417 foreigners sit for Japan nursing exam
Some 417 foreigners from Indonesia and the Philippines were among 54,270 applicants who sat for the Japan nursing examination held nationwide on Sunday. The number of foreigners taking the test has...
View ArticleForeign investors fear Japan banks may hijack Olympus board
Western investors in Japan's disgraced Olympus have accused its banks of trying to take control of the boardroom by stealth, amid media reports that the firm's major creditors are set to install their...
View ArticleMazda dives on report of new share issue
Shares in Japan's Mazda Motor tumbled more than 14 percent on Tuesday after reports that the troubled car maker plans to raise 100 billion yen ($1.25 billion) in a new share issue. Mazda Motor is to...
View ArticleSoccer: Japan look for goals galore in Olympic qualifier vs Malaysia
Japan hope to open the floodgates against Malaysia as Takashi Sekizuka's side desperately seek to win big in a crunch Olympic qualifier on Wednesday. "We need to score early so we can put ourselves in...
View ArticleA window into Japan's train fanatics
It shouldn't come as any great surprise that a country known for obscure hobbies and an impressive railway system has given birth to a new pastime: Capturing video footage from the window of a moving...
View ArticleTokyo stocks fall on profit-taking
Tokyo stocks slipped on Tuesday despite a short-lived rally on news that eurozone finance chiefs had finally agreed a massive bailout deal for debt-ridden Greece. The Nikkei 225 index at the Tokyo...
View ArticleTokyo Small Stocks' Longest Run Since '75
Small Tokyo-listed companies have capped the longest streak of daily advances in almost 37 years. Japan's TSE Second Section Price Index (TSE2), a capitalization- weighted index of smaller companies...
View ArticleWhy Japanese Yen ETFs are Getting Crushed
Exchange traded funds tracking the Japanese yen/U.S. dollar exchange rate have been hammered lately on currency interventions by Japan's central bank and easing tensions over Europe's crisis, which is...
View ArticleBasketball: American 1st female coach in men's league in Japan
Natalie Nakase knows there's more to her job than winning games. The American is the first female coach in Japan's professional men's basketball league. Nakase was hired by the Saitama Broncos last...
View ArticleJapan falls in love with oxford English apps
On February 14, English language learning apps featuring Alice in Wonderland and Sherlock Holmes took the top slots on Japan's App Store in the education segment. Since then, they have also taken the...
View ArticleJapan suggests no quick G-20 deal on IMF funding
Japan's finance minister signaled Tuesday that Group of 20 finance officials won't forge any deal at a meeting this weekend on how much additional money member nations should provide for the...
View ArticleJapan's island paradise Okinawa expands EV role in eco-tourism
The name Okinawa means "rope in the open sea," and the island archipelago in southern Japan offers tropical beauty that lassos in more than 5 million tourists annually. Over the past year, the Japanese...
View ArticleJapan clears up only 5% of tsunami rubble
Japan has cleared up just five percent of the rubble left by last year's earthquake and tsunami, the government said Tuesday, amid fears it has been contaminated following the Fukushima nuclear...
View ArticleCurrent account deficit feared / Jan. trade figures portend account blowout,...
While the Finance Ministry reported Monday that Japan suffered a record trade deficit of 1.475 trillion yen in January, views are growing the nation will also post a current account deficit in...
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Family photos lost in Japan tsunami debris are slowly reunited with survivors
In a large, bright room not far from the ocean that raged through this coastal Japanese city nearly a year ago, a handful of people with magnifying glasses pore over boxes of photographs of friends or...
View ArticleHow the Yakuza went nuclear
Tepco has long been a scandal-ridden company, caught time and time again covering up data on safety lapses at their power plants, or doctoring film footage which showed fissures in pipes. How was the...
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Radiation detected 400 miles off Japanese coast
Radioactive contamination from the Fukushima power plant disaster has been detected as far as almost 400 miles off Japan in the Pacific Ocean, with water showing readings of up to 1,000 times more than...
View ArticleNorth Tokyo Bay Big One could top the scale: study
A future earthquake in the northern part of Tokyo Bay could register the maximum of 7 on the Japanese intensity scale in the capital, stronger than the previously assumed upper 6, according to a study...
View ArticleAum figure Hirata gets new charge
Prosecutors have indicted Makoto Hirata, a former senior member of Aum Shinrikyo, on fresh charges of involvement in a blast at a Tokyo condominium and the firebombing of the cult's Tokyo headquarters...
View ArticleJapanese official denies Nanjing Massacre
Chinese Internet users are in an uproar after the mayor of Nagoya told a delegation from Nanjing that he doubted Japanese soldiers had committed atrocities during their World War II occupation of the...
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