Myanmar President Thein Sein will make a five-day trip to Japan starting this weekend, marking the first visit to the country by a leader of the Southeast Asian nation in nearly three decades, while opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is planning to make in June her first visits overseas-to Norway and the U.K.-since 1989.
(Wall Street Journal)
Myanmar leader to visit Japan
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Sharp to sell 80-in. LCD TV, Japan's largest retail set, for $12,000
Sharp said Wednesday it will sell an 80-inch LCD TV in Japan, the largest such set available through retail in the country.
The Japanese electronics manufacturer said the new addition to its Aquos line will cost $12,000. It will go on sale in June as part of a new lineup of six sets, the smallest of which is 40 inches in size.
(computerworld.com)
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Tokyo mega-quake 'would kill over 9,000'
More than 9,600 people would die with nearly 150,000 injured if a mega-quake struck Tokyo, a disaster that would also level large parts of the Japanese capital, a government projection said Wednesday.
(MSN)
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Poverty a growing problem for women
The poverty rate rose to a record 16 percent in 2009 and the number of welfare recipients reached an all-time high of 2.09 million this January, according to the government. But what is even more shocking is the finding a recent study that about 1 in 3 women in Japan aged between 20 and 64 who live alone are living in poverty.
(Japan Times)
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Japan exports jump, but trade still in red; corp mood dips
Japan's exports rose in March from a year earlier for the first time in six months, mainly on the strength of U.S. sales, but high fuel imports pushed the trade balance back into deficit and manufacturers remain cautious about business in months ahead.
(Reuters)
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China, Russia to hold joint naval exercises close to Japan
China and Russia will hold major joint naval exercises close to Japanese waters this weekend, aimed at further strengthening strategic partnership and stepping up joint response to new challenges and threats. (indianexpress.com)
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Japan police officer held for licking woman's hair
A Japanese policeman has been arrested for licking a woman's hair in a restaurant, police said Thursday.
Fellow officers detained forensics specialist Tatsuya Ichikawa, 50, at a fast food joint after he was spotted tonguing the locks of an unsuspecting 25-year-old woman in Shizuoka prefecture, central Japan.
(The Sun)
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Burmese refugees face tough time in Japan
President Thein Sein begins his state visit to Japan on Friday, a country with strong historic and economic links to Burma. Yet Japan is also struggling to find a solution to the issue of Burmese asylum seekers on its own soil.
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Japan should help end U.S. domination of World Bank
Once again, the seat of the World Bank president has been reserved for the United States, leaving questions about the transparency of the selection process.
Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim will succeed Robert Zoellick after the latter's retirement at the end of June. Kim, a South Korean-born American, was backed by U.S. President Barack Obama.
(zeenews)
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Tokyo trading glitch thaws resistance to alternative platforms
The Tokyo Stock Exchange's worst breakdown in six years has forced a rethink of the role alternative trading platforms play in ensuring that shares of some of the world's biggest companies keep changing hands.
A Feb. 2 computer malfunction that halted trading on 15 percent of the bourse's biggest stocks was exacerbated when the Japan Securities Dealers Association asked alternative venues to stop processing transactions during the interruption. (Bloomberg)
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Inside the life of this 35-year-old self-made billionaire
Like Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Yoshikazu Tanaka became a self-made billionaire after he started a social networking site.
Tanaka heard about Friendster in 2003. He wanted to create a social network like Friendster in Japan, so he coded the first version of what is now GREE out of his Tokyo apartment.
(sfgate.com)
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Olympics: Japan aims for top five finish at London Olympics
Japan is aiming for a top five finish at the London Olympics 2012 with its athletes fired up in an effort to rewrite the country`s history in the Games.
Securing a place in the top five means Japan will have to win at least 15 gold medals.
(zeenews)
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Panasonic team to lug solar-charged batteries up Mt. Fuji, live-stream eclipse
Panasonic will broadcast live a solar eclipse next month over Japan from the top of Mount Fuji, using batteries that are charged at the base using solar power and then carried up to the peak.
The company will use the event to create publicity for its solar panels and rechargeable portable power units. (PC World)
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Noda says Japan running out of time to hike taxes, restart reactors
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda said Thursday that he faces policymaking challenges "weightier" than those of his predecessors, adding that the country can no longer afford to delay decisions about its most divisive issues, including a tax hike and the restarting of its nuclear reactors.
(Washington Post)
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Japan 'no longer rich country' by 2050: Think tank
Japan could fall out of the league of developed nations by 2050 as a shrinking and greying population as well as slowing productivity make its economy contract, a think tank has warned.
(Economic Times)
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World's oldest man celebrates 115th birthday at home in Japan
The world's oldest man celebrated his 115th birthday at his home in Kyotango, Kyoto Prefecture, on Thursday.
"It is the result of the blessing from the sun. I look up at the sky every day," said Jiroemon Kimura, when asked about the secret to his long life. He then put his hands together and said, "Thank you," in English. Kimura is also the oldest person in Japan. (Japan Times)
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Golf: Ishikawa to skip U.S. Open qualifiers
Ryo Ishikawa said Wednesday that he will not play in next month's Japanese U.S. Open qualifier and will try to qualify through the world rankings.
"I want to pick up the necessary points over the next two weeks," he said, referring to the Japan PGA Championship and the Totoumi Hamamatsu Open. (Japan Times)
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Tomioka cherry blossoms get no-go zone treatment
Cherry blossoms in the town of Tomioka, which is in the no-go zone set up for the Fukushima disaster, were shown to media Thursday as they reached full bloom.
The town, which lies within the 20-km-radius exclusion zone from the plant, boasts a 2.5-km stretch of cherry trees in Yonomori Park that forms a canopy of blossoms this time of year. (Japan Times)
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Japanese woman sexually assaulted in Sydney
A Japanese woman handcuffed and sexually assaulted numerous times has led police to her alleged attacker in Sydney's south.
The 29-year-old woman told police the man took her to his residence at Miranda on Tuesday and forcibly detained her with handcuffs.
(ninemsn.com.au)
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Former gangbuster cop shot in street
A former Fukuoka police officer was seriously wounded Thursday after a gunman fired two shots at him on a street in Kitakyushu before fleeing the scene on a motorcycle, police said.
The attack took place shortly after 7 a.m. about 300 meters from the home of the 61-year-old victim, who was hit near the waist and left leg. (Japan Times)
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