Japan in Depth / Rethinking Japan's sovereignty
In hosting a ceremony to mark the anniversary of the restoration of the nation's sovereignty after its defeat in World War II, the government apparen...
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In hosting a ceremony to mark the anniversary of the restoration of the nation's sovereignty after its defeat in World War II, the government apparen...
YAMAGUCHI (Jiji Press)--The ruling Liberal Democratic Party marked a landslide victory in Sunday's House of Councillors by-election in Yamaguchi Pref...
Already fierce competition in nuclear technology exports is intensifying between Japanese companies and the Russian team of Rosatom, the Russian State...
Maintaining its claim of sovereignty over the northern territories as an integral part of the country, Japan has patiently negotiated with the former Soviet Union and then Russia for the return of th...
MEXICO CITY (Jiji Press)--Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said Monday he would meet later this year with officials from a 33-member group of Latin American and Caribbean countries. During his speech ...
KOFU (Jiji Press)--Ten bereaved relatives of five victims of a fatal expressway tunnel ceiling collapse in December plan to sue Central Nippon Expressway Co., or NEXCO Central, on May 15, lawyers for...
Tokyo Gov. Naoki Inose apologized Tuesday for scathing remarks he made about Istanbul, a rival city hoping to host the 2020 Olympics. In an interview published in The New York Times on Friday, Inose...
Though the program to accept nurse candidates from overseas, such as Indonesia and the Philippines, began in fiscal 2008, the pass rate for the national qualification exam among them hovers around 10...
AMSTERDAM (Jiji Press)--Crown Prince Naruhito attended a banquet hosted by the Netherlands' Queen Beatrix on Monday evening, ahead of Crown Prince Willem-Alexander's coronation on Tuesday. Dressed i...
Hurdles are still too high for foreign nurses to be formally accepted to work in Japan. The government has accepted nurses from Indonesia and the Philippines as "candidates" to work in Japan based on ...
Abenomics, the set of economic policies of the administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, has drawn global attention. The business outlook of major corporations, especially exporters, has approved o...
A man who lost his left hip to cancer nine years ago is preparing to participate in this year's Osaka Marathon--in his wheelchair. The Oct. 27 event will be the first full marathon for Kazunori Ig...
算数の英語力を養う「Let's try! 算数の英語」。今回は、端午の節句にちなみ、こいのぼりの長さを計算する問題のほか、対称軸を求める問題をとりあ...
You don't have to be a member of the Liberal Democratic Party's education reform council to know that English education in Japan is already highly test-oriented. And you don't need an advanced degree ...
Human versus computer--which is superior? The answer may seem obvious--people made machines and should therefore be masters of them. But what happens if a human faces a computer in the game of shogi, ...
KYOTO--It is said that a Japanese garden takes 100 years to complete--roughly the span of a human life. Reflecting the philosophies and cultures of their respective eras, gardens are a major attractio...
KUMAMOTO--The recent publication of Michiko Ishimure's entire body of work sheds new light on this internationally respected writer's devotion to depicting the splendor of life. Ishimure is best known...
Hidemichi Katsumata / Yomiuri Research Institute Senior Research Fellow The Senkaku Islands, a chain of rocky, uninhabited islands in Okinawa Prefecture, have been a source of confrontation between ...
BOSTON (AP)--Two bombs exploded in the crowded streets near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday, killing at least three people and injuring more than 140 in a bloody scene of shattered gl...
A deal has been inked that will mark Japan's first export of reactors under public-private cooperation since the March 2011 disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. The pending contract fo...
Groundwater levels in Tokyo have risen by about 60 meters compared to 40 years ago, according to surveys by the Tokyo metropolitan government and others. The phenomenon has been attributed to years ...
The United States on Monday reportedly positioned a destroyer off the South Korean coast to counter any possible North Korean missile strike. *** New vehicle sales in Japan in fiscal 2012 topped 5 m...
Today the English-language newspaper published by The Yomiuri Shimbun starts anew under the name of The Japan News. Amid Japan's declining international presence, the nation is facing a chall...