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Softbank's Son named best corporate president of 2011
Masayoshi Son, chairman and chief executive officer of Softbank Corp., was chosen best president of 2011 for the second consecutive year in an online survey of corporate executives in Japan, the Sanno...
View ArticleOlympus faces dividend probe / Committee investigating whether shareholder...
An independent in-house committee of lawyers is set to investigate Olympus Corp.'s admission that it may have illegally paid dividends to stockholders. The company said it will hold an extraordinary...
View ArticleProsecutor botched Ozawa case report
In a stunning development in the trial of former Democratic Party of Japan President Ichiro Ozawa over a political funds scandal, a prosecutor has admitted he included statements not made by Ozawa's...
View ArticleWhy a nation obsessed with whales is drowning in a sea of bureaucracy
Want to know why Japan's earthquake recovery efforts are moving in slow motion? Ask the whales. Tokyoites have grown accustomed to shocking news items since the earth shook and the oceans rose. The...
View ArticleSony's PlayStation Vita hits stores in Japan
Sony's long-awaited PlayStation Vita portable game machine has hit stores in Japan as thousands of game enthusiasts lined up at shops from early in the morning. Sony is predicting brisk sales, even...
View ArticleU.S. troops to lose DUI immunity
U.S. military personnel who cause traffic accidents after drinking alcohol at events considered part of their official duties will no longer be able to avoid trial in Japan. The revision to the...
View ArticleTheir spirit seems willing but young Japanese are hesitant to get hitched
Back in the days of "there's gold in them thar hills," one of the prospectors' doleful refrains boasted the title "My Girlfriend's a Mule and a Mine." Across the Pacific and some 150 years on, I...
View ArticleDaunting tasks await despite declaration of cold shutdown
Officials on Friday finally declared a state of cold shutdown at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant, only to find they still face a long and bumpy road toward scrapping its crippled reactors and restoring...
View ArticleWomen stabbed to death in Nagasaki
Police launched an investigation Saturday into the deaths of two women apparently stabbed to death at their home in Saikai, Nagasaki Prefecture. Mitsuko Yamashita, 56, and her mother-in-law, Hisae...
View ArticleDutchman arrested in whaling town
A Dutchman thought to be connected to the antiwhaling Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has been arrested in Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture, on suspicion of acting violently against a man involved in...
View ArticleChinese tourist numbers rebound
Chinese visitors to Japan rose last month, marking the first increase since the March 11 disasters and hinting that a recovery in tourism may be near. November arrivals from China, Japan's...
View ArticleJudo: Wrestling with the serious issue of rape
After two-time Olympic champion Masato Uchishiba was arrested Dec. 6 on suspicion of raping a female member of a university judo team, Japanese TV personality and the former first lady of Indonesia,...
View ArticleGovt to limit 2nd-graders to 35 per class next year
The government plans to limit the number of second-year students at public primary schools to 35 per class starting in the 2012 academic year, sources said Saturday. The system was introduced for...
View ArticlePS Vita challenges smartphones
The world of computer games has entered a new kind of war, with Sony releasing on Saturday a handheld gaming device with increased network functionality in a bid to compete with popular smartphone...
View ArticleHike in inheritance tax eyed / Gift tax may be eased to encourage...
The government is calling for a hike in the inheritance tax in a draft of integrated reforms of the social security and taxation systems, according to government sources. Discussions about the reform...
View ArticleHawaii parade honors Japanese-American WWII vets
Hundreds of Japanese-American veterans of World War II were honored Saturday with a parade in Honolulu - nearly 70 years after they volunteered to fight for their country even as the government branded...
View ArticleSKorean president presses Japan on sex slaves
South Korea's visiting president pressed his Japanese counterpart Sunday to resolve a long-standing grievance regarding Korean women forced to serve as sexual slaves during World War II, calling it a...
View ArticleHigh school in Minami-Soma to close due to N-crisis
Shoei High School in Minami-Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, has told the prefectural government it will be closed for an extended period, making it the first school to formally announce it will close due...
View ArticleEffects of rare earth curbs spreading
China's curbs on exports of rare earths, which are essential for manufacturing high-tech products, are being felt more and more by Japanese manufacturers. China has a near monopoly in the global...
View ArticleJapan less likely to trust officials, main media, since disaster
Hajime Shiraishi's moment of truth came when her online video news show, at the time relatively unknown, decided to buck the government line and call a story as it saw it. On March 11, after an...
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