Police said Tuesday they have arrested a 28-year-old woman on a charge of attempted murder after she drove her car for one kilometer with her husband, 34, clinging to the hood of her car. (Japan Today)
Woman held for attempted murder after driving 1 km with husband on car hood
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Japan: US soon to approve it joining TPP talks
Japanese officials say the United States, the largest economy in Trans-Pacific Partnership trade talks, is set to approve Japan joining the free trade negotiation. (NHK)
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Teens use smartphone app LINE to extort man in Toyama
Toyama Prefectural Police on Sunday arrested four students for involvement in a scam to blackmail a 21-year-old man met via the smartphone application LINE (Tokyo Reporter)
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Students run riot at Universal Studios Japan
Students from Kobe University have been repeatedly causing trouble at Universal Studios Japan (USJ) in Osaka since last year, including capsizing a boat on purpose, Fuji News Network reported. (News On Japan)
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Nikkei ends 0.24 pct lower
The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average closed down at 13,192.35, after rising as high as 13,331.39, its highest intra-day level since Aug. 12, 2008. The broader Topix index of all First Section issues on the Tokyo Stock Exchange ended up 0.30 points, or 0.03 percent, at 1,102.04, the highest level since Sept. 29, 2008. (Xinhua)
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Japan to put new flu law into force early
The Japanese government plans to put a new law into force as early as Friday to fight a possible spread of highly virulent flu strains, informed sources said Monday. (Jiji Press)
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Missile interceptors set up at Defense Ministry in central Tokyo
Japan's Defense Ministry early Tuesday deployed a Patriot Advanced Capability-3 missile interceptor unit at its premises in Ichigaya, Tokyo to prepare for a possible ballistic missile launch by North Korea. (Kyodo)
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N. Korea warns foreigners in the South should make plans to evacuate
North Korea on Tuesday said all foreigners and foreign-run businesses in the South should draw up evacuation plans, the latest in a series of shrill warnings from Pyongyang about what it describes as likely armed conflict on the peninsula. (Washington Post)
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TEPCO suspects water leak at another storage tank at Fukushima plant
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Tuesday that it suspects radioactive water is leaking from another underground storage tank at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, as it continues to grapple with massive accumulation of radioactive water at the site. (Kyodo)
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Job Post: Search Engine Evaluator
This position is restricted to current residents of Japan. This is a Personalized Search Engine Evaluator position. As a Personalized Search Engine Evaluator, you will be given tasks that are generated from your personalized content based on your Google account linked to your Gmail address that you use to register with Leapforce. (Leapforce)
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Feed-in tariffs ready to make Japan world No. 2 solar market after China
Japan will probably become the largest solar market in the world after China this year, boosted by an incentive program that offers above-market rates for energy from renewable sources. (Japan Times)
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Japanese rush to sell gold as price in yen jumps
The weak yen has triggered a gold rush, literally, among Japanese households, reflecting how bold new economic policies are shaking up long-entrenched deflationary attitudes, freeing up dormant assets, and sparking new economic activity. (Wall Street Journal)
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ADB projects Japan growth at 1.2 pct in 2013
The Japanese economy will grow by 1.2 pct in 2013 and 1.4 pct in 2014, the Asian Development Bank forecasts in a report released Tuesday. (Jiji Press)
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Japan re-emerges in the aerospace arena with a new jet
As a small boy, Teruaki Kawai watched wide-eyed as American DC-3s took off and landed at a small airport across an inlet from his home on the Hiroshima coast. (New York Times)
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Bank hostage-taker who demanded Noda resign jailed for 9 years
The Nagoya District Court on Tuesday sentenced a man to nine years in prison for holding four hostages in a bank for more than 12 hours last November while demanding former Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda resign. (Japan Today)
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Murakami novel has 500,000 pre-release print run
The eagerly-awaited new novel from Haruki Murakami set for release this week will have an initial hardback printrun of half a million copies, the Japanese publisher said Tuesday. (inquirer.net)
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One year of support left for Windows XP and Office 2003
Windows XP users have one full year left of extended support by Microsoft before the plug is pulled. A year from now Microsoft will no longer be offering updates, for security issues nor any other reasons. (hexus.net)
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Japan to have surplus power in summer without additional nuclear
Japan may have enough electricity supply to meet peak demand this summer without the need to restart idled nuclear reactors, a government report said. (Bloomberg)
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Nonnuclear states criticize N. Korea nuke test
Foreign ministers from 10 nonnuclear states, including Japan and Australia, adopted a joint statement on Tuesday that strongly criticized North Korea's nuclear test in February. (Jiji Press)
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Taiwan, Japan sign disputed isles fishing accord
Taiwan and Japan Wednesday signed a fishing rights accord for waters near islands at the centre of a territorial row that has soured ties between Beijing and Tokyo, officials said, with China expressing serious concern about the deal.
(Global Post)
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