August 24, 2019
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe slammed the South Korean government on Friday for its decision the previous day to unilaterally scrap the two countries’ military information-sharing agreement. “Regrettably, [South Korean] actions damaging bilateral relations of trust are cont...
WASHINGTON/SEOUL (Jiji Press) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday expressed disappointment over South Korea’s decision to terminate an agreement to share military intelligence with Japan. “We’re disappointed to see the decision that the South Koreans made” about the informa...
Two major Japanese airlines are actively operating in the field of freight transportation. In August, Japan Airlines Co. resumed regular cargo flights for the first time in nine years, and ANA Holdings Inc. has introduced two cargo aircraft. Expectations are growing for air cargo, which is suitable ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has informed Congress it plans to sell F-16 fighters worth $8 billion to Taiwan in a move that will inflame already high tensions with China. Two U.S. o...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The government is considering lowering the tax burden for people who donate to Kyoto Animation, an anime production company struck by an arson incident last month, informed sou...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kike Hernandez came up with a big hit on his bobblehead night. The Dodgers second baseman capped a three-run ninth inning by blooping a single to score Corey Seager with the winn...
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Tanner Roark has been in Oakland long enough already to understand this winning vibe. Roark is doing his part to keep the Athletics on a roll as the September stretch run ap...
NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball is banning players from participating in the Venezuelan Winter League in one of the first public repercussions of new U.S. economic sanctions against the Venezu...
SEOUL (AP) — North Korea’s foreign minister on Friday called U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo a “poisonous plant of American diplomacy” and vowed to “shutter the absurd dream” that san...
MELBOURNE (AP) — Kemba Walker scored 23 points and Myles Turner added 15 to give Team USA a 102-86 win over Australia on Thursday in a World Cup warm-up game. The attendance at Marvel Stadium, whi...
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump presented 91-year-old basketball legend Bob Cousy with the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Thursday, praising the Boston Celtics star as “one of the ...
YOKOHAMA (Jiji Press) — The Yokohama city government on Thursday announced its bid to host a casino-featuring integrated resort in the city, aiming to open such a facility in the latter half of the...
ATLANTA (AP) — Xander Schauffele was six shots behind before he ever hit a shot Thursday in the new scoring format for the Tour Championship. His goal was to keep his head down, play good golf and s...
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — This was not the return to the field that Cam Newton was hoping to make. The Carolina Panthers quarterback left Thursday’s 10-3 exhibition loss to the New England Patrio...
CLEVELAND (AP) — Cleveland Browns owners Dee and Jimmy Haslam have donated $4.5 million to the city’s eclectic musical arts. The couple have given to the Cleveland Orchestra, the Rock & Roll Hall...
Gold-medal sprint contender Christian Coleman’s Olympic prospects might be in jeopardy after three missed drug tests, two people familiar with the case told the AP. The “whereabouts failures” ...
WASHINGTON (Jiji Press) — Japan and the United States will extend their ministerial trade talks into a third day after completing the scheduled two-day session Thursday, Economic Revitalization Min...
NEW YORK (AP) — Top-seeded Wang Qiang rallied from a dismal start to beat Anna Blinkova 0-6, 6-1, 6-4 on Thursday and reach the semifinals of the Bronx Open. Wang won just six of 20 points on her ...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The nation’s core consumer price index in July rose 0.6 percent from a year earlier, up for the 31st consecutive month, the Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry said...
Aiming to achieve the smooth relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps’ Futenma Air Station in Ginowan to the Henoko district of Nago, both in Okinawa Prefecture, the government plans to establish an adv...
NEW YORK (AP) — Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova will finally meet in the U.S. Open, and they’ll do it in their very first match. A long-awaited Roger Federer-Rafael Nadal showdown could come...
WELLINGTON (Reuters) — Winning gold in rugby sevens at next year’s Tokyo Olympics is still a top priority for New Zealand Rugby (NZR) despite no current All Blacks making themselves available for ...
The Fukushima prefectural government decided to end in fiscal 2020 its health survey of expectant and nursing mothers, which began in the wake of the accident at Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings...
When Amanda Berg heard reports that President Donald Trump mocked the accents of the leaders of South Korea and Japan at a recent fundraiser, it brought back painful memories from her childhood. Ber...
SEOUL (Reuters) — South Korea will scrap an intelligence-sharing pact with Japan amid an intensifying dispute over history and trade, South Korea’s presidential office said on Thursday. The dec...
According to the original version of the Japanese government’s 2019 white paper on defense, North Korea is believed to have already achieved the miniaturization of nuclear weapons and the developmen...
The fiscal 2020 national budget is likely to include funding to develop a successor to the Air Self-Defense Force’s F-2 fighter, multiple government sources said. The goal is for Japan to lead th...
The real estate industry is turning to various technologies to streamline the contract procedures for rental housing. For example, real estate agencies are allowing prospective renters to use virtu...
TOKYO (AFP-Jiji) — Once a pioneer in cashless transactions, Japan is now lagging behind as the world’s biggest economies increasingly embrace electronic payments — because its aging population s...
The time has come when the summer holidays end, and a new term begins at school. Adults who are close to children should keep a watchful eye for any changes in their behavior. According to the gover...
Riseisha high school baseball team members celebrate the school’s first National High School Baseball Championship on Thursday at Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture. The Osaka prefectu...
Since the introduction of the Specified Skilled Worker residence status, which came into effect in April to allow companies nationwide to employ more non-Japanese workers, a foreign trainee who did no...
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...
A symphony by a once-forgotten composer will be the highlight of a Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra concert on Sept. 10, which will be conducted by the orchestra’s new principal conductor, Sebastia...
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...
