News On Japan

A foreign student is in a serious condition after he was stabbed in the stomach Tuesday by unknown suspect at Osaka University in Japan's Osaka Prefecture, local press reported. (CRIENGLISH.com)

Chikahisa Sumi, the Japanese finance ministry official tasked with marketing government debt, is realistic about what's driving a spike in demand for Japan's bonds from foreigners: they don't have anywhere better to go. (Wall Street Journal)

Japanese fans and media on Tuesday hailed Ichiro Suzuki's surprise move to the New York Yankees as crowning his career and his best chance of clinching a World Series title before he retires. (AFP)

Japan's women footballers kick off their quest for a rare double on Wednesday as the first action of the 2012 London Olympics gets under way. (fifa.com)

A Japanese man was arrested for allegedly killing one person and wounding five others with a handgun Sunday evening outside Manila. (Japan Times)

Japan posted an unexpected trade surplus in June as lower oil prices contributed to the first drop in imports since December 2009. Imports fell 2.2 percent from a year earlier, resulting in a trade surplus of 61.7 billion yen ($789 million), the Finance Ministry said in Tokyo today. (Bloomberg)

Two men broke into a woman's car in the Tokyo city of Kokubunji on July 23 and stole 23 million yen in insurance and funeral money for her deceased husband, police said. (Mainichi)

Radioactive strontium, thought to have been released following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster last year, has been detected in 10 prefectures across Japan, the government said Wednesday. (Japan Today)

The Nikkei share average fell to a seven-week closing low on Wednesday after disappointing results from Apple Inc hit the iPhone maker's Japanese suppliers, while printer makers fell after Lexmark International Inc cut its outlook. (Reuters)

Japan's Hitachi will supply nearly 600 train carriages for Britain's inter-city high-speed rail project in a deal worth &pund;4.5 billion, the company and the British government said Wednesday. (AFP)

The body of a woman was found in a car in a parking lot in Odawara, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Wednesday. (Japan Today)

The feuding Gallagher brothers may not be speaking to each other after their acrimonious Oasis split three years ago, but they will share the bill at this weekend's Fuji Rock festival in Japan. (AFP)

The government approved Wednesday a request from Tokyo Electric Power Co. to raise household electricity rates by an average 8.46 percent from Sept. 1 to help the utility overcome its financial plight following last year's nuclear disaster at its Fukushima Daiichi power plant. (Mainichi)

A video posted on YouTube has led to the discovery of yet another bullying case involving teenagers, it has been learned. (Mainichi)

World champion Japan scored twice in the first half Wednesday and then held on for a 2-1 win over Canada in its opening game of the women's Olympic football tournament. (sfgate.com)

The Fukuoka Prefectural Police arrested one of its officers Wednesday for allegedly taking bribes from mobsters. Two members of Kudo-kai, based in Kitakyushu, were arrested for allegedly bribing the officer, who was identified as Inspector Toshio Nakamura, 49. (Japan Times)

The cellphone arm of Softbank Corp. began using the "platinum band," a 900-megahertz radio frequency band, on Wednesday to improve signal reception for its handsets in Japan. (Japan Times)

Sapporo Breweries Ltd. will release yogurt and other foods this year that contain a lactic acid it says has proven to be effective in easing stress-induced sleep disorders in mice. (Japan Times)

A subcommittee of a labor ministry advisory panel decided Wednesday to recommend that the nation's minimum hourly wage be raised by an average of 7 yen in fiscal 2012. (Yomiuri)

A series of questionable stock deals in which trading volume surged just after the capital increase announcements has been found by a probe conducted by the Tokyo Stock Exchange, it has been learned. (Yomiuri)

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