A seven-year-old girl and a pregnant woman were killed Monday morning when a car hit a group of elementary school children in Kameoka, Kyoto Prefecture.
Five children were seriously hurt when the car, driven by an 18-year-old male without a license, crashed into the nine youngsters and one adult.
(Japan Today)
Pregnant woman, 7-yr-old girl killed after car hits schoolchildren
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16 Japanese educational satellites to be launched
Sixteen educational satellites are under construction in Japan. The first should be launched in May 2012 followed by the others over the next two years.
The first to launch is the amateur radio satellite HORYU-2 built by students at the Kyushu Institute of Technology (KIT). The launch is on a Japanese H-IIA rocket planned for May 17 at 1639-1642 UT.
(southgatearc.org)
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Japan, Australia remain apart on farm trade liberalization
Japan and Australia began Monday in Canberra five-day talks on sealing a bilateral free trade agreement, with differences remaining over liberalizing trade in agricultural products.
In the 15th round of the bilateral FTA negotiations launched in April 2007, Tokyo will likely maintain its cautious stance toward opening up the Japanese market to such farm items as beef, wheat, dairy products and sugar.
(Mainichi)
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Tokyo shares end lower as yen-buying erases earlier gains
Tokyo stocks fell Monday, as an uptick in the yen erased earlier gains in shares such as Toyota Motor and Sony, in tepid trading ahead of key policy meetings by the central banks of Japan and the U.S., as well as corporate earnings releases this week.
The Nikkei Stock Average fell 19.19 points, or 0.2%, to 9542.17 following last Friday's 0.3% fall.
(Wall Street Journal)
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Rare crested ibis hatches in Japan
Japanese wildlife researchers say a crested ibis chick hatched in the wild is the first of the endangered birds born outside captivity in 36 years.
The nestling hatched from an egg produced by a pair of the endangered birds on Sado Island in Niigata prefecture, the Environment Ministry said Sunday.
(UPI)
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Japan's Cosmo Oil renews Iran oil imports deal
Japan's Cosmo Oil Co has renewed its annual oil purchase deal with Iran and cut the volume to comply with U.S. sanctions against the Islamic nation, trade sources said on Friday.
Cosmo's new contractual volume from April onwards remained unclear.
(Reuters)
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If Japan is broke, how is it bailing out Europe?
If you want to understand Japan, try watching what people do rather than listen to what they say. More even than in other parts of the world there is a difference - and what people do is, of course, a far more useful insight into their true situation. (Forbes)
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Japan struggles with nuclear decontamination
Over a year after the nuclear accident triggered by a massive earthquake and tsunami contaminated large swathes of land in northeastern Japan, the future of the largely agricultural area and those who have been evacuated from it remain uncertain.
(aljazeera.com)
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How Japan's rail industry bounced back from the tsunami
The Japanese rail network - including its fleet of 200mph bullet trains were working normally within 50 days of the earthquake and tsunami which devastated the country and killed, according to the latest official figures, 18,926 people.
(telegraph.co.uk)
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Disciplinary action taken against Chiba police superintendent in stalking probe case
A police superintendent and 20 other police members were subjected to disciplinary action on April 23 over a case in which officers put off the handling of a stalking complaint and went ahead with a pleasure trip just days before a related double-murder took place.
(Mainichi)
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Tokyo gets double dose of gay pride for 2012
For the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, gay pride parades are not only a great means to raise awareness of LGBT issues and spread the message of diversity and acceptance, but also a much-needed excuse to gather supporters together and party down. (Japan Times)
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Nagano woman arrested for attempted murder after strangling 1-year-old daughter
Police said Monday they have arrested a 40-year-old woman for allegedly strangling her one-year-old daughter at their home in Iiyama, Nagano Prefecture.
The woman, who has been named as Ikue Inose, called police at around 3 .p.m. on Sunday and said that she had strangled her baby, NTV reported. (Japan Today)
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Teenage boy found dead outside public facility in Tokyo
A teenage boy was found dead outside a public facility in Tokyo apparently after being beaten, police said on April 23.
According to police, Yuji Nakahashi, a 16-year-old unemployed boy from Tokyo's Edogawa Ward, was found collapsed by his friend on the premises of a municipal facility in the ward at around 1:30 a.m. on April 23. (Mainichi)
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Olympics: Japanese official confident of at least 6 golds in London
Mitsuo Tsukahara, deputy chef de mission of Japan's London Olympic delegation, said Monday he is sure about six gold medals at this point because of the excellent form shown by athletes such as Kosuke Kitajima.
(Mainichi)
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Temperatures soar in Japan; 30.5 C recorded in Oita town
Temperatures soared across eastern and western Japan on Tuesday, brought on by a high pressure system, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. In many parts of the nation, the mercury was 10 degrees higher than Monday, with temperatures exceeding 25 degrees in 270 locations throughout the country.
(Japan Today)
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Bank of Japan likely to ease, may buy longer-dated government bonds
The Bank of Japan is likely to ease monetary policy on Friday by boosting asset purchases by up to 10 trillion yen ($123 billion) and in doing so may extend the maturity of government bonds it targets to around three years, according to sources familiar with the central bank's thinking.
(Reuters)
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Can Tokyo learn from the American political 'matsuri'?
If the U.S. election race conjures up images of mud flying through the air for many Japanese, campaigning politicians in the Land of the Rising Sun evoke visions of a more white-gloved affair.
Japan's politics are as Machiavellian as anyone else's behind closed doors, but their public campaigns are demure compared to the United States -- and many in Tokyo are aghast at the negative campaign tactics used on the road to the White House.
(CNN)
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Health ministry eyes crackdown on 'legal herbs' used as drugs
At least 77 people have been delivered to hospitals in Tokyo this year after smoking "legal herbs" that have the same hallucinatory and stimulatory effects as illegal drugs, figures gathered by the Mainichi have shown.
The dried herbs are mixed with synthesized drugs and sold legally as incense or air fresheners, but they can excite the central nervous system and produce hallucinations if smoked -- and in some cases cause serious health damage.
(Mainichi)
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Japan car makers look to wow Beijing auto show crowd with green machines
The 2012 Beijing International Automotive Exhibition opened on April 23. With some 18.5 million new vehicles rolling off Chinese dealer lots in 2011, making China the world's largest car market, the show is an important one for car makers battling for the hearts, minds and wallets of Chinese consumers -- a battle Japanese manufacturers arrived at late.
(Mainichi)
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Tokyo stocks fall at close
Tokyo shares are 0.78 percent lower following losses on Wall Street stoked by political and economic uncertainty in Europe and softer Chinese manufacturing figures.
The Nikkei 225 index at the Tokyo Stock Exchange fell 74.13 points to close at 9,468.04 on Tuesday. The broader Topix index of all first-section issues slipped 0.69 percent, or 5.60 points, to 803.94.
(Business Spectator)
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