Man held over death of woman whose body found in Odawara parking lot
Kanagawa prefectural police said Sunday they have arrested a man over the death of a woman whose body was found in a car in a parking lot in Odawara last Wednesday. (Japan Today)
View ArticleJapanese universities go global, but slowly
Takuya Niiyama, a sophomore at Akita International University, dreams of becoming an international tourism operator promoting the northern Japanese prefecture of Akita, leveraging his hard-earned...
View ArticleJapan 'Arigato' event launched in London
A 15-day event began in London in Saturday to show Japan's gratitude for the support and encouragement it received from around the world following the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami on March...
View ArticleBodies of mother, daughter found in Tokyo apartment
Police said Monday that two women were found dead in government-run accommodation in Tokyo's Toshima Ward on Saturday. (Japan Today)
View ArticleJapan anti-nuke candidate loses governor election
A candidate who ran on a rare anti-nuclear platform lost a weekend election for state governor, even as thousands of people formed "a human chain" around Japan's parliament complex to demand the...
View ArticleJapan government disapproval rating jumps to 63%
The disapproval rate for Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's government rose 6 percentage points to a record high of 63%, according to a survey conducted by Nikkei Inc. and TV Tokyo Corp....
View ArticleStocks close 0.80% higher
Tokyo stocks closed up 0.80% Monday, taking a lead from Wall Street which ended in positive territory last week on hopes for U.S. and European stimulus measures to stoke economic growth. (Japan Today)
View ArticleIn judo, Japan grapples with poor start to Games
Japan took a modest medal haul from the opening weekend of the London 2012 Games, with two silver and three bronze medals. The country is not an Olympic powerhouse, so huge medal hauls are not to be...
View ArticleAlarm rings at Monju N-reactor; no leak
The Japan Atomic Energy Agency said Monday that a sodium leak alarm went off in an auxiliary building at its Monju fast-breeder nuclear reactor at about 3:40 a.m., but later confirmed no leak had...
View ArticleWoman, daughter fatally stabbed by suspected stalker
A woman and her daughter were fatally stabbed in a suspected stalking-murder case here, police said, adding that the man allegedly behind the crime apparently attempted suicide. (Mainichi)
View ArticleJapan's $1.45 trillion whale may crush yen bulls
As havens go, Japan sure is an odd case. You would think that having the developed world's largest public debt, an aging and shrinking population, deflation, few natural resources and the ever-present...
View ArticleMan tried to smuggle meth to Japan as Snickers bars, feds say
A Long Beach man has been charged by federal authorities with trying to smuggle more than four pounds of methamphetamine from Los Angeles to Japan in what looked like Snickers bars, officials said...
View ArticleJapan sends fish to the International Space Station
We've all heard of monkeys and dogs being launched into space, but one group that doesn't see a lot of space adventure publication is fish. Well, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency is changing that...
View ArticleJapan's newest anti-yakuza laws allow instant arrests
Japan's national Diet approved the revisions of the Organized Crime Group Countermeasures Law last Thursday which allows police to designate organized crime groups as "extremely dangerous" and then...
View Article3 middle school boys drown in Aichi river
Three middle school students died Monday after they drowned in the Kisogawa river in Ichinomiya. (Yomiuri)
View ArticleChase on for Olympus stake
Competition has been heating up among companies trying to form a capital alliance with optical equipment manufacturer Olympus Corp., which has been struggling to revive itself in the aftermath of its...
View ArticleJudoka Matsumoto wins Japan's first gold
After two days of gloom and doom, Japan's Kaori Matsumoto burned brightest in the women's judo 57-kilogram weight class Monday, giving the nation its first gold medal of the London Olympics. (Japan Times)
View ArticleJapan's major banks chase growth overseas
Major Japanese banks have increasingly set their sights on overseas markets, particularly in Asia, to offset low profitability and weak loan demand in their domestic market, according to an article...
View ArticleJapan simply watches amid influx of foreign workers to Northern Territories
Despite its claim that the Northern Territories legally belong to Japan, it is Moscow, not Tokyo, that exercises an increasingly firm grip on development of the disputed islands off Hokkaido. (Asahi)
View ArticleAum Shinrikyo cult never really died
WHEN Katuya Takahashi, 54, was arrested at a manga coffee shop in Tokyo in the middle of last month, it marked the end of the 17-year-long search for the last of the three fugitives suspected of crimes...
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