Quantcast
Channel: News On Japan
Browsing all 31453 articles
Browse latest View live

Soccer: Japan's former 'Batman' captain retires

Tsuneyasu Miyamoto, Japan's captain at the 2002 and 2006 World Cups, announced his retirement Monday to take up a course to become a sports executive, in a bid to lift the status of Japanese football....

View Article



Woman held for feeding baby daughter jelly laced with sleeping pills

Police said Tuesday they have arrested a 42-year-old woman for the attempted murder of her one-year-old daughter at their home in Nagoya. Police were called by the woman's father on Monday at around 3...

View Article

Japan prosecutors raid Olympus

Japanese prosecutors raided the headquarters of Olympus Corp. on Wednesday as part of an investigation into the cover-up of massive losses at the camera and medical equipment maker. Japanese...

View Article

Japan to take over two thirds stake in Tepco: report

The Japanese government plans to take a stake of more than two-thirds in Tokyo Electric Power Co (9501.T) in a de facto nationalization of the operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant,...

View Article

Japan's exports fall for second straight month

Japan's exports fell for the second straight month in November, hit by faltering demand from Asia and Europe. Exports shrank 4.5 percent from a year earlier to 5.198 trillion yen ($66.7 billion),...

View Article


Award-winning Japanese director Morita dies at 61

Director Yoshimitsu Morita, whose films including the award-winning "Family Game," depicted the absurdity and vulnerability of conformist Japan's everyday life, has died. He was 61. Morita, who won...

View Article

Japan releases 40-year nuke plant cleanup plan

Japan's government said Wednesday that it could take 40 years to clean up and fully decommission a nuclear plant that went into meltdown after it was struck by a huge tsunami. Nuclear crisis minister...

View Article

Nikkei climbs 1.5 percent but fails to break 25-day average

The Nikkei stock average climbed on Wednesday in a market encouraged by smooth debt sales in Spain and positive housing data in the United States, but gains were capped by resistance at its 25-day...

View Article


DoCoMo cable cut leaves 100,000 smartphone users in email limbo

NTT DoCoMo Inc. said Wednesday that a problem with an Internet service called sp mode for smartphones may have hampered email delivery for as many as 100,000 customers since Tuesday. The company...

View Article


First of 500 tsunami monuments erected on coast

A stone monument in remembrance of the March 11 tsunami has been unveiled on a beach in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, the first of 500 such monuments planned for coastal areas in Iwate, Miyagi and...

View Article

Best of 2011: AKB48 'Koko ni Ita Koto'

AKB48 is not a band, or even a pop group: AKB48 is a hate crime. With "Koko ni Ita Koto," pop music has reached its lowest ebb. And that is precisely why this album is not my favorite of the year, but...

View Article

Health ministry seeking stricter food-cesium rules

The health ministry is proposing much stricter regulations on radioactive cesium in food that would lower the current limit of 500 becquerels per kilogram to 100. Changes would also be made to the...

View Article

F-35 fighter deal brings Japan multiple benefits

With its Dec. 20 decision to purchase Lockheed-Martin's Joint Strike Fighter F-35 Lightning II as Japan's next generation fighter aircraft, the Japanese government gets to have its cake and eat it too....

View Article


TEPCO switches on Japan's largest solar power plant

The Ohgishima solar power plant began operations on Dec. 19 in the coastal area of Kawasaki City, according to Kawasaki City Mayor Takao Abe and Tokyo Electric Company. The mega plant will provide...

View Article

Japan's top 10 buzzwords of 2011

The year is coming to an end with a sigh and hopefully not with a bang. Well, hopefully not a bang in the bad kind of things exploding, terrible tragedy bang sort of way.We already had enough bangs...

View Article


Toyota aims to sell 8.48 million vehicles in 2012

Toyota is aiming for a comeback, targeting record global sales of 8.48 million vehicles in 2012 and an even bigger number in 2013, after being battered this year by the March disaster in Japan and...

View Article

Nikkei ends 2-day winning run, machine tools weak

Japan's blue-chip index snapped a two-day winning run on Thursday and met strong resistance near its 25-day moving average, with the machine tools sector weighed down by a brokerage downgrade. The...

View Article


Japan halts beef imports from one U.S. meat plant

Japan halted beef imports from a U.S. packing plant after finding material prohibited under rules to control the risk of mad cow disease, the government said on Wednesday. The 15th confirmed violation...

View Article

Lack of exercise a concern for Fukushima children

A 34-year-old woman watched her son running around an indoor play center in Fukushima city. "It's the first time in a long while I have seen him breaking a sweat as he plays," she said. The boy, a...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Wrestling: New Japan Pro-Wrestling hits 40

High-impact slams, chokeholds and daredevil feats of athleticism aren't the usual way to celebrate a 40th birthday, but that's how New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) will be spending its big day. The...

View Article
Browsing all 31453 articles
Browse latest View live




Latest Images