Excerpts from Interview with Ski Jumper Kobayashi
January 21, 2019
London–Following are excerpts from a Jiji Press interview with Japanese ski jumping star Ryoyu Kobayashi held in the Italian ski resort of Val di Fiemme on Jan. 10: Question: You won the overall Four Hills Tournament title with a grand
Abe Aims for Acceptable Isle Issue Resolution: Interfax
January 21, 2019
Moscow–Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has said he aims for a resolution acceptable both to his country and Russia in bilateral peace treaty talks, the Interfax news agency reported Sunday. In an interview with the Russian news agency, Abe said
113-Year-Old Japanese, world’s oldest man, dies
January 21, 2019
Sapporo, Jan. 20 (Jiji Press)–Masazo Nonaka, the world’s oldest man and a resident of the town of Ashoro, Hokkaido, northernmost Japan, died on Sunday at the age of 113. Nonaka was born on July 25, 1905. In April last year,
Abe to Hold Talks with Putin to Promote Island Talks
January 21, 2019
Tokyo–Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Tuesday to discuss their countries’ territorial dispute in a bid to promote negotiations on concluding a World War II peace treaty. With Abe hoping
Ichiyo Higuchi’s “Takekurabe” Manuscript Fetches 21 M. Yen
January 21, 2019
Tokyo–The autograph manuscript of “Takekurabe” (growing up), a novella by Japanese author Ichiyo Higuchi (1872-1896), fetched 21 million yen in a Tokyo auction on Saturday. A male collector from outside Tokyo made the successful bid, higher than the assumed price
TPP ministers call for enhancing open trade system
January 21, 2019
Tokyo–Ministerial officials from the Trans-Pacific Partnership countries underscored the need to enhance an open trade system and expressed their willingness to accept new members, in a joint statement wrapping up their meeting in Tokyo on Saturday. The joint statement showed
Kanji “Wa,” Meaning Harmony, Most Popular for New Era Name
January 21, 2019
Tokyo–“Wa,” meaning harmony, is the most popular “kanji” Chinese character among Japanese people for use in the new era name, or “gengo,” to replace Heisei, according to a private survey. As a reason, respondents expressed “hope for harmony in the
Majority See Japanese Era Calendar as Standard: Jiji Poll
January 18, 2019
Tokyo–A majority of Japanese people use the Japanese era calendar more than the Christian calendar, a Jiji Press survey showed. Asked about which era is more frequently used for calendar years in daily living, 54.9 pct of respondents answered the
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