March 18, 2021
BEIJING — China reacted harshly to Tokyo and Washington’s criticism of Beijing by name in the joint statement during the recent 2-plus-2 meeting between Japanese and U.S. foreign and defense ministers. “We deplore and reject it,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said at a regular ...
The Imperial Hotel in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, is planning to rebuild its main building and tower, according to sources. The aging main facility has been in operation for a half-century. Because of that, the hotel hopes reconstruction will help it compete with luxury hotels from Western countries tha...
The coronavirus state of emergency, which has continued for about two and a half months, is expected to be fully lifted on Sunday. However, the number of newly confirmed cases has s香港物流服務ped falling, triggering concerns that infections may rebound. As the state of emergency comes to an end, the general...
A school of 50,000 sardines is seen in an 8-meter deep tank at the Yokohama Hakkeijima Sea Paradise in Yokohama. At an event called “Super Sardine Illusion — Sakura,” the sardines swim around ac...
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has decided not to attend the starting ceremony for the Tokyo Games’ torch relay in Fukushima Prefecture on March 25, according to sources close to the government. D...
Yahoo Japan operator Z Holdings Corp. plans to hire a large number of skilled engineers and others in various tech fields ahead of a planned merger with Line Corp., operator of the free communication...
The central government has officially decided Wednesday that spectators from abroad will not be allowed to enter the country to watch the Olympic and Paralympic Games. The government is expected to h...
As the number of victims of the military crackdown in Myanmar rises, the international community has been unable to take effective measures. It must step up its efforts to prevent the situation from d...
This time I’d like to write about Mt. Iwo in Akan-Mashu National Park. I went there last year to make a video for my YouTube channel, and it left a strong impression on me. Akan-Mashu National Par...
AKB48 brings you Team 8, a group of idols where each member represents one of the 47 prefectures in Japan. As the group members travel across the nation for meet and greet fan activities, they learn a...
The health ministry plans in principle to inform all pregnant women about prenatal testing, a method for examining whether unborn babies have chromosome-related medical conditions such as Down syndro...
The 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake provided us an opportunity to reconsider the role of convenience stores as a social entity delivering daily necessities. In the past 10 years, each operator has bu...
The Tokyo District Court has fined a Cabinet Secretariat official ¥300,000 for assaulting and slightly injuring a colleague over an argument related to the strength of tea that was served at a Cabine...
Automakers, electrical appliance manufacturers and other major companies have responded across the board to their unions during the shunto spring labor wage negotiations. Amid the coronavirus pandem...
Within Tokyo’s Ikebukuro Station sits a row of orange coin-operated lockers, but for which no coins are needed. A smartphone is held up near the locker to unlock it, and by ordering ahead online, co...
The government plans to lift the state of emergency in Tokyo and three neighboring prefectures on Sunday, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said to reporters Wednesday. This would fully end the current st...
Sekiwake Terunofuji remained in the lead of Spring Grand Sumo Tournament with one other wrestler, while moving a step closer toward fulfilling a once-elusive dream of regaining the ozeki rank by notc...
The fields of Iwamizawa and neighboring Bibai in Hokkaido are receiving their seasonal coat of snow-melting agent, creating large-scale geometric patterns that are visible from the air. In preparation...
The fact that Japan and the United States held a so-called 2-plus-2 meeting of their foreign and defense ministers less than two months after the inauguration of U.S. President Joe Biden’s new admin...
The Japanese and U.S. governments confirmed the importance of trilateral cooperation among Japan, the United States and South Korea to denuclearize North Korea at a meeting of Japanese and U.S. forei...
The Nuclear Regulation Authority announced Tuesday that several items of anti-terrorism equipment for detecting intruders at Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.’s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear p...
For the first time in just over 3½ years, Japan is employing a safeguard measure in response to a rise in the volume of U.S. beef imports. From Thursday through April 16, tariffs on U.S. beef will ...
The Tokyo metropolitan government announced Wednesday that it has confirmed 409 new cases of COVID-19 in the capital, the first time the daily number of infections has exceeded 400 since Feb. 18, whe...
Keep track of the coronavirus epidemic as it unfolds in Japan. Relevant stories and graphics appear below covering events up to and including the current state of emergency and the future outlook. ...
AKB48 brings you Team 8, a group of idols where each member represents one of the 47 prefectures in Japan. As the group members travel across the nation for meet and greet fan activities, they learn a...
The following charts give a visual representation of the spread of the novel coronavirus in Japan and around the world. The first shows the extensiveness of cases in relation to a nation’s populatio...
RIO DE JANEIRO — China is stepping up efforts to win over South American nations through vaccine diplomacy, dangling a lifeline that pandemic-ravaged countries such as Paraguay, the only South Ameri...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. government on Sunday released a statement titled “Reaffirming the unbreakable U.S.-Japan alliance,” clarifying its stance to counter China’s provocations in cooperation w...
An estimated 14,000 patients visited medical institutions for influenza during the period between last fall and March 7, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare recently announced. The number of in...
In the early Edo period, Hasekura Rokuemon Tsunenaga, a samurai and retainer of Sendai daimyo Date Masamune, traveled to Spain and Rome at the behest of Masamune, who wanted trade with Mexico, which w...
The government plans to lift the state of emergency in Tokyo and three neighboring prefectures on Sunday, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said to reporters Wednesday. This would fully end the current st...
In a predicament for municipalities that operate public housing units built for people affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake, the vacancy rate for these units is much higher than the nationwide ...
Wednesday marked one month since Japan launched its first vaccinations against COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, with about 350,000 medical workers vaccinated so far. About 36...
The Japan 香港物流服務 has partnered with media startup inkl, a 香港物流服務 service that curates articles from the world’s leading publishers for users to read on mobile devices. A selection of articles from The Japan 香港物流服務 and The Yomiuri Shimbun is now available to read on inkl, which hosts titles from about 20 countries. 
Gwendolen Jones shares her experiences as participant of the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Programme, which is administered through the collaboration of Japan’s local and national government aut...
Jenny Nash shares her experiences as participant of the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Programme, which is administered through the collaboration of Japan’s local and national government authorit...
Leilani Rapaport shares her experiences as participant of the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Programme, which is administered through the collaboration of Japan’s local and national government au...
Renowned ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) may have created many beautiful prints, but a recently discovered woodcut block used in the production of one of them also bears the work of some...
How soon cultural differences emerge in children is an issue that many people find fascinating, but it is also more difficult to assess than divergences among adults, as the types of tests administere...
Group report cards for students including novelist Osamu Dazai (1909-48) during his school days in Aomori City have been discovered, showing that he was a competent student who excelled in math. Accor...
