March 12, 2014
Most major manufacturers accepted their labor unions demands to implement hikes in base pay in this year’s shunto spring wage negotiations, according to management replies released Wednesday. Many leading automakers, electric appliance manufacturers, shipbuilders and heavy machinery manufacture...
WASHINGTON—Harvard Medical School Prof. Charles Vacanti, one of the coauthors of the articles on stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency (STAP) cells, says he has no intention of withdrawing the articles. Though issues have been raised concerning the two articles published in the British s...
The Defense Ministry decided Wednesday to dispatch four Self-Defense Forces aircraft to Malaysia to cooperate in the search for a missing passenger jet. This will be the first time for the ministry to send SDF aircraft overseas on a mission to search a missing plane. At the day’s meeting, Def...
TOTTORI—Former Japan forward Masayuki Okano, who threw Japan into jubilation in 1997 by scoring the goal that secured Japan its first World Cup berth, is starting a second career as the general man...
INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AP)—Facing an opponent he had never seen play, Novak Djokovic relied on some old-fashioned word of mouth. Asking around the locker room and getting some intel from his coach...
PARIS (Jiji Press)—A pair of Japanese pastry chefs came in second at the International Confectionery Art Competition in France, falling just short of taking the third straight championship for a Ja...
Stocks plunged on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Wednesday, bruised by speculative futures-led selling amid prevailing concerns over a Chinese economic slowdown and the crisis in Ukraine. The 225-issue Ni...
LONDON (AP)—Newcastle manager Alan Pardew was banned for seven matches on Tuesday for head-butting an opposing player during a Premier League game, further besmirching the reputation of one of Engl...
ST. LOUIS (AP)—Stars forward Rich Peverley remained hospitalized Tuesday in Dallas, undergoing heart tests after collapsing a night earlier on the bench during a game that was then postponed. His...
WASHINGTON (AP)—For nearly five years, government and industry officials have been exploring ways to make it easier to find airliners and their critical “black boxes” that end up in the ocean. ...
Olympian Yuka Fujimori tied a season-best by placing fourth in the final of a World Cup women’s snowboard cross in Veysonnaz, Switzerland, on Tuesday. Canada’s Dominique Maltais, the silver med...
NEW YORK (AP)—Without any big economic news or blowout company earnings to respond to, investors found little to get excited about Tuesday and sent the stock market lower for the second day in a ro...
INDIANAPOLIS (AP)—Andrew Bynum provided the energy boost Indiana needed early. David West delivered all the big shots late. Together, the Pacers’ tag-team inside tandem simply overpowered the Cel...
As doubts have been raised over research papers published in the scientific journal Nature about stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency (STAP) cells, there is a strong possibility papers on th...
The dollar skidded below ¥103 in late Tokyo trading on Wednesday, weighed down by growing worries over the Chinese economy, as well as the Ukraine crisis. At 5 p.m., the dollar was quoted at ¥102...
SOCHI—Host Russia pulled a surprise in the sledge hockey competition at the Sochi Paralympics, defeating the defending champion United States 2-1 to finish on top of preliminary round Group B on Tu...
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...
TAMPA, Fla. (AP)—Japanese star Masahiro Tanaka made his third appearance for the New York Yankees, this time in a simulated game. Tanaka, who signed a $155 million, seven-year contract in January...
FORT MYERS, Fla.—Both Koji Uehara and Junichi Tazawa put on sharp performances on the mound for the Boston Red Sox in preseason action on Tuesday. Uehara took the mound in the fifth inning and used...
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KUALA LUMPUR (AP) — The missing Boeing 777 jetliner changed course over the sea, crossed Malaysia and reached the Strait of Malacca — hundreds of kilometers from its last position recorded by civ...
This is the 10th and final installment of our “Message” series, featuring Hiroko Suzuki, who played a geisha character in U.S. professional wrestling. I was not a professional wrestler but an a...
My career started as an announcer in 1998. My life changed after I married my university classmate, Kenzo Suzuki. After he passed the wrestler tryout, the promoter asked me about geisha. So I did som...
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...
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 ...
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...
NEW YORK (Bloomberg)—J. Crew Group Inc., the retailer owned by TPG Capital and Leonard Green & Partners LP, is in talks about a potential sale to Uniqlo owner Fast Retailing Co., two people with kn...
Stay abreast of current events and learn Japanese at the same time through articles originally printed in The Yomiuri KODOMO Shimbun. ＝＝＝＝＝
Stay abreast of current events and learn Japanese at the same time through articles originally printed in The Yomiuri KODOMO Shimbun. ＝＝＝＝＝
It’s becoming increasingly difficult to be an effective English teacher these days without an understanding of ESP. I’m not referring to the Extra Sensory Perception that informs teachers as to h...
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. ...
NISHINOMIYA, Hyogo—The Hyogo Performing Arts Center Orchestra is giving fans of the Romanticism movement a musical treat with plans to hold special monthly concerts, each featuring a Schumann sympho...
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.
The Japan News is like no other English-language newspaper. Published by The Yomiuri Shimbun, the largest-circulation newspaper in the world, The Japan News is plugged into an extensive national and i...
