News On Japan

Authorities in Japan are warning people about deadly poisonous mites. The cause for concern is the SFTS virus. (Japan Today)

Chiba prefectural police this week posted a reward of 3 million yen for information leading to the arrest of the person or persons responsible for the murder of a woman in June last year. (Japan Today)

Japanese authorities on Wednesday started probing the troubled MtGox bitcoin exchange after claims of a multi-million dollar theft from its digital vaults, as US prosecutors reportedly served a subpoena on the company. (channelnewsasia.com)

Japan is preparing to hand over to the United States its stockpile of research-purpose plutonium. It was purchased decades ago from the US and other countries. (NHK)

The operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant says one of its key systems to treat radioactive water halted automatically. Concerns are rising ahead of planned full-fledged operation from April. (NHK)

In an unusual move, the Japanese police have recruited a 'Robocop' on public trains to protect women commuters from perverts. (The Hindu)

Tokyo prosecutors have demanded a 12-year prison term for a former senior member of the Aum Shinrikyo cult who had been on the run for 17 years. (NHK)

Japanese police handled 410 school bullying-related cases in 2013, increasing 58 pct from the previous year and exceeding 400 for the first time since 1985, the National Police Agency said Thursday. (Jiji Press)

Japan's Nikkei average fell for a second day on Thursday, moving further away from a four-week closing hit earlier this week as heightened tensions in Ukraine soured sentiment, dragging down index heavyweights like SoftBank. (Reuters)

The chief executive of troubled bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox has denied speculation that he fled Japan in the wake of its sudden operational shutdown and said work is under way to solve various issues. (Kyodo)

Former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama on Thursday blasted Shinzo Abe for considering revising the 1993 Kono statement, the first official acknowledgment that the Imperial Japanese Army had forced women into sexual servitude at wartime brothels set up by the military. (Japan Times)

Police in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, have arrested a 41-year-old man who works for the National Police Agency over a fatal hit-and-run case. (Japan Today)

Officials from the Japanese and North Korean affiliates of the Red Cross will hold talks next week on the return of the remains of Japanese nationals from North Korea, a Japanese Red Cross official said on Thursday. (Reuters)

Japan has launched a system to allow a two-year extension of residence status for foreign students who complete a course of study at a Japanese culinary school, allowing them to receive on-the-job training at Japanese restaurants. (helsinkitimes.fi)

North Korea on Thursday fired four projectiles believed to be short-range missiles into the Sea of Japan, South Korea's Defense Ministry said. (Kyodo)

A Japanese high court has blocked a Mongolian company's bid to buy the Tokyo headquarters of a pro-North Korean residents' group. (NHK)

The first night in the United States for a family of Japanese tourists ended with the parents being pulled from their rental car at gunpoint with their young son watching after their confusion about American traffic laws set off a high-speed pursuit in southern Utah. (abcnews.go.com)

Any regulation of the bitcoin crypto-currency should involve international cooperation to avoid loopholes, Japanese vice finance minister Jiro Aichi said on Thursday. (Reuters)

A 16-year-old high school boy who committed suicide in Mihara, Hiroshima Prefecture, may have been bullied, school officials said Thursday. (Japan Today)

A U.S. State Department official on Thursday called for the return to American parents of all children taken to Japan without their consent by their former Japanese partners after failed international marriages. (Jiji Press)

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