News On Japan

Dish Network has submitted a merger proposal for Sprint Nextel valued at $25.5 billion, putting itself into competition with Japan's Softbank to take over the wireless carrier. (CNET)

Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has stressed the important role women can play in society. (NHK)

The visiting head of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization suggested Monday that member nations of the security alliance could rally to the defense of the United States if it were attacked by North Korea. (Kyodo)

Prominent actor Rentaro Mikuni died of acute cardiac failure at a hospital in Inagi, western Tokyo, on Sunday morning, it was learned Monday. He was 90. (Yomiuri)

A stoned driver was arrested for injuring five people after crashing his luxury car into five other vehicles in Nakano district, Tokyo. (News On Japan)

Last year when the rest of the world was riding on invisible horses and rocking out to the international hit "Gangnam Style," the Japanese appeared almost untouched by the magically infectious tune. The Japanese, who generally are very big consumers of Korean pop music, were not taking the bait. (kpopstarz.com)

TOKYO stocks have fallen 0.41 per cent on the back of a Wall Street plunge while jitters also set in after deadly blasts hit the Boston Marathon. (news.com.au)

Japan's House of Representatives budgetary committee on Tuesday gave the nod to a 92.61 trillion yen ($953.9 billion) draft budget for fiscal 2013 aimed at shoring up the economy. (Kyodo)

Analysts at Credit Suisse are advising clients to add to Japanese equity holdings, raising their weighting to 16% overweight from 6%. Japan's Nikkei index JP:NIK -0.38% is up more than 27% year-to-date, while the yen trades near a four-year low versus the dollar, as the Bank of Japan embarked on an aggressive round of monetary stimulus aimed at breaking the Japanese economy out of a decades-long funk. (MarketWatch)

The Japanese government has formally decided to grant the People's Honor Award to former professional baseball stars Shigeo Nagashima and Hideki Matsui, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Tuesday. (Jiji Press)

Police said Tuesday that 15 million yen has been found at an industrial waste processing plant in Shiroi, Chiba Prefecture. (Japan Today)

The Tokyo District Court has ordered Internet giant Google to remove its auto-complete search results that link a man to crimes he says he did not commit. (NHK)

Japan's Defense Ministry on Tuesday started transporting Patriot Advanced Capability-3 surface-to-air missiles for permanent deployment in Okinawa Prefecture. (Jiji Press)

A 34-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday night after a 7-hour standoff on a rooftop in Inazawa, Aichi Prefecture. (Japan Today)

Japan's estimated population totaled 127,515,000 as of Oct. 1, 2012, down 284,000 from a year before, marking the steepest drop ever for the second straight year, the internal affairs ministry said Tuesday. (Jiji Press)

Japan is beefing up security following the explosions in Boston. Chairman of the National Public Safety Commission Keiji Furuya announced this in a news conference on Tuesday. (NHK)

Shinjuku and Yokohama have received a healthy boost of visitors. Kawagoe in Saitama Prefecture not so much. (Yomiuri)

From a cliff above the tiny cove, a stocky, bald man could be seen between tightly drawn lengths of green tarpaulin, a metal rod in one hand, and something long, black and smooth wriggling helplessly under the other. (Japan Times)

Italian authorities have seized 1.8 billion euro ($2.35 billion) from Japan's Nomura bank and placed its former European CEO under investigation as part of its probe into the trading scandal at Monte Paschi di Siena bank. (foxnews.com)

Japan's Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a high court ruling that posthumously recognized a woman as a victim of the Minamata mercury-poisoning disease, one of the country's worst outbreaks of disease linked to industrial pollution. (Kyodo)

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