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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 ...
Retail giant Aeon Co. plans to have women filling 30 percent of managerial positions by 2016 and 50 percent by 2020, President Motoya Okada said. Only around 10 percent of all managers at its roughly 200 group companies are women, due in part to ...
A senior executive of retailer Aeon Co. will become the new president of Daiei Inc. after the superstore operator is turned into a subsidiary, sources said Monday. Shouhei Murai, 63, spearheaded the effort to reform Aeon’s superstore business through cost-cutting and other measures. His ...
Aeon Co. announced Wednesday it will increase its stake in Daiei Inc. to turn the smaller superstore chain into a subsidiary, creating a massive retailing group that will have combined sales in excess of ¥6 trillion. Aeon, which owns a 19.9 percent stake in ...
Retail giant Aeon Co. is looking to become the top shareholder of Daiei Inc. by buying shares in the retailer from the major trading house Marubeni Corp., sources said. Aeon has already approached Marubeni, which is Daiei’s biggest shareholder with a stake of about ...