Former Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Yoichi Masuzoe leads the race for the Feb. 9 Tokyo gubernatorial election, according to an analysis by The Yomiuri Shimbun based on its public opinion poll and information gathering. (The Japan News)
Masuzoe leads Tokyo race for governor, analysis shows
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Zushi to ban music, alcohol on public beach
The Zushi municipal government in Kanagawa Prefecture will ban alcoholic drinks and playing music with speakers at the city's public swimming beach, after some beach huts in the Shonan area of the prefecture became like "night clubs" playing loud music in recent years, it has been learned. (The Japan News)
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Anti-whaling activists claim 'aggressive' ramming by Japanese
Militant anti-whaling campaigners Sea Shepherd on Sunday said one of their ships was rammed during "aggressive" and "unprovoked" confrontations with the Japanese in the Southern Ocean. (businessinsider.com.au)
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Light snow falls in Tokyo
Light snow fell in all 23 wards in Tokyo for the first time this year. (Japan Today)
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Abe labeled as 'Asian Hitler' by Pyongyang news agency
North Korea's state-run Korean Central News Agency ran an editorial Tuesday that labeled Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as an "Asian Hitler." (Jiji Press)
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Nikkei rises 1.2 pct in volatile session; Panasonic, Toyota shine
The Nikkei average rose 1.2 percent
in a volatile session on Wednesday, rebounding from a four-month
low as investors scooped up recently battered stocks such as
Panasonic and Toyota Motor following strong earnings reports. (Reuters)
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'Japan's Beethoven' admits using ghost composer
A deaf composer, dubbed Japan's Beethoven, confessed Wednesday to hiring someone to write his most iconic works, leaving duped broadcaster NHK red-faced, and casting a cloud over a figure skater set to dance to his music in Sochi. (New Straits Times)
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Suspected ATM card forger arrested
Police on Wednesday arrested a former employee of Fujitsu Frontech Ltd. on charges of illegally obtaining data on users of Bank of Yokohama automated teller machines and forging cash cards based on the information. (The Japan News)
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Abe speaks on right to collective self-defense
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says using the right to collective self-defense can be tolerated by reinterpreting the Constitution without amending it. (NHK)
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Hirata 'didn't know of sarin attack plan'
Yasuo Hayashi, a former senior member of the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult who is on death row, said Wednesday he does not think he told Makoto Hirata, another former Aum executive, about the plan for a sarin nerve gas attack in 1995 in advance. (The Japan News)
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Police suspect loophole drug in car accident
Police suspect a driver under the influence of a legal loophole drug caused a multiple car pileup in Fukuoka City, western Japan on Tuesday night. (NHK)
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Sony to fall into red in FY 2013 with net loss of 110 bil. yen
Sony Corp. said Thursday it is expecting a group net loss of 110 billion yen for the year through March, against an earlier projected profit of 30 billion yen, due to disposal costs for its personal computer business and sluggish television sales. (Kyodo)
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Japan Diet enacts 5.5-t.-yen extra budget to sustain growth
The Diet, Japan's parliament, enacted a fiscal 2013 supplementary budget on Thursday designed to minimize the negative effects of a planned consumption tax hike in April. (Jiji Press)
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Sapporo snow festival opens
An annual snow festival has opened in Sapporo, the capital of Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido. (NHK)
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Tokyo stocks close down 0.18%
Tokyo stocks closed 0.18 percent lower Thursday, giving up early gains as caution prevailed ahead of the release of crucial US jobs data which could give investors clues about the state of the world's biggest economy. (Global Post)
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McDonald's Japan 2013 profit halves as sales slide
McDonald's Holdings Co (Japan) said on Thursday its operating profit sank 53 percent in 2013 while it forecast sales this year would fall for a sixth consecutive year. (Reuters)
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China criticizes Japan over comments doubting Nanjing massacre
China's Foreign Ministry has criticized remarks by a board member of Japan's state broadcaster who said a massacre carried out by Japanese troops in China's then-capital of Nanjing in 1937 did not happen. (Reuters)
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Ghostwriter questions Japanese composer's claim to be deaf
A music lecturer who has worked as a ghostwriter for a well-known Japanese composer for nearly 20 years cast doubt Thursday over the composer's claim that he cannot hear. (Kyodo)
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Evacuation plan prepared for Mt. Fuji eruption
The prefectural governments of Shizuoka, Yamanashi and Kanagawa adopted the first comprehensive evacuation plan on Thursday to prepare for a possible eruption of Mount Fuji, Japan's highest peak. (Jiji Press)
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AP analysis of US military sex crimes in Japan
Hundreds of records detailing sex-crime investigations involving U.S. military personnel stationed in Japan show most offenders were not incarcerated, suspects received light punishments after being accused of serious violations, and victims increasingly were wary of cooperating with investigators.
(miamiherald.com)
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