September 18, 2020
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga instructed Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Ryota Takeda to proceed with discussions on how to lower mobile phone fees during a meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office on Friday. After the meeting, Takeda told reporters that he intends to urge mobile phon...
The Hirosaki Autumn Festival in Aomori Prefecture will kick off Friday, featuring an illumination organized by the Hirosaki municipal government in the hopes of bringing light to the region’s coronavirus-hit economy. A test run of the illumination and projection mapping was conducted at the venu...
The health ministry plans to make only elderly and chronically ill patients subject to hospitalization for the novel coronavirus, in principle, according to a ministry draft plan. As part of a review of the handling of designated diseases under the Infectious Diseases Law with regard to the coro...
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has made clear his intentions to continue along the course of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on foreign and security policies. However, Suga’s ability to handle the k...
Travel packages at discounted prices covering Tokyo went on sale Friday at noon in light of a planned inclusion of travel to and from the capital in the government’s Go To Travel subsidy campaign, ...
AOMORI — A large hole in a beach-side volcanic rock formation has been attracting tourists to Rokkasho in Aomori Prefecture. The hole has been nicknamed “Tomari no Totoro” online both because ...
The government is seeking early implementation of insurance to cover fertility treatments, as proposed by Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, and plans to greatly increase subsidies for such treatment unti...
The cabinet minister in charge of digital reform on Thursday announced a plan to establish an agency by April 2022 to unify the digitization of administrative services. “We have to work fast to ge...
Reiko Ogasawara, a former exclusive cheerleader for a B League professional basketball team, is aiming to join the American National Basketball Association (NBA) cheerleading squad. The test schedule...
Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has revealed that he considered holding a House of Representatives election on the same day as a House of Councillors election several times during his tenure, and in...
Japan’s tallest skyscraper is slated to be constructed in 2027 near Tokyo Station, Mitsubishi Estate Co. announced Thursday. The 390-meter-tall, 63-story skyscraper, dubbed Torch Tower, will surpa...
In order to restore the kind of daily life soon in which many people can freely enjoy events, it is important for both organizers and spectators to cooperate in the prevention of infections and build ...
GIFU — A pottery firm in Toki, Gifu Prefecture, has begun producing yunomi teacups adorned with a drawing of Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga. Pottery maker Yamashi Seitosho has been making cups feat...
It is important for Japan to continue and develop its relationship with Britain even after its departure from the European Union. A new trade agreement between the two countries is welcomed as a basis...
Numerical rules governing businesses that breed and raise dogs and cats are set to be introduced in June. The regulations will cover areas such as the size of cages and the number of dogs and cats b...
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Keep track of the coronavirus epidemic as it unfolds in Japan. Relevant stories and graphics appear below covering events up to and including the current state of emergency and the future outlook. ...
The following charts give a visual representation of the spread of the novel coronavirus in Japan and around the world. The first shows the extensiveness of cases in relation to a nation’s populatio...
The education ministry announced on Tuesday its decision to extend the period searches can be conducted in the ministry’s database that compiles information on teachers dismissed for committing ob...
The massive granite structure with its irregular edges and forceful aura stands out in the wide space that encompasses what will be one of the nation’s largest complexes dedicated to Japanese pop cu...
I have to confess that I’ve only just recently read “Imuri.” My wife became a huge fan 14 years ago, and every time a new volume was published, she would nag me about why I wouldn’t read it. A...
I held an event in August called “Akamatsuri” that featured actors who have played the red-clad leaders of the Super Sentai tokusatsu TV series. It was done without an audience, and we streamed it...
No. 9 maegashira Onosho moved ahead of the pack hunting for the Emperor’s Cup at the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament by taking over sole possession of the lead on Day 5 at Tokyo’s Ryogoku Kokugikan o...
AKB48 brings you Team 8, a group of idols where each member represents one of the 47 prefectures in Japan. As the group members travel across the nation for meet and greet fan activities, they learn a...
Keep track of the coronavirus epidemic as it unfolds in Japan. Relevant stories and graphics appear below covering events up to and including the current state of emergency and the future outlook. ...
The following charts give a visual representation of the spread of the novel coronavirus in Japan and around the world. The first shows the extensiveness of cases in relation to a nation’s populatio...
Is it possible to strike a balance between containment of the novel coronavirus and the vitalization of tourism? The government and the tourism industry need to seek ways to restore demand in cooperat...
Liberal Democratic Party President Yoshihide Suga is planning to appoint Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Katsunobu Kato as chief cabinet secretary after his almost-certain appointment as prime mini...
Liberal Democratic Party President Yoshihide Suga, 71, was elected as Japan’s new prime minister during the plenary sessions of the House of Representatives and the House of Councillors on Wednesday...
Award-winning writer Yang Yi recently spoke to Yomiuri Shimbun staff writer Shinya Machida, looking back on changes in society during the about eight years of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s admi...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe effectively named Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga as his successor and guided him to victory in the campaign for president of the Liberal Democratic Party. Aiming t...
No. 1 maegashira Terunofuji was the last man standing in a battle of winless wrestlers on Day 3 at the Autumn Grand Tournament at Tokyo’s Ryogoku Kokugikan on Tuesday. Terunofuji withstood Asanoyam...
It is regrettable that a meeting aimed at stability and development in the Asia-Pacific region has become an arena of competition for hegemony between the United States and China. A situation must be ...
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. 
Paint containing toxic polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) has been used in 334 of the 719 large outdoor structures such as bridges examined across the nation, according to figures compiled by the Enviro...
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...
My name is Amy Lin. I was born and raised in Taiwan, and I immigrated to the United States in 2005. I came to Japan as an Assistant Language Teacher on the JET Programme and was placed in Yokkaichi C...
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa, winner of the Silver Lion for best director for “Spy no Tsuma” (Wife of a Spy) at this year’s Venice International Film Festival on S...
This has been an oddly quiet presidential election year. No doubt much of it has to do with the COVID-19 pandemic. Politics feed on what classical sociologist Emil Durkheim once called “collective e...
The Nara National Museum in Nara City on Tuesday announced it will hold “The 72nd Annual Exhibition of Shoso-in Treasures” from Oct. 24 to Nov. 9. As measures against the coronavirus, there wi...
