February 26, 2020
SAPPORO — In response to the spread of the new coronavirus, the Hokkaido Board of Education has requested all municipal boards of education in Hokkaido to temporarily close elementary and junior high schools there starting Thursday. Municipal boards of education will have to consider whether to ...
With the spread of the new coronavirus, Nihon Sumo Kyokai plans to make a final decision on whether to hold the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament from March 8 in the usual manner, hold it with no spectators or cancel the event. The decision will be made at the association’s extraordinary board meetin...
The government has decided on a basic policy for addressing the new coronavirus, and has launched efforts to slow the increase in infections and suppress the size of the epidemic. The government, swamped by the hundreds of infections on the Diamond Princess cruise ship, is desperate to get back o...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday barred a lawsuit against a Border Patrol agent for fatally shooting a 15-year-old Mexican boy on Mexican soil from across the border in Texa...
LESBOS, Greece (AP) — Riot police and residents clashed for several hours on the Greek islands of Lesbos and Chios on Tuesday, as protesters tried to prevent authorities from bringing excavating ma...
TOKYO/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) — Panasonic Corp. is considering pulling out of solar cell production at Tesla Inc.’s plant in New York, said people with direct knowledge of the matter, raising uncert...
CARDIFF, Wales (AP) — Wales will be without star winger Josh Adams for its final two matches in the Six Nations after he was ruled out for 12 weeks with an ankle injury. Adams, the top try scorer...
LONDON (Reuters) — Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg met Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai at Britain’s University of Oxford on Tuesday and posed for a photo together. Yousafzai, wide...
NEW YORK (Reuters) — Walt Disney Co.’s Robert Iger will step down as chief executive officer, handing the reins to Disney Parks head Bob Chapek, the company said Tuesday, ending years of speculati...
CARACAS (Reuters) — Armed assailants murdered the captain of an oil tanker after boarding his ship while it was anchored off the coast of eastern Venezuela, according to a local union leader and a ...
SYDNEY/NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — About 8,000 kilometers from Hubei Province, the epicenter of China’s coronavirus outbreak, the streets of a northern Sydney suburb that’s home to a large number of ...
TOKYO (Bloomberg) — The government plans to further loosen restrictions on foreign investors seeking to buy shares in companies related to national security, a person familiar with the matter said. ...
SINGAPORE (Bloomberg) — Grab, Southeast Asia’s most valuable start-up, raised more than $850 million from Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. and TIS Inc. to bankroll its expansion into financial ...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Nissan Motor Co. said Tuesday it will launch the fully remodeled Roox minivehicle March 19, its first new model in about a year. Nissan is struggling due to slumping sales af...
SHANGHAI (Bloomberg) — Toyota Motor Corp. invested $400 million in Pony.ai to strengthen its ties with the Chinese provider of driverless-car systems. The investment extends the companies’ partn...
TOKYO (Bloomberg) — Bankers in the nation are counting on domestic deals to make up for any slowdown in mergers and acquisitions stemming from the coronavirus. The deadly virus that is spreading th...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, at a Wednesday meeting of a coronavirus task force at the Prime Minister’s Office, revealed a plan to call for the cancellation, postponement or downsizing of national-lev...
The spread of the new coronavirus is affecting sports as well. The J.League postponed its official matches, and the Yomiuri Giants baseball team decided to play two exhibition games without spectator...
BEIJING (Reuters) — During weeks holed up in her grandmother’s apartment with 10 relatives and eating a restricted diet, Chinese teenager Li Yuxuan says tempers have frayed. Li and her family are ...
Income inequality here tapered to its narrowest in almost two decades, after income for the bulk of households rose by up to 5.6% while the top 10% saw their income grow just 0.4%. The Gini coefficien...
Prime Minister Hun Sen has allowed the Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority (CMAA) also known as the Mine Authority to access funds to deploy 2,000 Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF)...
Mobile broadband download speed was recorded at 12.43 megabits per second against the global average of 31.95 megabits per second. Nepal has 4G coverage in all 77 districts, but it ranks way down in s...
An initiative called “Fukuyose Hina” is currently underway chiefly in Aichi and Gifu Prefectures in which used hina dolls are collected and given a second chance to be seen and enjoyed. The dolls ...
A 28-year-old man was in critical condition at one point after he was shoved down a set of stairs at the Jimbocho subway station at the end of a pursuit of a suspected groper on Feb. 17 in Tokyo. Alt...
The finance ministers and central bank governors of the Group of 20 advanced and emerging economies confirmed their shared understanding at a recent meeting that wrapped up on Sunday that they would ...
The government is asking residents to refrain from going out in public if they have cold symptoms, based on a policy decided Tuesday during its Novel Coronavirus Response Headquarters meeting. In r...
Due to the spread of infections with a new coronavirus, the decision has been made to postpone the holding of the National People’s Congress in China. What has brought about this extraordinary situa...
Victims support ordinances had been passed by 19 of 47 prefectures, or 40%, and six of 20 ordinance-designated cities, or 30%, as of the end of January, an investigation by The Yomiuri Shimbun found. ...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The central and local governments in Japan as well as organizations promoting international exchanges have been receiving many inquiries from foreigners about the new coronavir...
MOSCOW (AP) — Bus drivers in Moscow kept their WhatsApp group chat buzzing with questions about what to do if they spotted passengers who might be from China riding with them in the Russian capital...
There have been many cases of the Japanese government being unable to receive defense equipment by the scheduled delivery date despite payments being made in advance by the Japanese government under ...
The government is working to clarify certain measures to prevent the further spread of the coronavirus by officially asking people who are displaying mild symptoms to stay home and rest. This was do...
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. 
KYOTO — Masatsugu Suga wears two hats. He runs an apparel shop while also serving as the secretary-general of a committee organizing a biannual art festival at temples and other venues around the Ni...
Methods to promote the appreciation of works of art have been changing in schools. Attention is being focused on class activities designed to foster the students’ power to think logically by making...
Why not enjoy flowers in your daily life by choosing vases that suit your taste? Vases highlight the charms of flowers and accentuate interiors. They can also add color to a space like pieces of art....
