Government-backed IT agency urges WordPress users to update after hacks
With the recent spike in the number of cyberattacks on websites using the popular web-management platform WordPress, a government-backed IT security agency urged website administrators and managers to patch a vulnerability that allows hackers to deface their sites. The Information-technology Promotion Agency (IPA) Japan released ...
No margin for delay as starting pistol fired on Olympics stadium
The starting pistol has been fired on construction of the new National Stadium, less than four years before the Tokyo Olympics.
Japan's Olympic delegation held a wrap-up ceremony at a Tokyo hotel on Thursday following a highly successful campaign at the Rio Games. Decathlete and Japan's flagbearer at the Games, Keisuke Ushiro, handed back the flag to Japanese Olympic Committee chief Tsunekazu Takeda before chef de ...
China's criticism of Cabinet members' visit to Yasukuni somewhat muted
China has lashed out over the visit Monday by two of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Cabinet ministers to Yasukuni Shrine. "China is firmly opposed" to the visits, the Foreign Ministry in Beijing said in a statement released late Monday. However, unlike the last couple of years, ...
Marukawa says Tokyo must solve traffic issue before 2020 Games
Tamayo Marukawa, Japan's newly-appointed Olympic minister, told the media on Friday one of the biggest concerns she has about hosting the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo is the heavy traffic in the capital, which could cause transportation issues for athletes and fans. Marukawa, ...
Ties between new Olympics minister, Tokyo governor source of concern
The pair have key roles for Tokyo's preparations to host the 2020 Games, but critics have been quick to voice concern about the partnership.
Japan's plan for emissions cuts under scrutiny after Paris accord
Wrapping up the Group of Seven environment ministers' meeting Monday, Tamayo Marukawa, as chairwoman of the talks, hailed the "strong political will" demonstrated by the group to implement the landmark Paris climate accord reached last year. Critics, meanwhile, point out that without effective measures to ...
Japan's environment minister denies mocking radiation fears of Fukushima residents
Environment Minister Tamayo Marukawa came under fire Tuesday for what opposition lawmakers called an insensitive gaffe that appeared to ridicule the fears of people in Fukushima Prefecture over radiation exposure. At the center of the controversy was a remark she reportedly made Sunday during a ...
Japan to push coal technology despite OECD subsidy cut, Japan's environment minister says
Exports of advanced technology for coal-fired power plants will help fight global warming, the nation's environment minister has said, even though the world's richest nations has decided to restrict subsidies on such exports. Many developing countries will continue to look to coal-fired power plants to ...
New environment chief vows to engage communities targeted for nuclear waste facility
Newly appointed Environment Minister Tamayo Marukawa says the ministry will continue to lobby Fukushima residents to back the construction of storage and disposal facilities for radioactive waste generated by the Fukushima nuclear crisis.
