Japan kept silent on worst nuclear crisis scenario
The Japanese government's worst-case scenario at the height of the nuclear crisis last year warned that tens of millions of people, including Tokyo residents, might need to leave their homes, according...
View Article3 major parties agree on civil servant wage cuts
The ruling Democratic Party of Japan and the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party and New Komeito have finally agreed on a plan to cut the salaries of national governmental employees by more than...
View ArticleU.S. may extradite drug suspect / Case of American wanted in Kanagawa Pref....
A U.S. district court ruled in spring last year that a 30-year-old American former serviceman for whom the Kanagawa prefectural police have an arrest warrant for trafficking drugs must be extradited...
View ArticleYahoo Japan in talks with parent over stake sale
Yahoo Japan in talks with parent over stake sale By Juro Osawa, Dow Jones Newswires Wednesday 25 January 2012 Japanese Internet firm reported 2.7% increase in quarterly net profit on back of higher...
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Japan's KDDI debut's forced Android advertising
For many of us around the world advertising in an unfortunate, but unavoidable fact of life. But Japan's au by KDDI network has taken obtrusive marketing one step further, by pushing advertising...
View ArticleJapan - The Ryokan Experience
Ryokans are Japanese-styled inns from centuries ago and are more than just a place to stay. They offer the visitor a chance to experience traditional Japanese lifestyle; from tatami (rice mats) covered...
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New quantum dot growing technique could increase fiber optic speeds
Japan's National Institute of Information and Communications Technology has completed research that it says could let fiber optic networks use new parts of the spectrum. Using tiny chips of...
View ArticleTepco set for $13 billion bailout
The owner of Japan's stricken nuclear reactor, Tokyo Electric Power Co, will agree to be taken over by the government in a near-$13 billion bailout, sources said on Thursday, even as the country...
View ArticleNEC to slash 10,000 jobs
NEC Corp said Thursday it will slash 10,000 jobs, almost one in 10 of its workers, to trim costs after the electronics maker announced a loss of 87 billion yen ($1.11 billion) for the three months to...
View ArticleDoctor, wife jailed for buying illegally harvested kidney
A Tokyo doctor was sentenced Thursday to three years in prison for purchasing an illegally harvested kidney, and his wife was jailed for 30 months over her involvement. The Tokyo District Court found...
View ArticlePast 3,500 years saw seven M9s
At least seven magnitude 9 earthquakes have occurred along the Pacific coast from Hokkaido to Tohoku over the past 3,500 years, generating huge tsunami that inundated the coastline, a new study by a...
View ArticleSmartphone traffic projection caught DoCoMo off guard
NTT DoCoMo Inc. said Thursday that the disruption of texting and mobile phone services the previous day happened because its packet-switching equipment doesn't have enough capacity to handle the data...
View Article40% of universities mull shifting academic year
More than 40 percent of the national universities are warming to the University of Tokyo plan to shift the start of the undergraduate academic year from spring to fall, a survey found. Major private...
View ArticleToshiba plans to release e-book reader
Toshiba Corp. said Thursday it will enter the e-book reader market with the release in Japan of its BookPlace DB50, which boasts a 7-inch color screen, on Feb. 10. The Internet-enabled device via Wi-Fi...
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Horse racing: Hokkaido racehorse breeders bet on China
Business has been lean over the years for many of the horse breeders in Hokkaido, Japan's leading region for producing thoroughbreds, as the popularity of racing declines. But breeders now see a ray of...
View ArticleNew National Theatre, Tokyo, opens season with Puccini classic
The New National Theatre, Tokyo, (NNTT) is opening its 2012 opera season with a classic by Italian composer Giacomo Puccini. The Puccini piece, "La Boheme," is especially popular with Japanese opera...
View ArticleTalks to start on lowering voting age
The government will start talks next month on lowering the voting age from 20 to 18, Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura said Thursday. Though long debated, no panel meeting has been held on the...
View ArticleOpposition digs in against Noda
Opposition lawmakers grilled Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda on Thursday over planned social security and tax reforms and his "inability" to keep his party's campaign pledges, and pressed again for him...
View ArticleGovt aims to add millions of part-timers to state-run pension scheme
The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry is seeking to add millions of part-time workers to those covered by the government-run employee pension scheme. Part-time workers are automatically covered by...
View ArticleJapanese man fakes own death with brother's body
A Japanese man managed to fake his own death by claiming his late brother's body was his own, according to police. Even while Tsukasa Oizumi's older sibling was alive, he used to use his driving...
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