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JAPAN
Apr 3, 2017
Airport security to get nationwide upgrade ahead of Olympics
The transport ministry plans to install more surveillance cameras at airports to increase public safety ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, officials said Monday.
JAPAN / Society
Mar 22, 2017
Japan's railways look to scrap rule preventing foreign travelers from taking mobility scooters on trains
The transport ministry has urged railways to abolish an industry rule that virtually bans foreign travelers with disabilities from using mobility scooters on trains.
JAPAN
Mar 7, 2017
Moritomo Gakuen overstated school construction costs in ministry filing, records show
Moritomo Gakuen, under fire for a questionable land deal with the government, vastly overstated construction costs for a new elementary school in paperwork submitted to the land ministry, records show.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 21, 2016
Base taxi fares for short rides to get cheaper in Tokyo from Jan. 30
The base fare for short rides will drop, though that for longer rides will rise, in a bid to lure the business of tourists and the elderly.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 11, 2016
QR code snafu places too many passengers on ANA plane
The transport ministry slaps All Nippon Airways with a severe warning after a plane pushed back for takeoff with a seat-less passenger standing in the aisle.
BUSINESS
Sep 16, 2016
Transport ministry stiffens penalties for mileage manipulation
The transport ministry on Friday introduced new penalties for automakers who manipulate mileage data, including production suspensions, as the deceptions issued by Mitsubishi Motors Corp. and Suzuki Motor Corp. continue to mar the reputation of the Japanese auto industry.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Sep 16, 2016
Ministry to direct railways to let electric scooters onboard
The transport ministry plans to instruct railways to revise a regulation so that seniors and people with disabilities can bring their electric scooters onto trains, ahead of the Tokyo Paralympic Games in 2020.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 5, 2016
Tokyo cabbies test out ¥410 minimum fare
Taxi firms begin experimenting with a lower minimum fare of u00a5410 in four wards to assess the demand for short trips.
BUSINESS
Jun 4, 2016
Ministry starts visiting homes of Takata air bag users to promote recalls
The transport ministry in April began going to the homes of people who own vehicles equipped with potentially faulty Takata Corp. air bag inflators to accelerate repairs, ministry sources said Saturday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 2, 2016
JAL ditches plan for Haneda-New York flights this fall
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JAPAN
Mar 24, 2016
Japan to raise speed limit to 120 kph on some expressways
The maximum possible speed limit on the country's major expressways will be raised from 100 kph to 120 kph, it was announced Thursday, marking the first increase since the 1963 opening of Japan's first highway.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 10, 2016
Cheaper taxi rates to be trialed in Tokyo, Osaka in bid to lure more elderly, tourists
The transport ministry plans to trial lower base fares for short taxi rides.
JAPAN / Society
Feb 25, 2016
Ministry, Mikawaya21 test drone to deliver food to rural Tokushima elderly
The transport ministry tested a drone in Tokushima Prefecture on Wednesday to deliver parcels containing food items to elderly households in sparsely populated areas.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 20, 2016
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.
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 17, 2015
Japanese government sues to overturn Okinawa governor's block on U.S. base replacement
In a further escalation of the political battle between Tokyo and Okinawa, the central government files a lawsuit against Gov. Takeshi Onaga.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 15, 2015
Delivery failures dog parcel firms
Missing a package delivery is usually not a problem when one can easily go online or call to request redelivery.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 2, 2015
Asahi Kasei falsified data in 300 projects, sources say
Asahi Kasei Construction Materials Corp. is suspected of falsifying data in some 300 of the 3,040 piling projects it has worked on over the past decade.
LIFE / Language / MORNING ENGLISH
Nov 2, 2015
Let's discuss the tilting Yokohama condo scandal
An employee at the center of a data falsification scandal involving a tilting condo in Yokohama oversaw piling work at 41 projects in nine prefectures.
JAPAN
Jun 15, 2015
Key aviation official loses computer while sleeping on train
The transport ministry says one of its senior officials lost a bag containing a work computer used and a list of emergency contact information for ministry staff, another embarrassment for the government following a recent massive leak of pension data.
JAPAN
Jun 3, 2015
Ministry to require portable toilets, drinking water in elevators
The infrastructure ministry and the elevator industry agreed that drinking water and portable toilets should be stored in elevators in preparation for emergency stoppages after earthquakes, the ministry said.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.
Number of homeless in Japan hits record low
Homeless people sleep on the street in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward in August 2021.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Air China to buy 100 locally made C919 jets in $11 billion deal
A Comac C919 during an aerial display at the Singapore Airshow at Changi Exhibition Centre in Singapore in February
Casa del Cibo: A thriving jewel born from Tohoku’s harsh past
When chef Ryohei Ikemi moved to Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, and opened Casa del Cibo in 2011, it was the first proper Italian restaurant in the city.
Tokyo's Koto Ward by-election a race unlike any other
Natsumi Sakai, the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan’s candidate and one of four female candidates running in the by-election, touts her experience as a cancer survivor and midwife as having prepared her to tackle issues that women currently face.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.
Top U.S. and China diplomats talk tough amid warnings of new ‘downward spiral’
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on Friday

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