05.11.2024 9:09 An advisory panel to UNESCO has recommended Japan's traditional knowledge and skills for making sake and "shochu" distilled spirits be included in its Intangible Cultural Heritage list, putting their listing on course for formal endorsement later this year, Japan's culture agency said Tuesday.
Once formally adopted by the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's intergovernmental committee session from Dec. 2 to 7 in Asuncion, Paraguay, they will become Japan's 23rd entry on the list.
Read full story here05.11.2024 9:05 Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov has confirmed his country's military has engaged for the first time with North Korean troops, South Korea's public broadcaster KBS reported Tuesday.
Umerov told KBS in an interview on Monday local time that a "small-scale" engagement had taken place, without detailing when and where the fighting took place. He said it could be officially considered the beginning of North Korea's participation in Russia's war against Ukraine, according to the report.
Read full story here05.11.2024 8:08 BREAKING NEWS: Ukraine confirms 1st engagement with N. Korea troops: S. Korea media
==KyodoRead full story here05.11.2024 7:49 North Korea on Tuesday fired multiple short-range ballistic missiles toward the Sea of Japan, the Japanese Defense Ministry said, in a move that came just ahead of the U.S. presidential election and less than a week after an intercontinental ballistic missile launch.
At least seven short-range missiles flew a distance of 400 kilometers with an altitude of up to about 100 km after they were fired from North Korea's west coast between around 7:30 a.m. and 7:39 a.m., the Japanese ministry said.
Read full story here05.11.2024 5:42 The Tokyo Stock Exchange extended its regular trading hours by 30 minutes from Tuesday as part of its efforts to make the bourse more attractive to foreign investors.
It is the first extension of trading hours in 70 years. With the change, the market will operate from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. with an hourlong lunch break, according to Japan Exchange Group Inc., the parent of the bourse's operator.
Read full story here05.11.2024 5:16 The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News.
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Read full story here05.11.2024 5:06 BREAKING NEWS: N. Korean launch involved multiple short-range missiles: S. Korea
==KyodoRead full story here04.11.2024 13:13 Japan launched a flagship H3 rocket carrying a Defense Ministry communications satellite Monday, its third consecutive successful liftoff following a botched debut in 2023.
The H3 series is the successor to the country's current mainstay H2A vehicle, which has supported Japan's space development for over 20 years and will be retired after a final launch, possibly by the end of March.
Read full story here04.11.2024 11:51 BREAKING NEWS: Japan launches flagship H3 rocket carrying defense satellite <FULL STORY>
==KyodoRead full story here04.11.2024 11:24 Japan attacker Takefusa Kubo scored a fine solo opener for his third goal of the season as Real Sociedad won 2-0 at Sevilla in Spain's La Liga on Sunday.
The 23-year-old cut inside past opposing left-back Adria Pedrosa before firing home low from inside the box in the 34th minute at Estadio Ramon Sanchez-Pizjuan.
Read full story here04.11.2024 11:00 The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News.
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Read full story here04.11.2024 7:03 A nuclear reactor in northeastern Japan was halted Monday for checks, the plant operator said, just days after it became the first to restart in the region since the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster.
Tohoku Electric Power Co. is facing difficulties in sending in a device to confirm the condition of the No. 2 reactor at the Onagawa plant in Miyagi Prefecture.
Read full story here04.11.2024 6:20 BREAKING NEWS: Japan nuclear reactor in 2011 disaster area stops days after restart <FULL STORY>
==KyodoRead full story here04.11.2024 5:29 A major train operator in western Japan will equip crew with blade-resistant umbrellas to help them quickly evacuate passengers in the event of a knife attack, JR West said.
The initiative comes after a number of knife attacks on trains in Japan, including an incident on one of JR West's airport line services in July 2023 when three people were injured by a man with knives.
Read full story here03.11.2024 19:48 Perhaps for the first time since he left Japan to try his hand at Major League Baseball in 2020, Yoshitomo Tsutsugo truly looked at home Sunday, homering and driving in four runs to help the DeNA BayStars clinch the Japan Series championship.
After four-plus years of trying to compete in MLB, Tsutsugo said he has faced the same problem in Japan that he had in the United States, adjusting to pitchers' timing.
Read full story here03.11.2024 19:42 Masayuki Kuwahara led the DeNA BayStars to their first Japan Series baseball title since 1998 and third in franchise history with a 11-2 rout of the SoftBank Hawks in Game 6 on Sunday.
Kuwahara, the series MVP, and Yoshitomo Tsutsugo drove in seven runs between them in the clincher as the pre-series underdog BayStars took a 3-0 lead in the second inning and put the game away with a seven-run fifth at Yokohama Stadium.
Read full story here03.11.2024 18:00 The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News.
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Read full story here03.11.2024 17:14 BREAKING NEWS: DeNA BayStars win 1st Japan Series baseball title in 26 years
==KyodoRead full story here03.11.2024 16:43 At least 33 individuals changed their legal gender in Japan without surgery this year since the Supreme Court ruled against a law requiring transgender people to remove their reproductive capabilities for such alteration, a survey by the top court showed Sunday.
The data is the first comprehensive figure on gender changes since the top court declared in October last year that the controversial requirement was unconstitutional, as previous numbers were only based on individual reports.
Read full story here03.11.2024 15:58 The U.S. military in Japan has yet to convene a new forum it announced in July to enhance cooperation with the Okinawa government and local residents, following alleged sexual assault cases involving its service members in the southern island prefecture.
The schedule for holding the first meeting is unclear, with the topics and participants also not decided.
Read full story here03.11.2024 15:23 BREAKING NEWS: Nuclear reactor in northeastern Japan to stop just days after restart
==KyodoRead full story here03.11.2024 14:01 South Korea's military said it held joint air drills Sunday with the United States and Japan, three days after North Korea fired an intercontinental ballistic missile that marked the longest-ever flight time for such a weapon from the country.
In response to Pyongyang's missile launch, the trilateral exercise took place in airspace where the air defense identification zones of Seoul and Tokyo overlap, north of South Korea's southern island of Jeju, the military said.
Read full story here03.11.2024 10:37 Two-time badminton world champion Kento Momota plans to retire at the end of Japan's S/J League season next February, sources familiar with the matter said Sunday.
The 30-year-old from Kagawa Prefecture, who won the men's singles at the world championships in 2018 and 2019, ended his national team career in May.
Read full story here03.11.2024 8:30 Major Japanese trade houses, led by Marubeni Corp., have been pushing for the land-based farming of salmon, a popular type of sushi and sashimi, in Japan, as supply from Norway is starting to peak.
In October, Marubeni started selling salmon to supermarkets and fishmongers that was farmed by its Norwegian partner, Proximar Seafood AS, at a plant in Oyama, Shizuoka Prefecture near Mt. Fuji.
Read full story here03.11.2024 8:09 Japan's Wakaba Higuchi topped the free skate but finished runner-up to overall women's individual winner Amber Glenn of the United States at figure skating's Grand Prix de France on Saturday.
Rion Sumiyoshi placed second in the free skate to clinch bronze and ensure there were two Japanese skaters on the podium at the Angers ICEPARC.
Read full story here03.11.2024 6:33 Heavy rain canceled a total of 88 Sanyo Shinkansen bullet train services on Saturday and delayed 229 by up to around six hours, affecting about 139,300 people, the operator said.
JR West said Sunday that rain gauges in some sections had reached their maximum level for safe operation between Shin-Osaka and Hakata in western Japan in the morning the previous day, adding services resumed later after safety checks were completed.
Read full story here03.11.2024 6:05 Christopher Patten, Hong Kong's last British colonial governor who oversaw its handover to Chinese rule in 1997, is among the 87 foreigners recognized in this year's fall decorations for their notable contributions to Japan, the government said Sunday.
Patten, 80, who was the territory's governor from 1992 until its return to China, went on to serve as the chancellor of the University of Oxford from 2003 to 2024.
Read full story here03.11.2024 5:34 The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex said Saturday it moved a tiny portion of melted fuel just outside a reactor container as part of its attempt to retrieve the debris for the first time since a nuclear disaster hit the plant over a decade ago.
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. plans to check the radiation level of the 5-millimeter-size debris, possibly on Tuesday, to determine if it can be recovered.
Read full story here02.11.2024 19:00 The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News.
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Read full story here02.11.2024 18:35 Heavy rain in western and southwestern Japan continued to disrupt shinkansen bullet train services on Saturday, affecting travelers on the first day of a long weekend and prompting the weather agency to caution against further rainfall.
All bullet train services between Hakata in southwestern Japan and Tokyo were briefly halted in the morning. Services connecting Osaka and Tokyo also temporarily halted later in the day as rain gauges topped maximum safe levels in Kanagawa and Shizuoka prefectures, operator Central Japan Railway said.
Footage from a webcam shows a river in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, on the morning of Nov. 2, 2024. (Image courtesy of the transport ministry)(Kyodo)
Read full story here02.11.2024 16:47 Departing Nagoya Grampus goalkeeper Mitch Langerak on Saturday labeled his team's League Cup final win over Albirex Niigata the "perfect ending" after making a succession of saves and scoring in the penalty shootout to help land the silverware for the second time.
The 36-year-old Australian took over as team captain this season and believes he is leaving a deserved parting gift for the Nagoya faithful before his return home next year for family reasons.
Nagoya Grampus goalkeeper Mitch Langerak celebrates as his team clinches a penalty-shootout victory against Albirex Niigata in the League Cup final at Tokyo's National Stadium on Nov. 2, 2024. (Kyodo)
Read full story here02.11.2024 16:09 Sumo tickets have sold out for all 15 days at each of the six grand tournaments this year, including the upcoming meet in Fukuoka, the Japan Sumo Association said Saturday.
In a sign of rejuvenated popularity, it is the first year-round sell-out since 1996, when the sport received a massive boost from brothers Wakanohana and Takanohana.
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An advisory panel to UNESCO has recommended Japan's traditional knowledge and skills for making sake and "shochu" distilled spirits be included in its Intangible Cultural Heritage list, putting their listing on course for formal endorsement later this year, Japan's culture agency said Tuesday.
Once formally adopted by the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's intergovernmental committee session from Dec. 2 to 7 in Asuncion, Paraguay, they will become Japan's 23rd entry on the list.
Read full story here
Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov has confirmed his country's military has engaged for the first time with North Korean troops, South Korea's public broadcaster KBS reported Tuesday.
Umerov told KBS in an interview on Monday local time that a "small-scale" engagement had taken place, without detailing when and where the fighting took place. He said it could be officially considered the beginning of North Korea's participation in Russia's war against Ukraine, according to the report.
Read full story here
North Korea on Tuesday fired multiple short-range ballistic missiles toward the Sea of Japan, the Japanese Defense Ministry said, in a move that came just ahead of the U.S. presidential election and less than a week after an intercontinental ballistic missile launch.
At least seven short-range missiles flew a distance of 400 kilometers with an altitude of up to about 100 km after they were fired from North Korea's west coast between around 7:30 a.m. and 7:39 a.m., the Japanese ministry said.
Read full story here
The Tokyo Stock Exchange extended its regular trading hours by 30 minutes from Tuesday as part of its efforts to make the bourse more attractive to foreign investors.
It is the first extension of trading hours in 70 years. With the change, the market will operate from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. with an hourlong lunch break, according to Japan Exchange Group Inc., the parent of the bourse's operator.
Read full story here
The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News.
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Japan launched a flagship H3 rocket carrying a Defense Ministry communications satellite Monday, its third consecutive successful liftoff following a botched debut in 2023.
The H3 series is the successor to the country's current mainstay H2A vehicle, which has supported Japan's space development for over 20 years and will be retired after a final launch, possibly by the end of March.
Read full story here
Japan attacker Takefusa Kubo scored a fine solo opener for his third goal of the season as Real Sociedad won 2-0 at Sevilla in Spain's La Liga on Sunday.
The 23-year-old cut inside past opposing left-back Adria Pedrosa before firing home low from inside the box in the 34th minute at Estadio Ramon Sanchez-Pizjuan.
Read full story here
The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News.
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A nuclear reactor in northeastern Japan was halted Monday for checks, the plant operator said, just days after it became the first to restart in the region since the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster.
Tohoku Electric Power Co. is facing difficulties in sending in a device to confirm the condition of the No. 2 reactor at the Onagawa plant in Miyagi Prefecture.
Read full story here
A major train operator in western Japan will equip crew with blade-resistant umbrellas to help them quickly evacuate passengers in the event of a knife attack, JR West said.
The initiative comes after a number of knife attacks on trains in Japan, including an incident on one of JR West's airport line services in July 2023 when three people were injured by a man with knives.
Read full story here
Perhaps for the first time since he left Japan to try his hand at Major League Baseball in 2020, Yoshitomo Tsutsugo truly looked at home Sunday, homering and driving in four runs to help the DeNA BayStars clinch the Japan Series championship.
After four-plus years of trying to compete in MLB, Tsutsugo said he has faced the same problem in Japan that he had in the United States, adjusting to pitchers' timing.
Read full story here
Masayuki Kuwahara led the DeNA BayStars to their first Japan Series baseball title since 1998 and third in franchise history with a 11-2 rout of the SoftBank Hawks in Game 6 on Sunday.
Kuwahara, the series MVP, and Yoshitomo Tsutsugo drove in seven runs between them in the clincher as the pre-series underdog BayStars took a 3-0 lead in the second inning and put the game away with a seven-run fifth at Yokohama Stadium.
Read full story here
The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News.
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At least 33 individuals changed their legal gender in Japan without surgery this year since the Supreme Court ruled against a law requiring transgender people to remove their reproductive capabilities for such alteration, a survey by the top court showed Sunday.
The data is the first comprehensive figure on gender changes since the top court declared in October last year that the controversial requirement was unconstitutional, as previous numbers were only based on individual reports.
Read full story here
The U.S. military in Japan has yet to convene a new forum it announced in July to enhance cooperation with the Okinawa government and local residents, following alleged sexual assault cases involving its service members in the southern island prefecture.
The schedule for holding the first meeting is unclear, with the topics and participants also not decided.
Read full story here
South Korea's military said it held joint air drills Sunday with the United States and Japan, three days after North Korea fired an intercontinental ballistic missile that marked the longest-ever flight time for such a weapon from the country.
In response to Pyongyang's missile launch, the trilateral exercise took place in airspace where the air defense identification zones of Seoul and Tokyo overlap, north of South Korea's southern island of Jeju, the military said.
Read full story here
Two-time badminton world champion Kento Momota plans to retire at the end of Japan's S/J League season next February, sources familiar with the matter said Sunday.
The 30-year-old from Kagawa Prefecture, who won the men's singles at the world championships in 2018 and 2019, ended his national team career in May.
Read full story here
Major Japanese trade houses, led by Marubeni Corp., have been pushing for the land-based farming of salmon, a popular type of sushi and sashimi, in Japan, as supply from Norway is starting to peak.
In October, Marubeni started selling salmon to supermarkets and fishmongers that was farmed by its Norwegian partner, Proximar Seafood AS, at a plant in Oyama, Shizuoka Prefecture near Mt. Fuji.
Read full story here
Japan's Wakaba Higuchi topped the free skate but finished runner-up to overall women's individual winner Amber Glenn of the United States at figure skating's Grand Prix de France on Saturday.
Rion Sumiyoshi placed second in the free skate to clinch bronze and ensure there were two Japanese skaters on the podium at the Angers ICEPARC.
Read full story here
Heavy rain canceled a total of 88 Sanyo Shinkansen bullet train services on Saturday and delayed 229 by up to around six hours, affecting about 139,300 people, the operator said.
JR West said Sunday that rain gauges in some sections had reached their maximum level for safe operation between Shin-Osaka and Hakata in western Japan in the morning the previous day, adding services resumed later after safety checks were completed.
Read full story here
Christopher Patten, Hong Kong's last British colonial governor who oversaw its handover to Chinese rule in 1997, is among the 87 foreigners recognized in this year's fall decorations for their notable contributions to Japan, the government said Sunday.
Patten, 80, who was the territory's governor from 1992 until its return to China, went on to serve as the chancellor of the University of Oxford from 2003 to 2024.
Read full story here
The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex said Saturday it moved a tiny portion of melted fuel just outside a reactor container as part of its attempt to retrieve the debris for the first time since a nuclear disaster hit the plant over a decade ago.
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. plans to check the radiation level of the 5-millimeter-size debris, possibly on Tuesday, to determine if it can be recovered.
Read full story here
The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News.
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Heavy rain in western and southwestern Japan continued to disrupt shinkansen bullet train services on Saturday, affecting travelers on the first day of a long weekend and prompting the weather agency to caution against further rainfall.
All bullet train services between Hakata in southwestern Japan and Tokyo were briefly halted in the morning. Services connecting Osaka and Tokyo also temporarily halted later in the day as rain gauges topped maximum safe levels in Kanagawa and Shizuoka prefectures, operator Central Japan Railway said.
Footage from a webcam shows a river in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, on the morning of Nov. 2, 2024. (Image courtesy of the transport ministry)(Kyodo)
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Departing Nagoya Grampus goalkeeper Mitch Langerak on Saturday labeled his team's League Cup final win over Albirex Niigata the "perfect ending" after making a succession of saves and scoring in the penalty shootout to help land the silverware for the second time.
The 36-year-old Australian took over as team captain this season and believes he is leaving a deserved parting gift for the Nagoya faithful before his return home next year for family reasons.
Nagoya Grampus goalkeeper Mitch Langerak celebrates as his team clinches a penalty-shootout victory against Albirex Niigata in the League Cup final at Tokyo's National Stadium on Nov. 2, 2024. (Kyodo)
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Sumo tickets have sold out for all 15 days at each of the six grand tournaments this year, including the upcoming meet in Fukuoka, the Japan Sumo Association said Saturday.
In a sign of rejuvenated popularity, it is the first year-round sell-out since 1996, when the sport received a massive boost from brothers Wakanohana and Takanohana.
Read full story here