News On Japan

Japan would basically welcome South Korea if it decides to participate in Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade negotiations, Yasutoshi Nishimura, senior vice minister at the Cabinet Office, said Monday. (Jiji Press)

Japan's securities market watchdog is investigating whether Deutsche Bank AG employees provided excessive entertainment to Japanese pension fund executives in breach of regulations, sources with knowledge of the matter said. (Reuters)

The 2020 Olympics could seal the revival of Japan's long-stagnant economy, analysts say, an echo of the 1964 Tokyo Games that showcased a nation risen from the ashes of defeat. (Economic Times)

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, decided Monday to launch its Epsilon rocket on Saturday afternoon after it canceled the new solid-fuel rocket's liftoff on Aug. 27. (Jiji Press)

A Japanese female tourist was stabbed to death and her companion seriously wounded in Turkey. Both women were 22, police said. (Japan Today)

Japan scrambled fighter jets Monday after an unidentified drone flew near Tokyo-controlled islands at the centre of a bitter dispute with China, a defence ministry spokesman said. (reason.com)

Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Monday it has detected 3,200 becquerels per liter of radioactive substances in a well near a leaky water storage tank at its crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. (Kyodo)

Workers in Japan on Monday began scrapping a large fishing boat that was swept far inland by the 2011 tsunami and became one of the most poignant symbols of the disaster. (france24.com)

Shuttle trains connecting the main building of Terminal 2 and the satellite building at Narita Airport will terminate services later this month after 20 years in operation. (Yomiuri)

Police in Kameoka, Kyoto Prefecture, said Monday that a woman was stabbed a woman to death in a public park. (Japan Today)

It was a day few thought would arrive. Japan's single-season home run record had fallen - to a foreigner. On Sunday night, the former major leaguer Wladimir Balentien, an outfielder for the Central League's Tokyo Yakult Swallows, hit his 56th home run, pushing him past Sadaharu Oh, Tuffy Rhodes and Alex Cabrera. (New York Times)

Japan is on course for its longest run of trade deficits, effectively marking the end of the nation's decades-long reliance on exports from the likes of electronics giant Sony and automaker Toyota as a driver of growth and income. (Reuters)

International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Yukiya Amano said Monday that the recent leak of radioactive water at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan should be tackled with urgency. (Kyodo)

Japan became nuclear power-free for the first time in 14 months Sunday night, when the No. 4 reactor of the Oi nuclear power plant in Oi, Fukui Prefecture, went offline for regular maintenance. (Yomiuri)

Japan's Fisheries Agency has urged South Korea to lift its ban on imports of fisheries products from eight prefectures in Japan, including Fukushima. (Jiji Press)

Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Monday it has drained water from the weir-enclosed storage tank area at its Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant without measuring radioactive cesium levels. (Jiji Press)

Police in Nanao, Ishikawa Prefecture, have arrested a construction worker over the murder of a woman in her home. (Japan Today)

A group of about 10 Japanese negotiators for Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade talks, led by chief negotiator Koji Tsuruoka, left Japan on Tuesday to attend a meeting of TPP top negotiators in Washington. (Jiji Press)

Japan's Nikkei average fell on Tuesday as investors braced for a U.S. central bank meeting at which it is expected to start winding down its massive stimulus spending. (Reuters)

Typhoon Man-yi has hit Japan, leaving three people dead and forcing the operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant to release rainwater with low levels of radiation into the Pacific Ocean. (abc.net.au)

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