カテゴリー: Japan
Japan’s Nikkei 225 index closes more than 10% up with other Asia markets rebounding on TuesdayBusiness live – latest updatesJapanese stocks soared more than 10% on Tuesday, a day after experiencing their biggest fall in 37 years, setting markets tumbli…
Japan’s agriculture ministry blames shortage on tourists’ vast demand for rice and low crop yields last yearJapan’s rice stockpile has fallen to the lowest level this century, with a tourism boom part of the cause, government officials say.Private-sect…
Watson, founder of Sea Shepherd and co-founder of Greenpeace, has been arrested on an international warrant and is facing charges including accomplice to assault and ship trespassAnti-whaling activist Paul Watson could face up to 15 years in prison in …
Use of the motorised luggage which is popular in parts of Asia, require safety equipment and a driver’s licence, according to Japanese lawAs record numbers of tourists flock to Japan to take advantage of the weakness of the Japanese yen, some are runni…
US defence secretary says China is ‘engaging in coercive behaviour, trying to change the status quo in the East and South China Seas’Japanese and US defense chiefs, as well as top diplomats, agreed to further bolster their military cooperation by upgra…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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 …
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…
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…