June 14, 2021
CARBIS BAY, England (Reuters) — G7 leaders will commit on Sunday to increase their climate finance contributions to meet an overdue spending pledge of $100 billion a year to help poorer countries cut carbon emissions and cope with global warming. As part of plans billed as helping speed the fin...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — All Nippon Airways began vaccinating international flight pilots and cabin attendants against the novel coronavirus on Sunday, marking the start of workplace vaccinations in Japan. Government-approved vaccinations at workplaces and universities will get into full swing on ...
The government will consider strengthening the power of various authorities, in a bid to help them respond better to the novel coronavirus pandemic, according to the draft of a basic plan for economic and fiscal management and reform. The plan was presented Wednesday at a meeting of the Council o...
CARBIS BAY, England (Reuters) — China on Sunday pointedly cautioned Group of Seven leaders that the days when “small” groups of countries decided the fate of the world was long gone, hitting ba...
Tokyo logged 304 new cases of infection with the novel coronavirus on Sunday, the metropolitan government said. Sunday’s number was down 47 from the same day of the previous week, falling below t...
CARBIS BAY, England (Reuters) — Group of Seven countries will provide 1 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses over the next year and work with the private sector, the G20 and other countries to increase t...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Toshiba Corp. held an extraordinary board meeting on Sunday after an investigation report by a group of independent lawyers concluded last week that the company’s annual meet...
CORNWALL, England (Jiji Press) — Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and German Chancellor Angela Merkel agreed Saturday to promote their countries’ cooperation to realize the Japan-proposed f...
CORNWALL, England (Jiji Press) — Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and French President Emmanuel Macron reaffirmed their cooperation on Saturday to realize a free and open Indo-Pacific in view...
CORNWALL, England (Jiji Press) — Leaders of the Group of Seven key industrialized countries, at a meeting on Saturday, called for a further investigation by the World Health Organization into the o...
Silkworm cocoons are seen at a farm in Tamba, Hyogo Prefecture, where production is at its peak. Dyeing and weaving artist Masayo Harada rents space at the farm and is raising about 18,000 silkworms ...
CORNWALL, England (Jiji Press) — Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and South Korean President Moon Jae-in exchanged greetings on Saturday at the venue of the Group of Seven summit in Britain, ...
CORNWALL, England (Jiji Press) — U.S. President Joe Biden threw his support on Saturday behind Japan’s plans to hold the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games this summer as planned. At 10-minute ...
CORNWALL, England (Jiji Press) — Leaders of the Group of Seven key industrialized nations agreed Saturday to launch a massive infrastructure investment initiative for the developing world to rival ...
Hong Kongers living in Japan gathered in a park in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo, on Saturday to commemorate the second anniversary of the beginning of the 2019 anti-government protests that rocked China’s ...
Tokyo confirmed 467 new cases of the novel coronavirus on Saturday, up 31 from a week earlier. The daily tally was higher than the figure logged on the same day of the previous week for the first t...
Ozeki Asanoyama was slapped with a six-tournament suspension and a six-month pay cut of 50% by the Japan Sumo Association at an extraordinary meeting of its board of directors Friday. The punishmen...
Amid growing concern over unreasonable school rules, the Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Ministry has urged schools and local boards of education to reconsider whether their codes o...
What should the nation’s supreme law be? It can be said that Japan has finally overcome a small hurdle toward a full-scale debate on the Constitution. The revised National Referendum Law was passe...
A general shareholders’ meeting is the most important forum for corporate decision-making. It would be problematic if Toshiba Corp. and the government worked together to distort the operation of the...
Visitors enjoy roughly 2,500 hydrangeas of 40 varieties bringing vivid color to the early summer season at Hasedera temple in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Saturday. This year’s flowers along th...
The approval of a new Alzheimer’s drug by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is a major step in the fight against dementia, but challenges remain for getting it into practical use. The FDA ha...
A security robot has been developed that will fight off intruders by emitting smoke, major security firm Secom Co. announced Thursday. If the AI- and 5G-equipped robot Cocobo encounters anyone suspic...
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...
The Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) plans to demand that three major mobile phone carriers review their relationships with mobile phone resellers, claiming that the carriers’ systems of evaluat...
Hong Kongers living in Japan gathered in a park in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo, on Saturday to commemorate the second anniversary of the beginning of the 2019 anti-government protests that rocked China’s ...
What should the nation’s supreme law be? It can be said that Japan has finally overcome a small hurdle toward a full-scale debate on the Constitution. The revised National Referendum Law was passe...
Visitors enjoy roughly 2,500 hydrangeas of 40 varieties bringing vivid color to the early summer season at Hasedera temple in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Saturday. This year’s flowers along th...
COVID-19 vaccines not only protect individuals, but also help prevent the novel coronavirus from spreading in society as a whole. It is essential to secure medical personnel who can administer vaccine...
A security robot has been developed that will fight off intruders by emitting smoke, major security firm Secom Co. announced Thursday. If the AI- and 5G-equipped robot Cocobo encounters anyone suspic...
This is part of an ongoing series examining behind-the-scenes political moves concerning COVID-19 vaccines. While democratic countries such as Japan and the United States have been struggling to co...
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. 
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...
Gwendolen Jones 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 aut...
The fishermen are pleased with the day’s bountiful catch. Even their dog looks happy. Men in the background powerfully haul a fishing boat onto the beach. Amid the bustle of the scene, another man...
To quote “In the Heights” itself, the streets are made of music in the first genuinely cheerful, splashy, exuberantly life-affirming movie of the summer. King Kong might have stomped his way back...
