March 18, 2014
“It was like a dream,” Sakie Yokota, the mother of North Korean abductee Megumi Yokota, said Monday after she and her husband, Shigeru, returned from meeting Megumi’s daughter Kim Eun Gyong for the first time. Megumi was abducted by North Korea when she was 13. The Yokotas met her daughter f...
A 2-year-old boy was found dead Monday morning in an apartment in Fujimi, Saitama Prefecture, while an 8-month-old-boy was discovered in the same apartment alive and rushed to the hospital. Investigators from the Kanagawa prefectural police are questioning a man in his 20s who was in the apartment...
Japanese and North Korean foreign ministry officials are expected to resume talks soon to discuss bilateral issues, including North Korea’s past abductions of Japanese nationals, according to government sources. The Foreign Ministry has also officially announced that the parents of Megumi Yokot...
YOKOHAMA—British luxury liner Queen Elizabeth 3 successfully passed under the Yokohama Bay Bridge to enter Yokohama Port around midnight on Sunday. The 90,400-ton cruise ship stands 56.6 meters h...
The Tokyo Collection for autumn-winter 2014-15 opened Monday with the Sretsis show at the Shibuya Hikarie retail and entertainment complex in Tokyo. The Sretsis fashion brand is created by Thai de...
The approval rating of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Cabinet was 59 percent in a recent Yomiuri Shimbun poll, mostly unchanged from the 60 percent approval seen in the previous survey held last month...
BELGRADE (AP)—The ruling center-right party that has vowed to overhaul Serbia’s struggling economy and push for membership in the European Union won a landslide victory in a parliamentary vote Su...
Eel prices are expected to drop this summer due to a good haul of baby eels, a reversal from the prolonged slump in catches. The harvest season continues until the end of March, but the overall cat...
Orix Corp., a Japanese finance and leasing firm, said it is in talks to buy Hartford Financial Services Group Inc.’s unit in the country. Nothing has been decided on the purchase, Tokyo-based Orix...
This is the fifth installment in a series on the worsening relations between Japan and China. In October last year, about one month before China established an air defense identification zone (ADI...
NEW YORK (AP)—The DNA of a baby boy who was buried in Montana 12,600 years ago has been recovered, and it provides new indications of the ancient roots of today’s American Indians and other native...
NATICK, Mass. (AP)—They call it the holy grail of ready-to-eat meals for soldiers: a pizza that can stay on the shelf for up to three years and still remain good to eat. Soldiers have been asking f...
WASHINGTON (AP)—Wild bumblebees worldwide are in trouble, likely contracting deadly diseases from their commercialized honeybee cousins, a new study shows. That’s a problem even though bumblebee...
This week I have to start off with an apology. Last week I provided a story about the gulls and waterfowl currently found at Shinobazu Pond in Ueno Park. In the text I listed the Japanese name of the ...
MOSCOW—From paintings to music, Russians are always surrounded by art. First sold in 1955, Leningrad sets of watercolors have been loved by many amateur painters and other artists since the Soviet e...
JINTIAN, China—The town of Jintian looks out over a flatland with mountains to its rear, making it a strategically advantageous and highly defensible launching point for attacks. In 1851, Hong Xiuq...
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan—On one of the main thoroughfares in this northern Pakistan city, travelers will find The Grato, a store specializing in a sweet treat called grato, which looks something like a ...
As mankind proceeds into the 21st century, four factors will drive modern states back toward a form of warfare resembling total war. Those four factors are: — the cultural impacts of globalization...
Dr. Shigeki Asahi recently won the top prize in the overseas category of the 42nd Yomiuri Awards for Medical Dedication, in recognition of his more than 20-year commitment to emergency medical servic...
Nikon Corp. will stop selling a digital camera model in China and offer free repairs, following claims on Chinese state-run television that product defects caused “black spots” on photographs. ...
HONG KONG (AP)—Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group plans to go public on a U.S. stock exchange, possibly raising up to $15 billion in the biggest initial public offering since Facebook. The an...
PALM HARBOR, Fla.—Ryo Ishikawa finally found his rhythm and went from a depressing 65th place to start the day to a respectable 25th to end the tournament. Ishikawa combined five birdies and two b...
HONG KONG (Jiji Press)—Japan and Macao have signed an agreement to allow them to exchange information in an effort to prevent international tax evasion and avoidance. The agreement was signed on ...
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...
Japan and China, two East Asian regional powers, have been unable to hold summit talks since they started feuding with each other over the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea. Japan’s relations...
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...
From April, “Onomato Pera Pera” will appear in the JN LearningLab Pages of the Japan News.
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...
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.
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...
