Howard Stringer to quit Sony in June
Howard Stringer, who fought to bring a divided and struggling Sony together as the Japanese electronics and entertainment company's first foreign president, is retiring as chairman in June. (The...
View ArticlePrime Minister Abe and Japan's foreign policy choice
Increased uncertainty and risk in the political and security environment in Northeast Asia are threatening the stability on which Asia's rise and growing prosperity have depended over the past few...
View ArticleTwo years after Fukushima, Japan worries about the next big quake
When the "Big One" hits Tokyo, experts warn, the impact will be catastrophic. In January 2012, the respected Tokyo University Earthquake Research Institute reported there's a 70% chance a 7.0-magnitude...
View ArticleMan beaten to death by passerby filming fight
A man was beaten to death by a stranger filming a quarrel he was involved in on a street in Konan Ward, Yokohama, at about 4:25 a.m. Sunday, according to police. (Yomiuri)
View ArticleJapan quake 'heard at edge of space'
The great Tohoku earthquake in Japan two years ago was so big its effects were even felt at the edge of space. Scientists say the Magnitude 9.0 tremor on 11 March 2011 sent a ripple of sound through...
View ArticleFukushima forests found to be radioactive
Two years after the triple calamities of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster ravaged Japan's northeastern Pacific coast, forests that cover 70 percent of the Fukushima Prefecture have been found...
View ArticleAsia stocks mostly higher, Japan leads
Asia stocks traded mostly higher Monday as investors reacted to U.S. and Chinese data, with Tokyo managing outperform the rest of the region on further weakness for the Japanese yen. (MarketWatch)
View ArticleJapan marks 2nd anniversary of quake, tsunami, nuclear disasters
Japan marked on Monday the second anniversary of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that devastated the country's northeastern region, left more than 18,000 people dead or missing, and caused the world's...
View ArticleSandstorm sweeps across Japan
Extreme weather conditions have hit eastern Japan with a sandstorm blurring visibility in some areas, according to national broadcaster NHK. (stuff.co.nz)
View ArticleAchieving 2% price target possible with monetary policy: Kuroda
The government's nominee for the post of Bank of Japan chief, Haruhiko Kuroda, said Monday that the central bank's 2 percent inflation target can be achieved by utilizing monetary policy, vowing to...
View ArticleShiseido's chairman to double as president
Major cosmetics maker Shiseido Co. announced Monday that its chairman, Shinzo Maeda, will double as president from April 1, replacing Hisayuki Suekawa. (Yomiuri)
View ArticleNicola Furlong murder accused claims evidence was changed
The man accused of murdering Irish student Nicola Furlong in Japan last year has claimed Japanese police changed his evidence. Richard Hinds from Memphis, Tennessee, told the court that Ms Furlong had...
View ArticleFukushima toxic waste swells as Japan marks March 11 disaster
Every morning, 3,000 cleanup workers at the Fukushima disaster site don hooded hazard suits, air-filtered face masks and multiple glove layers. Most of the gear is radioactive waste by day's end....
View ArticleJapan Tobacco priced 2% below market for government sale
Japan priced a stake in the former tobacco monopoly at 2 percent less than yesterday's closing share price as part of a 978 billion yen ($10.2 billion) sale to help fund rebuilding projects after the...
View ArticleJapan's cut for solar power price retains boom incentive
Japan's proposal to cut the price paid for solar power by 10 percent leaves in place incentives for a boom in installations this year, the industry's lobby group said. (Bloomberg)
View Article17.3-billion yen of Japan welfare unfairly received in FY 2011
Welfare benefits unfairly received in Japan totaled 17.31 billion yen in 35,568 cases uncovered in fiscal 2011, the welfare ministry said Monday. (Jiji Press)
View ArticleEx-officials plead not guilty over fatal elevator accident
Two former officials of Schindler Elevator K.K. pleaded not guilty Monday to charges related to a fatal elevator accident in Tokyo in 2006 at their first trial hearing at the Tokyo District Court....
View ArticleYahoo Japan to raise employee salaries by 5% on bullish earnings
Yahoo Japan Corp. has introduced a new pay system with an added focus on individual performance, company officials said Monday. (Yomiuri)
View ArticleRail link sparks shopping war / Shibuya, Shinjuku lick lips at...
The planned connection between the Tokyu Toyoko Line and Tokyo Metro's Fukutoshin Line is intensifying competition among commercial facilities in Shinjuku and Shibuya, both major shopping districts in...
View ArticleAbe vows to facilitate returns home by N-Disaster evacuees
The Japanese government will step up efforts to help evacuees return to their homes in areas affected by the nuclear accident in northeastern Japan, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Monday. (Jiji Press)
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