Politics
Sanae Takaichi becomes first female prime minister of Japan
On Tuesday, Sanae Takaichi was chosen as the 104th prime minister of Japan. She made history by becoming the first woman to hold the country's highest position.
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News about Japan in Easy English
Stories about Japan rewritten in simple English at three levels (A2–B2), with audio, vocabulary and quizzes. Reading news you already know about is the easiest way to understand English — the context does half the work.
日本に関するニュースを、やさしい英語で読んでみましょう。知っている話題なら、英語はもっと分かりやすくなります。
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Sports, Travel
First Japanese sumo champion in many years
Japan has a new sumo champion or “yokozuna.” He is called Onosato.
Business
Japan imports rice from South Korea and the US
Japan has bought rice from South Korea for the first time since 1999.
Business, Travel
Tokyo wants to stop customers harassing workers
Tokyo has introduced Japan's first regulation to protect service industry workers from "kasuhara," which means "customer harassment." The regulation will start in April but will not have any penalties. Experts hope it wi
Nature
Japan has invasive raccoon problem
Japan has a growing problem with raccoons. Since 2014, the number of raccoons in Japan has increased significantly. In 2022, Tokyo’s government reported that nearly 1,300 raccoons were caught. That is 400% more than the
Entertainment, Other
FBI returns art stolen during WWII to Japan
A family in Massachusetts, USA found a lot of valuable Asian art in their late father’s attic.
Business, Technology
UberEats to start robot deliveries in Japan
UberEats will use robots to deliver food in Tokyo. They work with Mitsubishi Electric and Cartken to make the robots. The robots will start next month.
Business, Technology
UberEats to start robot deliveries in Japan
UberEats, a popular food delivery service, will soon use special robots to deliver food in Tokyo.
Science, Technology
Japan is now the fifth country to land on the moon
Japan's "Moon Sniper" spacecraft has landed on the moon, the first successful moon landing for Japan.
Other, Travel
Airplanes crash at Tokyo airport
At Haneda Airport in Tokyo, a big passenger jet and a smaller coast guard plane collided on Tuesday. They collided on the runway as the passenger jet was landing.
Other, Politics
Businesses in Japan get thousands of angry phone calls from China
Last Thursday, Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco), the company in charge of the damaged nuclear plant in Fukushima, began releasing water from the power plant into the ocean.
Technology, Travel
Foreign tourists get high-tech help in Tokyo's giant train station
Since Japan changed its Covid-19 pandemic rules in April this year, international tourism has increased a lot.
Nature, Politics
Japan wants to cut down trees to reduce hay fever
Japan has announced a plan to reduce hay fever caused by pollen from cedar and cypress trees. The country wants to cut the amount of pollen by 50% in the next 30 years.
Science, Technology
NASA found the Japanese Moon lander that crashed into the Moon
A Japanese company called ispace tried to land a robot on the Moon, but it didn't go as planned.
Sports, Travel
Japan Wins the World Baseball Classic
In the last moment of the game, Japan’s Shohei Ohtani struck out USA’s Mike Trout. It was a showdown between the two best players in baseball and Ohtani won.
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