August 26, 2019
Competition to acquire talent with high professional knowledge and know-how on information technology is intensifying. On Aug. 8, Fujitsu Ltd. announced it would introduce a personnel system that allows paying salaries of tens of millions of yen to employees regardless of their age. With U.S. IT gia...
KIGALI — Women’s empowerment is one of the major agenda items to be discussed at the seventh Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD), which will kick off in Yokohama on Wednesday. While a handful of countries on the African continent now have a number of female policymakers...
BIARRITZ, France (Jiji Press) — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday reached a basic accord on a proposed bilateral trade deal. Tokyo and Washington aim to sign their trade agreement at the next bilateral summit to be held on the sidelines of a U.N. Gener...
SAITAMA (Jiji Press) — Opposition-backed rookie candidate Motohiro Ono was elected Saitama governor Sunday, defeating a famous candidate recommended by the Liberal Democratic Party. The results o...
YAMATOKORIYAMA, Nara — The 25th National Championship of Goldfish Scooping was held on Aug. 18 in Yamatokoriyama, Nara Prefecture, one of the top goldfish-producing cities in the nation, boasting an...
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Andrew Luck watched one last game from the sideline Saturday. Then he said goodbye to the NFL. The Indianapolis Colts quarterback heard boos as he walked away from the field,...
LIVERPOOL (Reuters) — Liverpool made it three wins out of three as Mohamed Salah scored twice in a convincing 3-1 victory over Arsenal on Saturday to take control at the top of the Premier League. ...
MANCHESTER (AP) — Manchester United missed another penalty then conceded an injury-time goal to lose 2-1 at home to Crystal Palace in the Premier League on Saturday. Five days after Paul Pogba had...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — With the sellout crowd at Dodger Stadium hanging on his every pitch, Kenley Jansen found himself in a jam. Bases loaded, one out, and Los Angeles clinging to a one-run lead over t...
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Prince Andrew responded to intense media scrutiny of his links to Jeffrey Epstein by issuing a statement Saturday denying any knowledge of criminal behavior by his one-tim...
SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AP) — As soon as the ball came off his bat, Curley Martha pointed to the sky — he knew that one was gone. Curley hit a two-run homer to center in the fifth inning and go...
MADRID (AP) — Real Madrid conceded a late equalizer in a 1-1 draw against Valladolid in James Rodriguez’s return to the Spanish league on Saturday. Karim Benzema gave Madrid the lead in the 82nd ...
The national women’s soccer team is Nadeshiko Japan, the baseball team is Samurai Japan and the artistic swimming squad is known as Mermaid Japan. While these monikers have become well known, other ...
ATLANTA (AP) — Six people were injured Saturday when lightning struck a 20-meter pine at the Tour Championship where they were taking cover from rain and showered them with debris, Atlanta police s...
BIARRITZ, France (Reuters) — U.S. President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe showed their differences over the seriousness of North Korea’s series of short-range missile launch...
MADISON, Ill. (AP) — Takuma Sato held off Ed Carpenter to win the IndyCar race Saturday night at World Wide Technology Raceway. Sato won by 0.399 seconds. Tony Kaanan was third, followed by Santin...
YANGON (Reuters) — When Myanmar officials toured refugee camps in Bangladesh last month, inviting Rohingya Muslims who fled the country to return, they brought with them pamphlets adorned with carto...
The South Korean government’s decision to abandon the General Security of Military Information Agreement (GSOMIA) with Japan has led to concerns that weakened cooperation between the two nations wil...
BIARRITZ, France (AFP-Jiji) — G7 leaders back strengthening cooperation with Russia after its expulsion from the group in 2014 but believe it is too early to reintegrate Moscow and return to a G8, ...
BIARRITZ, France (AP) — The first fissures emerged among Group of Seven leaders Sunday over how to deal with Iran, as U.S. President Donald Trump denied he had signed on to an agreement on giving Fr...
The Education, Youth and Sport Ministry has approved a request from the Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam) to set up a research office and library in the Prey Veng provincial teacher training c...
LONDON (AP) — England issued a powerful statement ahead of the Rugby World Cup when it overwhelmed Ireland by a record 57-15 margin at Twickenham on Saturday. At the heart of England’s second tri...
BERLIN (AP) — The European Free Trade Association, a group of four countries outside the European Union, has largely concluded a free-trade agreement with Mercosur, a South American trade bloc that...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe slammed the South Korean government on Friday for its decision the previous day to unilaterally scrap the two countries’ military information-sharin...
Two major Japanese airlines are actively operating in the field of freight transportation. In August, Japan Airlines Co. resumed regular cargo flights for the first time in nine years, and ANA Holding...
WASHINGTON/SEOUL (Jiji Press) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday expressed disappointment over South Korea’s decision to terminate an agreement to share military intelligence with J...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe became the nation’s longest-serving prime minister since World War II on Saturday, surpassing Eisaku Sato’s 2,798 days in office. Saturday was his 2,799th day as prime...
The South Korean government’s decision to abandon the General Security of Military Information Agreement (GSOMIA) with Japan has led to concerns that weakened cooperation between the two nations wil...
The Japanese government has taken the position of watching the situation and not taking countermeasures for now against South Korea following Seoul’s official notification that it is scrapping the G...
BIARRITZ, France — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived in Biarritz, France, on Saturday for the Group of Seven nations summit meeting that kicked off in the evening on the day. Attending a G7 summit ...
Artificial intelligence makes autonomous judgments, devoid of any human intention to kill enemies. If an AI-based weapons system is put into practical use, it may drastically change the nature of comb...
NEW DELHI (Reuters) — With India’s auto sales declining for the ninth straight month in July, more automotive manufacturers are laying off workers and temporarily halting production to keep costs...
BIARRITZ, France (Reuters) — U.S. President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe showed their differences over the seriousness of North Korea’s series of short-range missile launch...
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. 
As one of the measures to strengthen the national soccer team ahead of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, German coach Dettmar Cramer was invited to Japan. He must have studied the traditional culture of Japan,...
Southampton may be known for Japanese football player Maya Yoshida, who plays for Southampton FC, or for its famous port where the RMS Titanic departed before sinking. The reason why I am studying he...
We were six large bodies crammed inside a five-seat sedan, laughing even as our hearts fluttered at the sudden braking and inconsistent lane-crossing the driver, our classmate, undertook to get throu...
A symphony by a once-forgotten composer will be the highlight of a Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra concert on Sept. 10, which will be conducted by the orchestra’s new principal conductor, Sebastia...
Remember the film “The Bodyguard,” the blockbuster movie starring Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner? It was turned into a musical in London, and it’s coming to Japan in September. “And I —...
LOS ANGELES (AFP-Jiji) —The release of a film criticized by conservatives as portraying a group of liberals hunting supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump has been indefinitely postponed, Univers...
