August 21, 2019
Emperor Showa mentioned the necessity of rearmament and constitutional revision, according to newly disclosed documents detailing exchanges between the emperor and Michiji Tajima, the first grand steward of the Imperial Household Agency in the postwar period. The documents, which were released on...
National rugby team captain Michael Leitch, left, and other members train in Abashiri, Hokkaido, on Tuesday, one month before the opening of the 2019 World Cup in Japan. There are 41 players at the camp, which runs through Aug. 28, and their number will be narrowed down to 31 for the official World ...
CHIBA — In a bid to keep milk production from dropping due to the heat, the Chiba prefectural government is testing ways to protect dairy cows from summer fatigue. Damp cloths are being placed around the necks of 46 cows in Chiba Prefecture, a measure said to reduce body temperature for six to e...
PARIS (AFP-Jiji) — Winger Akihito Yamada said Monday he is still targeting a spot in his country’s Rugby World Cup squad after joining French club Lyon on loan. Yamada, 34, who started his nation...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Nationals are on a hot streak at the plate that defies explanation. “If anyone knew the answer to that, they could write a book and make millions of dollars,” Adam Eaton s...
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Andrew Heaney struggled to describe his emotions with the Los Angeles Angels back in Texas for the first time since pitcher Tyler Skaggs was found dead in his hotel room befo...
PIRAEUS, Greece (AP) — Former Cleveland Cavaliers coach David Blatt has been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. In a statement posted Monday on the website of Greek club Olympiakos, Blatt said he w...
WOLVERHAMPTON, England (Reuters) — Manchester United was held 1-1 at Wolverhampton Wanderers and missed out on taking top spot in the Premier League on Monday as a sumptuous Ruben Neves strike cance...
DENVER (AP) — Broncos receiver Emmanuel Sanders and 49ers quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo each made a triumphant return to action Monday night when the San Francisco 49ers’ backups engineered a 24-15 ...
On the day Oakland Raiders wide receiver Antonio Brown reported back to work, multiple media outlets reported Monday that the veteran has filed a new grievance with the NFL in order to be able to wear...
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Police said Monday they are still investigating the weekend motorcycle crash that killed former Texas Longhorns running back and NFL player Cedric Benson and a woman passenger. ...
ZURICH (AP) — Belgium has become the 10th country — and first from Europe — to express an interest in bidding for the 2023 Women’s World Cup. The submission is the only new entry following t...
SEOUL (Jiji Press) — Korean Air said Tuesday that it will suspend all flights on some routes linking Japan and South Korea as part of a drastic review of its services to respond to a fall in travel...
NEW YORK (AP) — Kristie Ahn began the final preparation for her return to the U.S. Open with a first-round victory Tuesday at the Bronx Open, where fellow American CoCo Vandeweghe and seeded players...
HONG KONG (Reuters) — Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said on Tuesday she hoped a peaceful weekend anti-government protest was the start of an effort to restore peace and that dialogue with peaceful pro...
The Trump administration has extended a limited reprieve on U.S. technology sales to Huawei, even as questions remain over how much of an effect broader sanctions are having on the Chinese technology...
NEW DELHI (Reuters) — U.S. President Donald Trump spoke with the leaders of India and Pakistan on Monday, discussing prospects for improved trade ties with Washington and stressing the need to redu...
Cross off another milestone for Clemson, college football’s newest superpower. For the first time, the defending national champion Tigers are No. 1 in The Associated Press preseason Top 25 presente...
TOKYO (Reuters) — Japanese companies broadly support Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s tough trade stance against South Korea, a Reuters poll has found. Three-quarters of companies in the monthly Reute...
TRURO, England/LONDON (Reuters) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson called on France and Germany on Monday to change their position on Brexit and negotiate a new exit deal for Britain, reiteratin...
WASHINGTON (AP) — On the night before Joe Biden’s world collapsed, he sat in a picture-perfect scene with his wife by the fireside in their Delaware living room. Biden, the hotshot senator-elect ...
SEOUL (Reuters) — Japan has approved shipments of a high-tech material to South Korea for the second time since imposing export curbs last month, two people familiar with the matter said Tuesday, ah...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Demand for rental recreational vehicles is spiking from foreign travelers planning to visit Japan for the 2019 Rugby World Cup, which kicks off in a month. According to RV rent...
KYOTO — Sunday marked one month since the arson attack on a Kyoto Animation Co. studio that left 35 people dead. Many continue to ask why animators — who brought life to the images they created...
The government is considering launching a satellite to intercept foreign countries’ military satellites in the event of an emergency, as part of efforts to strengthen deterrence amid a rapidly incre...
This is the fourth and final installment of a four-part series on multilingual education at Japanese high schools. Non-English foreign language education at Japanese high schools often reflects cha...
Japan had more than 30 million foreign visitors in 2018, but its nightlife is not as extensive as in other nations. Spurred by the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, efforts are spreading to diversify to...
Since the Trans-Pacific Partnership came into effect, a wider variety of imported beef has been making its way onto the tables of Japanese households. Products from Canada and New Zealand have been...
Speeches and plays in French were presented by more than 100 high school students learning French as their “first foreign language” at a recent event in Tokyo. The event was 38eme Festival de F...
MITO (Jiji Press) — Police arrested a 43-year-old man on a nationwide wanted list on Sunday on charges of causing bodily injury to a driver in a road rage case on an expressway in Ibaraki Prefectur...
FUKUOKA — A huge 3D artwork appears to be protruding from a 20-meter-high wall at the commercial facility Marinoa City Fukuoka in Nishi Ward, Fukuoka. The complex shapes drawn in white, green and ...
The government is making final arrangements to include the promotion of a Free and Open Indo-Pacific strategy led by Japan and the United States in a declaration at the upcoming Tokyo International Co...
LONDON (Jiji Press) — A rare Japanese whiskey collection has fetched 7,192,000 Hong Kong dollars (about $917,000 or ¥97.5 million), at an auction in Hong Kong, according to British auction house Bo...
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...
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...
Young people today hate to carry things. They prefer going out empty-handed if possible. Middle-aged or elderly people will likely think, alright, this jacket has a lot of pockets, so you can put y...
