March 16, 2014
The parents of Megumi Yokota, who was abducted by North Korea nearly 40 years ago, met her daughter for the first time in Mongolia earlier this month, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned. Shigeru Yokota, 81, and his wife, Sakie, 78, met their 26-year-old granddaughter, Kim He Gyung, from March 10 to ...
Kyoto University will publicly seek candidates both at home and abroad for the next president of the university, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned. Aiming to attract excellent researchers and students from all over the world, the university concluded that it needs a strong leader, free of the shac...
SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine (AP)—Residents of Ukraine’s Crimea region voted on Sunday in a contentious referendum on whether to split off and seek annexation by Russia. The vote is regarded as illegitimate both by the acting Ukrainian government and by the West, but is widely expected to pass. Crimea...
PALM HARBOR, Fla.—Ryo Ishikawa, who barely made it into weekend play the previous day, wasn’t able to improve on his score at the Valspar Championship and fell further behind the leaders into 65th...
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP)—A Pakistani judicial official reduced on Saturday the 33-year jail sentence of a doctor alleged to have helped the U.S. track down Osama bin Laden to 23 years, one of his la...
TACHIKAWA, Tokyo—The plum pox virus, or PPV, which causes fruit deformities and other issues in ume plum trees, has spread to 10 prefectures nationwide, with some famous ume blossom spots undergoin...
PALM HARBOR, Fla. (AP)—Robert Garrigus missed two short par putts over the last seven holes Saturday, and just like that, his four-shot lead dwindled to one in the Valspar Championship. That’s ...
I went to Taipei recently to participate in the Fancy Frontier, Taiwan’s largest event for dojin manga magazine fans, on Feb. 15 and 16. Dojin manga magazines are publications privately published an...
LENZERHEIDE, Switzerland (AP)—Marcel Hirscher and Ted Ligety ensured the standout Austria and United States teams both emerged winners on a thrilling Saturday at Alpine skiing’s World Cup Finals....
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Nambu ironware has been crafted over the last 400 years in current Iwate Prefecture, a treasure house of traditional handicrafts. An exhibition under way at Panasonic Corp.’s Shiodome Museum in Tok...
ARE, Sweden (AP)—Victor Oehling Norberg of Sweden won the freestyle skicross World Cup and Fanny Smith of Switzerland took the women’s race on Saturday. Backed by a partisan home crowd, Oehling...
NEW YORK (AP)—Emergency workers sifted through debris Saturday from the site of a deadly explosion at two New York City apartment buildings as they worked to clear the way for investigators to sear...
UNITED NATIONS (AP)—Russia vetoed a U.N. resolution declaring Sunday’s referendum on the future of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula illegal, and close ally China abstained, underlining Moscow’s in...
The move by Kyoto University’s presidential selection committee to choose from among a wide variety of candidates at home and abroad demonstrates the concern felt by top Japanese universities in th...
BEIJING (AP)—China announced on Saturday a modest easing of exchange rate controls that have been criticized by Washington and other trading partners, adding to a flurry of reform initiatives aimed...
LOS ANGELES (AP)—An exploratory subway shaft dug just down the street from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has uncovered a treasure trove of fossils in the land where saber-tooth cats and othe...
INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AP)—Novak Djokovic beat John Isner 7-5, 6-7 (2-7), 6-1 on Saturday to reach the final of the BNP Paribas Open, where he’ll resume his longtime rivalry with Roger Federer in ...
PANAMA CITY (AP)—It turns out the Miami Marlins had their own way of honoring Mariano Rivera in his home country. Rivera threw out a ceremonial first pitch before Brad Hand and three relievers com...
China’s propaganda campaign to pile pressure on Japan over historical issues has taken on an increasingly strident tone. Japan must remain vigilant on this matter. China’s National People’s Co...
Secrets of Toshiba Corp.’s cutting-edge semiconductor technology have been divulged to a rival South Korean company. How should Japanese manufacturers protect their core technological know-how, pr...
Today is March 14, also known as White Day. In Japan, men and boys who received chocolates on Valentine’s Day are expected to give small presents today to the women and girls who gave the gifts. T...
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., ...
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...
Senior RIKEN officials bowed deeply during a Tokyo press conference Friday to apologize for the fact research articles about stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency (STAP) cells were written i...
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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