November 22, 2019
The decline in South Korean visitors to Japan continues unabated, spurred by the deterioration in bilateral relations. The number of South Koreans who visited in October fell 65 percent from a year earlier to a near-record low, and the number of foreign visitors to Japan overall also declined. Thi...
A Hong Kong company that distributes internet game apps in Japan was ordered to pay about ¥450 million in back taxes in the business year ended December 2017 for dodging consumption tax payments, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned. Flyingbird Technology Ltd. refused to pay the back taxes, so the To...
Visitors take photos of the Daijokyu, a set of halls built at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, after the halls were opened to the public on Thursday. The site was created for the Daijosai thanksgiving ceremony and consists of nearly 40 large and small wooden structures on premises measuring 90 meters b...
Visitors take photos of the Daijokyu halls built at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo when they opened to the public on Thursday. The halls were created for the Daijosai thanksgiving ceremony and consist o...
A Hong Kong company that distributes internet game apps in Japan was ordered to pay about ¥450 million in back taxes in the business year ended December 2017 for dodging consumption tax payments, The...
KYOTO — Kyoto Mayor Daisaku Kadokawa said at a regular press conference on Wednesday that the city will aim to curb construction of new accommodations in response to a sharp increase in the number o...
The decline in South Korean visitors to Japan continues unabated, spurred by the deterioration in bilateral relations. The number of South Koreans who visited in October fell 65 percent from a year ...
BANGKOK (AP) — Pope Francis called Thursday for women and children to be protected from exploitation, abuse and enslavement as he began a busy two days of meetings in Thailand, where human traffick...
A team consisting of about 20 experts from both Japan and abroad has embarked on a project to create a 3D model of Shuri Castle, which was destroyed in a fire in Naha. The group has been seeking pe...
LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Twenty-two farmers were arrested in northern India on Wednesday for setting fires to clear their fields and contributing to some of the worst air pollution in the country, a g...
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BIARRITZ, France (AFP-Jiji) — French hotel owners assailed Airbnb on Wednesday over its new partnership with the International Olympic Committee, warning they would stop working on the planning for...
WASHINGTON (AP) — As he moves toward a presidential announcement, New York billionaire Michael Bloomberg is rolling out plans to spend an estimated $15 million to $20 million on a voter registratio...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Benjamin Netanyahu’s chief rival announced Wednesday that he had failed to form a new government, dashing his hopes of toppling the long-time Israeli prime minister and pushing t...
TOKYO (Bloomberg) — An activist investor is considering making shareholder proposals at as many as six Japanese companies’ annual general meetings next year, in another sign that money managers a...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Gregg Popovich and the San Antonio Spurs are in the midst of a seven-game losing streak, their longest skid since he took over as the team’s coach more than 20 years ago. With l...
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Portland Trail Blazers have waived center Pau Gasol but his career with the team might not be over. Gasol, who never played in a game with the Blazers, announced on socia...
LA PAZ/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) — Bolivia’s interim government presented a bill on Wednesday that aims to forge a path to new elections and defuse street violence that has racked the country and kill...
NEW YORK (Reuters) — The former chief executive of Brazilian petrochemical company Braskem SA was arrested on Wednesday in New York on charges that he took part in a scheme to pay millions of dolla...
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) — U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday after touring a plant that assembles Apple Inc. computers that he was considering whether to exempt the U.S. company from tar...
BERLIN (AP) — A Jewish group condemned an auction of Nazi memorabilia in Germany on Wednesday that included items such as Adolf Hitler’s top hat, a silver-plated edition of his book “Mein Kampf...
MUMBAI (Bloomberg) — Sony Corp. is in talks to acquire a stake in the Indian television network controlled by billionaire Mukesh Ambani, as the Japanese giant seeks to tap booming demand for conten...
TORONTO (AP) — The Toronto Maple Leafs have fired head coach Mike Babcock and replaced him with Sheldon Keefe. Babcock had a record of 9-10-4 in 2019-20 for the struggling Leafs, who are 0-5-1 in ...
At the 2019 GZERO Summit held in Tokyo on Monday, politicians and experts from Japan, the United States and Europe discussed a range of pressing issues, including the absence of leadership in the worl...
The decline in South Korean visitors to Japan continues unabated, spurred by the deterioration in bilateral relations. The number of South Koreans who visited in October fell 65 percent from a year ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday tied the record for the longest-serving prime minister in the history of Japan’s constitutional politics, matching Taro Katsura’s 2,886 days in the pre-World W...
A carriage is loaded onto a truck at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Tuesday. The Emperor will use the 4.5-meter-long, 1.9-meter-wide conveyance on Friday and Saturday for the Shinetsu no Gi ceremony ...
The Japan-U.S. digital trade agreement was approved by the House of Representatives on Tuesday, seeking to prevent nations from intervening in the transfer of data, such as by prohibiting governments...
About 200 kanburi winter yellowtail fish arrived at the Himi fishing port in Himi, Toyama Prefecture, early Wednesday morning, heralding the arrival of the kanburi season. The fish were caught with a...
OITA — An exhibition showcasing the work of world-renowned architect Arata Isozaki explores the core tenets of a man who has constantly questioned just what architecture should be. “I want people ...
Kao Corp., a consumer and chemical products manufacturer, and start-up Preferred Networks, Inc. will launch a trial service next March that analyzes the RNA, or ribonucleic acid, in sebum to evaluate ...
TOKYO (Bloomberg) — Google Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai was in Tokyo Tuesday to inaugurate the relocation of the company’s Japanese head office to an expansive new complex in the trendy ...
SAO JOSE DOS CAMPOS, Brazil (Reuters) — Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest rose to its highest in over a decade this year, government data on Monday showed, confirming a sharp increase un...
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...
OITA — An exhibition showcasing the work of world-renowned architect Arata Isozaki explores the core tenets of a man who has constantly questioned just what architecture should be. “I want people ...
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...
