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Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
May 20, 2014
Peach to cancel 894 flights in July and August due to pilot shortage
Budget carrier Peach Aviation Ltd. said Tuesday that due to a shortage of pilots, it will cancel 894 flights in July and August, or 20 percent of its overall flights, including 86 international services connecting Osaka with Hong Kong and Okinawa with Taipei.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 29, 2014
Jetliner buzzes sea after Naha miscue
A jetliner dived to a dangerously low altitude of just 248 feet above the ocean during its landing approach to Naha airport in Okinawa Prefecture on Monday after the pilot mistook instructions from air traffic controllers, the transport ministry said.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 24, 2014
Budget carrier Peach to cancel 448 flights due to lack of pilots
Japanese budget carrier Peach Aviation Ltd. said Thursday it will cancel a total of 448 flights in May and June, including 44 international services connecting Osaka with Seoul and Hong Kong, due to a lack of pilots.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 14, 2014
Peach stepping up efforts to hire pilots
Budget carrier Peach Aviation is stepping up efforts to win the competition for pilots as scores of new carriers enter the aviation market.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 27, 2013
ANA, JAL, Peach now disregard China ADIZ
ANA Holdings Inc. and Japan Airlines Co., the nation's largest carriers, flew through China's newly declared air defense identification zone without notifying the country after Japan asked airlines to stop giving flight information to China.
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Jun 17, 2011
Uniforms flying economy class
Newly launched budget airline Peach flies in a detour around frisky flight attendant uniforms and plays it straight with jeans for all cabin staff.
EDITORIALS
Apr 18, 2011
Child organ transplants
For the first time in Japan's medical history, organs from a person under 15 were transplanted to other people on April 13-14. Such transplants became possible after the revised Organ Transplant Law went into force in July 2010.
EDITORIALS
Feb 10, 2007
Mr. Yanagisawa does it again
Language sometimes masks what one really thinks or feels. It also sometimes exposes what is really on one's mind, consciously or unconsciously. The second case appears to apply to the two statements health minister Hakuo Yanagisawa has made in relation to the nation's falling birth rate. In a Lower House Budget Committee session on Wednesday, he apologized for his Jan. 17 speech in which he likened women to "child-bearing machines and devices." But on Tuesday, he made another controversial statement.
'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.
Did Japan intervene to prop up the yen? Analysts think it did.
A man walks past an electronic board displaying the exchange rate for the yen against the U.S. dollar (right) in Tokyo on Tuesday.
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 vacant homes in Japan hits record high of 9 million
A vacant house in Tokyo is seen demolished in January 2020.
Weak yen fattens tourist wallets in Japan
People visit the Ameya Yokocho market in Tokyo's Ueno district during the Golden Week holiday on Tuesday.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
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.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.

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