December 14, 2019
The Bank of Japan’s quarterly Tankan survey for December revealed that trade friction between the United States and China and natural disasters have cast a shadow on business sentiment in the manufacturing sector. The diffusion index, showing corporate business confidence, stood at zero for larg...
TEHRAN — About 100 people attended a memorial rally in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, on Friday for Japanese doctor Tetsu Nakamura and the five others killed in an attack by members of an armed group, urging an early resolution to the killing. Those gathered were local farmers who had benefited from ir...
Former major leaguer Ichiro Suzuki was among about 130 attendees of a three-day study course that began in Tokyo on Friday for former professional baseball players to obtain a qualification for coaching high school and university students. Ichiro, who retired from professional baseball in March, c...
NIIGATA — A memorial service was held in Niigata on Saturday for North Koreans and their Japanese wives who went to North Korea as part of a repatriation program that ended in 1984. Saturday marked...
Dec. 15 marks the third anniversary of talks between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Nagato, Yamaguchi Prefecture, where they agreed to start negotiations on joint ec...
BALTIMORE (AP) — Only minutes removed from watching his team roll to its 10th consecutive victory, coach John Harbaugh showed up to the postgame news conference wearing a white hat proclaiming Balti...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ten former NFL players have been charged with defrauding the league’s health care benefit program, the Justice Department said Thursday. They include five former players on the...
BOSTON (AP) — Joel Embiid answered the criticism from a couple of Hall of Famers in the most productive way possible. After Shaquille O’Neal and Charles Barkley said Embiid wasn’t playing up to...
MELBOURNE (AP) — The International team is going so well at this Presidents Cup that it had to settle for a three-point lead after two sessions at Royal Melbourne. Justin Thomas and Patrick Cantla...
SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — The New York Islanders used good goaltending and a strong power play to beat the Florida Panthers yet again. Devon Toews and Mathew Barzal had power-plays goals in a 3:51 span...
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson campaigned on one theme alone — “Get Brexit done.” His sweeping victory in Thursday’s election means that could now happen within weeks. E...
BANGKOK (AFP-Jiji) — At Bangkok’s Reclining Buddha temple, Krairath Chantrasri says he is a proud custodian of an ancient skill — the body-folding, sharp-elbowed techniques of Thai massage, whic...
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Major League Baseball will start testing for opioids and cocaine, but only players who do not cooperate with their treatment plans will be subject to discipline. Marijuana will be...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The Tokyo District Court ordered the government Thursday to pay ¥1.32 million in damages to a transgender woman working at the trade ministry for restricting her use of the wo...
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Bruce Bochy isn’t quite done managing after all. Bochy might have just retired after a decorated 25-year career in the dugout with San Diego and San Francisco. But he is already...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Business sentiment among large manufacturers worsened for the fourth straight quarter, hit by the impact of the Oct. 1 consumption tax increase and Typhoon No. 19 as well as co...
WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) — Washington has set its terms for a trade deal with China, offering to suspend some tariffs on Chinese goods and cut others in exchange for Beijing buying more America...
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party has won a thumping majority of seats in Britain’s Parliament — a decisive outcome to a Brexit-dominated election that sh...
Liverpool is in talks with Salzburg to acquire Japan forward Takumi Minamino, the Austrian side’s sporting director Christoph Freund said Thursday. The 24-year-old Minamino caught the eye with an i...
BRUSSELS (Reuters) — The European Union left Poland out of a 2050 climate neutrality agreement on Friday after hours of summit haggling with three poorer eastern member states that demanded more fu...
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) — Bolivian ex-President Evo Morales arrived in Argentina on Thursday seeking refuge under the country’s new leftist government after he left his homeland last month followin...
WELLINGTON (Reuters) — A New Zealand military team recovered six bodies on Friday from the volcanic island that fatally erupted earlier this week, in a high risk operation watched by dozens of griev...
PARIS (AFP-Jiji) — Teenager Mason Greenwood again grabbed his chances for Manchester United, scoring twice in a 4-0 thrashing of AZ Alkmaar in the Europa League on Thursday. Earlier Arsenal came ba...
Children in the Asia-Pacific region have suffered a great deal due to air pollution and extreme weather events, experts have said. Delegates attending the Asia-Pacific Conference on Early Childhood De...
MORIOKA (Jiji Press) — Former Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Tokuichiro Tamazawa was shot near his home in Morioka by a man on Tuesday. Tamazawa, 81, was apparently injured in the in...
Seihan Mori, head priest of Kyoto’s Kiyomizudera temple, writes a kanji character on Thursday that can be read as “rei,” one of the two characters used in the current Japanese era name Reiwa. It...
Kabukicho is known as one of the busiest districts in Japan, and is packed with an abundance of shops, including restaurants, movie theaters and adult-related locations. However, there are no kabuki t...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Japan and the United States have decided to put their trade agreement and pact on digital trade into effect on Jan. 1, 2020, according to the Foreign Ministry. The two countri...
Starting Monday, the Tokyo Fire Department (TFD) will allow its ambulance staff to halt cardiopulmonary resuscitation and transportation to hospitals if a terminally ill patient does not want to recei...
MADRID — Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi did not express concrete steps for reducing coal-fired thermal power generation, for which construction of new plants is currently underway in Japan, d...
HELSINKI (Reuters) — Social Democrat Sanna Marin said on Tuesday she would restore stability to Finland and keep using social media — but with care — after being sworn in as the world’s young...
The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry plans to apply the public medical health insurance system to treat gambling addiction starting next fiscal year. The ministry concluded it is urgent to establi...
Nominated torchbearers for the Tokyo Olympic torch relay began receiving notifications Thursday, after which they took to social networking sites to express their joy. Organizing committees of respect...
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. 
Kabukicho is known as one of the busiest districts in Japan, and is packed with an abundance of shops, including restaurants, movie theaters and adult-related locations. However, there are no kabuki t...
“Chushingura” is a famous tale of vengeance in Japan. Veteran actor Shinichi Tsutsumi and comedian Takashi Okamura star in “Kessan! Chushingura” (The 47 Ronin in Debt), the latest film adaptat...
Fashion never gets old. More seniors are appearing on social media, in magazines or in fashion shows, wearing what makes them feel good. Clothing marketed at seniors usually evokes the image of someth...
