Immaculate and ramrod straight in a crisp, black suit, Japan’s education minister, Hakubun Shimomura, speaks like a schoolteacher — slowly and deliberately.
To attract foreign visitors on the occasion of Ise Shrine’s “shikinen sengu” renovation event in October, held once every two decades, the host city in Mie Prefecture will start providing subsidies for tourist facilities to prepare information in English. Starting Saturday, the city of ...
Tokyo Electric Power Co. and three other power companies held shareholders’ meetings on Tuesday and six more on Wednesday. The shareholders’ meetings were overshadowed by the crisis at Tepco’s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. At some meetings, many shareholders presented motions calling for ...
