April 15, 2021
KUMAMOTO — Wednesday marked the fifth anniversary of the first of a pair of earthquakes that occurred 28 hours apart in Kumamoto Prefecture, each registering the maximum of 7 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale. The second of the pair was officially named the Kumamoto Earthquake, with the firs...
Toshiba Corp. President and Chief Executive Officer Nobuaki Kurumatani resigned on Wednesday, and Chairman Satoshi Tsunakawa was appointed to succeed him, according to a company announcement. The resignation comes amid controversy over a takeover bid this month from British investment fund CVC Ca...
The decommissioning of the disaster-hit Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, which will take more than 30 years to complete, moved a step forward with Tuesday’s decision by the government to release treated radioactive water into the ocean. The tanks holding the water are approaching their lim...
Aichi, Kanagawa and Saitama prefectures are likely to request the central government to apply emergency-level priority measures to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus in the prefectures. Kanaga...
TOKYO/SAPPORO — Vaccination is said to be the “silver bullet” against the new coronavirus. But while vaccinations for elderly people began in Japan on Monday, the initial supply of the vaccines ...
Korean Air aims to launch a single integrated entity with Asiana Airlines, its biggest acquisition to date, in 2024, its chief executive president said on March 31. Explaining to reporters the post-me...
Preah Khe is one of the communes in Kampong Speu Province that has successfully implemented its lavatory program, ensuring that 100% of households there have a toilet with no one suffering the inconve...
The Tokyo metropolitan government confirmed Wednesday 591 new coronavirus infections, the highest single-day figure since the state of emergency was lifted on March 21. The average number of patients ...
Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to Japan Shihab Alfaheem visited Tokyo Dome in Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo, on Tuesday to see measures to prevent spread of the novel coronavirus during baseball games. ...
COVID-19 vaccinations have finally begun in Japan. But the threat of a fourth wave of the pandemic looms closer. The novel coronavirus ordeal, which is already in its second year, highlights anew a va...
The government and the ruling parties have started working on a bill to establish a children’s affairs agency that they aim to submit to the ordinary Diet session next year, according to government ...
The iconic rings and the country’s mascots for the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games were on public display in Tokyo on Wednesday to mark 100 days until the start of the competitions. A symbolic s...
Monday marked 25 years since the Japanese and U.S. governments reached an agreement for the return of the U.S. Marine Corps’ Futenma Air Station in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, to Japan. Land recl...
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...
China is accelerating moves to expand its maritime interests in the South China Sea. Its efforts to push ahead with unilaterally changing the status quo under the facade of fishing activities violate ...
It has been decided to release treated water containing radioactive materials from Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc.’s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. The government must make it wide...
The foreign and defense ministers of Japan and Germany held their first “two-plus-two” talks via teleconference on Tuesday, sharing serious concern over human rights repression by China in Hong Ko...
VIENNA (Reuters) — Iran expects to produce uranium enriched to 60% purity next week, its ambassador to the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Tuesday. “We expect to accumulate the product next week,...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — President Joe Biden plans to withdraw the remaining 2,500 U.S. troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, 2021, 20 years to the day after the al Qaeda attacks that triggered Americ...
SAGAMIHARA — A research team at the Tokyo University of Agriculture has developed jams using edible flowers, which have seen a drop in demand as a result of the truncated business hours of food-serv...
SHIZUOKA — Shizuoka Prefecture’s status as Japan’s No. 1 tea-producing region is wavering. According to statistics released by the Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry in February, the p...
Osaka Prefecture recorded 1,099 new cases of infection with the novel coronavirus on Tuesday, the highest daily tally seen in the prefecture, sources close to the prefectural government have said. ...
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...
TOKYO (Reuters) — Japan sucked in its breath as Hideki Matsuyama almost blew his chance to win the Masters but the golfer’s one-shot victory at Augusta National sparked a joyous reaction back hom...
The iconic rings and the country’s mascots for the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games were on public display in Tokyo on Wednesday to mark 100 days until the start of the competitions. A symbolic s...
Three male Diet members took part in a pregnancy simulation experiment to better understand the hardships pregnant women face and use what they learn when drafting policy proposals. The lawmakers fro...
Osaka Prefecture recorded 1,099 new cases of infection with the novel coronavirus on Tuesday, the highest daily tally seen in the prefecture, sources close to the prefectural government have said. ...
A woman working at the Ishikawa Prefectural Central Hospital in Kanazawa has been confirmed to have been infected with the novel coronavirus despite receiving two doses of the vaccine. According to t...
Emergency-level priority measures to prevent the spread of novel coronavirus infections went into effect in Tokyo, Kyoto and Okinawa prefectures on Monday, expanding the application of the measures to...
How to dispose of treated water has been a major barrier to decommissioning work at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. A government panel of experts spent more than six years from 2013 discus...
The Liberal Democratic Party will request the government to introduce an elective four-day workweek system that would allow employees to take three days off per week, according to a draft of the rulin...
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. 
Gwendolen Jones shares her experiences as participant of the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Programme, which is administered through the collaboration of Japan’s local and national government aut...
Jenny Nash shares her experiences as participant of the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Programme, which is administered through the collaboration of Japan’s local and national government authorit...
Leilani Rapaport shares her experiences as participant of the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Programme, which is administered through the collaboration of Japan’s local and national government au...
An exhibition centered around the works of manga master Osamu Tezuka is underway at Tokiwaso Manga Museum, which was an apartment building in Toshima Ward, Tokyo, where the artist once lived. Titled...
OSAKA — Internationally renowned architect Tadao Ando, 79, is building a children’s library in Tono, Iwate Prefecture, aiming to create a “cultural renaissance center” for the areas affected b...
The last time I worked in an American office I was 19 years old, earning an hourly wage to do a variety of types of menial support, which I actually enjoyed immensely. I came to Japan at age 20 and go...
