Dentsu units probed by labor authorities over employee's suicide
Labor authorities have conducted inspections at four subsidiaries of advertising giant Dentsu Inc. following the overwork-related suicide of a 24-year-old female employee last December, the labor ministry said Tuesday. It is rare to raid subsidiaries in addition to a parent company over labor practices. The authorities ...
Driver, 65, may have lost control of bus in deadly Nagano crash; training shortcomings suspected
A ski tour bus that crashed Friday in Nagano Prefecture killing 15 people on board steered an eratic course for several hundred meters before it crashed, indicating the driver may have lost control of the vehicle, transport ministry sources said. The information was revealed after ...
Small bus firms face ministry inspections in wake of deadly Nagano crash
Transport minister Keiichi Ishii said Tuesday that by mid-March his ministry will conduct broad inspections on the safety management policies of bus companies that have received government reprimands in the past. The move comes after the deadly crash last week of a chartered ski-tour bus ...
Immigration detention centers like prisons, U.K. inspectors say
When British incarceration inspection expert Hindpal Singh Bhui last month paid his first visit to a Japanese immigration detention center, his overriding initial impression was that it looked like a prison. "The fact that if someone comes to visit detainees, the starting point is that ...
Tepco may ask U.S. utility to inspect Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant
Tokyo Electric Power Co. is considering asking a U.S. utility to verify safety at its idled Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant, a senior foreign adviser to the beleaguered utility has said. It would be the first time a foreign power company has been asked to assess a ...
Falsified inspections suspected at Monju fast-breeder reactor
The operator of the Monju prototype fast-breeder reactor in Fukui Prefecture is suspected of falsifying an inspection report after regulators later found new pieces of equipment there that hadn't been inspected, Nuclear Regulation Authority sources said Thursday. The experimental reactor in Tsuruga is run by ...
The government said Friday it has started sending inspectors to more than 260 companies suspected of not allowing smaller wholesalers or subcontractors to pass on cost increases stemming from the consumption tax hike in April. The move is based on a survey conducted by the ...
