Options for next era name likely to include terms adapted from Japan classics
The options for the next Imperial era name, which will be unveiled April 1, are believed to include terms adapted from Japanese classics despite past era names typically being drawn ...
Survey finds that 50% of home care providers experienced harassment in 2018
Around 50 percent of home care providers reported in a recent government survey that they had experienced some form of harassment by those being cared for, Kyodo News learned Sunday. In ...
WAW/W20 talks close with a call for men to be more involved in women's issues
Key to empowering women is changing people’s mindsets and involving men in dealing more with women’s issues, participants at the joint World Assembly for Women and Women 20 summit hear.
Base-laden Okinawa vies to become tourism magnet
Just a couple minutes from the Okinawa Prefectural Government building and the busy shopping street Kokusai-dori, Sora Shokudo offers jerk chicken on the menu — a Caribbean cuisine that goes well with rum — which is now also produced in Okinawa and attracting interest ...
Tsunami-hit railway in northeast Japan resumes regular services
A railway line stretching more than 160 kilometers along Iwate Prefecture's Pacific Coast resumed regular services Sunday for the first time since sustaining heavy damage caused by the 2011 tsunami and massive earthquake that devastated the Tohoku region. The service between Miyako and Kamaishi stations ...
Fugu grow faster and without deadly toxin at hotelier's hot spring farms in Tohoku
A hotel operator in the Tohoku region is one of a small number of companies that have launched businesses in depopulated rural areas to raise torafugu, a high-quality variety of the poisonous puffer fish prized as a delicacy in Japan, using tanks filled with ...
Japan to use Osprey aircraft for overseas rescue operations: sources
The government plans to introduce a special operations variant of the U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 tilt-rotor Osprey aircraft for Self-Defense Forces to conduct dangerous and covert missions abroad.
Japan plans to develop home-made long-range anti-ship missile to counter threat
The Defense Ministry plans to develop a domestically made long-range anti-ship missile, apparently in response to advanced, longer-range air-defense missiles now in service with the Chinese Navy, according to sources. Under the plan, the new missile will be an improved model of the ASM-3 supersonic ...
Japan wants more foreign nationals to join regional revitalization programs amid graying population
Foreign nationals living in Japan will be encouraged to join regional revitalization programs outside greater Tokyo and other big cities.
Small Japanese firms fear foreign laborers will abandon them when new visas kick in
As Japan braces for a fresh influx of foreign workers from the new visa system starting next month, small and midsize firms fear the system will end up helping only major firms in large cities, since those who qualify for the two new "specified ...
Idols and agencies in Japan navigate a brand new landscape
Television personality Masahiro Nakai made an appearance as a "surprise guest" on the March 10 installment of Nippon TV's law-related variety show, "Gyoretsu no Dekiru Horitsu Sodanjo" (“Line-up Law Office”). Earlier, guest Koji Kato had related an anecdote featuring Shingo Katori, Nakai's former associate ...
