News On Japan

The Tokyo metropolitan government has announced plans for a mega-tourist complex in Tokyo's Toyosu district, the relocation site for the Tsukiji wholesale market currently housed in Chuo Ward, Tokyo. (The Japan News)

Japan will review the testimony of South Korean women who served in wartime brothels, a senior official said on Friday, but he gave no indication whether Tokyo might water down a 1993 apology on the issue that has long caused friction with its neighbors. (Reuters)

AN exclusive Japanese bar is suing a foodie website, arguing that unwanted publicity from a review is damaging the establishment's operational strategy of being hard to find. (news.com.au)

Japan's Nikkei average eased from a three-week high in an erratic session on Monday as a firmer yen and weak Asian markets triggered profit-taking following recent sharp gains. (Reuters)

The Foreign Ministry released on its website Monday a new video criticizing South Korea for causing "unnecessary confusion" by pressing other countries to adopt its name "East Sea" in referring to the body of water between Japan and the Korean Peninsula. (Kyodo)

A man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after intentionally steering his car onto a footpath and hitting 12 pedestrians in the Japanese city of Nagoya. (SBS)

Statues of a mythological sacred bird at a Kyoto temple received a coating of gold leaf as they were restored to what they may have originally looked like nearly 1,000 years ago. (NHK)

Sales of freshly brewed coffee at major convenience stores have been brisk, as customers seem eager to get their hands on a cup of real coffee quickly and at a reasonable price. (The Japan News)

Tokyo Girls Collection, one of the biggest fashion events in the nation, will be held in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, on April 29, the event organizer has announced. (The Japan News)

After 17 days of hard-fought competition, the curtain fell on the Sochi Olympic Games on Sunday night. (The Japan News)

Japanese House of Representatives lawmaker Takeshi Tokuda submitted his resignation Monday after some of his relatives were arrested for election fraud last year. (Jiji Press)

The Japanese government plans to lift the evacuation order on an area around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in April. (NHK)

A broad agreement on a proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal is becoming unlikely at the ongoing ministerial meeting in Singapore, informed sources said Monday. (Jiji Press)

Tokyo police have set up a headquarters for their investigation into the damage to more than 300 copies of Anne Frank's "Diary of a Young Girl" and other Holocaust-related books in public libraries in the capital. (NHK)

Japan's government says that anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd has disrupted the operations of 2 Japanese research whaling vessels in the Antarctic Ocean. (NHK)

The government on Tuesday unveiled a draft energy policy that characterizes atomic power as an important electricity source, although the draft waters down some wording in an earlier version that was seen as strongly pro-nuclear in tone. (Kyodo)

The Nikkei average advanced to a four-week closing high on Tuesday after a rally in Wall Street shares to historic highs triggered short-covering in battered Japanese stocks. (Reuters)

Police have charged a man with attempted murder after he kicked a JR Ueno Station employee off the platform and onto the train tracks. (Japan Today)

Japan's SoftBank wants to buy some or all of Line, a wildly popular messaging app, Bloomberg reports. Line, which is based in Japan but is owned by South Korea's Naver Corporation, has 360 million users worldwide, most of them in East Asia. (Quartz)

A cooperative of beach hut owners at Zushi beach and its representative in Zushi, Kanagawa Prefecture, filed a lawsuit with the Yokohama District Court against the Zushi city government Monday, calling for an injunction against a revision to a municipal ordinance that would ban playing loud music at those premises. (The Japan News)

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