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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 ...
Investors are more confident in a Japanese leader than any time since at least September 2010, with optimism about Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s policies exceeding that for counterparts in the U.S., Europe and China. The number of respondents who are more optimistic than pessimistic on the impact of Abe’s plans ...
The government on Monday upgraded the economy for the first time in two months by deleting the word “weak” from ...
The yen climbed versus a majority of its 16 major peers after economy minister Akira Amari said further losses in ...
The chairman and other executives of Keidanren plan to tour the battered Fukushima No. 1 power plant, the influential business lobby said Monday. The corporate executives are making the trip so the group, also called the Japan Business Federation, can make policy recommendations to ...
Two mind-sets seem to be catching on in Japan these days. They worry me. One is the notion that something has to be useful to be of value. The other is that anything is justifiable on the grounds that everybody else is doing it. ...
Budding growth in the Japanese economy, just as a recession in Europe digs in, is renewing pressure on European policymakers to shift course from austerity to stimulus. Data released on Thursday said that Japan’s economy grew markedly in the first quarter, only weeks after ...
Japan’s government must demonstrate a commitment to fiscal rehabilitation to boost the credibility of government bonds and prevent a spike in long-term yields as soaring stocks damp the allure of the nation’s sovereign debt, Economy Minister Akira Amari said. “As stocks have rallied this ...
Core private-sector machinery orders jump a seasonally adjusted 14.2 percent, indicating the weaker yen and higher stocks are starting to prompt companies to boost investment.
The economy enjoys a stronger than expected recovery, growing at a 3.5 percent annual pace as the government stepped up public works spending and eased credit to encourage investment.
The 11 countries involved in the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade negotiations began their 17th round of talks in Lima on Wednesday with the focus on whether exceptions should be made to the general rule of tariff elimination. Even though Japan gained the unanimous backing of ...
A two-day meeting to discuss how to utilize African natural resources started in Tokyo on Thursday, with around 2,000 people, including natural resources ministers from 15 African nations, attending. At the Japan Sustainable Mining, Investment and Technology Business Forum, or J-SUMIT, the African ministers ...
The number of people with disabilities who found work through public job-placement offices hit a record high for the third consecutive year in fiscal 2012 that ended in March, according to the latest government data. The figure was up 15.1 percent from the previous ...
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 ...
Supporters of a U.S.-European free-trade deal have begun damping expectations about its immediate benefits amid a series of emerging disputes that could complicate the creation of the world’s largest trade zone. President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron met Monday and affirmed ...
Wholesale prices were unchanged in April from a year earlier following 12 straight months of decline, the Bank of Japan said Tuesday. Prices of steel as well as information and communications equipment continued to drop, but increases for materials such as lumber as well ...