August 19, 2019
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 tourism in the evening and vitalize the nighttime economy. Kawaii culture The Kawaii Monster Cafe...
Non-English foreign language education at Japanese high schools often reflects characteristics of the schools’ regions. Fushiki High School in Toyama Prefecture is located near Fushiki Port, which is frequented by Russian and other foreign ships. “I’m an astronaut. I like Gagarin.” Stu...
The government is making final arrangements to include the promotion of a Free and Open Indo-Pacific strategy led by Japan and the United States in a declaration at the upcoming Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD). The declaration will be adopted at the end of the confer...
MITO (Jiji Press) — Police arrested a 43-year-old man on a nationwide wanted list on Sunday on charges of causing bodily injury to a driver in a road rage case on an expressway in Ibaraki Prefectur...
WASHINGTON (AP) — After witnessing two dozen runs and multiple comebacks over nine innings, Milwaukee manager Craig Counsell knew he had never seen something quite like the Brewers’ game against t...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Julio Urias has accepted a 20-game suspension by Major League Baseball for a domestic violence incident and is expected to return in September. MLB g...
NASHVILLE (AP) — Marcus Mariota jumped into the air and flipped over Patriots cornerback Duron Harmon into the end zone for a 2-point conversion. In a preseason game nearly eight months after the ...
Authorities in Las Vegas have decided not to bring charges against Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott over a May 19 incident, according to TMZ Sports. Security guard Kyle Johnson had pressed...
BEIRUT (Reuters) — Air strikes have killed more than two dozen civilians in northwestern Syria in the last two days in an escalation of a Russian-backed offensive against the last major rebel stron...
KHARTOUM (Reuters) — Sudan’s main opposition coalition and the ruling military council on Saturday signed a final power-sharing deal that paves the way for a transitional government, and eventual...
LONDON (AFP-Jiji) — Manchester City was forced to settle for a 2-2 draw against Tottenham after the Premier League champion was denied a dramatic winner by VAR, while Liverpool extended its perfect ...
MADRID (AP) — Zinedine Zidane’s revamped Real Madrid got the spark it needed from a couple of veterans to get off to a winning start in the Spanish league. In the absence of injured new signing ...
GENEVA (AP) — From guitars to traditional medicines and from tusk to tail, mankind’s exploitation of the planet’s fauna and flora is putting some of them at risk of extinction. Representatives ...
PARO, Bhutan (Jiji Press) — Prince Hisahito and his parents, Crown Prince Akishino and Crown Princess Kiko, met with 15 people associated with the Japan International Cooperation Agency at a hotel i...
TOKYO (AFP-Jiji) — France won a thrilling mixed triathlon test event for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics Sunday, which passed off as planned in a welcome boost for organizers after difficulties with high te...
HONG KONG (AP) — Pro-democracy protesters marched on one side of Hong Kong’s famous harbor on Saturday to demand the government heed their demands. Across the water, a pro-government rally called ...
FUKUOKA — A huge 3D artwork appears to be protruding from a 20-meter-high wall at the commercial facility Marinoa City Fukuoka in Nishi Ward, Fukuoka. The complex shapes drawn in white, green and ...
Police in Portland, Ore., arrested at least 13 people on Saturday as a right-wing group marched to a downtown waterfront park and anti-fascist counterprotesters scuffled with officers who tried to ke...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — De’Aaron Fox of the Sacramento Kings surprisingly withdrew from USA Basketball’s team Saturday, meaning the Americans now have 13 candidates for the 12-man World Cup roster. ...
CARDIFF (Reuters) — Wales beat England 13-6 in Cardiff on Saturday to avenge its loss in the reverse fixture last weekend, and take it to the top of the official world rankings as the World Cup loom...
AUCKLAND (Reuters) — The All Blacks silenced their critics with a physical and polished performance to retain the Bledisloe Cup with a 36-0 victory over Australia that also quelled concerns the whee...
KYOTO (Jiji Press) — About a month after the deadly arson attack, the circle of support for Kyoto Animation Co. has spread to individuals and businesses from within and outside Japan, with many offe...
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...
The Japan-made K supercomputer, one of the world’s top supercomputers, which has been in operation for eight years at the RIKEN Center for Computational Science in Kobe, was ending its role Friday. ...
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...
More than 10 percent of high schools in Japan are offering foreign language classes other than English, with the number increasing as globalization progresses. With less than a year remaining until th...
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 Emperor showed his determination to pass down the memories of World War II at the memorial service for the war dead held on Thursday, occasionally using his own words in his speech but mainly foll...
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...
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...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met with top officials at the Prime Minister’s Office on Thursday to discuss Japan’s response to a U.S.-led maritime security mission aimed at ensuring security mainly i...
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...
