Japan to resume full-fledged development aid to Myanmar
Japan plans to resume full-blown development aid to Myanmar to help finance its infrastructure projects as the Southeast Asian country takes steps towards democracy, Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba...
View ArticleJapan police police raid pro-North Korea group's offices
Japanese police have raided the offices of a pro-North Korean organisation suspected of a role in the illegal shipment of computers to North Korea. Japan maintains a total ban on exports to North...
View ArticleScientists to discuss latest Japan tsunami debris forecast
Tsunamis generated by the magnitude-9 earthquake in Japan last March dragged 3 million to 4 million tons of debris into the ocean after tearing up Japanese harbors and homes. Scientists believe ocean...
View ArticleFacebook disaster message board being tested in Japan
It's been close to a year since a monstrous 9.0-magnitude earthquake nearly disappeared Japan off the map. While the country has recovered some over the past year, the haunting reminders of the...
View ArticleJapan's rubble economy
On March 11, a year will have passed since Japan was struck by the triple tragedy of an earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear accident. According to figures announced by the country's National Police...
View ArticleClinton says Japan, EU working to comply with Iran sanctions
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday pledged to aggressively implement new U.S. sanctions on Iran but noted that some allies such as Japan face "unique situations" as they seek to reduce...
View ArticleDraft gives Japan right to defend itself
The main opposition Liberal Democratic Party on Monday released a draft of its second proposal to revise the Constitution, which would allow the nation to exercise its right to collective self-defense...
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'Ghosts' stalk Japan's tsunami city
A year after whole neighbourhoods full of people were killed by the Japanese tsunami, rumours of ghosts swirl in Ishinomaki as the city struggles to come to terms with the awful tragedy. One...
View ArticleTepco to pay Y600,000 to pregnant voluntary evacuees
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Tuesday it will pay ¥600,000 each to pregnant women and children aged 18 or under who have voluntarily evacuated their homes because of the triple-meltdown crisis at the...
View ArticleOkada to pursue casino project in Philippines
Billionaire Kazuo Okada, accused by Wynn Resorts Ltd. of making improper payments to Philippine gambling regulators, said he will "vigorously" pursue his casino project in the country. "I intend to...
View ArticleJudo: Nanjing cancels out on judo event
The city of Nanjing has canceled a commemorative China-Japan judo event scheduled for this week in the wake of Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura's controversial remarks about the 1937 massacre there...
View ArticleRetirement age plan to be axed
The government will shelve its plan to extend the compulsory retirement age for national government employees from 60 to 65, according to sources. Instead, it plans increase the number of employees...
View ArticleElpida lost trust of banks in tie-up bids
Trust between Elpida Memory Inc. and its banks gradually eroded as Elpida President Yukio Sakamoto struggled to find a business partner that could lift the ailing semiconductor maker's fortunes....
View ArticleSnow blankets Kanto-Koshin regions
Snow fell on the Kanto and Koshin regions on Wednesday morning. The Japan Meterological Agency warned of traffic and train delays. As of 10 a.m., parts of central Tokyo had recorded snowfall of 4-6...
View ArticleTokyo Sky Tree construction work finished
After a two-month delay caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake, construction on the 634-meter Tokyo Sky Tree was completed on Feb. 29. Obayashi Corp., which was in charge of the project in Tokyo's...
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Ridley Scott to join Japan quake project
Hollywood director Ridley Scott is to take part in a project documenting the first anniversary of Japan's earthquake and tsunami, a television network said Wednesday. The Briton, famous for "Alien",...
View ArticleJapan struggles with tainted reactor water
Nearly a year after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami sparked triple meltdowns at reactors here, the taming of Fukushima Daiichi has become in large part a quest to control water. Foreign journalists...
View ArticleNuclear-free summer looms over Japan's west in risk to recovery from quake
Japan's economic rebound from the deepest contraction among advanced nations after Greece and Portugal may be stunted this year as power shortages threaten its western region. The Kansai area, which...
View ArticleJapan says may cancel Lockheed F-35 if price rises
Japan may cancel orders for Lockheed Martin's F-35 fighter jets in the case of a price rise or delivery delay, Defense Minister Naoki Tanaka said on Wednesday, putting Tokyo's choice of next-generation...
View ArticleSoftbank wins coveted high-speed bandwidth
Japan's Communications Ministry panel said on Wednesday that it will allocate Softbank Corp a coveted 900 Megahertz spectrum for high-speed mobile services, as Japan's No.3 mobile phone operator races...
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