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Japan's Consumer Affairs Agency cancels plan to fully relocate to Tokushima

National Jul 9, 2019

Japan's Consumer Affairs Agency cancels plan to fully relocate to Tokushima

The government will shelve a plan to relocate all of the functions of the Consumer Affairs Agency to Tokushima Prefecture, according to sources. After accepting a proposal from the Tokushima Prefectural Government, the agency opened a pilot office in the city of Tokushima in 2017 ...

Base-laden Okinawa vies to become tourism magnet

National / Politics | Beyond Tokyo Mar 24, 2019

Base-laden Okinawa vies to become tourism magnet

by Eric Johnston

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 ...

Okinawa base referendum could deal nationwide electoral blow to Abe

National / Politics | FOCUS Feb 28, 2019

Okinawa base referendum could deal nationwide electoral blow to Abe

by Satoshi Iizuka

The outcome of a referendum in Okinawa showing that a vast majority of residents oppose the bilateral Futenma air base relocation plan may deal a blow to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government at elections across the country this year. More than 70 percent of voters ...

Workers complain of unbearable foul smells at new Toyosu market

National Nov 12, 2018

Workers complain of unbearable foul smells at new Toyosu market

Workers at the new Toyosu wholesale food market in Tokyo are having to hold their noses as disgusting stenches, mainly of fish, have started to emanate from some locations in the site. At the market, which opened last month to take over the wholesale market ...

Electric carts and forklifts begin moving from Tsukiji to Tokyo's new fish market at Toyosu

National Oct 7, 2018

Electric carts and forklifts begin moving from Tsukiji to Tokyo's new fish market at Toyosu

A number of electric carts and forklifts traveled in a convoy on a road in central Tokyo early Sunday morning as they moved from the closed Tsukiji fish market to a new site at the Toyosu waterfront area. The operators of the low-speed mini-vehicles drove ...

Tokyo's famed Tsukiji fish market, opened in the wake of Kanto quake, reaches an end

National / History | Deep Dive Oct 5, 2018

Tokyo's famed Tsukiji fish market, opened in the wake of Kanto quake, reaches an end

by Reiji Yoshida

Old-fashioned and full of nostalgia, the renowned Tsukiji fish market is at its busiest before dawn. Hand-written signs by small-fish wholesalers are lit with white lamps in the otherwise dark corridors of the market as workers prepare for the morning's main event: the tuna auction. Hundreds ...

Yoshinoya's first outlet, located in Tsukiji market, to close after 59 years

Business Sep 27, 2018

Yoshinoya's first outlet, located in Tsukiji market, to close after 59 years

The first Yoshinoya gyūdon (beef on rice) restaurant, located within Tokyo's Tsukiji wholesale market, will close on Oct. 6, ending a 59-year history, due to the relocation of the market. The Tsukiji outlet is known for how it served gyūdon between 2004 and 2006, when ...

Tsukiji fish market's tuna auction opens to media for final time before Toyosu move

National Sep 14, 2018

Tsukiji fish market's tuna auction opens to media for final time before Toyosu move

Media were invited to a tuna auction at Tsukiji fish market on Friday, a day before the public gets its last chance to attend the famous Tokyo institution at its current site before it is relocated in October. At the 6 a.m. auction, 253 frozen ...

Okinawa's governor moves to retract landfill work approval needed to move Futenma base

National Jul 27, 2018

Okinawa's governor moves to retract landfill work approval needed to move Futenma base

The order is seen as a last-ditch effort to block the central government’s long-delayed plan to move the unpopular base.

Landfill work connected to Futenma base transfer in Okinawa set to start in July

National Apr 8, 2018

Landfill work connected to Futenma base transfer in Okinawa set to start in July

The government in July plans to begin land reclamation work at the site of a controversial U.S. military base transfer in Okinawa Prefecture, sources said Saturday. The relocation of U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma from a crowded residential area in southern Okinawa faces strong ...

Rural areas woo city slickers to vacant properties in Japanese countryside

National Sep 21, 2017

Rural areas woo city slickers to vacant properties in Japanese countryside

As working-age Japanese depart the countryside in droves, leaving behind graying populations, rural authorities are trying to counter the trend by turning idle real estate into homes for city dwellers seeking a quieter lifestyle. The Kyoto Prefectural Government is among those providing advice for people ...

A year on, Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike has more plans to reform the capital

National / Politics Aug 8, 2017

A year on, Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike has more plans to reform the capital

by Magdalena Osumi and Tomohiro Osaki

A year since becoming Tokyo governor, Yuriko Koike is riding high. In that time, she has won over voters by successfully portraying herself as an iconoclast battling the "black box" opacity that she says has long pervaded the decision-making process in Tokyo. Her latest accomplishment is ...

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