June 24, 2017
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The official campaign period for the July 2 Tokyo metropolitan assembly election began on Friday, a key test for Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike seeking to oust the Liberal Democratic Party as the assembly’s biggest force. A total of 259 people filed their candidacy to vie for the ...
ITOMAN, Okinawa — Okinawa Prefecture on Friday commemorated those who lost their lives in the Battle of Okinawa, which took place toward the end of World War II. The prefectural government organized the memorial service, which was held at Peace Memorial Park in Itoman’s Mabuni district — the ...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Toshiba Corp. submitted to regulators on Friday a request to extend the deadline for presenting its fiscal 2016 financial report from the end of this month. The Kanto Local Finance Bureau gave its approval for the application to reset the deadline to Aug. 10. It is the fifth...
ICHINOMIYA, Aichi — A planetarium in Ichinomiya, Aichi Prefecture, has been showing special programs with original illustrations drawn by a mangaka living in the city, with the latest feature based ...
What mechanisms create states of superconductivity, in which a material’s electrical resistance shrinks to zero? Ever since the phenomenon of superconductivity was discovered in 1911, physicists h...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries that have cut ties to Qatar issued a steep list of demands Thursday to end the crisis, insisting that their Persian Gulf neighbor shutter Al-...
NEW DELHI/WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The United States is expected to authorize India’s purchase of a naval variant of the Predator drone, a source familiar with the situation said Thursday, ahead of ...
LONDON (Reuters) — The British government is urgently conducting safety checks on an estimated 600 high-rise buildings in England, which have exterior cladding panels, after at least 79 people died...
ICHIKIKUSHIKINO, Kagoshima — Near the end of 2015, I saw some bronze statues as I was taking photos of a tram in front of JR Kagoshima-Chuo Station. They were a set of 17 statues named “Wakaki S...
Since many kabuki plays tell stories emphasizing the concept of “rewarding good and punishing evil,” hateful villains and enemies as impressive as the heroes are essential. Veteran kabuki actor Ic...
Silk is typically made from one silkworm, but in some rare cases the effort of two silkworms is used to create cocoon shaped balls. The thread that can be woven from these balls is what is called shik...
The city of Sakurai in Nara prefecture is home to the Omiwa Shrine, the oldest shrine in Japan that holds Mt. Miwa to be sacred. Therefore, Sakurai is considered sacred land. It is also the birthpl...
ANKARA (AP) — Turkish officials said Thursday that U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has written to his Turkish counterpart, reassuring him that arms provided to Syrian Kurdish fighters would be ta...
CARACAS (Reuters) — A Venezuelan military police sergeant shot dead a protester who was attacking the perimeter of an airbase on Thursday, the interior minister said, bringing renewed scrutiny of t...
NEW YORK (AP) — Cameron Maybin and the Los Angeles Angels turned a little mayhem into a lot of runs. Albert Pujols lined a go-ahead single that drove in Maybin during a messy, four-run rally in the...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. Senate Republicans on Thursday unveiled legislation that would replace Obamacare with a plan that scales back aid to the poor and kills a tax on the wealthy, but the bil...
AOMORI (Reuters) — Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Kikuo Iwata on Thursday dismissed the need to raise interest rates any time soon, stressing that the economy still needs support from “powerful”...
BERLIN (AFP-Jiji) — Germany’s foreign intelligence service long spied on numerous official and business targets in the United States, including the White House, Spiegel weekly reported Thursday. ...
CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Bulls decided to rebuild without Jimmy Butler rather than reload with him. The Bulls launched a roster overhaul Thursday night with a big trade, dealing the three-time Al...
KAZAN, Russia (AP) — Alexis Sanchez struck early to become Chile’s all-time leading scorer on Thursday as the South American champions were held by Germany’s young pretenders to a 1-1 draw that ...
WASHINGTON (AFP-Jiji) — A U.S. airstrike has killed a regional Al-Qaida leader and two associates in Yemen’s Shabwa Province, a jihadist stronghold in the south, the Pentagon said Thursday. Abu ...
ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) — Raiders quarterback Derek Carr finalized a five-year contract extension Thursday that will keep him with the team through the 2022 season. Carr tweeted that an agreement had...
BRUSSELS (AFP-Jiji) — EU leaders agreed Thursday to roll over damaging economic sanctions against Russia for another six months as Moscow has failed to meet its Ukraine ceasefire commitments, EU pr...
Freelance news announcer Mao Kobayashi, who was fighting breast cancer, has died, it was learned Friday. She was 34. Kobayashi, the wife of kabuki actor Ichikawa Ebizo, 39, was picked as one of las...
A drill to mobilize the Air Self-Defense Force’s Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) surface-to-air guided missile unit was conducted at the Ground Self-Defense Force’s Camp Asaka, which straddl...
A series of gold-smuggling cases has recently been uncovered. Those who committed such crimes purchased gold bullion in tax-free countries and brought it into Japan without paying the consumption tax...
Costa Rica is aiming to reach a free trade agreement and an investment pact with Japan as part of the Central American country’s strategy to diversify its economy based on business-friendly but envi...
OSAKA (Jiji Press) — Sota Fujii, the youngest professional shogi player, on Wednesday recorded the 28th straight win since his debut, matching the longest winning streak in the history of the tradi...
Toshiba Corp.’s selection of a Japan-U.S.-South Korea consortium as the preferred bidder for its memory chip business was a decision giving priority to preventing overseas transfers of its technolog...
WASHINGTON (Jiji Press) — South Korean President Moon Jae In, in a newspaper interview published online Tuesday, urged Japan to take legal responsibility and offer an official apology for former co...
Residents stand by a swollen river in Susami, Wakayama Prefecture, shortly before noon on Wednesday. Heavy rain hit the country, causing one woman’s death in a rising river in Osaka Prefecture and a...
China is stepping up efforts to isolate Taiwan, a policy that is making waves. Applying pressure that stems from China’s superiority in the military and economic fields will only heighten tensions b...
NEW YORK (Jiji Press) — Japanese vehicle brands plunged in quality rankings released by major U.S. market research firm J.D. Power and Associates on Wednesday. In the 2017 initial quality survey, ...
読売新聞日曜日付の英語面「えいご工房」で好評連載中のコラム「特派員直伝 とらべる英会話」の書籍版が研究社から出版されました。詳しくはこちらから
The following is a translation of the Henshu Techo column from The Yomiuri Shimbun’s June 15 issue. * * * Masumi Muramatsu, known as a pioneer among the nation’s simultaneous inte...
Stay abreast of current events and learn Japanese at the same time through articles originally printed in The Yomiuri KODOMO Shimbun. ＝＝＝＝＝
Are You an Echo? The Lost Poetry of Misuzu Kaneko Poems by Misuzu Kaneko Narrative by David Jacobson Translated by Sally Ito and Michiko Tsuboi Chin Music Press, 64pp The voice of a once-forgot...
The art of ink painting originated in China as a natural outgrowth of calligraphy, using the same ink, paper and brushes. It soon developed into a medium of artistic expression with boundless and sedu...
Scott & Rivers, two world-renowned rock stars who also make Japanese-style pop music, have released their second album, “Nimaime,” a tour de force that in a way sounds more Japanese than the work ...
The Takahatafudoson Kongoji temple in Hino, Tokyo, is about 10-minute ride from the Asakawa river cycling path, a 20-kilometer route that connects the Tamagawa river in eastern Hino to a spot near Mt....
A sign reads “Watch Out For Mamushi Vipers” in the city of Akishima, western Tokyo, along the Tamagawa river cycling path. The Akishima Police Station and the city’s crime prevention association...
Two sets of wheels and their axles rest on the ground in the city of Akishima, Tokyo, by the Tamagawa cycling path. There was a head-on collision of trains on what is now the JR Hachiko Line on Aug. 2...
For cyclists riding on the Asakawa cycling path, a nice place to take a break is a footbath facility in the Kitano Disposal Center in Hachioji, Tokyo, which sits right next to the path. The 20-kilomet...
