December 6, 2020
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga pledged to work on measures to combat global warming and digitization as the central pillars of economic revitalization efforts at a press conference on Friday ahead of the end of the extraordinary Diet session. With the coronavirus pandemic not yet under control, Su...
To correct the extreme concentration of domestic stock trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, the government will set up a panel of experts to begin discussions in earnest as early as this year. The panel will review the regulations stipulated in the Financial Instruments and Exchange Law and consid...
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Friday expressed his intention to establish a ¥2 trillion fund to support companies investing in technological innovation, mainly in environmental fields, to achieve the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050. The envisaged fund will be p...
Low-cost carrier Peach Aviation has launched a new flight service that allows users to flexibly build their itineraries according to their needs, such as scenic flights and charter flights. In the ...
The largest Muji household goods store in the Kanto region opened on Thursday in Tokyo’s Koto Ward. Muji Tokyo Ariake offers almost everything from Muji’s product range on its shelves, but als...
WAKAYAMA — Baseball legend Ichiro Suzuki recently spent three days back on the field, but instead of playing the game he donned a coach’s cap. For three days ending Friday, the 47-year-old forme...
OSAKA — Hitomi Niiya smashed the Japan record in the women’s 10,000 meters that had stood for nearly two decades, and Akira Aizawa followed a short time later by breaking the men’s mark at the...
In order to erase society’s fears about novel coronavirus infections and have the economy recover, politics has a significant role to play. The government should not hesitate to review the Go To T...
TEHRAN — A memorial ceremony was held for Japanese doctor Tetsu Nakamura in eastern Afghanistan on Friday, one year after he was killed in the country. About 50 people attended the ceremony in Ja...
KOBE — An illuminated bandstand was unveiled in East Park, Chuo Ward, Kobe, on Friday for an event that is being billed as an alternative to the grand illuminations of the annual Kobe Luminarie memo...
A straight, two-lane street hugs the tracks northwest of the Odakyu Line’s Sangubashi Station in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo. Towering toro street lights built just before Meiji Jingu shrine was completed...
On the morning of Nov. 19, Norio Mitsuya visited the office of his fellow Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Fumio Kishida and emphatically said, “Please say in front of reporters: ‘Komeito is irr...
David Atkinson, a member of Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s brain trust, has alarmed some in Japan’s business community and the ruling Liberal Democratic Party with his negative view of small and ...
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...
HIROSHIMA — The area around the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park — symbolized by the Atomic Bomb Dome — was one of the city’s busiest shopping areas before World War II. After it was razed by the...
There are likely many senior citizens interested in taking part in online gatherings and events, even if they do not frequently use the internet, to avoid going out in public amid the novel coronaviru...
The 23rd and final volume of the megahit manga series “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba” by Koyoharu Gotoge went on sale on Friday. The story, set in the Taisho era (1912-26), is the tale of Tanjir...
“Maximum caution is necessary,” a Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry advisory body on the novel coronavirus said Thursday, pointing to various “record-high levels.” It also said the amount ...
The Tokyo Aquatics Centre, the venue for the swimming competitions at the Tokyo Games, held its debut competition when the Japan national championships kicked off there on Thursday. The championships...
SAITAMA — About 2,200 fireworks lit up the night during a festival at the Chichibu Jinja shrine in Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, on Thursday. The fireworks display at the annual event, Chichibu Y...
The Tokyo metropolitan government kept its alert posture for the spread of the novel coronavirus in the capital at the highest level of its four-tiered assessment on Thursday, while the alert level f...
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. ...
AKB48 brings you Team 8, a group of idols where each member represents one of the 47 prefectures in Japan. As the group members travel across the nation for meet and greet fan activities, they learn a...
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...
Ramen is one of Japan's most iconic, much-loved dishes. The combination of broth, noodles and toppings is diverse and continues to evolve. If you visit Japan, you'll be amazed at the countless ramen s...
SAITAMA — About 2,200 fireworks lit up the night during a festival at the Chichibu Jinja shrine in Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, on Thursday. The fireworks display at the annual event, Chichibu Y...
Meiji Jingu shrine in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo, marked the 100th anniversary of its founding last month. A great deal has happened over that time — the shrine’s manmade forest continues to grow and dev...
The so-called “third wave” of the coronavirus pandemic has produced a surge in the number of critical cases, with the total nearing 500 nationwide as of Wednesday. The pace of increase in inf...
The Trans-Pacific Partnership multilateral free trade pact sets out rules for high levels of liberalization of trade and investment. If China wants to join the pact, it must accept the rules as a prec...
The novel coronavirus pandemic is expected to be prolonged. In order to maintain nursing care services, it is important not only to strengthen current measures to respond to the disease, but also to p...
Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been asked by the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office’s special investigation squad to agree to voluntary questioning regarding dinners on the eve of his ch...
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. 
Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 has long been beloved music for the year-end season in Japan. The atmosphere surrounding the symphony, “Choral,” is particularly special this year, as Dec. 16 marks th...
The heart wants what it wants, and the stomach most definitely wants what it wants. The strongest craving I’ve ever had was the time I was dying for blue cheese salad dressing. This was in 1986 a...
Wednesday marked 50 years since writer Yukio Mishima, a giant in the history of Japanese literature, took his own life at the Ground Self-Defense Force’s Camp Ichigaya in Tokyo. Mishima’s life spa...
