KOCHI PREFECTURE, JAPAN // In 2011 a magnitude 9 earthquake caused a huge tsunami that slammed into Japan’s Honshu Island, devastating the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and killing tens of thousands of people. The costs related to the atomic ... ( read original story ...)
Business ideas for 2017: Japanese food
36 years since The Vapors caught the first symptoms in their song ‘Turning Japanese’, the British public is finally doing just this– well, when it comes to eating out anyway! While the likes of Itsu and Wasabi Sushi & Bento have been serving Japanese ... ( read original story ...)
Nikkei touches lowest level since early December
Safe-haven yen gains ahead of British PM May's Brexit speech * Investors weigh Trump's promises ahead of Friday's inauguration TOKYO Jan 17 Japan's Nikkei share average skidded to its lowest levels since early December on Tuesday, undermined by a resurgent ... ( read original story ...)
Nikkei falls to near 6-week low on strong yen; Honda tumbles
TOKYO Jan 17 Japan's Nikkei fell to its lowest level in more than a month on Tuesday as a strong yen soured sentiment, while shares of Honda tumbled after it said an air bag made by Takata Corp had ruptured in one of its cars in Japan. The Nikkei share ... ( read original story ...
Nikkei plummets ahead of inauguration
Japan's Nikkei share average has hit its lowest level in over five weeks as investors locked in recent gains ahead of the inauguration of US President-elect Donald Trump later in the week. The benchmark Nikkei fell 0.6 per cent to 18,990.48, falling below ... ( read original story ...)
Japan's lawmakers eye speedy consensus on emperor's abdication
It has argued that abdication via a special law could run afoul of the Japanese Constitution's Article 2, which states that the throne shall be "succeeded to in accordance with the Imperial House Law passed by the Diet." "I think discussions would ... ( read original story ...)
We launched Business Insider Japan last night — here's how we celebrated
Ten days ago, I traveled to Tokyo to help Business Insider launch its latest international edition in Japan. After many days of hard work and preparation by our Japanese team, Business Insider Japan went live officially on Monday at noon local time. ( read original story ...)
Japan remembers Kobe quake victims
Japan has commemorated the 22nd anniversary of the devastating earthquake that left 6,434 people dead in the city of Kobe and several locations in the centre of the country in 1995. Relatives of the deceased and survivors of the earthquake, considered one ... ( read original story ...)
Welcome, Business Insider Japan!
Business Insider launched a Japanese edition Monday. Readers in Japan will automatically be redirected to the Japanese site. BI Japan publishes in Japanese and is headquartered in Tokyo. It is published by Mediagene, a digital media company that has ... ( read original story ...)
Tennis: Osaka through to 2nd round of Australian Open
Osaka's tenacity surfaced in the next two sets as the hard-hitting Japanese teenager, born to a Haitian father and Japanese mother, managed to reach the second round for the second straight year. To have fuller access to the Kyodo News website, it is ... ( read original story ...)
Insanity defense at heart of Nagoya University student’s murder trial
NAGOYA – The lawyers for a 21-year-old woman on trial for strangling an elderly woman in 2014 and attempting to kill two high school students in 2012 said she should not be found guilty because she lacks the ability “to tell right from wrong.” “I h ... ( read original story ...)
Osaka cops: Elderly woman stole money from account of roommate found dead
whose body was found at their home in Osaka City almost a month after he died, police said on Friday. Tsuneko Akiyama, 72, was arrested for illegally withdrawing 20,000 yen from the account of her 88-year-old roommate in October, Nippon News Network ... ( read original story ...)
BOJ offers brighter view on regional Japan economies
TOKYO The Bank of Japan raised its economic assessment for three of the country's nine regions in a quarterly report on Monday, saying that most areas were seeing a moderate economic recovery. The upgrade reflected a pick-up in private consumption and ... ( read original story ...)
Government to name underwriters for further Japan Post share sale
Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley, Nomura Securities, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan were hired as global coordinators for Japan Post's IPO. The government sold about $12 billion worth of shares in Japan Post and its Japan Post Bank Co (7182.T) and Japan Post ... ( read original story ...)
CORRECTED-Japan govt to name underwriters for further Japan Post share sale -source
worth of shares in Japan Post and its Japan Post Bank Co and Japan Post Insurance Co units in a triple mega-IPO in November 2015. The parent company's stock was down 3.7 percent in afternoon trade after the Nikkei reported the government would sell a ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo stocks lower by break, Takata dives on US deal
At the lunch break, Tokyo's benchmark Nikkei index was down 0.91 percent, or 175.38 points, at 19,111.90, while the broader Topix index of all first-section issues was down 0.84 percent, or 12.95 points, at 1,531.94. US officials said Friday that Takata ... ( read original story ...)