Transport authorities launched a full-fledged investigation Sunday into the derailment of a bullet train on the Akita Shinkansen Line in Daisen, Akita Prefecture, on Saturday afternoon.
It's a dangerous, unpredictable world. Twice in January Chinese warships in the East China Sea challenged Japan's Maritime Self Defense Forces patrols in a manner deemed threatening. And on Feb. 12 came North Korea's nuclear test.
Here's an open secret: Japanese men have a bad international reputation on the romance front.
SELLING WOMEN: Prostitution, Markets and the Household in Early Modern Japan, by Amy Stanley. University of California Press, 2012, 282 pp., $49.95 (hardcover) In the vast cultural landscape, Japan fascinates the mainstream with manga and anime, the martial arts, Zen and kimono. Of course, ...
Kenta Maeda shook off worries about his form with five shutout innings as Japan beat China 5-2 in first-round Pool A of the World Baseball Classic on Sunday at Fukuoka Dome. Japan improved to 2-0 following a tough win over Brazil in Saturday evening’s ...
Tokyo Electric Power Co. may suspend power supply to companies and factories that are refusing to accept the utility’s higher electricity rates, which it has increased since last April by an average of 14.9 percent, a company official said Wednesday. The utility, which is ...
Tokyo Electric Power Co. provided false information last year to a panel commissioned by the Diet to investigate the nation’s worst nuclear plant catastrophe, according to sources. The misinformation led the now-defunct panel to cancel an on-site inspection of the building housing reactor 1 ...
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Wednesday it plans to procure 800,000 tons of liquefied natural gas annually from the United States from 2017 as part of efforts to cut heavy fuel costs for thermal power generation. The LNG, including liquefied shale gas, will come ...
The Environment Ministry wants the industry ministry to have Tokyo Electric Power Co. postpone its planned tender to choose suppliers of electricity generated by coal-fired thermal plants, sources said. The Environment Ministry is apparently concerned about the effects on global warming as coal-fired thermal ...
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Monday it expects to record a ¥120 billion group net loss for the year ending in March instead of ¥45 billion as previously forecasted on expanding fuel costs for thermal power generation caused by the Fukushima nuclear disaster. The ...
Prosecutors seize records of state interviews with Masao Yoshida, the former manager of the Fukushima No. 1 power plant, as part of a criminal probe into Japan's worst nuclear plant disaster.
Tokyo Gov. Naoki Inose has balked at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s demand that the metropolitan government pay ¥5.18 billion to cancel its contract to sell the utility electricity from its hydropower plants. Inose hinted that the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, which intends to select a ...
Prosecutors have questioned Tsunehisa Katsumata, former chairman of Tokyo Electric Power Co., for alleged professional negligence in connection with the triple-meltdown catastrophe at Tepco’s Fukushima No. 1 power plant that occurred in March 2011, investigative sources said Thursday. The prosecutors apparently focused on Tepco’s ...
