Month: January 2017

GUNS N' ROSES kicked off the Japanese leg of its "Not In This Lifetime" tour Saturday night (January 21) in Osaka, Japan. Fan-filmed video footage of the show can be seen below. GUNS N' ROSES has four more shows in Japan scheduled for later this month ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese brewer Sapporo Holding has licensed Thailand-based fuel retailer PTG Energy to manufacture cassava-based bioethanol. The Nikkei Asian Review quoted Sapporo, when it said that “this will mark the world's first attempt at commercial production of ... ( read original story ...)

The long weekend of the Ski Jumping Continental Cup in Sapporo with a total of three competitions ended on Sunday with the second event on the large hill and a win of Germany's Andreas Wank. The 28-year-old from die ski club in Hinterzarten was the best in ... ( read original story ...)

Former world record-holder Wilson Kipsang will face nine other men with sub-2:07 PBs at the Tokyo Marathon when he lines up for the IAAF Gold Label Road Race on 26 February. Now in its 11th year, the Tokyo Marathon course has been adapted by eliminating ... ( read original story ...)

“Some people point out that the process leading to the purchase is unclear and inappropriate," Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, 64, told a news conference Jan. 20. "The facts will have to come out if the metropolitan government is going to reform itself ( read original story ...)

"We are worried about the risks of the Trump administration taking protectionism actions or policies," Kosei Shindo, chairman of the Japan Iron and Steel Federation, told a news conference. Shindo is also president of Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp ... ( read original story ...)

Japan will continue to push the United States to join it in taking the lead in advancing free trade globally, officials and lawmakers said Saturday, after Donald Trump announced the country will begin withdrawing from the Trans-Pacific Partnership ... ( read original story ...)

South Korean news organizations, the majority of them focusing on the scandal that resulted in the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye, put their spotlight on right-leaning responses from Japanese netizens. Yonhap news agency reported that a majority of ... ( read original story ...)

The TIFF, Japan’s first large-scale international filmfest, started in 1985 with the first two editions held biennially. So far, it has showcased more than 5,000 films from around the world. This year, the TIFF will be held at the Roppongi Hills complex ... ( read original story ...)

"All trade need to be fair. If there are trades that violate the rules, we will take necessary actions while consulting with our government," Kosei Shindo, chairman of the Japan Iron and Steel Federation, told a news conference on Friday. But in an ... ( read original story ...)

The Self-Defence Forces will conduct drills from Monday through Friday with the US military participating as an observer, a Japanese government source told Kyodo News. The exercises, which do not involve actual troop deployments, assume that the US and ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivers a policy speech at the ordinary session of the National Diet in Tokyo, Japan, on Jan. 20, 2017. (Xinhua/Ma Ping) TOKYO, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivered a policy speech on Friday at ... ( read original story ...)

By the early ’80s some 90 percent of Japanese felt they’d arrived. Frenzied, frivolous consumption characterized the “bubble” years that followed. The bubble burst in the early ’90s. The “lost decade” became lost decades. Today economists ... ( read original story ...)