News On Japan

Residents of a former no-entry zone in Fukushima Prefecture are visiting their family graves ahead of the Buddhist Bon holidays. (NHK)

Workers at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant have told the ABC that contaminated water has most likely been seeping into the sea since the disaster two-and-a-half years ago. (abc.net.au)

Japan's economy logged a third quarter of growth in the three months ending June, but the increase was much smaller than expected. (cnbc.com)

Bereaved families of Japan's worst air accident have released paper lanterns to pray for the souls of loved ones who died in the disaster 28 years ago. (NHK)

A recent government survey showed that the proportion of Japanese people satisfied or somewhat satisfied with their current lives came to 71.0 pct, up 3.7 percentage points from the previous year, topping the 70 pct mark for the first time in 18 years. (Jiji Press)

THE Tokyo stock market has lost 0.70 per cent in thin trading following weaker-than-expected Japanese GDP data. (adelaidenow.com.au)

Saitama prefectural police said Sunday that a 28-year-old patrol officer has been arrested for allegedly groping a woman on the platform at JR Higashi-Urawa Station. (Japan Today)

Police on Monday said they have arrested a 29-year-old unemployed women for spraying mace in the women's toilet at Takadanobaba Station in Tokyo on July 30. After the attack that took place at 10:30 p.m., seven women were taken to hospital, complaining of eye and throat pain after they were sprayed. (Japan Today)

A heat wave in Japan has raised temperatures to more than 40 C in the cities of Tokyo, Kofu and Shimanto. (cbc.ca)

Japanese researchers have developed artificial corneal tissue that could be used in toxicity tests for cosmetics, a finding that could mean live rabbits will no longer be used for these tests. (Yomiuri)

Dancers from across Japan are shrugging off the blistering summer heat to compete at the Yosakoi dance festival in Kochi. (NHK)

Google's Android app marketplace, Google Play, has seen significant revenue growth this year, fueled in large part by Japan and South Korea. (techcrunch.com)

Beer and quasi-beer shipments in July rose 3.3 percent from a year before to 44,374,000 cases, the first rise in two years for the month, data from four major brewers showed Monday. (Yomiuri)

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Monday that the economy is rising steadily, and that the government is preparing new strategies to spur growth. (NHK)

A 3-year-old girl was killed by her own father in what police believe to have been a tragic accident. (Japan Today)

The U.S. Marine Corps on Monday resumed the deployment of MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor transport aircraft at its Futenma air station in Okinawa, an operation suspended a week ago in the wake of a U.S. military helicopter crash in the southernmost Japan Prefecture. (Jiji Press)

Ten workers at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have been found exposed to radiation above the safe limit. The cause is believed to be a machine spraying cool mist in the plant compound. (NHK)

The Nikkei has increased its value by 2.6 per cent during trading today (August 13th), moving on from a slow couple of days for the index. (cityindex.co.uk)

A stranded fishing boat that became a symbol of the devastation of Japan's 2011 tsunami has long divided a northeastern coastal city - between those who wanted to keep it as a monument of survival and those who wanted a painful reminder gone. (miamiherald.com)

A western Japan city marked the highest temperature on record in the country at 41.0 C on Monday as a heat wave continues to engulf wide areas of Japan, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. (Kyodo)

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