News On Japan

New Zealand doctors said Friday that a 7-year-old Japanese girl was bitten about 100 times during a dog mauling that has horrified many in the South Pacific nation. (USA Today)

Japan's tallest skyscraper, the 300-meter Abeno Harukas, fully opened Friday morning in Osaka, western Japan. (Global Post)

The Anne Frank House, a museum dedicated to the Jewish girl who died in a Nazi concentration camp, on Saturday donated 3,400 copies of its catalogue to Japanese libraries after hundreds of copies of Anne Frank's diary were damaged. (gmanetwork.com)

Over 60 pct of Japanese people are dissatisfied with measures taken by authorities to save consumers from problems including mislabeling and fraudulent sales, a Cabinet Office survey showed Saturday. (Jiji Press)

Japan plans to slash by half the amount of juvenile bluefin tuna taken from the Northern Pacific starting in 2015, compared to the 2002-2004 average, a Fisheries Agency source said Saturday. (Global Post)

Japan celebrated a medal rush on the first day of the Sochi Paralympics on Saturday, with Akira Kano winning the men's sitting downhill and Takeshi Suzuki finishing third as Kozo Kubo took the bronze in the men's 7.5-kilometer sitting biathlon. (The Japan News)

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited Fukushima Prefecture on Saturday, 3 days before the 3rd anniversary of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters. (NHK)

Bitcoin exchange MtGox faced massive hacker offensives last month, coming under some 150,000 DDoS attacks per second for several days ahead of its spectacular failure, a report said Sunday. (AFP)

Astronaut Koichi Wakata, 50, became the first Japanese to serve as commander of the International Space Station on Sunday. (Kyodo)

Banging on drums and waving "Sayonara nukes" signs, thousands of people rallied in a Tokyo park and marched to Parliament on Sunday to demand an end to nuclear power ahead of the third anniversary of the Fukushima disaster. (scmp.com)

The radioactive water that has accumulated at Japan's crippled nuclear power plant remains the biggest problem hampering the cleanup process three years after the disaster. (sfgate.com)

About 38 miles inland from the plant lies the commercial city of Koriyama, where some of the smallest children barely know what it is like to play outside - fear of radiation has kept them indoors for much of their short lives. (telegraph.co.uk)

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant went into meltdown just 13 kilometres away from Naoto Matsumura's home. After being turned away from an overcrowded temporary shelter, he decided to take his chances back home in Tomioka city, Fukushima prefecture, and take care of his animals. (South China Morning Post)

Japan's Nikkei average gained on Tuesday as investors scooped up battered commodity stocks, but trading volume was thin as caution over an economic slowdown in China and Ukraine tensions kept traders on the sidelines. (brecorder.com)

All Nippon Airways said it suspects the unauthorized conversion of frequent flier mileage into points for Apple Inc.'s iTunes store. (The Japan News)

The Japanese government adopted at a cabinet meeting on Tuesday a bill to ease requirements for permanent residency in order to encourage foreign workers with a high level of expertise to settle in Japan. (Jiji Press)

The Japanese government decided on Tuesday to send a mission to Malaysia to cooperate in the search for a missing Malaysia Airlines jet under Japan's law on the dispatch of emergency missions abroad. (Jiji Press)

Kochi prefectural police are investigating an incident involving a man who sustained severe injuries after being stabbed several times in the abdomen. Police said they believe the attack is linked to a dispute the victim was having with another man over their children dating. (Japan Today)