News On Japan

Nearly 170 people are expected to testify in the murder trial of a 22-year-old man charged with killing three Japanese tourists and hurting 11 others during a rampage in a busy tourist area last year, prosecutors and defense lawyers say. (Japan Today)

Japan and Australia broadly agreed on a proposed bilateral pact on the joint development of defense equipment at a meeting of their foreign and defense ministers in Tokyo on Wednesday. (Jiji Press)

In an effort to deal with problem students who regularly disturb class time, the Osaka City Board of Education is planning to develop a program in which such students are removed from their normal classes for a short period of time and placed in specialized guidance programs designed to help them get back on track. (Japan Today)

Police have arrested 13 Chinese on suspicion of collecting money that was transferred online illegally, it was learned Wednesday. (The Japan News)

There are no one-way bets in global finance, but Japan's stock market comes close. The authorities are about to funnel large sums into Japanese stocks openly and deliberately under the next phase of Abenomics, both by regulatory fiat and by purchasing the Nikkei index directly with printed money. (telegraph.co.uk)

The International Union for Conservation of Nature on Thursday announced it will include the Japanese eel on a list of species at risk of extinction. (Kyodo)

UNESCO decided to add Japan's Southern Alps mountain range and the Tadami beech forest to its list of biosphere reserves, known as eco parks in Japan, for harmonizing environmental preservation and human activity, the Japanese government learned Thursday. (Kyodo)

Pharmacies and drugstores across Japan can now sell most over-the-counter drugs via the Internet under a revised pharmaceutical law. (NHK)

Japan`s Nikkei share average fell to a 1 1/2-week low on Thursday after the World Bank`s downward revision of its global growth forecast soured sentiment. (zeenews)

Police in Wakayama said Thursday that a foul odor sickened 41 students and faculty members at Municipal Kasai Middle School on Wednesday. (Japan Today)

Police have arrested a 50-year-old restaurant manager on suspicion of stabbing a man and a woman on a street in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward. (Japan Today)

A Saudi Arabian man has been arrested for vandalizing Buddhist statues at a temple in downtown Tokyo. (NHK)

Gifu Prefectural Police on Wednesday arrested a 53-year-old staff member at a technical junior college for the theft of hundreds of high-school girls uniforms, reports Sankei Sports (June 11). (Tokyo Reporter)

As the Japanese government failed to meet a court-set deadline on Wednesday to open floodgates at a controversial dike in Isahaya Bay in southwestern Japan, it must pay 490,000 yen per day to fishermen beginning Thursday. (Jiji Press)

Toy makers from Japan and abroad are showcasing digital and other high-tech products in Tokyo. (NHK)

A two-year-old boy died at Tokyo Women's Medical University Hospital in February because of an injection of a prohibited sedative, the university said Thursday. (Jiji Press)

US aerospace company Boeing says 5 Japanese firms will build 21 percent of its new passenger plane, the 777X. (NHK)

A 49-year-old woman in Tokyo has been arrested, after it was discovered that she had coerced three youths who had been hanging out at her home, to beat up and rob a man. (Japan Today)

It's a contest of brawn and bravado against pace and finesse. The muscular Ivory Coast team could not be more different at first glance from the compact Blue Samurai of Japan. (Japan Today)

Japan Airlines chairman Masaru Onishi has declared his confidence in Jetstar Japan, saying the low-cost airline model "is destined for success in Japan". (The Australian)

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