Latest News
-
Companies
Low-temperature cookers heat up marketplace
More and more people are coming to love bringing out the flavor of ingredients by cooking at low tem...
March 22, 2022
-
Japan In Focus
‘Tipsy mackerel’ to go on sale in Yamaguchi Prefecture
YAMAGUCHI — Sales of mackerel grown with food mixed with sake kasu, or pressed sake lees, will go in...
March 22, 2022
-
Washington Post
Life underground: Ukrainian families make new homes in the Kharkiv subway
KHARKIV, Ukraine - A bunch of tulips sits in the window of the subway car that Vladlena Igorivna, he...
March 22, 2022
-
Politics & Government
‘Kishida diplomacy’ takes off in earnest, aiming to link Asia and West
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has returned from India and Cambodia, having called for both countries’...
March 22, 2022
-
Yomiuri Editorial
Rein in cost of offshore wind power to make most of renewable energy
Aiming to promote offshore wind power generation, a key to increasing the production of renewable en...
March 22, 2022
-
Yomiuri Editorial
Speed legal reform to help former foster children become self-sufficient
About 42,000 children nationwide live in foster homes or with foster families, away from their biolo...
March 22, 2022
-
Social Series
Okinawa 50 yrs since return: National political affairs / Inaugural agency head supported development with ‘sense of atonement’
This year marks the 50th anniversary of Okinawa’s return to Japan. This is the second installment of...
March 22, 2022
-
Companies
Subscribing to cars, appliances via smartphone takes off
Taking out a subscription to use valuable items such as cars, furniture and home appliances can be e...
March 22, 2022
-
Associated Press
ASEAN envoy for Myanmar crisis arrives on first mission
BANGKOK (AP) — Cambodia’s foreign minister arrived Monday in Myanmar’s capital Naypyitaw on his mis...
March 22, 2022
-
Associated Press
US says Myanmar repression of Muslim Rohingya is genocide
WASHINGTON (AP) — Violent repression of the largely Muslim Rohingya population in Myanmar amounts t...
March 22, 2022
-
Politics & Government
Japan govt issues power shortage warning for 1st time
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The Japanese government on Monday issued a power shortage warning for the firs...
March 21, 2022
-
Coronavirus
Tokyo reports 3,855 new coronavirus Cases
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Tokyo confirmed 3,855 new cases of novel coronavirus infection on Monday, down...
March 21, 2022
-
Associated Press
State media report crash of Chinese airliner with 133 aboard
BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese airliner with 133 people on board crashed in the southern province of Guang...
March 21, 2022
-
General News
Digitally produced ‘yosegaki’ group message cards growing popular amid pandemic
A staple of farewell parties in Japan is a collection of written messages called yosegaki, which fri...
March 21, 2022
-
General News
Suspended Tohoku Shinkansen section to partly reopen Tuesday
The operation of the Tohoku Shinkansen bullet train will resume Tuesday in parts of a section suspen...
March 21, 2022