Europe
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Can human urine help feed the world?
PARIS (AFP-Jiji) — “Go pee on the rhubarb!” Engineer Fabien Esculier has never forgotten his grand...
May 11, 2022
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17-year-old girl from Mariupol narrowly avoids brutal interrogation
LVIV, Ukraine — Mariya Vdovichenko narrowly avoided a brutal interrogation by the Russian military a...
May 6, 2022
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Ukraine women take up arms to protect homeland
Hiroto Sekiguchi / The Yomiuri ShimbunA woman learns how to handle a rifle from a volunteer instruct...
April 24, 2022
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Tokyo 2020 judoka in Kyiv speaks about horrors of Russian invasion
Kyiv city council member Georgii Zantaraia spoke to The Yomiuri Shimbun via social media about the h...
April 18, 2022
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Ukrainian soldier killed at start of Russian invasion finally returns home
LVIV, Ukraine — As Russia continues its invasion of Ukraine, casualties among Ukrainian soldiers inc...
April 17, 2022
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Dog in Ukraine waiting for a month for slain owner
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — A woman was raped and killed in Makariv in the northern Ukraine province of Kyi...
April 14, 2022
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More than 4 million have fled from Ukraine
MEDYKA, Poland — The number of people who have fled war-torn Ukraine has exceeded 4 million, the Uni...
March 31, 2022
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Zelenskyy stresses Russian threat to nuclear facilities in Diet speech
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy emphasized in his online address to the Diet on Wednesday t...
March 24, 2022
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Japanese nonlife insurers to raise premiums for high-risk waterways in Ukraine
The Yomiuri Shimbun [posttime] JST, [postdate] The Dnieper River that flows through the Ukraini...
March 15, 2022
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Russians reel amid salvo of sanctions
LONDON — Two weeks have passed since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the severe econo...
March 12, 2022
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Ukraine ambassador thanks Japan for support
Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi met with Ukrainian Ambassador Sergiy Korsunsky on Wednesday to inform t...
March 10, 2022
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Japan to accept Ukrainian refugees
Japan will accept Ukrainian refugees who have fled to other countries because of the ongoing conflic...
March 3, 2022
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U.S. Embassy in Tokyo shines for Ukraine
The U.S. Embassy in Tokyo was lit up in the blue and yellow to evoke the Ukrainian flag on Wednesday...
March 3, 2022
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Japanese, Ukrainians come together to pray for peace in Ukraine
Catholics and those belonging to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine came together and prayed for peace i...
March 3, 2022
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Evacuees fleeing Ukraine for Poland face harsh times
MEDYKA, Poland — After walking 26 kilometers along Ukraine’s M11 highway, the border checkpoint with...
March 2, 2022
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