21.11.2024 19:17 Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani told his Chinese counterpart, Dong Jun, that he is "seriously concerned" about the intensifying military activities near Japan, as they met in Laos months after an airspace breach involving a Chinese spy plane.
Nakatani lodged a stern protest with China over the violation of Japan's airspace on Aug. 26 and demanded that it not be repeated, according to Japanese officials. However, the two agreed to promote dialogue between their defense authorities to foster "mutually beneficial" relations, as recently agreed by the countries' leaders.
Read full story here21.11.2024 18:52 Kaito Kozono went 3-for-5 with two home runs and seven RBIs, leading Japan to a 9-1 rout of the United States in their first game of the Premier12 baseball tournament's Super Round on Thursday.
Defending champion Japan extended its winning streak across all international competitions, including the World Baseball Classic and the Olympics, to 25.
Read full story here21.11.2024 17:47 A giant circular timber roof known as the "Grand Ring" that is to be the centerpiece of the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka was illuminated for the first time Thursday in a test run.
The massive structure, with a circumference of approximately 2 kilometers and a maximum height of around 20 meters, appeared to float in the evening darkness on Yumeshima, an artificial island in Osaka Bay.
Read full story here21.11.2024 16:38 BREAKING NEWS: Japan, China defense ministers agree to promote dialogue
==KyodoRead full story here21.11.2024 16:37 BREAKING NEWS: Japan defense chief warns China not to repeat airspace breach
==KyodoRead full story here21.11.2024 15:45 Front-running ozeki Hoshoryu and Kotozakura moved into a two-way tie at 11-1 on Thursday at the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament after fellow overnight leader Takanosho stumbled in his pursuit of a maiden title.
Hoshoryu overwhelmed komusubi Shodai, Kotozakura pushed out sekiwake Daieisho, while sixth-ranked maegashira Takanosho (10-2) was driven over the edge by sekiwake Kirishima on Day 12 at Fukuoka Kokusai Center.
Read full story here21.11.2024 15:28 Former yokozuna and 10-time Emperor's Cup winner Kitanofuji, who also mentored two grand champions, including the legendary Chiyonofuji, before becoming a popular TV sumo pundit, died on Nov. 12, Japan Sumo Association officials said Thursday. He was 82.
The Hokkaido native, whose real name was Katsuaki Takezawa, made his debut in 1957 and thrived on overarm throw and outside leg trip techniques, reaching the exalted rank after the 1970 New Year meet along with his rival Tamanoshima, later Tamanoumi, who unexpectedly died a year later.
Read full story here21.11.2024 15:10 Nissan Motor Co. said Thursday it expects some 6 percent, or around 1,000, of its employees in the United States to retire early by the end of the year as the Japanese automaker proceeds with global restructuring efforts.
The struggling automaker had about 17,000 employees in the world's second-biggest auto market as of the end of March, according to a company filing.
Read full story here21.11.2024 14:10 BREAKING NEWS: 6% of Nissan employees in U.S. to retire early
==KyodoRead full story here21.11.2024 12:45 Japanese Olympic men's basketball star Yuki Kawamura scored 15 points and dished 16 assists for his first double-double in the developmental G-League as he marshaled the Memphis Hustle to a 123-118 win over the visiting Osceola Magic on Wednesday.
The point guard shot 3-from-8 from three-point range while providing several sharp passes into and around the paint during 31 minutes on the court. He delivered several assists to the game's high scorer, big man Colin Castleton, who had 26 points.
Read full story here21.11.2024 11:43 Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's Cabinet is set to approve a 39 trillion yen ($252 billion) economic package to support consumer spending as disposable incomes continue to be whittled away by resurgent prices, sources familiar with the matter said Thursday.
The economic stimulus will include subsidies to offset high electricity, gas and gasoline prices and deliver cash handouts to low-income households.
Read full story here21.11.2024 10:21 Tokyo police have obtained an arrest warrant for a Chinese teenage boy for alleged property damage after graffiti was found at the war-linked Yasukuni shrine in August, investigative sources said Thursday.
The suspect, who also faces a charge of desecration of a place of worship, has already left Japan for Hong Kong. He is accused of writing Chinese characters meaning "toilet" on a stone pillar of the Tokyo shrine using a black felt-tip pen shortly after 10 p.m. on Aug. 18.
Read full story here21.11.2024 6:22 The World Health Organization said Tuesday it has granted emergency use of a Japanese mpox vaccine, its second approval of a product to inoculate against the infectious disease, to combat a recent outbreak mainly in Africa.
The approval of the vaccine, developed by KM Biologics Co., a group firm of food and pharmaceutical company Meiji Holdings Co., follows the acceptance of a vaccine manufactured by Bavarian Nordic A/S of Denmark in September.
Read full story here21.11.2024 5:14 The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News.
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Read full story here20.11.2024 16:14 Prosecutors on Wednesday dropped their case against former Kenyan marathon runner and two-time Olympic medalist Eric Wainaina, who had been accused of assaulting a woman and a station worker in the capital in March.
The Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office did not provide a reason for dropping the charges against Wainaina. The 50-year-old former athlete won a bronze medal in Atlanta in 1996 and silver in Sydney in 2000.
Read full story here20.11.2024 15:12 No. 6 maegashira Takanosho upset new ozeki Onosato on Wednesday to remain in a three-way title race after 11 days of action at the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament.
Former sekiwake Takanosho (10-1) moved to his left at the opening clash and followed with a right-handed shove to the throat to unbalance Autumn meet champion Onosato (7-4), who was easily pushed out at Fukuoka Kokusai Center.
Read full story here20.11.2024 14:36 The number of foreign visitors to Japan surpassed 30 million in the period between January and October, marking the fastest pace ever, and is poised to break the annual record amid a boom in inbound tourism, government data showed Wednesday.
The total stood at 30,192,600 during the 10-month period, crossing the 30 million threshold for the first time since 2019, before the coronavirus pandemic began in early 2020, the Japan National Tourism Organization said.
Read full story here20.11.2024 14:24 A Japanese court on Wednesday ordered the government to pay damages to residents around Atsugi air base near Tokyo over excessive noise but rejected their call for suspending Self-Defense Forces and U.S. military flights.
The Yokohama District Court ordered the state to pay approximately 5.9 billion yen ($38 million) for past disturbances but rejected the plaintiffs' demand for compensation for future noise pollution.
Read full story here20.11.2024 12:30 BREAKING NEWS: Japan sees foreign visitors reach 30 mil. in Jan.-Oct., fastest pace
==KyodoRead full story here20.11.2024 7:43 Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is being criticized online by people in Japan for his "bad manners" after footage of the APEC forum summit in Peru showed him greeting other leaders while remaining seated.
Footage showed Ishiba checking his smartphone while seated as leaders including Canadian counterpart Justin Trudeau and Malaysia's Anwar Ibrahim approached him. Ishiba looked up from his phone and shook hands but did not stand up.
Read full story here20.11.2024 5:00 The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News.
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Read full story here20.11.2024 4:51 BREAKING NEWS: Japan logs 461.2 bil. yen trade deficit in Oct.
==KyodoRead full story here20.11.2024 4:24 Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Tuesday he will pursue cooperation, not confrontation, with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump as a mutual effort to deepen the longtime bilateral alliance should benefit not just the two nations but the wider Indo-Pacific region.
Ishiba's remarks came as he wrapped up a South American trip to Peru and Brazil. The Japanese leader hoped to travel from there to the United States for a meeting with Trump, which would have been the first with the Republican since he won the presidential election in early November.
Read full story here20.11.2024 4:00
What's in a name?
File photo taken Dec. 15, 2022, shows newborn babies at a hospital nursery in Kumamoto, southwestern Japan. (Kyodo)
Read full story here20.11.2024 3:24 Japan, Britain and Italy agreed Tuesday to coordinate closely in developing a next-generation fighter jet in a joint project that Tokyo hopes will serve as the "basis" for even wider cooperation over the next few decades.
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni confirmed that they will complete the project as a key pillar of trilateral defense cooperation as they met on the fringes of the Group of 20 meeting in Rio de Janeiro, the Japanese government said.
Read full story here20.11.2024 2:01 BREAKING NEWS: Japan PM Ishiba hopes to work with Trump, not confront him <FULL STORY>
==KyodoRead full story here19.11.2024 19:34 Koki Ogawa scored on a pair of headers as Japan took another step toward the 2026 World Cup with a 3-1 win away to China that left the visitors firmly in control of Group C in the Asian final-round qualifiers.
After a difficult opening half hour against a defense-minded China at Xiamen Egret Stadium, Japan began to find space in the attacking third, largely through the tireless work of Takefusa Kubo in the middle and Junya Ito on the right.
Read full story here19.11.2024 18:05 China has admitted that one of its military planes entered Japan's airspace in August but said it was unintentional and vowed to take measures to prevent similar incidents from happening again, Japanese government officials said Tuesday.
The Japanese government, despite China's explanation, maintains that the Aug. 26 incident involving the Chinese military Y-9 spy plane was an airspace breach that was "a grave violation" of the nation's sovereignty, they said.
Read full story here19.11.2024 15:09 BREAKING NEWS: Sony Group mulls acquiring Japan publisher Kadokawa: sources
==KyodoRead full story here19.11.2024 14:49 Ozeki Kotozakura celebrated his 27th birthday Tuesday at the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament with a victory over rank-and-file opponent Tobizaru that kept the joint overnight leader on top of the standings.
Kotozakura continued to share the top rung with fellow ozeki Hoshoryu and No. 6 maegashira Takanosho at 9-1, but new ozeki Onosato dropped further off the pace with an unexpected loss to sekiwake Daieisho that left him at 7-3 on Day 10 at Fukuoka Kokusai Center.
Read full story here19.11.2024 11:09 A Hong Kong court on Tuesday sentenced 45 pro-democracy activists to jail terms of up to 10 years over their roles in an unofficial primary election held in 2020, in the territory's biggest national security case to date under a law imposed by Beijing the same year.
Legal scholar Benny Tai, accused of being an organizer of the primary election, was sentenced to 10 years behind bars by the Hong Kong High Court, while notable activists Au Nok-hin and Joshua Wong received prison terms of six years and nine months and four years and eight months, respectively.
Read full story here19.11.2024 10:41 A leadership shake-up has taken place at the Choshikei Monkey Park on Shodo Island in Kagawa Prefecture, home to about 300 wild Japanese macaques.The former boss, who led nearly 100 monkeys in Group B, one of the main troops at the zoo, was succeeded after he passed away on Nov. 10. With a new leader rising in Group A as well, the park is experiencing a generational shift.
A day after the previous Group B head died, the former third-in-command overpowered the second-in-command "sub" in a battle for dominance to take the title of "tiger" boss.
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Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani told his Chinese counterpart, Dong Jun, that he is "seriously concerned" about the intensifying military activities near Japan, as they met in Laos months after an airspace breach involving a Chinese spy plane.
Nakatani lodged a stern protest with China over the violation of Japan's airspace on Aug. 26 and demanded that it not be repeated, according to Japanese officials. However, the two agreed to promote dialogue between their defense authorities to foster "mutually beneficial" relations, as recently agreed by the countries' leaders.
Read full story here
Kaito Kozono went 3-for-5 with two home runs and seven RBIs, leading Japan to a 9-1 rout of the United States in their first game of the Premier12 baseball tournament's Super Round on Thursday.
Defending champion Japan extended its winning streak across all international competitions, including the World Baseball Classic and the Olympics, to 25.
Read full story here
A giant circular timber roof known as the "Grand Ring" that is to be the centerpiece of the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka was illuminated for the first time Thursday in a test run.
The massive structure, with a circumference of approximately 2 kilometers and a maximum height of around 20 meters, appeared to float in the evening darkness on Yumeshima, an artificial island in Osaka Bay.
Read full story here
Front-running ozeki Hoshoryu and Kotozakura moved into a two-way tie at 11-1 on Thursday at the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament after fellow overnight leader Takanosho stumbled in his pursuit of a maiden title.
Hoshoryu overwhelmed komusubi Shodai, Kotozakura pushed out sekiwake Daieisho, while sixth-ranked maegashira Takanosho (10-2) was driven over the edge by sekiwake Kirishima on Day 12 at Fukuoka Kokusai Center.
Read full story here
Former yokozuna and 10-time Emperor's Cup winner Kitanofuji, who also mentored two grand champions, including the legendary Chiyonofuji, before becoming a popular TV sumo pundit, died on Nov. 12, Japan Sumo Association officials said Thursday. He was 82.
The Hokkaido native, whose real name was Katsuaki Takezawa, made his debut in 1957 and thrived on overarm throw and outside leg trip techniques, reaching the exalted rank after the 1970 New Year meet along with his rival Tamanoshima, later Tamanoumi, who unexpectedly died a year later.
Read full story here
Nissan Motor Co. said Thursday it expects some 6 percent, or around 1,000, of its employees in the United States to retire early by the end of the year as the Japanese automaker proceeds with global restructuring efforts.
The struggling automaker had about 17,000 employees in the world's second-biggest auto market as of the end of March, according to a company filing.
Read full story here
Japanese Olympic men's basketball star Yuki Kawamura scored 15 points and dished 16 assists for his first double-double in the developmental G-League as he marshaled the Memphis Hustle to a 123-118 win over the visiting Osceola Magic on Wednesday.
The point guard shot 3-from-8 from three-point range while providing several sharp passes into and around the paint during 31 minutes on the court. He delivered several assists to the game's high scorer, big man Colin Castleton, who had 26 points.
Read full story here
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's Cabinet is set to approve a 39 trillion yen ($252 billion) economic package to support consumer spending as disposable incomes continue to be whittled away by resurgent prices, sources familiar with the matter said Thursday.
The economic stimulus will include subsidies to offset high electricity, gas and gasoline prices and deliver cash handouts to low-income households.
Read full story here
Tokyo police have obtained an arrest warrant for a Chinese teenage boy for alleged property damage after graffiti was found at the war-linked Yasukuni shrine in August, investigative sources said Thursday.
The suspect, who also faces a charge of desecration of a place of worship, has already left Japan for Hong Kong. He is accused of writing Chinese characters meaning "toilet" on a stone pillar of the Tokyo shrine using a black felt-tip pen shortly after 10 p.m. on Aug. 18.
Read full story here
The World Health Organization said Tuesday it has granted emergency use of a Japanese mpox vaccine, its second approval of a product to inoculate against the infectious disease, to combat a recent outbreak mainly in Africa.
The approval of the vaccine, developed by KM Biologics Co., a group firm of food and pharmaceutical company Meiji Holdings Co., follows the acceptance of a vaccine manufactured by Bavarian Nordic A/S of Denmark in September.
Read full story here
The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News.
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Prosecutors on Wednesday dropped their case against former Kenyan marathon runner and two-time Olympic medalist Eric Wainaina, who had been accused of assaulting a woman and a station worker in the capital in March.
The Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office did not provide a reason for dropping the charges against Wainaina. The 50-year-old former athlete won a bronze medal in Atlanta in 1996 and silver in Sydney in 2000.
Read full story here
No. 6 maegashira Takanosho upset new ozeki Onosato on Wednesday to remain in a three-way title race after 11 days of action at the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament.
Former sekiwake Takanosho (10-1) moved to his left at the opening clash and followed with a right-handed shove to the throat to unbalance Autumn meet champion Onosato (7-4), who was easily pushed out at Fukuoka Kokusai Center.
Read full story here
The number of foreign visitors to Japan surpassed 30 million in the period between January and October, marking the fastest pace ever, and is poised to break the annual record amid a boom in inbound tourism, government data showed Wednesday.
The total stood at 30,192,600 during the 10-month period, crossing the 30 million threshold for the first time since 2019, before the coronavirus pandemic began in early 2020, the Japan National Tourism Organization said.
Read full story here
A Japanese court on Wednesday ordered the government to pay damages to residents around Atsugi air base near Tokyo over excessive noise but rejected their call for suspending Self-Defense Forces and U.S. military flights.
The Yokohama District Court ordered the state to pay approximately 5.9 billion yen ($38 million) for past disturbances but rejected the plaintiffs' demand for compensation for future noise pollution.
Read full story here
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is being criticized online by people in Japan for his "bad manners" after footage of the APEC forum summit in Peru showed him greeting other leaders while remaining seated.
Footage showed Ishiba checking his smartphone while seated as leaders including Canadian counterpart Justin Trudeau and Malaysia's Anwar Ibrahim approached him. Ishiba looked up from his phone and shook hands but did not stand up.
Read full story here
The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Tuesday he will pursue cooperation, not confrontation, with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump as a mutual effort to deepen the longtime bilateral alliance should benefit not just the two nations but the wider Indo-Pacific region.
Ishiba's remarks came as he wrapped up a South American trip to Peru and Brazil. The Japanese leader hoped to travel from there to the United States for a meeting with Trump, which would have been the first with the Republican since he won the presidential election in early November.
Read full story here
What's in a name?
File photo taken Dec. 15, 2022, shows newborn babies at a hospital nursery in Kumamoto, southwestern Japan. (Kyodo)
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Japan, Britain and Italy agreed Tuesday to coordinate closely in developing a next-generation fighter jet in a joint project that Tokyo hopes will serve as the "basis" for even wider cooperation over the next few decades.
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni confirmed that they will complete the project as a key pillar of trilateral defense cooperation as they met on the fringes of the Group of 20 meeting in Rio de Janeiro, the Japanese government said.
Read full story here
Koki Ogawa scored on a pair of headers as Japan took another step toward the 2026 World Cup with a 3-1 win away to China that left the visitors firmly in control of Group C in the Asian final-round qualifiers.
After a difficult opening half hour against a defense-minded China at Xiamen Egret Stadium, Japan began to find space in the attacking third, largely through the tireless work of Takefusa Kubo in the middle and Junya Ito on the right.
Read full story here
China has admitted that one of its military planes entered Japan's airspace in August but said it was unintentional and vowed to take measures to prevent similar incidents from happening again, Japanese government officials said Tuesday.
The Japanese government, despite China's explanation, maintains that the Aug. 26 incident involving the Chinese military Y-9 spy plane was an airspace breach that was "a grave violation" of the nation's sovereignty, they said.
Read full story here
Ozeki Kotozakura celebrated his 27th birthday Tuesday at the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament with a victory over rank-and-file opponent Tobizaru that kept the joint overnight leader on top of the standings.
Kotozakura continued to share the top rung with fellow ozeki Hoshoryu and No. 6 maegashira Takanosho at 9-1, but new ozeki Onosato dropped further off the pace with an unexpected loss to sekiwake Daieisho that left him at 7-3 on Day 10 at Fukuoka Kokusai Center.
Read full story here
A Hong Kong court on Tuesday sentenced 45 pro-democracy activists to jail terms of up to 10 years over their roles in an unofficial primary election held in 2020, in the territory's biggest national security case to date under a law imposed by Beijing the same year.
Legal scholar Benny Tai, accused of being an organizer of the primary election, was sentenced to 10 years behind bars by the Hong Kong High Court, while notable activists Au Nok-hin and Joshua Wong received prison terms of six years and nine months and four years and eight months, respectively.
Read full story here
A leadership shake-up has taken place at the Choshikei Monkey Park on Shodo Island in Kagawa Prefecture, home to about 300 wild Japanese macaques.The former boss, who led nearly 100 monkeys in Group B, one of the main troops at the zoo, was succeeded after he passed away on Nov. 10. With a new leader rising in Group A as well, the park is experiencing a generational shift.
A day after the previous Group B head died, the former third-in-command overpowered the second-in-command "sub" in a battle for dominance to take the title of "tiger" boss.
Read full story here