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A sit-in by visa violators and their families entered its second day Tuesday in front of the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau with protesters seeking government good will. The action at the bureau in Minato Ward is being organized by the Asian People’s Friendship Society, ...
Kazuhiro Shiraishi, 66, is a guest-house manager in the Izu-kogen Highlands, a famous resort area on the Izu Peninsula of Shizuoka Prefecture. Looking out onto the Pacific Ocean, and just 90 minutes by train from Tokyo, Izu has a warm climate all year round ...
“I was stopped by two men in a government-registered vehicle, blindfolded and dragged off the street. They took me away to a house in a place I did not know. I was forced into a room with blood all over the walls and floor, ...
Takashi Miike's blood-soaked vengeance tale, one of two Japanese films being shown in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, draws the biggest boos so far, with critics savaging it as overacted and cliched.
Have you ever given your best effort while striving to achieve something but felt like what you were doing was futile? That’s the feeling I’m getting about Tokyo’s bid to host the 2020 Olympics. With just over three months to go until the IOC ...
Industrial production in March rose a revised 0.9 percent from the previous month, against the preliminary reading of a 0.2 percent increase, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said Thursday. The reading represents the fourth consecutive monthly growth, in a sign that production ...
The net asset value of publicly offered investment trust funds in Japan rose 6.9 percent in April to hit a five-year high of ¥77.67 trillion, the Investment Trusts Association said. The outstanding asset balance extended its rising streak to an 11th month. It touched ...
Sanyo Electric Co. is recalling 45,300 washing machines manufactured between 2005 and 2009 because of risks of smoke or fire due to components overheating. The Panasonic group company said it came up with the decision after investigating three heat damage cases affecting two models ...
Olympus Corp. said Wednesday it returned to the black in fiscal 2012 with a group net profit of ¥8.02 billion, compared with a loss of ¥48.99 billion in the previous year, due partly to an improvement in its medical instrument business. But its imaging ...
NTT DoCoMo said Wednesday it will team up with the popular social network provider Line to offer a special app for DoCoMo users, aiming to deepen its relationship with the operator of the growing communication tool. “Line’s growth has been incredible. . . . ...
The surge in oil production in the U.S. and Canada and shrinking oil consumption in the developed world is transforming the global oil market. The threat of chronic oil shortages is all but gone, U.S. dependence on Middle Eastern oil will continue to dwindle ...
U.S. private equity fund Cerberus Capital Management LP will probably acquire a stake of more than one-third in Seibu Holdings Inc. via a takeover bid set to expire Friday, sources said. Raising its stake in Seibu Holdings to more than one-third would give the ...
European Union governments want to shift the cost of rescuing troubled banks from taxpayers to the banks’ creditors — including the holders of large deposits — as part the region’s plan to shore up its shaky financial system. Finance ministers from the 27-country bloc ...
The Diet on Wednesday approved the ¥92 trillion budget for fiscal 2013 to support the immediate issuance of debt-covering government bonds. The Upper House rejected the budget bill earlier in the day as lawmakers voted along party lines. The ruling coalition lacks a clear ...
Boeing restarted deliveries of 787s on Tuesday after a four-month halt while it dealt with the smoldering batteries that had kept the planes grounded. Boeing handed the plane over to All Nippon Airways at its factory in Everett, Washington. Airline flights and deliveries were ...
Google Inc. must respect requests to remove autocomplete entries from its search bar in Germany if they are defamatory, a German court ruled Tuesday. The Federal Court of Justice upheld a complaint from an unidentified company selling nutritional supplements and its founder, identified only ...
The European Commission has carried out surprise inspections at several major oil companies over possible price-fixing in breach of EU antitrust rules. The commission did not name any of the companies involved in Tuesday’s raids but British energy giant BP, Shell and Norway’s Statoil ...