News On Japan

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling bloc remains on track for a big win in Sunday's upper house election, final surveys before the vote showed on Monday, a victory that would likely help end six years of parliamentary deadlock. (Reuters)

Teams of men carrying heavy floats ran through the streets of Fukuoka City, in western Japan, on Monday for an ancient summer celebration. (NHK)

Japan's benchmark index hit a new seven-week high on Tuesday as it resumed trade after being shut for a long weekend but the rest of Asian stocks declined on worries over global economic growth. (cnbc.com)

Nissan Motor has re-launched its Datsun in India, 30 years after the model was shelved. (NHK)

Police said Tuesday they have arrested a 17-year-old woman after the body of her newborn baby boy was found partially buried in a baseball field in Zama, Kanagawa Prefecture. (Japan Today)

Japanese police have arrested the alleged ringleader of a sex home-delivery service specialising in women weighing up to 150 kilograms (330 lbs), a spokesman said. (foxnews.com)

A stabbing incident on Sunday evening on a beach in Kanagawa Prefecture has left one man dead. (The Tokyo Reporter)

Nikkei ended at its highest level in nearly two months, supported by a weaker yen and firmer global equities. (Xinhua)

The Tokyo Stock Exchange on Tuesday officially absorbed the smaller Osaka bourse, creating the world's third-largest stock market on a par with London. (The Star)

Reports from Kenya say a Japanese man working on a port construction project has been attacked and killed by armed thieves in the southern city of Mombasa. (NHK)

Bank of Japan policymakers concluded there was no need for additional steps in June to contain interest rate spikes, as the central bank's flexible bond buying operation had curbed market volatility, the minutes of their policy meeting last month showed Wednesday. (Kyodo)

Sadly enough, NEC's share price rose 2.6% on the news that it is going to shutter its mobile phone unit. It's a tragic epitaph for what was once a genuinely exciting brand. It's also a sad reminder of the profound failure of Japan's technology industry. (Yahoo! News)

Fans blown away by the likes of The Stone Roses and Radiohead at last year’s Fuji Rock Festival will likely not be disappointed with the assembled star power for this year’s incarnation. (The Tokyo Reporter)

A prototype fast-breeder nuclear reactor in central Japan faces dim prospects of being brought back online following a series of problems. (Jiji Press)

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe vowed Wednesday to lead the nation's efforts to protect Japanese territory, during a visit to the Okinawa Prefecture island of Ishigaki. (Jiji Press)

Kanagawa prefectural police said Wednesday that a police sergeant from Sagamihara Station has been arrested for filming up the skirt of a 20-year-old woman at Nakayama subway station in Yokohama. (Japan Today)

The Nikkei Stock Average rose for the fifth consecutive session to end at a two-month high on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Thursday, thanks to a sense of safety after U.S. Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke's congressional testimony Wednesday and the yen's weakening. (Yomiuri)

Police said Thursday that a man went into the home of his neighbors and stabbed two of them in Kikuyomachi, Kumamoto Prefecture. (Japan Today)

A 21-year-old man along with two male and three female teenagers were arrested Wednesday for allegedly abandoning a body believed to be that of a former female classmate of the teens in a wooded area in Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture. (Kyodo)

Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Thursday a monitoring camera showed "something like steam" coming out of the No. 3 reactor building at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex in the morning, but noted it has not seen any significant change in radiation levels. (Kyodo)

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