Transport authorities launched a full-fledged investigation Sunday into the derailment of a bullet train on the Akita Shinkansen Line in Daisen, Akita Prefecture, on Saturday afternoon.
It's a dangerous, unpredictable world. Twice in January Chinese warships in the East China Sea challenged Japan's Maritime Self Defense Forces patrols in a manner deemed threatening. And on Feb. 12 came North Korea's nuclear test.
Here's an open secret: Japanese men have a bad international reputation on the romance front.
SELLING WOMEN: Prostitution, Markets and the Household in Early Modern Japan, by Amy Stanley. University of California Press, 2012, 282 pp., $49.95 (hardcover) In the vast cultural landscape, Japan fascinates the mainstream with manga and anime, the martial arts, Zen and kimono. Of course, ...
Kenta Maeda shook off worries about his form with five shutout innings as Japan beat China 5-2 in first-round Pool A of the World Baseball Classic on Sunday at Fukuoka Dome. Japan improved to 2-0 following a tough win over Brazil in Saturday evening’s ...
Regional utilities have long dominated the power market, but companies and local governments are starting to get interested in new retailers offering much cheaper rates. This rise is especially true since the Fukushima No. 1 crisis erupted last year and its operator, Tokyo Electric ...
Sony Corp., which expects to suffer a record loss for the latest business year, announced Thursday it is considering tying up with rivals to get its money-losing TV business back into the black by the end of March 2014. The company also confirmed that ...
Tokyo Stock Exchange Group Inc. and Daiwa Securities Group Inc. said Wednesday they have reached an agreement with the central bank of Myanmar to set up a stock exchange and help grow a capital market in the country. Myanmar aims to establish a stock ...
Automakers were among the companies most heavily damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami last year, but the road to recovery was fast and their plants are getting ready to make up for lost time. During an inspection tour of Nissan Motor Co.’s ...
Kazuhiko Asakawa, president of scandal-tainted AIJ Investment Advisors Co., repeated Tuesday in his second appearance before the Diet that he had no intention of deceiving corporate pension fund clients, prompting criticism from lawmakers and other witnesses. During his unsworn testimony before the Upper House ...
The president of scandal-hit AIJ Investment Co., Kazuhiko Asakawa, admitted Tuesday in the Diet that he had covered losses in corporate pension funds and promised false returns to lure clients. Making his first public appearance since the firm’s massive losses of pension funds came ...
Sharp Corp. said Tuesday it will sell its new shares to Taiwan’s Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. and its three group firms to help boost profitability in the fierce global display rivalry, making the Taiwanese group collectively the largest Sharp shareholder with a stake ...
Lifenet Insurance Co. debuted Thursday on the Mothers startup market at the Tokyo Stock Exchange, becoming the nation’s first listed life insurer that operates only online. Its initial share closing price, however, was a tad off the IPO price. Taking advantage of its low-cost ...
The fiasco at AIJ Investment Advisors Co. is not only threatening the retirement prospects of more than 880,000 people, it is also raising fears that more corporate pension money is being misinvested. AIJ’s loss may force its client companies to slash pension benefits, raise ...
As the closure of the nation’s 54th and final reactor approaches, businesses and think tanks are starting to wonder whether Japan can survive next summer without atomic energy and a mandatory power-saving order. Japan has survived a winter and a summer without its full ...
