カテゴリー: Japan
The boxes served to protect the eyes of children from adult material littering the streets, but the shift online has seen their usefulness declineFor more than a decade Kazuhide Inoue has played an understated part in protecting the morals of adolescen…
Tokyo wants to drop attempts to lessen its reliance on nuclear power, according to a draft energy planMore than a decade after the triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, Japan is again turning to nuclear power as it struggles to reach it…
Leaders praise each other at White House but president warns Japan could face tariffs if it doesn’t cut US trade deficit to zeroThe Japanese prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba, and the US president, Donald Trump, struck a warm tone at their first meeting o…
Shigeru Ishiba will seek familiar guarantees: that the US will continue to stand on Japan’s side against China and North KoreaDonald Trump had yet to get his feet under the Oval Office desk when he held his first meeting with a foreign leader in late 2…
Hokkaido and the Japan Sea coast have been hardest hit, forcing domestic airlines to cancel flights between cities in the region and TokyoLarge parts of Japan have been blanketed with snow, as the lowest temperatures this winter disrupted rail and air …
Residents near Tokyo question slow pace of effort to rescue 74-year-old as workers race to build 30-metre rampFears are growing for a truck driver who has spent three days trapped inside a sinkhole in Japan, as rescue workers started building a ramp in…
Attempts in Japan to retrieve the man were temporarily halted early on Wednesday after a second sinkhole appearedRescue workers in Japan are battling water leaks, gas pipes and unstable ground as they attempt to reach a man whose truck fell into a sink…
Overseas tourists are blocking roads or walking onto railway tracks in Otaru to capture its views, stoking local resentment and complaints of overtourismAuthorities in Japan are stepping up measures to deter crowds of overseas visitors from taking risk…
More than 70 firms including Toyota and McDonald’s halt ads on Fuji TV as Masahiro Nakai retires amid assault claimsFor the past month Japan has been gripped by allegations of sexual misconduct involving one of the country’s best-known stars at a major…
Staff had noticed that the sunfish was showing signs of distress after the aquarium was closed for refurbishmentDo fish get lonely? Apparently so, according to staff at an aquarium in Japan, who have provided cut-out human companions for a solitary sun…
Ramen restaurants also struggling as Japan’s culinary landscape faces economic challenges and changing customer behaviourIn the bowels of a commercial building in Tokyo’s Shinbashi neighbourhood there is little to suggest that office workers seeing in …
Tokyo remains, in the world’s imagination, a place of sophistication and wealth. But with economic revival forever distant, ‘tourism pollution’ seems the only viable plan The yen is low, and everybody is coming to Tokyo. If that sounds familiar, it’s n…
Coming of Age Day is celebrated in Japan every January, when those becoming adults dress in formal kimonos, pray at shrines and hear speeches about their new responsibilities. Thousands attended a ceremony in Yohohama Continue reading…
Japanese police say 22-year-old woman arrested as witness describes panic after attacker ‘all of a sudden’ began swinging hammer in classroomEight Tokyo university students attacked with a hammer in a classroom were recuperating and none required hospi…
US authorities charged Takeshi Ebisawa with conspiring to traffic nuclear materials from Myanmar for expected use by Iran in nuclear weaponsA member of the Japanese criminal underworld has pleaded guilty to handling nuclear material sourced from Myanm…