News On Japan

A man in Kimitsu, Chiba Prefecture, clung onto the roof of a moving car for 2.5 kilometers to apprehend a thief who stole his wife's underwear, police said Monday. (Japan Today)

One man was killed and 11 people injured in Nagano on Sunday after a minibus careened off a road and down a mountainside, police said Monday. (Japan Today)

Sakurajima, one of Japan's most active volcanoes, experienced one of its most powerful eruptions in decades Sunday, sending an ash plume thousands of feet into the air. (weather.com)

Electricity sales by the nation's 10 major power suppliers rose 2.5 percent from a year before to 70.12 billion kilowatt-hours in July, the first increase in seven months, the Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan said Monday. (Yomiuri)

Japanese working in Egypt are leaving the country after Japan's foreign ministry upgraded its travel alert to the second highest level. (NHK)

The United States is unlikely to make an offer to Japan on reductions and eliminations of tariffs in the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade negotiations until September, the top U.S. trade negotiator said Monday. (Kyodo)

The deputy foreign ministers of Japan and Russia met in Moscow on Monday, effectively resuming negotiations aimed at resolving a long-standing territorial dispute that has prevented the two countries from signing a post-World War II peace treaty. (Kyodo)

A Japanese health ministry panel agreed Monday to introduce an age limit of 43 for fertility treatments in the country in fiscal 2016. (Jiji Press)

All Nippon Airways is planning to hire flight attendants as permanent employees beginning next year. It's taking the step for the first time in about 20 years. (NHK)

A popular monkey park in northeastern Japan will close at the end of the year. (NHK)

The recent pranks of part-time staff at chain restaurants and convenience stores, such as a staged photo that was posted on the Internet of employees stuffing themselves into a freezer, have been creating problems for their employers, who are often forced to make a public apology. (Yomiuri)

Japanese cosmetics maker Kanebo said Monday the number of complaints about skin discolouring from using its whitening products has topped 7,000 from customers both at home and abroad. (Global Post)

A 70-year-old man and his son died last week after they became trapped at the bottom of a well in Kainan, Wakayama Prefecture. (Yomiuri)

Two workers at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan were found to have been exposed to radioactive particles - just days after 10 workers were sprayed with radioactive water at the beginning of last week. (rt.com)

Roughly 300 tons of water contaminated with radioactive substances have leaked from water storage tanks at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant, the plant's operator said Tuesday. (NHK)

Kagoshima residents were busy cleaning up volcanic ash on Monday, a day after Mt. Sakurajima spewed ash as high as 5,000 meters to blanket the city of 600,000 people. (Yomiuri)

Sixteen Asian and Oceanian countries Monday agreed to adopt common tariff rates in principle under a proposed regional free trade pact. (Jiji Press)

Japan, which obtains most of its crab imports from Russia, received significantly more crab from its northern neighbor than Russia officially exported, indicating rampant poaching activity, a Russian newspaper said Tuesday. (RIA Novosti)

Okinawa Prefectural Police on Monday afternoon arrested a male suspect following the stabbing death of a female manager of hostess clubs earlier that same day in Okinawa City. (Tokyo Reporter)

Tokyo stocks tumbled 2.63% Tuesday, following another negative lead from Wall Street as speculation mounts that the US Federal Reserve will soon start to scale back its stimulus programme. (themalaysianinsider.com)

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