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The head of an official inquiry into the deadly collapse of a Bangladesh factory complex said the building’s owner was the “main culprit” for the disaster because he violated construction codes. The cave-in of the eight-story Rana Plaza outside the capital last month killed ...
Throughout most of Japan, June is the rainy season. While all that rainfall is great for rice paddies so that we can have delicious new harvest rice in the fall, it makes it a rather dull month for seasonal produce: The summer’s bounty of ...
“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, ...
Claude Regy says the team at the Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC) threw him the “best birthday party ever” when he arrived in Japan just days after the actual May 1 occasion. The 90-year-old French director is hoping for an even better birthday gift, ...
As far as debuts go, Shohei Otani's delivered. The celebrated rookie pitched fairly well on Thursday night, and though he finished outside the decision, he left the mound with the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters well within striking distance of the Tokyo Yakult Swallows.
An engine on a Bombardier CRJ200 operated by a Japan Airlines Co. group firm catches fire after landing at an Osaka airport.
Japan Airlines conducts its first test flight of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner since the aircraft was grounded worldwide, with an eye to resuming commercial flights in June.
Boeing on Monday took out full-page advertisements in major Japanese newspapers as it tries to piece together its reputation in the wake of the worldwide Dreamliner grounding. The U.S. manufacturer is fighting a rear-guard action in Japan, the biggest single market for its troubled ...
Japan Airlines said Tuesday its net profit in the fiscal year to March fell 8 percent to ¥171.7 billion, while it slashed its full-year earnings outlook by almost a third. JAL, which relisted on the Tokyo Stock Exchange last year after a high-profile bankruptcy ...
All Nippon Airways and Japan Airlines begin putting new batteries into their grounded Dreamliners to get the high-tech fleets flying again.
An estimated 840,000 new recruits nationwide began their first day of work Monday as fiscal 2013 began after a difficult job-hunting season hampered by the miserable economy.
The alleged cyberriddler accused of issuing online threats that triggered four false arrests last year was indicted Friday afternoon over a bomb threat sent to Japan Airlines from a hijacked computer in Osaka Prefecture, prosecutors said. The Tokyo District Public Prosecutor’s Office charged Yusuke ...
Japan Airlines Co. Chairman Emeritus Kazuo Inamori will retire from JAL’s board of directors on March 31, effectively giving its management a freer hand, a source said Thursday. Although Inamori will retain the honorary chairmanship, his duties will be limited to advising the management ...
A fuel leak in a Japan Airlines 787 during maintenance work at Narita International Airport was due to a malfunction in the valve of a fuel pipe caused by flaws in coating, the transport ministry said Friday. About 100 liters of jet fuel leaked ...
The Japanese panel investigating the Dec. 16 mishap involving an All Nippon Airways 787 Dreamliner said Tuesday signs of an uncontrolled chemical reaction at high temperature, known as a “thermal runaway,” were found in the jet’s main battery. Signs of such a chemical reaction ...
All Nippon Airways Co. said Thursday its group net profit rose 54.6 percent in the April-December period to ¥52.24 billion, due partly to an increase in business passengers. Its consolidated operating profit rose 18.0 percent to a record ¥107.52 billion for the nine-month period, ...
The grounding of two Dreamliner fleets Wednesday not only dents the reputation of U.S. aviation giant Boeing Co. but also threatens to deal a blow to Japanese firms that make around a third of the aircraft, analysts said. Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways ...