September 18, 2019
BANGKOK/HANOI — Southeast Asian countries are intensifying their efforts to attract companies planning to move production bases outside China, as the United States and China have become entrenched in tit-for-tat sanctions and retaliatory tariffs. To attract the needed outside investment, they are ...
Nissan Motor Co. has launched a full-fledged search for the successor to former President and Chief Executive Officer Hiroto Saikawa, 65, who formally resigned on Monday from both posts. The number of candidates has been narrowed down to about 10, including people within the company. Nissan is pl...
The fate of the Emperor’s Cup was cast into further uncertainty as sekiwake Takakeisho and two others posted their eighth wins to join the leaders’ pack on the 10th day of the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament on Tuesday at Tokyo’s Ryogoku Kokugikan. Five wrestlers are now tied for the lead with ei...
WASHINGTON (AFP-Jiji) — Scientists reported on Aug. 29 they had picked up human-like electrical activity in lab-grown brains for the first time, paving the way to model neurological conditions and a...
SAPPORO (Reuters) — There is excitement in the air, mixed with a sense of trepidation, in Sapporo as it prepares itself for an influx of fans during the opening weekend of the Rugby World Cup. Aus...
GENEVA (Reuters) — Forced recruitment of child soldiers is increasing in South Sudan despite a peace deal last year, the head of a United Nations investigating body said on Monday, adding that a re...
BANGKOK (AP) — More than half the tigers rescued three years ago from a Buddhist temple in Thailand where they served as a popular tourist attraction have died of disease, wildlife officials said M...
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Dakota Hudson is a big fan of Marcell Ozuna’s arm. Ozuna drove in four runs and threw out a runner at home plate from left field, leading the St. Louis Cardinals over the Washing...
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Odell Beckham Jr. felt right at home again — in the end zone and on the highlight reels. With an 89-yard touchdown catch and a spectacular one-handed grab in his retu...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Ben Roethlisberger likes to point out that he’s played through the end of every contract he has ever signed. It’s tangible proof of the longtime Pittsburgh Steelers quarterbac...
NUR-SULTAN — Kenichiro Fumita became the first Japanese wrestler to secure a spot at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics when he advanced to the final of the Greco-Roman 60-kg weight class on Monday at the worl...
MADRID (AP) — Spain’s National Court on Monday rejected the extradition to the United States of a former Venezuelan military spy chief accused of drug smuggling and other charges. The court rele...
BIRMINGHAM, England (AFP-Jiji) — Aston Villa duo Tyrone Mings and Anwar El Ghazi were involved in a furious clash and West Ham defender Arthur Masuaku was sent off in a separate incident during Mond...
RADOVICA, Slovenia (AP) — Blaz Zidar has a mission: patrol along a razor-wire fence on Slovenia’s border with Croatia, catch migrants trying to climb over, hand them to police and make sure they ...
BRUSSELS (Reuters) — The incoming chief of the EU’s executive on Monday defended her decision to name among the line-up of new European Commission members an official responsible for “Protectin...
National Hockey League players announced Monday they will not opt out of the collective bargaining agreement, guaranteeing labor peace until at least 2022. The NHL Players’ Association announced i...
THE HAGUE (AFP-Jiji) — A U.N.-backed court on Monday indicted a Hezbollah suspect accused of murdering ex-Lebanon premier Rafiq Hariri over three other attacks, in the first new case taken on by the...
Jack Hughes scored twice in his NHL preseason debut, including the winner 40 seconds into overtime to lift a New Jersey Devils split squad to a 4-3 win over the Boston Bruins on Monday night in Newark...
WASHINGTON (AFP-Jiji) — Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg and the Fridays for Future youth movement received Amnesty International’s “Ambassadors of Conscience” award on Monday, da...
ST. PETERSBURG (AP) — Sixth-seeded Mikhail Kukushkin defeated up-and-coming Italian Jannik Sinner in the first round of the St. Petersburg Open on Monday, while No. 7 Adrian Mannarino also advanced....
YACHIMATA, Chiba (Jiji Press) — More than 60,000 households were still without electricity in Chiba Prefecture on Tuesday, while children were back to school, over a week after a powerful typhoon r...
HONG KONG (Reuters) — Hong Kong’s leader, Carrie Lam, said on Tuesday she and her team would begin dialogue sessions with the community next week, while reiterating that violence that has roiled t...
WASHINGTON/DUBAI (Reuters) — U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday it looked like Iran was behind attacks on oil plants in Saudi Arabia but stressed he did not want to go to war, as the attacks...
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...
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 he...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The estimated number of people aged 65 or older in Japan stood at 35.88 million as of Sunday, accounting for 28.4 percent of the nation’s total population, with both figures h...
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...
BANGKOK/HANOI — Southeast Asian countries are intensifying their efforts to attract companies planning to move production bases outside China, as the United States and China have become entrenched i...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s reshuffling of his Cabinet was met with approval by 46 percent of respondents, against 34 percent who disapproved, according to a nationwide opinion poll conducted by The...
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...
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...
Nissan Motor Co. has launched a full-fledged search for the successor to former President and Chief Executive Officer Hiroto Saikawa, 65, who formally resigned on Monday from both posts. The number...
Two-time Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu competes in the men’s free skate at the Autumn Classic International in Oakville, Canada, on Saturday. Hanyu had the highest score in the short program and ult...
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...
Sales of premium audio equipment that allows listeners to fully appreciate the rarefied quality of analog records have been experiencing a boom as a certain segment of music fans rediscovers a passion...
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...
