News On Japan

Police in Tokyo said Saturday they have arrested a 24-year-old clerk at the Tokyo District Court and a 39-year-old employee of the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ on suspicion of molesting a woman in her 20s on the subway. (Japan Today)

Police in central Japan have resumed a rescue operation for people trapped on a mountain that erupted on Saturday. They say 7 people are still unconscious on Mount Ontake, and six of them remain buried under volcanic ash. 42 others are injured. (NHK)

A major Japanese shipping company has agreed to pay the United States a $67.7 million criminal fine for conspiring to fix prices for international ocean shipments of cars, trucks and other wheeled vehicles at the Port of Baltimore and other locations, the Justice Department said. (Japan Today)

A Japanese climber attempting to scale the world's eighth-highest peak slipped and was killed, becoming the first casualty of Nepal's autumn climbing season, an official said on Sept. 27. (Asahi)

Yokozuna Hakuho of Mongolia won the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament on Sept. 28 to capture his 31st Emperor's Cup while furthering his status as one of the greatest wrestlers in the history of the sport. (Asahi)

Miranda Kerr was a Victoria's Secret model, and she teased us with just a hint of her bra while out in Paris earlier today. (mirror.co.uk)

Experts have warned that Mount Ontake could erupt again on a similar scale. The members of the Coordinating Committee for the Prediction of Volcanic Eruption met geologists and experts in disaster preparation on Sunday. (NHK)

US media reports say leading Japanese telecom company SoftBank is in talks to acquire major Hollywood studio DreamWorks Animation. (NHK)

Japan's entertainment industry has become so filled with idol groups that some call this the age of the "idol war." (Japan Times)

Takako Doi, a former House of Representatives speaker and former chief of the Social Democratic Party, died of pneumonia on Sept. 20, the SDP said Sunday. She was 85. (Kyodo)

Japanese experts on volcanic activities said Sunday that the ongoing eruptions of Mount Ontake are as powerful as the central Japan volcano's blasts in 1979. (Jiji Press)

THE gaudy pachinko parlours that disfigure many a Japanese high street are an acquired taste. The country's 12,000 parlours keep players sealed off from the outside world behind a thick wall of noise, smoke and gambler's tension. (businessinsider.com.au)

Fujifilm Corp. said its influenza medicine Avigan is being given to an Ebola patient at a French hospital along with another experimental drug, the latest treatments to be deployed in the global push to curtail the deadly virus. (Japan Times)

Officials in Nagano Prefecture in central Japan say volcanic ash from Mount Ontake has affected local crops. (NHK)

Japanese lawmakers convened for a new session of the Diet on Monday. (NHK)

Japan's Nikkei share average rose on Monday with the weak yen supporting sentiment, while risk taking was buoyed after the U.S. economy grew at its fastest pace in 2-1/2 years in the second quarter. ()

The Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun has issued a correction for a recent feature that retracted past articles on the issue of so-called comfort women. (NHK)

Japan was unable to find out Monday when North Korea will report its initial findings of a special investigation committee into the fates of at least 12 Japanese nationals abducted in the 1970s and 1980s. (Kyodo)

The sudden eruption of Mount Ontake over the weekend, which is believed to have killed dozens of people, was a reminder of Japan's vulnerability to its many active volcanoes. (Japan Times)

Saitama prefectural police said Monday that a 54-year-old police officer has been arrested after he assaulted two train station attendants. (Japan Today)

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