March 9, 2014
SOCHI—Japan celebrated a medal rush on the first day of the Sochi Paralympics on Saturday, with Akira Kano winning the men’s sitting downhill and Takeshi Suzuki finishing third as Kozo Kubo took the bronze in the men’s 7.5-kilometer sitting biathlon. It was the second Paralympic success for...
The Defense Ministry will set up a new section in April to promote joint research with universities to develop defense equipment, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned. Many technologies, including the Internet, were originally developed by defense authorities and later commonly used by civilians. The ...
KUALA LUMPUR (AP)—Search and rescue crews across Southeast Asia scrambled to find a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 that disappeared from air traffic control screens over waters between Malaysia and Vietnam early Saturday with 239 people aboard. Flight MH370, bound for Beijing from Kuala Lumpur, w...
LONDON (AP)—Northern Ireland authorities say letter bombs have been found at two postal sorting offices, weeks after similar packages were sent to army facilities in England. The devices, found i...
UNITED NATIONS (AP)—Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared Friday that achieving equality for women and girls is “the great unfinished business of the 21st century.” The poten...
CAIRO (AP)—A group of 27 countries on the United Nations Human Rights Council expressed concerns Friday over the Egyptian government’s wide-scale use of violence against opposition protesters, th...
The Environment Ministry has unveiled new criteria that will allow people with Minamata mercury-poisoning disease to be recognized as victims through the single symptom of sensory impairment. The m...
Astronaut Koichi Wakata, now serving his second long-term assignment on the International Space Station, was set to become the first Japanese commander of the ISS on Sunday evening, Japan time. Waka...
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP)—Saudi Arabia identified the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group along with Al-Qaida and others Friday, warning those who join them or support them they could face five...
SOPOT, Poland (AP)—That’s what the Eatons call a fun day out at the world indoor championships. Brianne Theisen Eaton already has a pentathlon world silver medal to show off in front of her hus...
ARE, Sweden (AP)—Anna Fenninger seized the lead in the overall Alpine World Cup standings on Friday by winning a giant slalom for the second straight day. The 24-year-old Austrian extended her fi...
Only 18.7 percent of single, nonregular male workers in their 20s had girlfriends in 2012, compared to 30.7 percent of regular male workers, a government survey has revealed. The Health, Labor and ...
A new bronze statue of Hachiko, the famous loyal dog, and its owner will be erected on the campus of the Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Tokyo in Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo, where the owner used ...
MAASTRICHT, Netherlands (AP)—A young man at a bus stop hisses at a passer-by: “What you looking for...marijuana?” It’s a scene of street peddling that the Netherlands hoped to stamp out in th...
CLEVELAND (AP)—Browns defensive end Desmond Bryant says he’s been medically cleared to play after a health scare. Bryant underwent an operation in December to correct an irregular heartbeat. Hi...
CHICAGO (Bloomberg)—Boeing Co. is checking for hairline wing cracks on about 40 of its 787 Dreamliners after supplier Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. alerted the planemaker about possible risks to...
INZELL, Germany (AP)—Heather Richardson of the United States edged local favorite Judith Hesse by one hundredth of a second to claim her first speedskating World Cup win over 500 meters on Friday. ...
WASHINGTON (AP)—U.S. employers stepped up hiring in February despite a blast of harsh winter weather, renewing hopes that the economy could accelerate this year. February’s gain of 175,000 jobs...
CLEARWATER, Fla.—Last year Masahiro Tanaka allowed just six regular-season home runs with the Tohoku Rakuten Eagles. He got a baptism to the major leagues on Thursday with the New York Yankees, allo...
LOS ANGELES (AP)—Who is bitcoin’s real creator? The bitcoin community is reacting to that burning question with a collective ho-hum. Developers and bitcoin enthusiasts from Finland to Texas are...
NEW YORK (AP)—One positive report on the U.S. economy was not enough to make investors more confident. The stock market ended mixed Friday after a day of muddled trading. Among the three main U.S...
Seven political parties are searching for a way to jointly submit a bill during the current Diet session that is aimed at amending the National Referendum Law, which stipulates procedures for a natio...
A government panel approved Friday a proposal on new rates in the government’s feed-in tariff program that requires power suppliers to purchase electricity from renewable energy sources at fixed pr...
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...
After returning from the Sochi Winter Olympic Games on Tuesday, Japanese Olympic medalists expressed their pride in winning big for Japan at a press conference. Among the athletes were Yuzuru Hanyu...
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...
The house of acclaimed writer Kobo Abe (1924-93) in Chofu, Tokyo, is being demolished, after serving as his writing place for many great works, such as “Suna no Onna” (The Woman in the Dunes), “...
The troubled radioactive water cleanup system at the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant was hit by a new problem Wednesday, operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said. An alarm went off at abo...
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...
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...
SHIZUOKA—It seems unlikely that a child would come out of a dental exam saying, “Mom, do we come here again?” as if she couldn’t bear to leave. But one pediatric dental clinic in Shizuoka is e...
The Japan News has renewed its pages from the March 1 issue. The above is our new weekly schedule of main sections and articles on paper editions:
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