カテゴリー: Japan
30-year-old man tested positive to illness after visiting central Chinese city of Wuhan Japan has confirmed its first case of infection from the new China coronavirus that has killed one person and prompted a travel alert from the US state department.A…
Cabinet minister hopes move will improve attitudes to male parenting in country with dwindling birthrateJapan’s environment minister has announced that he will take paternity leave when his first child is born this month, the first time a cabinet minis…
Japanese court convicted Scott McIntyre of trespassing in attempt to find childrenScott McIntyre, a former sports reporter for Australia’s SBS network, has been given a suspended prison sentence in Tokyo after being found guilty of trespassing during a…
Holiday celebrates people reaching 20, the official age of adulthood in Japan Continue reading…
Carmaker plans sustainable city that runs on hydrogen fuel cells, initially houses 2,000 people and uses internet technology in virtually all aspects of lifeToyota has unveiled plans to build a sustainable “city of the future” near Mount Fuji that will…
The businessman should have been kept in jail, prosecutors claim, because he had ‘financial power and foreign bases’Carlos Ghosn should have been kept in jail because his network of connections made it “easy for him to flee” house arrest, prosecutors i…
Chiune Sugihara’s son tells how he learned of his father’s rescue mission in Lithuania, which commemorates his achievements this yearAs a child in Japan in the 1950s and 60s, Nobuki Sugihara never knew his father had saved thousands of lives. Few did. …
Wife dismisses reports husband escaped inside an instrument case as world awaits full explanation from fugitiveThe world will have to wait until next week for what could be the only definitive account of how Carlos Ghosn managed to leave Japan months b…
Papers unite to criticise former Nissan chairman, saying he had ‘lost the opportunity to prove his innocence’The usually staid Japanese media has criticised Carlos Ghosn after the tycoon jumped bail and fled to Lebanon – reportedly inside a musical ins…
Experts say vessel was possibly travelling far out to sea for bigger catchesSeven badly decomposed bodies were found in a suspected North Korean fishing boat that washed up on a Japanese island, a coast guard official.The remains were found on Saturday…
Nostalgia for the good times has been a coping mechanism for the world’s third largest economyOn 29 December 1989, Japan’s Nikkei stock market index hit a high of 38,916, a milestone that proved to be the last hurrah of the country’s asset-inflated bub…
Amid rising tension, NHK says rocket launched into sea off Hokkaido before apologising for errorJapan’s public broadcaster, NHK, mistakenly reported that North Korea had filed a missile that landed in the sea off the country’s northernmost island of Ho…
Tokyo Shimbun journalist says she is buoyed by ‘ordinary people’ to shrug off abuse and efforts by Abe’s administration to frustrate her“Even Abe’s friends in the media can’t ignore this,” says Isoko Mochizuki over lunch in between interviews and chasi…
Shinzo Abe and Moon Jae-in holds talks in China – their first in 15 months amid dispute over colonial era forced labourThe Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe, has asked President Moon Jae-in of South Korea to take steps to resolve the two countries’ b…
Utsunomiya’s culinary obsession with dumplings dates back to the end of the war, but the city has a new rival Pan-fried, deep-fried or simmered in boiling water, the humble gyoza is venerated in Japan, but nowhere more so than in Utsunomiya, whose resi…