February 16, 2019
Half of local governments have a favorable opinion of the revised Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Law, which will take effect in April in a bid to accept more foreign workers in Japan, according to a recent nationwide questionnaire conducted by The Yomiuri Shimbun. The questionnaire, h...
Many tsurushibina — small hina dolls in shapes such as fish and shrimp that are hung from the ceiling by string — are displayed at the main venue of an annual event that started on Saturday in the town of Onjuku, Chiba Prefecture. The exhibits in the event, called Onjuku Machikado Tsurushibina ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defiant in the wake of a stinging budget defeat, President Donald Trump on Friday declared a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border, moving to secure more money for his long-promised wall by exercising a broad interpretation of his presidential powers that is certain to dr...
Daiwa Securities Group Inc. has strengthened its business operations, aiming at individual customers under the “customer-first operations” policy. For this installment of Leaders, a column featur...
Follow the adventure of Kenta the office dog who lives with Shiba-kun’s family and commutes to office everyday, where his job is to heal stressed humans. Shiba-kun’s daughter, Hachiko, is the only...
The nation’s economic growth rate has turned positive, but its momentum has been moderate. Without viewing it optimistically, it is crucial to strengthen the foundation for sustainable growth. A ...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Paul Westphal says it’s an honor these days to have anyone remember that he played basketball. The Hall of Fame obviously remembers. Westphal is one of 13 people who were...
Suspicion has increased that abuse was repeated on a daily basis. Why couldn’t the people around recognize something unusual much earlier and intervene? In connection with the incident in which Mi...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The New Orleans Pelicans have decided to fire ninth-year general manager Dell Demps and start the process of finding someone to deal with the fallout of All-Star Anthony Davis’...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Justin Thomas was playing well enough to want to keep going, with six birdies in a seven-hole stretch before it was too dark to continue Friday at the Genesis Open. It also was ...
MUNICH (Jiji Press) — Foreign Minister Taro Kono and his South Korean counterpart, Kang Kyung-wha, remained apart over wartime labor issues, at their meeting held in Munich on Friday. Kono again ca...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — A lawyer for South Korean plaintiffs in a wartime labor lawsuit filed against Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. said Friday that they will file for a local court order for th...
SEOUL (Jiji Press) — Japan did not make any protest over a South Korean lawmaker’s recent remarks about the Emperor during Friday’s meeting of the two countries’ foreign ministers, the South ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Matt Kuchar apologized Friday for what he said were insensitive comments about the caddie he used at the Mayakoba Classic in Mexico last fall, and said he would pay the $50,000 t...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and visiting Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz agreed on Friday to deepen economic ties between Japan and the European Union following the effectuati...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — East Japan Railway Co. said Friday that it will launch in May a project to establish three new train routes linking central Tokyo areas and Haneda Airport. The railway operato...
Local residents divided into north and south teams fiercely battle during an annual Takeuchi (bamboo hitting) event held Friday night in front of Akita Suwagu shrine in Misato, Akita Prefecture. Armed...
BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The United States and China will resume trade talks this week in Washington with time running short to ease their bruising trade war, but U.S. President Donald Trump ...
SHANGHAI (Reuters) — Chinese state media on Saturday expressed cautious optimism over trade talks between the United States and China, a day after Chinese President Xi Jinping said a week of discus...
BERLIN (AFP-Jiji) — Bayern Munich conceded the fastest own-goal in Bundesliga history on Friday and twice had to equalize before securing a 3-2 win at Augsburg in its final tuneup before a Champion...
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump claimed Friday that Japan’s prime minister had nominated him for a Nobel Peace Prize for opening a dialogue with North Korea. Trump also complained ...
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AFP-Jiji) — The two Koreas are preparing to field unified teams for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in basketball, judo, field hockey and rowing, the International Olympic Committee ...
MADRID (Reuters) — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez called an early general election for April 28 on Friday, setting the stage for a divisive vote that could tilt the country toward the nationa...
Follow the adventure of Kenta the office dog who lives with Shiba-kun’s family and commutes to office everyday, where his job is to heal stressed humans. Shiba-kun’s daughter, Hachiko, is the only...
My name is Wisani Shibambu. I am an Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) on the JET Programme, working for the Shizuoka Prefectural Board of Education. I come from Johannesburg, South Africa, and have be...
The office of the Japan Marrow Donor Program (JMDP) has received a flood of inquiries asking how to be a donor, in response to the recent announcement by teen star swimmer Rikako Ikee that she has bee...
The government is finalizing plans for a new organization dedicated to comprehensively monitoring the business dealings of large IT companies and formulating policies to ensure transparency in their p...
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc. said Wednesday that it has for the first time made contact with deposits believed to be nuclear fuel debris — a mixture of melted nuclear fuel and parts ...
The following is a translation of the Henshu Techo column from The Yomiuri Shimbun’s Feb. 1 issue. * * * “Mu-da-na-da-mu,” which means a “wasteful dam” in Japanese. It is a ...
Ehime Prefecture received a cardboard box containing a large amount of ¥10,000 bills in late January, the prefectural government announced Thursday. According to the local government, the cardboard...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Thirteen same-sex couples in Japan filed damages lawsuits against the government on Thursday, claiming that the denial of their marriages violates the country’s Constitution,...
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...
