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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 ...
Tense engineers have their eyes peeled on complex color-coded diagrams on a wall-sized screen that makes their control room look like the inside of a spaceship. They work with a power system that would have seemed equally futuristic not so long ago. It is ...
An increasing number of companies are abandoning major utilities to buy electricity from upstarts offering cheaper rates. Tokyo Electric Power Co. saw major clients drop by some 7,000 in fiscal 2012 ended in March, up tenfold from fiscal 2011, after it hiked prices for ...
The government on Tuesday approved rate hikes on household electricity supplied by Kansai Electric Power Co. and Kyushu Electric Power Co. The utilities say they need the increases, which will take effect May 1, to pay for surging fuel costs at their thermal power ...
Consumers will be able to choose power suppliers that offer lower rates starting in 2016 following the government's decision to liberalize the electricity retail market.
The government plans to order two regional utilities to trim their planned household electricity rate hikes, possibly by about 2 percentage points, believing the firms can cut costs further, sources said Wednesday. The move came after the government, together with energy experts, studied the ...
An industry ministry panel will propose a set of power industry reforms to the government that would enable households to select electricity suppliers from 2016 and force utilities to separate their energy generation and transmission businesses between 2018 and 2020. The measures, which would ...