September 1, 2021
Among accessibility features, platform doors at train stations directly benefit everyone’s lives. In the run-up to the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, the construction of platform doors had been proceeding at a rapid pace, but only around one-tenth of all stations in Japan have them. As of March...
Blind soccer is attracting rising attention in Japan, as the Tokyo Paralympics mark the first time a Japanese team has qualified for the competition. A major characteristic of the sport, known as “football 5-a-side” in official Paralympic parlance, is that people with and without visual impai...
Tokyo reported 2,909 new cases of novel coronavirus on Tuesday, down 1,311 from the same day last week. The week-on-week figure was lower for the ninth consecutive day. The number of seriously ill COVID-19 patients was 287, the same as the previous day. According to the Tokyo metropolitan gove...
Cyclist Keiko Sugiura became the oldest Japanese to win a gold medal in Paralympics history on Tuesday when the 50-year-old triumphed in the women’s road time trial race in the C1-3 category at Fuj...
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga plans to replace Liberal Democratic Party Secretary General Toshihiro Nikai and other senior party officials in September at the earliest, according to sources. Suga h...
The host nation was fell 2-0 to China in Group A pool-play blind soccer action on Tuesday, failing to advance to the semifinals. Japan, 1-2 at the Tokyo Paralympic Games, enters the consolation tou...
Blind swimmer Keiichi Kimura got his fourth Paralympic campaign underway with the support of tapper Masato Teranishi, who lets Kimura know when to turn or stop swimming as he is approaching the wall o...
While Western nations and South Korea succeeded in evacuating many Afghans who worked with their countries, Japan failed to evacuate any. The delay in Japan’s evacuation preparations sealed this fat...
At 51, para swimmer Mayumi Narita resolutely finished her sixth and last Paralympic Games on Monday. “I have fond memories from the Games each time, but this time it will really be my last Paralym...
Shinya Wada broke the Asian record in winning the silver medal in the men’s 1,500 meters in the T11 category for the visually impaired, clocking 4 minutes 5.27 seconds on Tuesday at National Stadiu...
FUKUI — Fukui Prefecture is home to a large number of soba noodle restaurants. It is famous for Echizen soba, buckwheat noodles that are served with a large portion of grated daikon along with dippi...
FUKUOKA — Thirst-quenching and mild-tasting, mugicha barley tea is an ideal beverage for keeping hydrated in summer. The caffeine-free drink is considered so healthy that even babies and pregnant wo...
Cyberbullies may soon face stricter penalties under proposed changes to Japan’s criminal code that aim to crack down on online attacks. The Justice Ministry plans to submit revisions to the Penal ...
The cultural and political center of Japan was in the Kinki region in western Japan during the Kofun period (ca 300-ca 710). Eastern Japan was still largely a backcountry, but what is now Shimotsuke i...
A plan has been finalized on the release into the ocean of treated water stored in tanks at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. The government and Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc. must...
The Self-Defense Forces Law strictly limits the overseas deployment of SDF transport aircraft because of Article 9 of the Constitution, which prohibits the use of force except in cases of self-defense...
The coronavirus pandemic has cast its shadow even over married couples and parent-child relationships. Central and local government support is necessary so that families with children are not isolated...
Need a break from the headlines? Here’s your daily dose of humor, curated by The Japan News. New comics are available every day, so ’toon in to both our print and web editions for a satirical l...
Companies have been hiring athletes with disabilities, providing them with the opportunity to pursue their sports while being employed, a practice already common among able-bodied athletes. Spurred...
WASHINGTON (AP) — As the final five U.S. military transport aircraft lifted off out of Afghanistan Monday, they left behind up to 200 Americans and thousands of desperate Afghans who couldn’t ge...
Mexican table tennis player Claudia Perez Villalba is one of four athletes at the Tokyo Paralympics who were trained by members of the Japan International Cooperation Agency. “I got here thanks t...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan late Monday, ending America’s longest war and closing a chapter in military history likely to be remembered for colo...
Facial recognition technology is becoming more sophisticated thanks to artificial intelligence. Although there are high expectations the technology will improve safety and convenience, there is also t...
The latest in our series of stories related to the COVID-19 pandemic and the vaccination situation in Japan are presented below. Also, clicking on “Latest coronavirus data” will lead to graphics t...
The following series of graphics can help visualize the spread of the novel coronavirus and the vaccination progress in Japan. Also included is a chart comparing global cases as a percentage of popula...
Need a break from the headlines? Here’s your daily dose of humor, curated by The Japan News. New comics are available every day, so ’toon in to both our print and web editions for a satirical l...
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Infections with the novel coronavirus are on the rise again among elderly people age 65 and over, a group that has a vaccination rate of more than 80%. The highly contagious delta variant is believ...
The planned evacuation of Afghans working for the Japanese Embassy and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) was thwarted by Thursday’s suicide bombing near Kabul’s airport, as they we...
While Western nations and South Korea succeeded in evacuating many Afghans who worked with their countries, Japan failed to evacuate any. The delay in Japan’s evacuation preparations sealed this fat...
The Okinawa prefectural government has halted the use of Moderna Inc.’s COVID-19 vaccine at an inoculation site where a foreign substance was detected in a vial of the vaccine. The prefecture said...
China’s hegemonic behavior is threatening the free maritime order in the Indo-Pacific. It is important for Japan to cooperate with Britain on defense to maintain regional stability. Britain’s st...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Most of the foreign materials in Moderna Inc.’s COVID-19 vaccine found in Okinawa Prefecture are believed to have been fragments of rubber stoppers of vials, the health minis...
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Daniel Mulcahy shares his experiences as participant of the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Programme, which is administered through the collaboration of Japan’s local and national government auth...
Ana Maricic shares her experiences as participant of the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Programme, which is administered through the collaboration of Japan’s local and national government authori...
Celine Chan Hui Juan shares her experiences as participant of the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Programme, which is administered through the collaboration of Japan’s local and national governmen...
With the breeze weaving through the amazing geometric patterns of their threads, works of string art are perfect for the hot summer season. String artists hook colorful threads onto nails attached t...
Among a handful of friends I have made through tennis, I’ve grown particularly fond of Kelly. She was 8 years old and a complete beginner when I met her six years ago, awkwardly running after the ba...
Naoki Sato has been a sought-after composer for TV shows and films, including this year’s NHK’s historical drama series “Seiten o Tsuke” (Reach Beyond the Blue Sky). He has also written music ...
