August 23, 2019
SEOUL (Reuters) — South Korea will scrap an intelligence-sharing pact with Japan amid an intensifying dispute over history and trade, South Korea’s presidential office said on Thursday. The decision was made after a meeting of the presidential National Security Council. The deal was due to be...
Riseisha high school baseball team members celebrate the school’s first National High School Baseball Championship on Thursday at Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture. The Osaka prefecture school beat Seiryo of Ishikawa Prefecture 5-3 in the 101st edition of the summer tournament.
The real estate industry is turning to various technologies to streamline the contract procedures for rental housing. For example, real estate agencies are allowing prospective renters to use virtual reality (VR) technology to view properties and to visit apartments without the presence of anyone...
SEOUL (AFP-Jiji) — On a summer’s day in 1985, a 7-year-old boy sat alone at a crowded bus station in Seoul, sobbing as he waited desperately for his mother to return. Jo Youn-hwan was wearing a ...
When Amanda Berg heard reports that President Donald Trump mocked the accents of the leaders of South Korea and Japan at a recent fundraiser, it brought back painful memories from her childhood. Ber...
TOKYO (Reuters) — Tomoa Narasaki and Akiyo Noguchi have boosted Japan’s hopes of a medal when sport climbing makes its Olympic debut next year after winning gold and silver, respectively, at the C...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) — Barack and Michelle Obama made their Hollywood debut on Wednesday with a documentary set in industrial Ohio that film reviewers are calling compelling and timely. “Americ...
KATHMANDU (AFP-Jiji) — Single-use plastics have been banned in the Everest region to reduce the vast amounts of waste left by trekkers and mountaineers, Nepali authorities said Thursday. In additi...
BALTIMORE (AP) — In his trying first season as the Orioles’ manager, Brandon Hyde was not the least bit concerned about his team tying a dubious record on a night it cruised to an easy win. Balti...
CHICAGO (AP) — After watching the Cubs waste a couple of leads, Kris Bryant felt a loss was almost inevitable. That quickly changed with one swing by the Chicago slugger. Bryant hit a go-ahead, tw...
BERN (Reuters) — Red Star Belgrade’s Champions League qualifying odyssey continued on Wednesday when the former European champion drew 2-2 at Young Boys after being pegged back by a late penalty i...
COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh (AP) — The repatriation of hundreds of Rohingya Muslims appeared unlikely to proceed as planned Thursday after those who were eligible told the U.N. refugee agency and the...
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Larry Bird likes the mural but not the tats. An artist said she’ll remove most of the tattoos from a large painting of the former NBA star on an Indianapolis multi-family resi...
NEW YORK (Reuters) — Russian chess grandmaster Anatoly Karpov has been unable for several months to obtain a visa to travel to the United States, his friend, the owner of a chess academy in New Yor...
ROME (Reuters) — Italy’s main opposition party said Wednesday it was ready to hold talks with the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement over forming a government after the collapse of the previous, ...
The Arizona Cardinals have another potential big-play threat to their new-look offense. The team announced on Monday night it had signed veteran receiver Michael Crabtree to a one-year contract, add...
Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross stepped down from the NFL’s committee on social justice at the behest of players, according to former Philadelphia Eagles defensive end Chris Long. Long said Ross...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The U.S. Treasury on Wednesday imposed sanctions on three Chinese men accused of illegally trafficking fentanyl, acting three weeks after President Donald Trump accused Beiji...
BARCELONA (AP) — Lionel Messi was back in full training again on Wednesday and might be fit to face Real Betis in the Spanish league on Sunday. Messi had been training separately from the squad si...
BERLIN (Reuters) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday challenged Britain to come up with alternatives to the Irish border backstop within 30 days, but French President Emmanuel Macron caut...
CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s top general was sworn in Wednesday as the leader of a joint military-civilian body created to rule Sudan during a three-year transition period toward democratic elections. G...
BEIJING — Foreign Minister Taro Kono and his South Korean counterpart Kang Kyung-wha confirmed at their meeting in Beijing on Wednesday that they should resolve their differences through dialogue t...
It has been a roller-coaster 12 months for Naomi Osaka since her dramatic victory over Serena Williams in the U.S. Open final last year. After clinching her maiden Grand Slam in a final that will alwa...
Abdul Hakim Sani Brown, who set a Japanese record of 9.97 seconds in the men’s 100-meter race, discussed his dream of one day breaking the world record currently held by Usain Bolt in a recent inter...
The Fukushima prefectural government decided to end in fiscal 2020 its health survey of expectant and nursing mothers, which began in the wake of the accident at Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings...
Emperor Showa mentioned the necessity of rearmament and constitutional revision, according to newly disclosed documents detailing exchanges between the emperor and Michiji Tajima, the first grand ste...
According to the original version of the Japanese government’s 2019 white paper on defense, North Korea is believed to have already achieved the miniaturization of nuclear weapons and the developmen...
When Amanda Berg heard reports that President Donald Trump mocked the accents of the leaders of South Korea and Japan at a recent fundraiser, it brought back painful memories from her childhood. Ber...
CHIBA — In a bid to keep milk production from dropping due to the heat, the Chiba prefectural government is testing ways to protect dairy cows from summer fatigue. Damp cloths are being placed aro...
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is expected to visit Japan later this month at the earliest for talks with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Foreign Minister Taro Kono, it was learned. Zar...
The fiscal 2020 national budget is likely to include funding to develop a successor to the Air Self-Defense Force’s F-2 fighter, multiple government sources said. The goal is for Japan to lead th...
SEOUL (Reuters) — South Korea will scrap an intelligence-sharing pact with Japan amid an intensifying dispute over history and trade, South Korea’s presidential office said on Thursday. The dec...
SEOUL (Jiji Press) — Korean Air said Tuesday that it will suspend all flights on some routes linking Japan and South Korea as part of a drastic review of its services to respond to a fall in travel...
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...
A symphony by a once-forgotten composer will be the highlight of a Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra concert on Sept. 10, which will be conducted by the orchestra’s new principal conductor, Sebastia...
Remember the film “The Bodyguard,” the blockbuster movie starring Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner? It was turned into a musical in London, and it’s coming to Japan in September. “And I —...
LOS ANGELES (AFP-Jiji) —The release of a film criticized by conservatives as portraying a group of liberals hunting supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump has been indefinitely postponed, Univers...
