February 25, 2021
Fukuoka Prefecture decided to make a request Wednesday to the central government to lift the state of emergency in its prefecture at the end of this month. The state of emergency currently covers 10 prefectures and is scheduled to end on March 7. The prefectural government made the decision afte...
Eleven officials of the Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry were disciplined on Wednesday over the wining and dining of ministry officials by Tohokushinsha Film Corp., the employer of Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s eldest son. The ministry announced on Wednesday afternoon that it had t...
TOKYO (Reuters) — Suzuki Motor Corp.’s 91-year old chairman, Osamu Suzuki, announced he will retire in June, stepping aside for a new leader to navigate the shift to electric cars and fight off competition from tech giants such as Tesla and Apple. The company also announced it will invest one...
Hoshino Resorts Aomoriya in Misawa, Aomori Prefecture, has installed a “sake tap” by which guests can enjoy sake from five breweries in the prefecture until April 28. This is part of a project t...
Having passed the 150-days-to-go mark until the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics on July 23, the race is on to complete qualifying events in time for the Games. Domestic qualifiers in such p...
Restoring the nation to its place as a manufacturing powerhouse is the aim of the government’s strategy for strengthening materials innovation, according to a draft of the strategy. In the draft, ...
The Tokyo Paralympic Games are six months away and 88% of domestic sports organizations related to the Paralympics said they were concerned about the impact of the novel coronavirus pandemic on the ev...
The government will address the issue of the growing number of young people isolated amid the prolonged novel coronavirus pandemic. It plans to draw up a revised outline on support for children and y...
UTSUNOMIYA — A forest fire on a mountain near the central district of Ashikaga in Tochigi Prefecture has been raging for four days and continues to spread. As a result, the city advised 72 household...
Due to the declining population, it is inevitable that many local governments will become short of staff. It is necessary to maintain public services through such measures as simplifying administrativ...
Assistance programs to help people in the so-called employment ice-age generation become regular workers have become tangled as the coronavirus pandemic has complicated the current job landscape. Ho...
The government is ramping up support for new start-ups to help foster next-generation technological innovation in areas such as decarbonization and digitization. Part of the plan includes making high-...
Is it possible to put a brake on the increase in the number of land plots that lie unclaimed? To realize this goal, it is essential to create an effective system and gain the understanding of the publ...
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...
Consideration into whether digital textbooks will be provided free just like printed textbooks is being called for by an expert panel of the Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Ministry...
FUKUI — One of the oldest mammal fossils ever found in Japan, dating back to the Early Cretaceous period about 127 million years ago, was discovered in stratum in Ono, Fukui Prefecture, the Fukui Pr...
SENDAI — Takeshi Kanno, a 41-year-old gastroenterologist at the Tohoku University Hospital in Sendai, gives lectures on disaster medicine in various parts of the country. He was chosen as one of “...
The first doses of a vaccination against COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, were given to medical workers starting on Feb. 17 at select hospitals around the nation. Vaccinations ...
Chikamatsu Monzaemon’s classic “Meido no Hikyaku” (The Courier for Hell) was staged at the National Theatre in Hanzomon, Tokyo, as part of their February bunraku program, which ran from Feb. 6 t...
Tokyo logged 275 new cases of the novel coronavirus Tuesday, the metropolitan government said. The daily figure has been below 300 for three consecutive days. The number of the seriously ill was 7...
PARIS — The French government is deepening its involvement in Indo-Pacific security. As part of its cooperation with Japan, a French frigate called at Sasebo Port in Nagasaki Prefecture on Saturd...
The Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry intends to take disciplinary action against 11 officials as early as Wednesday over allegations they violated an ethics code when they were treated to ...
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 put a brake on the increase in the number of land plots that lie unclaimed? To realize this goal, it is essential to create an effective system and gain the understanding of the publ...
The number of people who died in Japan in 2020 fell 0.7% from the previous year to 1,384,544, marking the first decrease in 11 years, the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry announced Monday in its in...
Vaccinations of the elderly will be delayed due to an extremely limited supply of COVID-19 vaccine in Japan until May, according to administrative reform minister Taro Kono, who is also in charge of v...
The government plans to lift regulations that have required domestic venture capital funds to invest at least 50% of the money they raised in Japanese start-ups, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned. Ac...
A new generation disaster-preparedness system will help predict tsunami damage within 20 to 30 minutes after an earthquake occurs, covering nearly 13,000 kilometers of Pacific coastline from Hokkaido ...
NASU, Tochigi — A one-year-old male capybara from the Nasu Animal Kingdom zoo in Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture, won this year’s “capybara long-bath showdown” to bring the zoo its third consecutive ...
UTSUNOMIYA — A forest fire on a mountain near the central district of Ashikaga in Tochigi Prefecture has been raging for four days and continues to spread. As a result, the city advised 72 household...
PARIS — The French government is deepening its involvement in Indo-Pacific security. As part of its cooperation with Japan, a French frigate called at Sasebo Port in Nagasaki Prefecture on Saturd...
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. 
For people who want plants but don’t want the hassle of caring for them, a solution has arrived: ornamental flowers made from clay. Plant lovers can decorate their homes with clay versions of their ...
The woman walks briskly across the airport, her khaki jacket perfectly matched with a chunky piece of exotic jewelry around her slender neck. When a Homeland Security agent stops her to search her bel...
Surely everyone knows what it’s like to feel shame — that acute warm flush that tingles under the skin of the face, the cringing feeling, the replay of the flinch-inducing scene later in our imagi...
