タバコの自販機が年齢確認へ ： 2008年4月21日
The Finance Ministry plans to approve a new type of
cigarette vending machine that can check a cigarette buyer's
age
最終「銀河」が東京出発 ： 2008年3月17日
The last "Ginga" (Galaxy) sleeper express train
bound for Osaka left Tokyo Station at 11 p.m. on
Friday
活動家が日本の捕鯨船攻撃 ： 2008年3月3日
Anti-whaling campaigners Sea Shepherd threw brown
envelopes containing a white powder and bottles of
stinging acid
中国はギョーザに農薬発見せず ： 2008年2月4日
Following reports that Chinese-made dumplings sickened at
least 10 people in Japan,
個人名義の地震の救援物資 ： 2007年7月17日
The municipal government of Kashiwazaki City in Nigata
Prefecture, which was hardest hit by Monday's 6.8 Richter-scale
earthquake,
名古屋のタクシー禁煙に ： 2007年4月30日
A no-smoking rule in taxi cabs will be introduced in
Nagoya and 19 neighboring municipalities
日本の新しい年金法 ： 2007年4月2日
Some experts warn that Japan's new pension laws
will make it easier for wives to claim
元裁判官の告白 ： 2007年3月12日
A former Shizuoka District Court judge confessed that
he believed a man who was sentenced to death for a 1966
murder was "not guilty"
相次ぐ金属泥棒 ： 2007年3月6日
Metal products such as car barriers, copper cables, and
even children's slides have disappeared
海上保安庁が遭難者3人を救助 ： 2007年2月13日
Japan's coast guard rescued three Japanese men missing
since Friday
不二家の社長辞任へ ： 2007年1月16日
The president of major confectionery maker Fujiya Co.
announced Monday he decided to resign
熊本の「赤ちゃんポスト」 ： 2006年12月18日
A hospital in Kumamoto Prefecture asked the Municipal
Government for approval to set up a "baby mail box".
少年からの自殺予告手紙 ： 2006年11月7日
The Education Minister received a letter Monday morning
from a person believed to be an elementary or junior
high school boy.
山本モナさん報道番組を降板 ： 2006年10月24日
Mona Yamamoto, who began appearing in a nightly news program
"News 23" in late September
安倍夫人の横顔 ： 2006年9月25日
Akie Abe is supposed to become Japan's First Lady as
the wife of Shinzo Abe
親王を悠仁と命名 ： 2006年9月13日
Prince Akishino and Princess Kiko formally named their
newborn baby Hisahito, hoping he will live a long,
peaceful life.
未成年容疑者の氏名公表 ： 2006年9月11日
The media revealed the 19-year-old murder-suspect's name
after he was found dead on a mountain in Yamaguchi
Prefecture.
男子誕生で皇位継承の危機緩和 ： 2006年9月7日
A newspaper article reports that Princess Kiko's birth of
a long-awaited baby boy will silence debates over a female
succession to the imperial throne.
ロシアが２乗船員解放 ： 2006年8月31日
Russia released two Japanese fishing boat crewmembers held
for poaching in the disputed waters off the coast of
Hokkaido.
フランス１の浪費集団 ： 2006年8月9日
Biggest spenders in France Japanese people were the biggest spenders among foreign tourists in France in 2005, according to a French government surv...
高速料金の不払い増加 ： 2006年8月1日
The number of cars in Japan that drive through expressway toll
gates without paying has increased 3.4 times during the past
five years.
ハリポタ翻訳者に追徴 ： 2006年7月26日
Japanese tax authorities imposed more than 700 million yen
in back taxes on the translator of the bestseller Harry Potter
series, Yuko Matsuoka, on suspicion of failing to declare
3.5 billion yen in income.
警察庁が自殺防止対策 ： 2006年7月25日
Following the approval of a basic law on suicide
countermeasures last month, the National Police Agency decided
to supply details on suicide motives and causes to government
authorities and research organizations.
静岡で路上喫煙禁止 ： 2006年7月13日
The Shizuoka Municipal Assembly passed a bill on Wednesday
that bans smoking in commercial areas and crowded streets
in the city.
横田めぐみさんの元夫 ： 2006年6月29日
A South Korean man allegedly abducted by North Korea decades
ago met his mother and sister in North Korea on Wednesday.
日銀総裁に集中砲火 ： 2006年6月22日
Bank of Japan Governor Toshihiko Fukui is under fire for
making huge profits from his investment in the controversial
Murakami Fund.
最高裁が審理差し戻し ： 2006年6月21日
The Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned a lower court's life
sentence for a 25-year-old man who killed a woman and her baby
in Yamaguchi Prefecture in April 1999.
日本最高齢の男性死去 ： 2006年6月14日
Japan’s oldest man dies The oldest man in Japan, who had just celebrated his 111th birthday last week, died Monday night at a hospital in Kagoshima,...
少年がフィッシング詐欺 ： 2006年5月31日
Tokyo police say a 14-year-old boy is suspected of creating a website
disguised as that of an online gaming company.
堀江被告が心情を告白 ： 2006年5月25日
Former Livedoor Co. President Takafumi Horie disclosed his feelings in
a handwritten letter released on Wednesday.
エベレスト登頂最高齢者 ： 2006年5月18日
A mountaineering company announced that a 70-year-old Japanese man on
Wednesday became the oldest person ever to scale Mount Everest.
拉致被害者の親が対面 ： 2006年5月17日
Shigeru Yokota, the father of Japanese abductee Megumi Yokota, met the
mother of a South Korean man, also abducted decades ago by North Korea.
愛子さまがご入園 ： 2006年4月12日
Princess Aiko, the Crown Prince’s four-year-old daughter, arrived at
the kindergarten for the entrance ceremony on Tuesday.
めぐみさんの夫も拉致 ： 2006年4月11日
The Japanese government announced Tuesday that the husband of Megumi
Yokota was a South Korean who had also been abducted by North Korea.
麻原の控訴棄却される ： 2006年3月28日
The Tokyo High Court rejected an appeal by Shoko Asahara, the Aum
Shinrikyo cult founder, who was sentenced to death in a lower court.
出生率上昇策に減税か ： 2006年3月23日
The Japanese government is considering tax cuts for families with
many children as one way to halt the falling birth rate.
小坂氏が不適切な発言 ： 2006年3月7日
Cabinet Minister Kenji Kosaka apologized for having made inappropriate
remarks at a meeting with figure skater Arakawa.
国会議員の資産公開 ： 2006年2月21日
The average value of assets held by Lower House members elected
last year is about 50 million yen.
紀子さまがご懐妊 ： 2006年2月8日
The Imperial Household Agency announced Tuesday evening that Princess
Kiko, the wife of Prince Akishino, has "shown signs of pregnancy."
失業率が4.4％に低下 ： 2006年1月31日
Japan's jobless rate dropped to 4.4 percent in December, according
to a survey by the Internal Affairs Ministry.
女性10人と共同生活 ： 2006年1月26日
A man in his 50s was found to be living with about ten women in
the Tokyo city of Higashiyamato, investigators said.
宮崎勤に死刑判決 ： 2006年1月18日
The Supreme Court upheld the death sentence for serial
killer Tsutomu Miyazaki on Tuesday.
