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Record-high 17.78 million foreign tourists came to Japan in the first half of year, with arrivals in June led by travellers from South Korea, China, Taiwan and the USBusinesses in Japan are considering a dual pricing system for foreign tourists and loc…
続きを読むPresident of Kobayashi Pharmaceutical standing down after damning report said company failed to act with sufficient urgency after alarm was raised in JanuaryThe chairman and president of a major Japanese dietary supplement maker is to resign, as the co…
続きを読むMembers of Tokyo’s Ara Style Senior say they were inspired by the inclusion of breakdancing at this year’s Paris OlympicsHead spins and monkey flips are noticeable by their absence. But in their place there is a lot of laughter and a thumping beat, alo…
続きを読むThe co-founder of Greenpeace will be taken to court where a decision will be made about his extradition to Japan, police sayProminent anti-whaling environmentalist Paul Watson has been arrested in Greenland on Sunday under an international arrest warra…
続きを読むConsultation launched as surveys show people have little chance to meet partners and worry about high cost of living The Japanese government has begun to consult young people about their interest in marriage – or lack thereof – as Japan continues to st…
続きを読むGoze – women who earned a living as musicians despite sight impairments – are all but forgotten in Japan but Rieko Hirosawa has learned their songsRieko Hirosawa sits on a stone bench outside her home, tunes her instrument and takes a deep breath. She …
続きを読むRieko Hirosawa, who herself is blind, has learned how to play the shamisen and sing the songs of the goze, blind and visually impaired women who earned a living as itinerant musicians and who numbered in their hundreds at their peak in the late 19th ce…
続きを読むTwenty-one year old spent two nights in the ocean before being spotted by a cargo ship A woman who was swept out to see while swimming at a beach in Japan has been rescued about 80km (50 miles) off the coast, 36 hours after she went missing, officials …
続きを読むHospitals are stretched to their limits during unseasonably early heatwave, as medical authorities liken public health risk to a ‘natural disaster’Medical experts in Japan are to add a “most severe” category to the current heatstroke index, amid warnin…
続きを読むAverage number of heatstroke-related deaths each year has increased six fold since 1995Japan’s meteorological agency has issued a heatstroke alert for 26 of the country’s 47 prefectures, urging people not to go outside unless absolutely necessary, to u…
続きを読むIwao Hakamada, 88, who spent longer than anyone in the world awaiting execution, awaits murder retrial verdictIn the early hours of 30 June 1966 a fire swept through the home of the managing director of a miso maker in Shizuoka, central Japan. After th…
続きを読むThe 12-metre high machine has coke bottle eyes and a crude Wall-E-like head, as well as large arms that can be fitted with blades or paint brushesIt resembles an enormous, malevolent robot from 1980s sci-fi but West Japan Railway’s new humanoid employe…
続きを読むJapan’s supreme court rules that practice under now-defunct eugenics law was unconstitutionalJapan’s supreme court has ordered the government to pay damages to dozens of people who were forcibly sterilised under a now-defunct eugenics law, saying the p…
続きを読むClampdown follows fatal stabbing of Chinese woman who tried to stop attack on Japanese mother and childChina’s internet companies have announced a crackdown on “extreme nationalism” online, particularly anti-Japanese sentiment, after a Chinese woman wa…
続きを読むSome 68,000 people are expected to die alone and unnoticed in Japan this year, police say, as the population continues to age“We occasionally greet each other, but that’s all. If one of my neighbours died, I’m not sure I would notice,” says Noriko Shik…
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