shaku-tall [e...
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A few months ago I was on a business trip to Canada with some colleagues, and we ended up being invited to have dinner at a nice Italian restaurant with a friendly and engaging professor, whom I’ll ...
SENDAI—Clad in a brand-new, dark blue uniform, Iroha Ishikawa, 3, slipped past her mother who was trying to take a photo of her daughter with her smartphone, jumping around in front of the hina doll...
With his innovative presentation techniques, and a keen eye for beauty and political themes within daily life, German artist Wolfgang Tillmans has broadened the boundaries of photographic expression. ...
The Japan News has renewed its pages from the March 1 issue. The above is the new weekly schedule of main sections and articles in our print editions.
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