August 20, 2019
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...
The amount of low-level radioactive waste generated at the nation’s research and medical facilities totaled an equivalent of about 670,000 drums — each with a 200-liter capacity — according to a survey conducted by the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA). The JAEA on Monday reported its survey...
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 ste...
IWAKI, Fukushima — Strawberries started being shipped Monday from Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, a town that was issued with an evacuation order following the nuclear power plant disaster in 2011, alt...
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is expected to visit Japan later this month at the earliest for talks with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Foreign Minister Taro Kono, it was learned. Zar...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Twitter said Monday it has suspended more than 200,000 accounts that it believes were part of a Chinese government influence campaign targeting the protest movement in Hong Kong. ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military has conducted a flight test of a type of missile banned for more than 30 years by a treaty that both the United States and Russia abandoned this month, the Penta...
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) — Turkey replaced pro-Kurdish party mayors with state officials in three southeastern cities and detained more than 400 people for suspected militant links on Monday, t...
JERUSALEM/GAZA (Reuters) — Israeli forces opened fire at a group of Palestinian gunmen as they tried to cross the Gaza border, the military said on Sunday and Palestinian health officials said thre...
DAVIE, Fla. (AP) — Florida’s iconic palm trees are under attack from a fatal disease that turns them to dried crisps in months, with no chance for recovery once they become ill. Spread by a ric...
ROME (AP) — Several migrants jumped into the sea from a Spanish rescue boat Sunday in a thwarted bid to reach shore in Italy, where the government’s hard-line interior minister, Matteo Salvini, ha...
SINGAPORE (AFP-Jiji) — Singapore needs at least $72 billion to build defenses against rising sea levels, its leader said Sunday as the low-lying city-state gears up against the impact of climate cha...
LONDON (AFP-Jiji) — Boris Johnson will visit European capitals this week on his first overseas trip as British leader, as his government said Sunday it had ordered the repeal of the decades-old law ...
DENVER (AP) — From a tiny Pacific island to a leafy Indiana forest, a handful of sites where the United States manufactured and tested some of the most lethal weapons known to humankind are now pea...
NEW YORK (Reuters) — The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating a “cluster” of lung illnesses that it believes may be linked to e-cigarette use after such cases were r...
DUBAI (AP) — Iran appears to be preparing another satellite launch after twice failing this year to put one in orbit, despite U.S. accusations that the Islamic Republic’s program helps it develop...
BRASILIA (Reuters) — United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi appealed on Sunday for more humanitarian aid for Venezuelan refugees pouring into neighboring countries where they ...
BOGOTA (AP) — The U.S. has opened up secret communications with Venezuela’s socialist party boss as members of President Nicolas Maduro’s inner circle seek guarantees they won’t face retributi...
WASHINGTON (AFP-Jiji) — U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday warned China that carrying out a Tiananmen Square-style crackdown on Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters would harm trade talks between ...
TORONTO (AP) — After watching his team use seven pitchers Saturday, Seattle’s Yusei Kikuchi wanted to give the bullpen a break. His first big league shutout fit the bill perfectly. Kikuchi ne...
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Griffin Canning had never been caught by fellow rookie Anthony Bemboom. Maybe Sunday was the start of a productive partnership. Canning had perhaps the best start of his c...
Frank Lampard climbed the steps in the tunnel and emerged to rapturous applause from Chelsea fans, a flame display and a giant banner at one end of Stamford Bridge that read “Welcome Home Super Fra...
The city of Saijo in Ehime Prefecture faces the Seto Inland Sea to the north and Mt. Ishizuchi, the tallest mountain in western Japan, to the south. Here, 87-year-old Setsuko Saeki has lived with a ro...
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...
Languages less familiar to the Japanese are also learned at some high schools. “What do you do?” “Where do you work?” In late June, Vietnamese phrases were heard at the private Kanto Internat...
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...
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...
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...
WEIFANG, China (Reuters) — Charging elderly clients just 1 yuan or about 15 cents a day, little-known Lanchuang Network Technology Corp. has embarked on one of the most ambitious undertakings in eld...
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...
Signs of a slowdown in Europe’s economy are growing. Difficult economic management is likely to be required to pull the region out of its current slow growth. Against a backdrop of uncertainty ove...
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...
