Crime on the rise among Japanese elderly
THE number of elderly criminals being caught by Japanese police has rocketed, the justice ministry said Friday, with pensioners committing almost 50 times more assaults than two decades ago. (Herald Sun)
View ArticleFive people found dead in Japan family suicide
A family of five -- including three young children -- found dead in a van in central Japan are believed to have been a suicide, a police official said Friday. (AFP)
View ArticleNew universities are big business, needed or not
People who use the Tokyu Toyoko Line, which connects Tokyo and Yokohama, may wonder why there are stations called Toritsu-Daigaku and Gakugei-Daigaku when there are no daigaku (universities) near them....
View ArticleHakuho improves to 7-0
Hakuho manhandled Georgian Tochinoshin to stay unbeaten on the seventh day while dark horse Goeido remained neck and neck with the grand champion with another convincing win at the Kyushu Grand Sumo...
View ArticleYoshiwara busts send message: 'Keep it clean'
On May 24, 1956, the Diet voted Japan's anti-prostitution statute into law, effective from April 1, 1957; but enforcement was postponed a year to give sex workers time to seek new livelihoods. (Japan...
View ArticleStudents staying in Japan
Japanese college students are studying abroad in fewer numbers than ever before. A new report from the nonprofit Institute of International Education in New York announced that a mere 19,900 Japanese...
View ArticleImperial Couple arrive in Okinawa
Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko began a four-day visit to Okinawa on Saturday for a series of engagements, their first trip to the prefecture in eight years, the Imperial Household Agency said....
View ArticleMura wins figure skating gold
US figure skating champion Ashley Wagner and Japan's Takahito Mura lit up the Paris-Bercy arena on their way to gold in the Trophee Bompard here on Saturday. (AFP)
View ArticleJetstar Japan reprimanded for lax safety checks
Budget airline Jetstar Japan has been reprimanded by Japan's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism for safety failings. (Japan Today)
View ArticleTokyo ex-governor joins new conservative party
Outspoken leaders from Japan's two biggest cities formed a national political party Saturday, seeking to become "a third force" to lure undecided voters and challenge the country's two biggest parties....
View ArticleJapan to give $615 mln in loans to Myanmar
Japan is to provide Myanmar with $615 million in government loans, a report said on Sunday, just days after the United States scrapped a ban on most imports from the long-isolated Southeast Asian...
View ArticleCan the next Sony and Nintendo consoles break free of Japan's stifling...
Japan has long been a dominant driving force in the video game industry. Decades ago, western brands like Atari and Coleco did well. After the video game crash in the 1980s, Japan really stepped up....
View ArticleDiscrimination of working mothers persists in Japan
To resume work after the birth of her first child, Terue Suzuki moved back to her family home on weekdays to get help with baby-care, leaving her husband in the house they shared. (Denver Post)
View ArticleLearning the art of giving, Japanese-style
What matters at Christmas time is the spirit, right? For those yet to be convinced, a tiny Japanese pavilion in Paris offers to initiate Westerners to a 700-year-old gift-giving ritual known as...
View ArticleMake Japanese universities more or less like sumo world
One of the reasons why Japanese universities are weak in their international competitiveness is found in the uniquely Japanese way in which educational and research projects are undertaken at the...
View ArticleFollowing delays and tight supplies, Nintendo launches new Wii U home console...
Nintendo Co. began selling its Wii U home console in the United States on Sunday amid tight supplies and delays in implementing a new TV-viewing service, aiming to prove it can still succeed by...
View ArticleNearly half of Japan's doctors in poor health or worried about physical,...
Nearly half of the doctors working at hospitals nationwide are either in poor health or worried about their physical and mental condition due to long hours and stressful working conditions, a survey...
View ArticleSumo: Hakuho, Goeido still locked for lead
Yokozuna Hakuho kicked off the second week of the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament on Sunday like he did the first - dominantly, and at the top of the food chain. (Japan Times)
View ArticleQuake survivors' blood pressure rising in Iwate
The number of people suffering from high blood pressure has increased in the coastal areas of Iwate Prefecture since the Great East Japan Earthquake, according to Iwate Medical University researchers....
View ArticleMerger forces Japan Restoration Party to drop major policy stances
In the rush to form a stronger political party with a Lower House election less than a month away, Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto's Japan Restoration Party considerably weakened its anti-nuclear power...
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