December 6, 2019
TURIN, Italy (AP) — Nathan Chen is on course for a third straight title at the figure skating Grand Prix Finals, thanks to a costly mistake by his main rival Yuzuru Hanyu. The U.S. skater scored a personal-best 110.38 points in Thursday’s short program with a quadruple lutz, triple axel and a...
Tetsu Nakamura, a doctor and local representative of the nongovernmental organization Peshawar-kai, who was shot to death on Wednesday in eastern Afghanistan, had told those around him, “I’ll be active for another 20 years.” The 73-year-old doctor started providing medical assistance in Pak...
A Japanese research team will start a clinical trial this month of the nation’s first domestically developed vaccine for Ebola hemorrhagic fever (see below), a step toward developing a new weapon in the fight against the deadly disease. After the vaccine’s safety has been confirmed through the...
BERLIN (AP) — Germany expelled two Russian diplomats Wednesday over the brazen killing of a Georgian on the streets of Berlin in August as prosecutors said evidence suggested the slaying was ordere...
WELLINGTON (AP) — Samoa’s main streets were eerily quiet on Thursday as the government stepped up efforts to curb a measles epidemic that has killed 62 people. The government told most public a...
DETROIT (AP) — Giannis Antetokounmpo was ready to go toe to toe with Blake Griffin during a second-quarter flareup between division rivals Milwaukee and Detroit. The game was turning contentious. I...
The Houston Rockets lost a double-overtime thriller to the San Antonio Spurs on Tuesday night, but the team is reportedly hoping the league will change it to a victory after the referees admitted blow...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Navy warship has seized a “significant cache” of suspected Iranian guided missile parts headed to rebels in Yemen, U.S. officials said Wednesday, marking the first time that...
SYDNEY (AP) — World No. 1-ranked amateur Takumi Kanaya birdied his final two holes Thursday for a 6-under 65 and a two-stroke clubhouse lead at the Australian Open. Playing the back nine at The Aus...
Jose Mourinho was standing on the edge of his technical area near the halfway line when Manchester United midfielder Daniel James came sliding off the field and clattered headfirst into the right knee...
LIVERPOOL (AP) — Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp claimed his 100th Premier League win in style Wednesday as his team beat Everton 5-2 in the Merseyside derby. All but one of the goals were scored in...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The Tokyo High Court on Thursday overrode a death sentence that a lower court gave a Peruvian man over the murder of six residents, including two girls, in Kumagaya, Saitama Pr...
SYDNEY (AFP-Jiji) — Australian bushfires have caused unprecedented pollution in Sydney and along the country’s east coast, officials said Thursday, with smoke and dust burning residents’ eyes an...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Panthers quarterback Cam Newton will have surgery on his injured left foot next week, interim coach Perry Fewell said. Newton suffered a Lisfranc injury in the preseason and ...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The 2020 Tokyo Games organizing committee announced Wednesday the new schedules for the marathon and race walk events, whose venues have been moved to Sapporo from Tokyo due to...
CANASTOTA, N.Y. (AP) — Middleweight champion Bernard Hopkins, four-division champion Juan Manuel Marquez of Mexico, three-division champ Shane Mosley and women’s star Christy Martin have been elec...
ATLANTA (AP) — Alex Anthopoulos believes Cole Hamels can help the Atlanta Braves win big in next season— and help the team’s young starters have more success for years to come. Hamels, who tur...
WASHINGTON (AFP-Jiji) — Three constitutional scholars on Wednesday bolstered Democrats’ case for impeaching Donald Trump by saying the president’s actions seeking foreign interference in US elec...
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — The Los Angeles Angels have acquired right-hander Dylan Bundy from the Baltimore Orioles in a trade for four minor league pitchers, The 27-year-old Bundy has been a solid st...
This summer, an odd occurrence rattled Japan’s ordinarily peaceful culture community. On Aug. 3, the artistic director and the organizing committee of the Aichi Triennale international contemporary ...
KABUL (AP) — A shooting ambush in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday killed a Japanese physician and aid worker widely respected and beloved in the war-scarred nation, triggering an outpouring of gri...
WASHINGTON (Jiji Press) — The United States and Japan will “begin consultations early next year” in order to enter into negotiations on “a broader trade agreement” than the one signed in Oc...
LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) — Global reinsurers are stepping up their warnings to life insurer clients about the potential risks of vaping, putting pressure on underwriters to charge certain vapers hi...
SEOUL (Reuters) — Hwang Hyeon-dong lives in a 6.6-square-metre cubicle near his university campus in Seoul, which comes with a shared bathroom and kitchen plus all the rice he can eat, that he rents...
KABUL (AP) — A Japanese physician and aid worker in eastern Afghanistan died of his wounds after an attack Wednesday that also killed five Afghans, including the doctor’s bodyguards, the driver a...
The government plans to set up a new subsidy program to install both renewable energy power generation facilities like solar panels and electricity storage batteries at schools, hospitals and other f...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Japanese students ranked at their lowest level ever in reading while remaining in the top band in science and mathematics, in a triennial international survey on academic abili...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The Hayabusa2 unmanned asteroid probe of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) set off on its return voyage to Earth on Tuesday by activating its electric propulsion sys...
TOKYO (Bloomberg) — Nissan Motor Co.’s new chief executive officer said he is looking at what works and what doesn’t in the alliance with Renault SA and Mitsubishi Motors Corp., stressing that t...
Tetsu Nakamura, a doctor and local representative of the nongovernmental organization Peshawar-kai, who was shot to death on Wednesday in eastern Afghanistan, had told those around him, “I’ll be ...
LOS ANGELES — Three Japanese animated feature films were nominated in the independent film category of the Annie Awards, the International Animated Film Association said Monday. The awards are of...
SHIZUOKA — The dispute between Hong Kong protesters and the Chinese government has spilled over all the way to a shrine in Shizuoka Prefecture, where a war of words on ema wooden tablets was found. ...
The Japan News has partnered with media startup inkl, a news service that curates articles from the world’s leading publishers for users to read on mobile devices. A selection of articles from The Japan News and The Yomiuri Shimbun is now available to read on inkl, which hosts titles from about 20 countries. 
LOS ANGELES — Three Japanese animated feature films were nominated in the independent film category of the Annie Awards, the International Animated Film Association said Monday. The awards are of...
Ivor Bolton will conduct the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra in its annual December concerts of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 “Choral.” The British maestro is renowned for his masterful conduct...
Germany-based violinist Sayako Kusaka will perform in Japan in December with a German chamber orchestra that she leads. Kusaka is the first concertmaster of the distinguished Konzerthausorchester Be...
