News On Japan

Apple Inc. of the United States on Friday raised the prices by Y8,640 to Y12,960 in Japan for iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus models without subscriber identity module locks. (The Japan News)

Monitoring efforts along the Pacific Coast of the U.S. and Canada have detected the presence of small amounts of radioactivity from the 2011 Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant accident 100 miles (150 km) due west of Eureka, California. (indybay.org)

The "Ore, ore" ("It's me") fraudsters and their ilk, who telephone elderly people and pretend to be a relative in need of money to help them out of a jam, keep coming up with new scams. (Japan Times)

Japan on Sunday confirmed plans to contribute up to $1.5 billion to the U.N.-backed Green Climate Fund, joining a U.S. pledge of $3 billion to mitigate the impact of global warming on developing nations. (Japan Times)

Sales of "dangerous drugs" - synthetic drugs with narcotic-like effects that are not banned outright under current laws - are going underground or moving online despite police efforts to crack down on the substances. (asianewsnet.net)

Voters in Okinawa have chosen a new governor who opposes the central government's plan to build a new US military facility in the prefecture. (NHK)

During a raid earlier this month of a bar that allows customers to engage in sex, a male employee of Japan's Imperial Household Agency was arrested on charges of public obscenity, police revealed on Sunday, reports the Sankei Shimbun (Nov. 17). (Tokyo Reporter)

Japan's economy unexpectedly shrank for the second consecutive quarter, marking a technical recession in the world's third largest economy. (BBC)

Japanese students enrolled in U.S. colleges and universities decreased by 1.2 percent to around 19,000 in the 2013-2014 academic year, although they remained the seventh-most numerous in the country, the New York-based Institute of International Education said Monday. (Japan Times)

A 4-year-old girl sustained only minor injuries after she fell from the balcony of her 9th floor apartment in Usa, Oita Prefecture. (Japan Today)

Police in Sapporo said Monday they have arrested a 26-year-old man after the car he was driving veered off the road onto a sidewalk, hitting a 15-year-old girl, and then causing major damage to a building. (Japan Today)

Japanese stocks marked their biggest daily drop since August on Monday, helping the yen rebound from a fresh seven-year low against the dollar touched after news Japan unexpectedly fell into recession in the third quarter. (Reuters)

Surprisingly weak economic data Monday sent an alarm bell to ruling and opposition lawmakers in Japan. (Jiji Press)

Japanese ski jumper Sara Takanashi has set a Guinness World Record with her total of 24 wins in the FIS Ski Jumping World Cup. The figure is the highest for a female jumper. (NHK)

Last month the Ministry of Finance presented a policy recommendation based on studies made by an advisory group. Such recommendations are fairly common, but this one caught more than the usual amount of attention because of where it was directed. (Japan Times)

Japan’s economy unexpectedly fell into recession in the third quarter, a painful slump that called into question efforts by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to pull the country out of nearly two decades of deflation. (nytimes.com)

One month has passed since the search for six missing people was discontinued for the year on Mt. Ontake, which erupted Sept. 27 and claimed 57 lives. The eruption is the nation's worst volcanic disaster since World War II in terms of casualties. (The Japan News)

Japan's Coast Guard officials have arrested the Chinese captains of 2 fishing ships on suspicion of illegally collecting coral in Japanese territorial waters. (NHK)

An avian influenza virus has been detected in a genetic test on the body of a common pochard collected in Tokyo's Koto Ward, the Environment Ministry said Monday. (Jiji Press)

The never-ending demand for Pacific bluefin tuna among sushi lovers is driving the iconic fish towards extinction, a conservation group said. (cbsnews.com)

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