January 28, 2021
WASHINGTON / TOKYO — A year has passed since the first novel coronavirus infection was confirmed in China. With the total number of reported cases having topped 100 million worldwide, the virus is now posing a new threat as highly infectious variants have appeared around the world. ■ U.S. sta...
Ginza Six, one of the largest commercial complexes in Tokyo’s Ginza district, has announced that the facility will change many of its tenant shops for the first time since it opened in April 2017. The shopping complex is expected to introduce new stores selling luxury household goods and food a...
Nippon Express Co., a global logistics company based in Tokyo’s Shiodome district, became the latest major company to consider selling its headquarters building in central Tokyo, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned. The move by Nippon Express follows similar revelations from advertising giant Den...
A couple of decades in the future, a high school student named Wade lives with his aunt in a trailer in Oklahoma after his mother’s death from a heroin overdose. Climate change is catastrophic, and ...
Cats rub their bodies on silver vine leaves, known as matatabi in Japan, to protect themselves from mosquitoes, which are known to carry viruses. A team of researchers from Iwate University and oth...
The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry plans to provide subsidies to couples seeking fertility treatment on the condition that the treatments are provided by medical institutions that disclose such in...
The 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake deeply implanted in people’s minds the importance of tsunami preparedness and countermeasures. As a possible Nankai Trough earthquake in the future may cause mor...
Hina dolls of newly elected U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are displayed in the shop of famous doll maker Kyugetsu Co. in Taito Ward, Tokyo, on Wednesday, ahead of the Hina...
Ahead of the 10-year anniversary of the March 2011 accident at Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.’s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, a panel of the Nuclear Regulation Authority on Tuesda...
Japan’s high-quality agricultural and fishery products should be sold more across the world. The government needs to take a close look at the needs of each country and region, and boost exports in a...
Keep track of the coronavirus epidemic as it unfolds in Japan. Relevant stories and graphics appear below covering events up to and including the current state of emergency and the future outlook. ...
The following charts give a visual representation of the spread of the novel coronavirus in Japan and around the world. The first shows the extensiveness of cases in relation to a nation’s populatio...
The number of companies allowing their workers to have second jobs is on the rise amid the coronavirus pandemic. As workers’ incomes have declined or they have gained time thanks to teleworking, the...
It is obvious that this is aimed at pressuring the new administration of U.S. President Joe Biden not to intervene in the Taiwan issue. It must be said that this is a dangerous provocation that threat...
Table corals are growing in a colony near Sokodo Beach on Hachijo Island, one of the Izu Islands in Hachijo, Tokyo. The area is gathering attention as a place where corals and humans live in close pr...
Government discussions are growing stronger in favor of extending the state of emergency, declared to deal with the novel coronavirus, past its Feb. 7 deadline. Reasons include a decrease in the numb...
Taking frequent walks in forests, parks, and other urban greenspaces may boost your ability to cope with stress, a recent study has found. The study was conducted by researchers from the University o...
Soon after the New Year began, a COVID-19 state of emergency was declared for the second time in Tokyo and other prefectures. People were asked to refrain from going out late at night and the end time...
The government will lift a ban on nuclear transfer, in which a fertilized egg nucleus that contains genetic information is transferred into the fertilized egg of a third person, solely for the purpose...
Tokyo logged 1,026 new cases of coronavirus infection Tuesday, surpassing 1,000 for the first time in three days, according to the Tokyo metropolitan government. The number of newly infected people ...
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said Monday at the House of Representatives Budget Committee that he plans to promptly release materials on the side effects from COVID-19 vaccines and the approval proce...
An original woodcut printing block used to create the art of ukiyo-e master Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) has been discovered in the collection of an art dealer in Tokyo. The block is believed to h...
The ruling parties are considering removing imprisonment from penalties that could be imposed on coronavirus patients who refuse to be hospitalized, as they amend a bill to revise the Infectious Disea...
Keep track of the coronavirus epidemic as it unfolds in Japan. Relevant stories and graphics appear below covering events up to and including the current state of emergency and the future outlook. ...
The following charts give a visual representation of the spread of the novel coronavirus in Japan and around the world. The first shows the extensiveness of cases in relation to a nation’s populatio...
China is accelerating efforts for its military-led space program. It needs to refrain from actions that threaten other countries and increase transparency in its activities in order not to undermine ...
The ruling Liberal Democratic Party has begun full-scale discussions on an elective four-day work week system, in response to the changes in the employment environment caused by the novel coronavirus...
The government will lift a ban on nuclear transfer, in which a fertilized egg nucleus that contains genetic information is transferred into the fertilized egg of a third person, solely for the purpose...
TAIPEI — Many Chinese civilian vessels repeatedly approached the Matsu Islands of Taiwan, located off the coast of mainland China, from October to December last year, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned...
A snowy landscape has blanketed the Kuju Mountains, which extend from the city of Taketa, Oita Prefecture, to the town of Kokonoe. The surface of Lake Miike, located near the summit of the highest mou...
The government expects to complete the vaccination of about 36 million elderly people within approximately three months from the start of inoculations, according to an announcement by the health minis...
The global supply chain is being gummed up by a shortage of shipping containers, especially in Asia, and transportation costs are soaring. The shortage is also causing delays in Japanese imports and ...
The abuse of elderly people in need of nursing care shows no sign of decline. Stopping the increase in abuse cases at nursing care facilities is an urgent task. The Health, Labor and Welfare Minist...
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. 
An exhibition space re-creating part of the residence of novelist Osamu Dazai (1909-1948) has opened at a gallery in front of JR Mitaka Station in Mitaka, Tokyo. The space at the Mitaka City Gallery...
It seems as if everyone wants to get their hands on some wildflowers. The kind of wildflowers that are popular in Japan are generally species native to the southern hemisphere, such as from Australia ...
In 2016, not long before Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election, influential sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild published “Strangers in Their Own Land,” in which she expresse...
