November 14, 2019
The Imperial Household Agency on Wednesday unveiled to the press the Daijokyu, a set of halls built at the East Gardens of the Imperial Palace for the Daijosai thanksgiving ceremony, a key Imperial succession ritual. The Daijosai is scheduled to be held on Thursday and Friday. In the ceremony, a...
Nissan Motor Co. has reported a massive 85 percent decline in operating profits — an area that indicates the strength or weakness of a company’s main business — in its midterm consolidated financial report for the half fiscal year ending in September. The pursuit of increased sales has harme...
ATLANTA (AP) — The private companies that make voting equipment and build and maintain voter registration databases lack any meaningful federal oversight despite the crucial role they play in U.S. ...
BALTIMORE (AP) — Archbishop Jose Gomez of Los Angeles, an immigrant from Mexico, pledged to push for a more welcoming immigration system after winning election Tuesday as the first Hispanic to head...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee will hold public hearings for three days next week in its impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump, the panel’...
The organizing committee of the 2020 Tokyo Games is mulling a course for the Olympic marathon in Sapporo that loops around the center of the city, it has been learned. With security and cost reduction...
MADRID (Reuters) — Spain’s Socialists and the far-left Unidas Podemos party agreed on the basis of a coalition government on Tuesday, just two days after a parliamentary election delivered a highl...
ARLINGTON, Va. (AFP-Jiji) — Uighur activists said Tuesday they have documented nearly 500 camps and prisons run by China to detain members of the ethnic group, alleging that Beijing could be holdin...
OTTAWA (Reuters) — Airbus SE’s Canadian-designed A220 narrowbody jet has the potential to be stretched to carry more passengers but the company has no current plans to do so, a top executive said ...
TOKYO (Bloomberg) — In a disappointing third-quarter earnings season for Japan Inc., one prominent theme is that moves in the yen have been a particular headache. A total of 438 Tokyo-listed compa...
Vice President Leni Robredo last week accepted President Rodrigo Duterte’s offer of a lead role in his brutal war on drugs, even though, she said, she expected his administration would try to make h...
OBAMA, Fukui — People here have been working on branding mackerel and creating manuals on aquaculture techniques with the aim of reviving Obama as a mackerel production area. The city, which face...
The Natsume Soseki Memorial Museum stands on the site where the literary master lived out his final years. The museum’s exhibits include a faithfully reproduced study, copies of his draft manuscrip...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Japan’s Hayabusa2 unmanned spacecraft left asteroid Ryugu on Wednesday after completing unprecedented missions, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, said. If thi...
Ozeki Takayasu suffered a costly second loss Wednesday when he was forced out by komusubi Hokutofuji (3-1) on the fourth day of the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament at the Fukuoka Kokusai Center. Takaya...
SAN FRANCISCO (Bloomberg) — Facebook Inc. is consolidating its various payments features into a single product with a new name, with plans to roll it out across all of the company’s apps. Faceboo...
CHICAGO (AP) — Coby White waited as Roy Williams walked up the court. Williams playfully bowed in front of his former guard and then gave him a hug before taking off. It was White’s night, and a...
TOKYO (Reuters) — Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. (SMFG), Japan’s second-largest lender by assets, reported on Wednesday an 8.6 percent drop in first-half net profit, saying its retail busine...
TOKYO (Bloomberg) — Japan’s biggest buyer of bundled U.S. corporate loans pared its holdings last quarter for the first time in more than a year after becoming more selective about purchasing the ...
MIAOLI, Taiwan (Jiji Press) — A ceremony to mark the completion of an offshore wind farm in Taiwan partly funded by Japan’s Jera Co. was held on Tuesday in Miaoli in northwestern Taiwan. Formosa ...
HONG KONG (Reuters) — Hong Kong anti-government protesters paralyzed parts of the Asian financial hub for a third day, with some transport links, schools and many businesses closing after an escalat...
Amid a surge in foreign visitors, over-tourism is increasingly causing problems in the lives of local residents. In Hokkaido, there have been complaints about foreign tourists trespassing on agricul...
A proposed system for taxing large multinationals, including global tech giants, unveiled by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) last month has drawn mixed views on how i...
Yokozuna Hakuho and the two ozeki have already suffered their first loss on the second day of the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament at Fukuoka Kokusai Center in Fukuoka on Monday. Hakuho (1-1), the lone y...
HONG KONG (AP) — Police in Hong Kong shot a protester as demonstrators blocked subway lines and roads during the Monday morning commute. Online video showed a police officer collaring one protest...
Temporary housing is being swiftly constructed in disaster-hit regions as the nation marks one month since powerful Typhoon No. 19 landed in Japan. Each unit will have double windows, and measures s...
LONDON (Reuters) — A global inquiry into how mining companies store billions of tons of waste in huge dams, launched after a collapse in Brazil killed hundreds, shows about a tenth of the structures...
Buying a one-day ticket for the Setagaya Line the other day reminded me of the excitement of visiting an amusement park in my childhood. Although Sangenjaya Station, the streetcar line’s terminal, i...
YOKOHAMA (Reuters) — Nissan Motor Co. reported a 70 percent profit drop on Tuesday and cut its full-year outlook to an 11-year low, as the Japanese automaker was hit by falling sales that highlight...
Tara Westover, born to a Mormon fundamentalist family in 1986, received no formal schooling but taught herself enough to enter college, eventually earning her PhD in history at the University of Cambr...
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. 
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...
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...
VELES, North Macedonia (Reuters) — Svetozar Bogdanovski built his first violin 35 years ago for his son Kostadin, then aged seven, who had expressed interest in taking lessons. Today Bogdanovski’...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength. Those were the slogans of the Party in George Orwell’s 1949 novel “1984” that allowed the superstate of Ocean...
