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Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 15, 2019
'Right to disconnect' ethos challenges Japan's workers
As technology blurs the boundaries between personal and professional lives, some pioneering companies in Japan are going against the grain by allowing employees to refuse work phone calls and emails on their days off.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 21, 2019
Five injured, including three pedestrians, after five-car crash in central Tokyo
Five people were injured in a car crash involving five vehicles Tuesday morning in central Tokyo, but none were in a serious condition, local police said.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Nov 3, 2017
I, the jury: Trump says NYC truck attack suspect deserves death penalty in remark seen as prejudicial
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday reiterated his call that the Uzbek immigrant accused of killing eight people by speeding a rental truck down a New York City bike path should get the death penalty.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 15, 2017
Daimler launches short-range electric truck in New York, readies long-haul concept for Tokyo Motor Show
Daimler Trucks is trying to gain a foothold in the nascent electric-truck market, with short-range haulers that can make New York City's clogged streets cleaner and quieter.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 21, 2017
Mitsubishi Fuso see recovery in commercial vehicle market
Mitsubishi Fuso Truck & Bus Corp. saw its sales in Indonesia jump by nearly a quarter in the first five months of 2017, as the local commercial vehicle market continued to recover from last year's slump.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Jun 3, 2017
Sanagi Shinjuku: pan-Asian fare with an upbeat beer garden vibe
Time was when dining out under Tokyo's train tracks and expressways meant slumming it with dodgy yakitori and rotgut sake. These days the arches are gentrifying fast — just look at Sanagi Shinjuku.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 2, 2017
Taliban denies Kabul truck blast, warns against retaliation
The Taliban warned the Afghan government on Thursday against harming any of their prisoners after reports that President Ashraf Ghani would order the execution of 11 militants on death row in revenge for the devastating truck bomb attack in Kabul.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 6, 2017
Berlin truck attacker used at least 14 names; Tunisian associate seen posing as Libyan
The Tunisian man who killed 12 people last month by plowing a truck into a Berlin Christmas market had lived under at least 14 different names in Germany, a regional police chief said on Thursday, raising more questions about security lapses.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jan 5, 2017
Germany collars Tunisian who used aliases, once probed as terrorist, over links to Berlin truck attacker
German police have detained a 26-year-old Tunisian man over links with the perpetrator of an Islamist truck attack on a Berlin Christmas market that killed 12 people, a federal prosecutors' spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Dec 28, 2016
Polish trucker shot dead by hijacker hours before Berlin attack: report
A Polish truck driver whose hijacked vehicle was used to crash into a Berlin Christmas market was shot in the head several hours before the attack and could not have attempted to foil it as previously thought, the Bild newspaper reported on Tuesday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Dec 22, 2016
Trump: Berlin truck massacre 'an attack against humanity'
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump condemned the attack at a Christmas market in Berlin as "an attack against humanity" on Wednesday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 13, 2016
Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corp. announces management reshuffle
Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corp. announced a top management reshuffle Tuesday, replacing the current Chairman Albert Kirchmann with Vice Chairman Kazuo Matsunaga at the end of the year.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 23, 2016
Long-haul truck driver in Hiroshima tunnel pileup 'dozed off' at wheel
A truck driver involved in last week's fatal accident in Hiroshima Prefecture admits to falling asleep at the wheel.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 31, 2015
Refugee death truck packed five per square meter
The 71 people found dead in an abandoned refrigeration truck in Austria had been crammed in, five to a square meter (10 sq ft), police said on Sunday, as initial forensic tests indicated they had suffocated.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 28, 2015
Some 50 migrant corpses found in Hungary-licensed refrigerator truck abandoned in Austria
Austrian police found as many as 50 dead refugees left in an abandoned truck on a highway near Vienna, sparking international calls to deal with the flood of migrants to the European Union.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Mar 3, 2015
Armed men take $4 million in gold from armored truck in North Carolina, police report
Three armed men are on the run after they allegedly stole $4 million worth of gold from a tractor-trailer rig carrying a shipment along Interstate 95 in eastern North Carolina, police said Monday.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Jan 20, 2015
Top chef Yoshihiro Narisawa takes his kitchen to go
Have you heard? There's a Michelin two-star chef running a two-month pop-up in central Tokyo. But this one is not inside a plush, high-rise hotel. It's a food truck — or kicchin kā (kitchen car), as they're known here — and it's the brainchild of one of Japan's most renowned chefs, Yoshihiro Narisawa.
JAPAN
Aug 6, 2014
21 GSDF members injured as truck overturns on expressway
Twenty-one Ground Self-Defense Force members were injured Tuesday when the truck they were riding in overturned on the Tohoku Expressway in Sendai, police and firefighters said.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 3, 2014
Bus hits parked trucks at rest area; two dead
An overnight bus rammed two parked trucks early Monday at a rest stop in Oyabe, Toyama Prefecture, killing two people and leaving dozens injured.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 10, 2013
Man rams home with large truck, attacks dwellers
A 40-year-old man was arrested Thursday after driving his truck into a house in Kawaguchi, Saitama Prefecture, and attacking the three residents with a saw, police said.
'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.
Over 40% of Japan's municipalities at risk of vanishing, study finds
Of 1,729 local municipalities nationwide, 744 have been identified as being at risk of disappearing.
Princess Aiko makes debut at imperial garden party
Princess Aiko attends an imperial garden party in Tokyo on Tuesday.
'Sugar Baby Riri' gets nine-year prison term over romance scam
Mai Watanabe, who went by the moniker “Sugar Baby Riri,” dated older men and swindled them out of money by telling them fictitious heartbreaking stories about herself to gain their sympathy.
Japan's former PM Aso meets Trump for talks on security and economy
Former U.S. President Donald Trump and Taro Aso, vice president of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, in New York on Tuesday. The Japanese government’s top spokesman on Wednesday played down the meeting as one conducted "in the capacity of one lawmaker" and “without the government’s involvement.”
For amateur sumo, a fresh start offers hope against time-wasting and gamesmanship
Wrestlers prepare for the start of a bout at the 2023 Sumo World Championships in Tokyo. Starting this month, placing one hand on the clay first is no longer allowed.
LDP veteran Nikai's youngest son expected to succeed him in Wakayama
Toshihiro Nikai, former secretary-general of the Liberal Democratic Party, announced in March that he would not run in the next Lower House election to take responsibility for the political funds scandal that rocked his party and his own faction.
New workers name Shohei Ohtani as 'dream boss' for two years running
Shohei Ohtani has been overwhelmingly voted as the “dream boss” for people who started working in April, according to a survey.
A craft beer crawl through Tokyo’s top bars, brewpubs and dives
If all you drink is Asahi, Sapporo and Kirin, you're depriving yourself of some of the best craft beer Tokyo has to offer — and there sure is a lot of it out there.
'Sugar Baby Riri' gets nine-year prison term over romance scam
Mai Watanabe, who went by the moniker “Sugar Baby Riri,” dated older men and swindled them out of money by telling them fictitious heartbreaking stories about herself to gain their sympathy.

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