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SC KARUIZAWA

JAPAN / Politics
Sep 25, 2016
G-7 transport ministers agree to bolster railway, airline sector cooperation
Transport ministers from the Group of Seven advanced economies agreed Sunday to strengthen cooperation in the railway and airline sectors as they wrapped up their three-day meeting in the resort town of Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 24, 2016
G-7 transport chiefs vow to take lead in promoting self-driving cars
Transport ministers from the Group of Seven industrialized countries agreed Saturday to reinforce international cooperation in creating safety regulations to promote self-driving cars.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 9, 2016
G-7 transport chiefs meeting in Nagano to weigh self-driving car regulations
Transport ministers from the Group of Seven countries are expected to agree at their meeting in central Japan to set up a working panel tasked with creating global safety regulations for commercializing and promoting self-driving cars, a draft declaration of their summit showed Thursday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 7, 2016
Government to raise fines for charter bus violations by 100 times after fatal crash
The government plans to submit a bill during the upcoming extraordinary Diet session to raise the penalty a hundredfold on chartered bus business operators that fail to take safety measures after a crash that claimed 15 lives earlier this year, according to sources.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
Jul 2, 2016
Karuizawa murder; Tokyo subways vital; Beatles live at the Budokan; 'Satanic Verses' translator slain
100 YEARS AGO
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 21, 2016
Ski bus crash victims' university professor slams government, operator
Well-known Hosei University professor Naoki Ogi, who taught 10 students involved in last Friday's ski bus crash has slammed the government for allowing the "horribly managed" company to stay in business.
Japan Times
JAPAN / FOCUS
Jan 20, 2016
Deadly Nagano ski bus crash points to need for safety standards rethink
Friday's ski bus crash in Nagano Prefecture that killed 15 people has raised a slew of fresh challenges for government and industry officials already working to revamp safety measures for long-distance bus services.
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 Times
JAPAN
Jan 19, 2016
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.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 18, 2016
Seat-belt rules often overlooked, difficult to enforce, drivers and passengers say
Many of the people killed or injured in Friday's horrific bus crash in Nagano Prefecture may not have been wearing seat belts, as required by law.
JAPAN
Jan 18, 2016
Bus company involved in fatal crash conducted ski tour without proper paperwork
The transport ministry has found that the operator of the chartered ski-tour bus that crashed in Nagano Prefecture late last week was running the tour without providing its drivers with the required instruction paperwork, officials said Monday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 17, 2016
Operator of bus that crashed in Nagano offered illegally discounted price
The operator of a chartered bus that crashed in Nagano Prefecture early on Friday, killing 14 people, provided the service far more cheaply than the state-stipulated minimum, as proposed by a travel company, transport ministry sources said Sunday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 16, 2016
Tour bus crash that killed 14 people exposes lax safety practices
Friday's bus crash in Nagano Prefecture has unmasked the pitfalls of small-scale bus tours, the number of which has spiked in recent years due to deregulation.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 15, 2016
Overnight bus crashes in Karuizawa, killing 14
Fourteen people died and 26 were injured when a packed bus on an overnight journey crashed in the early hours on Friday. It was the worst toll from a bus accident in decades.
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 1, 2015
Abe to announce venue of 2016 industrialized nations summit possibly Friday
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will announce the venue for hosting an annual summit of industrialized countries in 2016 on Friday at the earliest, government officials said Sunday.
JAPAN / Politics
Apr 3, 2015
Japan looks to move up major nation summit to May 2016 amid election, security concerns
The Japanese government, the host in 2016 of an annual summit of leading nations, is considering bringing forward the gathering to May due to the possible election schedule as well as security reasons, government sources said Thursday.
JAPAN
Aug 24, 2014
Boarding school in Japan seeks to produce tomorrow's global leaders
A new international boarding school aims to foster the next generation of global leaders in a unique setting.
BUSINESS
Aug 16, 2014
Yamazaki single malt whisky bottle fetches $33,000 at Hong Kong auction
A bottle of Yamazaki 50 Year Old single malt whisky fetched Hong Kong $257,250 ($33,190) at a Bonhams sale in Hong Kong, the auction house said.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Oct 13, 2011
Shedding new light on architecture and art
The floor is made of white concrete, but it hugs the contours of the ground so closely that it could be satin cloth. And the roof, apparently anchored to the ground only by a curtain of glass at its perimeter, appears to float in mid-air like a giant magic carpet.
Japanese stripper bids to have her porn movies taken off internet
Plaintiff Miyuki Ariga (left) speaks at a news conference along with her lawyer, Yoshitomo Morohashi, after filing a lawsuit at the Tokyo District Court on Monday.
Three men rearrested over brokering of overseas prostitution
A woman speaks of her experience of being sent to Macau by an overseas prostitution broker during an interview in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on April 8.
Ex-METI bureaucrat given 10-year sentence for drugging and raping women
The Tokyo District Court on Monday sentenced a former industry ministry bureaucrat to 10 years in prison for drugging six women with sleeping pills and then raping or groping them in 2022.
Money stolen via online transfers up fivefold in Tokyo
Special fraud cases in Tokyo in which stolen money was sent via online banking services grew some fivefold from the previous year in 2023.
How the discovery of a giant sword in Nara offers clues into ancient Japan
Archaeologists say a 1,600-year-old wooden coffin at the Tomio Maruyama tumulus in the city of Nara was kept in good condition probably because it was protected by a layer of clay and copper ions that had seeped out of the mirrors that were buried together.
In a rare event, the Northern Lights show up in Hokkaido
The Northern Lights in Nayoro, Hokkaido, on Saturday
Is black the new green for Japan’s flagging tea farmers?
George Guttridge-Smith brews tea at Kyoto Obubu Tea Farm in Wazuka, Kyoto Prefecture, where he serves as head of international development.
Japan's logistics firms seek partnerships to cope with driver shortage
Japan Post CEO Tetsuya Senda (right) and his Seino Transportation counterpart Satoshi Takahashi announce their companies' agreement on joint long-haul truck operations, in Tokyo on Thursday.
How the discovery of a giant sword in Nara offers clues into ancient Japan
Archaeologists say a 1,600-year-old wooden coffin at the Tomio Maruyama tumulus in the city of Nara was kept in good condition probably because it was protected by a layer of clay and copper ions that had seeped out of the mirrors that were buried together.
Unlike 10 years ago, Japan's new security bill sparks little debate
The Lower House starts discussing a security clearance bill on April 19 in Tokyo.

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