September 16, 2019
Sekiwake Takakeisho, who is aiming to regain the rank of ozeki, suffered his first loss on the sixth day of the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament on Friday at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo. Takakeisho (5-1) tried to pull down komusubi Endo (5-1) while taking a step backward, but the sekiwake lost his bal...
It’s come to be regarded as a social problem that women are often forced to wear high-heeled shoes in the workplace and elsewhere, but Japanese retailers and manufacturers are striving to provide heels that don’t hurt to wear. The Isetan Shinjuku department store in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo, has l...
Japan and the United States have agreed to scrap a 200-ton annual low-tariff quota for Japanese beef exports under a new bilateral trade agreement reached in principle, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned. Under the agreement, Japanese beef would be subject to a different low-tariff quota, opening up t...
BANGKOK (Reuters) — A group of Buddhist hardliners in Thailand filed a police complaint against a young female artist on Wednesday over paintings that depict images of the Buddha as the 1960s Japane...
BERLIN (AP) — Germany faces a decisive week in its efforts to combat climate change, with Chancellor Angela Merkel pledging Saturday that Europe’s biggest economy will find good solutions but her ...
SINGAPORE (Reuters) — Singapore’s air quality deteriorated to “unhealthy” levels on Saturday for the first time in three years, data from the National Environment Agency (NEA) showed, threate...
CAIRO (AP) — The prosecution of a 15-year-old girl who killed a bus driver after he allegedly tried to rape her has reignited debate over the treatment of women in Egypt’s legal system, including...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Walt Disney Co. CEO Robert Iger has stepped down from Apple’s board of directors as the two companies prepare to launch competing video streaming services aimed at market lea...
LONDON (Reuters) — Hong Kong’s exchange refused to give up on its bid to take over the London Stock Exchange after the British bourse emphatically rejected its $39 billion takeover offer Friday. ...
NEW DELHI (Jiji Press ) — The Japan International Cooperation Agency has launched an initiative to nurture industries in northern Afghanistan that allow local residents to earn regular cash income ...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — With Nissan Motor Co. President and Chief Executive Officer Hiroto Saikawa stepping down Monday, the focal point will be on whether the Japanese automaker will swiftly escape f...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Japan Display Inc. said it will extend the suspension of operations at its mainstay plant in the city of Hakusan, Ishikawa Prefecture, beyond the end of this month, in response...
HELSINKI (Reuters) — European Union finance ministers on Saturday backed a simplification of the EU’s fiscal rules to make them more transparent and predictable, but more work is needed before any...
HELSINKI (AFP-JIji) — Germany faced renewed pressure Friday to boost public spending and help revive a sputtering European economy, a day after the European Central Bank warned it had reached the l...
SINGPAPORE (Bloomberg) — Almost a quarter of businesses in a new survey are thinking of leaving Hong Kong to escape ongoing protests, with most looking to Singapore as their favored location. About...
FREEPORT, Bahamas (AP) — Tropical Storm Humberto moved away from the Bahamas on Saturday after dumping rain on parts of the archipelago’s northwest region that were already hammered by Hurricane ...
LONDON (AP) — English soccer’s anti-discrimination organization and players’ union have criticized Amazon for not removing racist reviews of soccer star Eni Aluko’s memoir that were posted on...
HONG KONG (Reuters) — Hundreds of Hong Kong protesters singing “God Save the Queen” and waving Union Jack flags rallied outside the British Consulate on Sunday demanding that the former colonial...
HARARE (AP) — African heads of state joined thousands of Zimbabweans at a state funeral Saturday for Zimbabwe’s founding president, Robert Mugabe, whose burial has been delayed for at least a mon...
BERLIN (AP) — Austria’s far-right Freedom Party elected former minister and presidential candidate Norbert Hofer as its leader on Saturday as it seeks to return to power in a Sept. 29 national el...
BEIJING (AP) — China has banned flying kites, drones and captive pigeons over central Beijing for more than two weeks as it prepares for a military parade and other celebrations to mark the 70th an...
LONDON (AP) — The British prime minister who called the 2016 Brexit referendum and then saw the public vote to leave the European Union, creating the nation’s prolonged political crisis, says he ...
LONDON (Bloomberg) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to defy a new law designed to stop him forcing the U.K. out of the European Union with no deal next month, and is braced for a fight ...
Immigration facilities have been dealing with a spate of hunger strikes by foreigners who are to be deported for being in the country illegally and other reasons. The detainees’ goal appears to b...
A North Korean government vessel with armed crew threatened a Fisheries Agency’s patrol ship in the Sea of Japan in late August, prompting Japanese fishing boats operating in the area to flee, The ...
Completely restoring electricity in Chiba Prefecture after the massive outage triggered by Typhoon No. 15 will likely take as long as another two weeks, according to TEPCO Power Grid, Inc. The delay...
Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Isshu Sugawara said Friday that restoring power in Chiba Prefecture after the massive outage triggered by Typhoon No. 15 would take “within a day or two in most ...
Ahead of Rugby World Cup 2019’s kickoff next Friday, a flurry of problems involving tickets purchased through unofficial reselling websites have emerged. As of the end of August, consumer affairs c...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — International Paralympic Committee President Andrew Parsons on Thursday dismissed calls from South Korea to review the design of the 2020 Tokyo Games medals. The medals “hav...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Three North Korean hacking groups suspected of perpetrating cyber-attacks around the world were placed on a U.S. sanctions list on Friday, drawing attention to the isolated nation...
HONG KONG/MELBOURNE/VANCOUVER (Reuters) — As protests in Hong Kong stretch from summer into autumn with little sign of resolution, a surge in migration applications suggests more locals are making p...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (Jiji Press) — A team of Japanese researchers won this year’s Ig Nobel Prize for Chemistry on Thursday for a multiyear study on the total volume of saliva produced per day by a t...
A pep rally for the Japanese national rugby team was held Friday at the Tokyo metropolitan government building ahead of the Rugby World Cup, which will kick off on Sept. 20. The day also saw ceremonie...
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...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexicans left candles and flowers at impromptu offerings last Friday for expressionist painter Francisco Toledo a day after his death at age 79, remembering an artist respected fo...
“Taifu Kazoku” (Stormy Family) starring Tsuyoshi Kusanagi and directed by Masahide Ichii opens on Sept. 6, after a delay caused by the arrest of a cast member. The film’s production company w...
KYOTO — An international conference on museums wrapped up on Saturday with a resolution stating that museums around the world should play a central role as “cultural hubs” for exchanges that tr...
