Four Japanese men among Indonesia arrests during immigration violation sweep
Four Japanese men have been arrested in Indonesia's easternmost province of Papua allegedly for immigration violations during a massive raid on companies in one of the province's regencies, the local immigration office said Monday. An official at the Tembagapura Immigration Office in Mimika Regency, whose ...
'Nihon danshi’ continue to look on as stockings get stronger
Just so you know, it's a bad time to be male in Japan. Even my brothers say the supermacho, sports-obsessed, chauvinist faux-samurai kanchigai (勘違い, have it all wrong). They say that society is so hard on men that if they were given the choice ...
Life expectancy for Japan's men tops 80 for first time; women keep crown
The average life expectancy for Japanese men rose to 80.21 years in 2013, passing 80 for the first time, while the women retained the title of world's longest life expectancy for a second consecutive year at 86.61, the welfare ministry said Thursday. Last year's figures ...
Man killed in Philippines while visiting girlfriend; three in custody
A 60-year-old Japanese man was stabbed to death last Monday near Manila by knife-wielding men who allegedly tried to rob him of his bag containing cash and other valuables, police said Thursday. Katsushige Fujinaga, an engineer from Ibaraki Prefecture, had just arrived from Japan to ...
