November 19, 2019
Ishikawa and Toyama prefectures are refining their Tokyo “antenna shops” — stores that showcase local specialties in major cities — in an effort to take advantage of next year’s Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics and the fifth anniversary of the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen to Kanazawa...
Yokozuna Hakuho (8-1) pulled down No. 4 maegashira Kotoyuki (4-5), ensuring Hakuho a kachikoshi majority of wins on Monday, the ninth day of the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament at Fukuoka Kokusai Center in Fukuoka. Ozeki Takakeisho (6-3) pushed down komusubi Hokutofuji (4-5), while sekiwake Mitakeum...
The 2019 GZERO Summit, organized by Eurasia Group and supported by The Yomiuri Shimbun and other entities, was held in Tokyo on Monday. Participants including politicians, bureaucrats and experts from Japan, the United States, Europe and Australia discussed how to deal with a chaotic world in which...
MOSCOW (Reuters) — A summit between France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine to try to resolve the conflict in eastern Ukraine is possible this year, but no date has been agreed, a Kremlin aide said Sun...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Michael Bloomberg on Sunday apologized for his longstanding support of the controversial “stop-and-frisk” police strategy ahead of a potential Democratic presidential run, a p...
DUBAI (AP) — Iran’s supreme leader on Sunday cautiously backed the government’s decision to raise gasoline prices by 50 percent after days of widespread protests, calling those who attacked pub...
LA PAZ (AP) — Shadowed by street violence and food shortages, a U.N. envoy is urging the government of Bolivia’s self-proclaimed interim president and supporters of self-exiled leader Evo Morales...
VATICAN CITY (AFP-Jiji) — Pope Francis on Sunday hosted around 1,500 poor and homeless people for lunch at the Vatican, decrying indifference to poverty as the Catholic Church marked its World Day ...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Monday that there are no documents detailing the expenses for a dinner event for his supporters held on the eve of an annual cherry blossom-viewi...
SEOUL (Reuters) — North Korean media reported on Monday that leader Kim Jong Un supervised air force drills for the second time in three days, even as the United States and South Korea decided to p...
BANGKOK (Jiji Press) — Defense Minister Taro Kono and U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper agreed Monday that a series of ballistic missile launches by North Korea is a grave threat to regional securi...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The second and final round of Daikyo-no-Gi grand banquets hosted by the Emperor for guests to his Daijosai grand thanksgiving ceremony took place at the Imperial House in Tokyo...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Yahoo Japan Corp.’s parent, Z Holdings Corp., and free messaging app provider Line Corp. said Monday they have agreed to integrate their business operations in a deal that wil...
HONG KONG (Reuters) — Hong Kong police laid siege to a university on Monday, firing rubber bullets and tear gas to pin back anti-government protesters armed with gasoline bombs and other weapons an...
BANGKOK (Jiji Press) — The odds are high for a key Japan-South Korea military information-sharing pact to lapse, as the defense ministers from the two countries remained apart over its fate at a mee...
HONG KONG (AFP-Jiji) — A government ban on demonstrators wearing face masks, aimed at helping to quell months of pro-democracy unrest in Hong Kong, is unconstitutional, the territory’s high court...
TOKYO (AFP-Jiji) — Japan rallied to defeat South Korea 5-3 in the final of the WBSC Premier12 baseball tournament on Sunday night at Tokyo Dome. South Korea jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first in...
The approval rate for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Cabinet has slipped to 49 percent, down six percentage points from 55 percent in the previous survey and falling below the 50 percent mark for the ...
MUMBAI (Reuters) — An Indian Muslim group said Sunday it would file a petition in the Supreme Court asking for a review of a ruling that awarded a disputed site in Uttar Pradesh to Hindus, allowing...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Todd Gurley was told by Rams coach Sean McVay before Sunday night’s game against the Chicago Bears that he was going to be a focal point of Los Angeles’ offense. Gurley rose...
LONDON (AP) — Three years after coming to the ATP Finals as a hitting partner to the top pros, Stefanos Tsitsipas is leaving the tournament as champion. Tsitsipas rallied to beat Dominic Thiem 6-...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The Boston Celtics were an unlucky bounce away from extending an historic start to their season. Instead, the Sacramento Kings walked away with a huge victory. Buddy H...
YAMAGATA — A group of Yamagata University researchers have discovered 143 new geoglyphs on and around the Nazca plateau in Peru, known for its Nazca Lines UNESCO World Heritage site, including a dra...
The operator of Yahoo Japan, Z Holdings Corp. (ZHD), is set to reach a merger agreement with free messaging app provider Line Corp. as early as Monday, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned. The two comp...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — With only about three weeks left before the end of the current extraordinary session of the Diet, a scandal over a cherry blossom-viewing party hosted by Prime Minister Shinzo A...
FRANKFURT (Bloomberg) — Volkswagen AG will ramp up spending on electric vehicles, automated driving and other new technology by 36 percent as the world’s largest automaker challenges rivals to kee...
Hitachi, Ltd. has actively engaged in business restructuring ever since recording a massive loss 10 years ago. For this installment of Leaders, a column featuring corporate management and senior exec...
The construction site of the new Takanawa Gateway railroad station in Minato Ward, Tokyo, which is scheduled to open next spring on the Yamanote and Keihin-Tohoku lines, was opened to media organizati...
KAMAISHI, Iwate — Of the 12 stadiums to host Rugby World Cup matches, the Kamaishi Recovery Memorial Stadium in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, is the only venue that was newly constructed. The stadium ...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Tokyo police on Saturday arrested actress Erika Sawajiri for allegedly possessing synthetic drug MDMA in violation of the drug control law. Sawajiri, 33, has admitted to the ...
The proposals by the organizing committee for the 2020 Tokyo Games marathon and racewalking events in Sapporo have been revealed, with all the proposed routes starting and ending at Odori Park. The ...
TOKYO (Reuters) — U.S. President Donald Trump has asked Japan to quadruple its payments for U.S. forces stationed there, Foreign Policy reported, citing unnamed current and former U.S. officials, a...
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. 
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...
VELES, North Macedonia (Reuters) — Svetozar Bogdanovski built his first violin 35 years ago for his son Kostadin, then aged seven, who had expressed interest in taking lessons. Today Bogdanovski’...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength. Those were the slogans of the Party in George Orwell’s 1949 novel “1984” that allowed the superstate of Ocean...
