"Should gender equality not be respected, then we would look for another venue which would ensure non-discrimination," Bach said last Friday at a news conference in South Korea. Yoshiro Mori, president of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee, welcomed ... ( read original story ...)
Japan, Russia bolster cooperation, urge NKorean restraint
Japan and Russia agreed Monday to step up work toward resolving a longstanding territorial dispute through cooperation in a range of areas. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his Japanese counterpart, Fumio Kishida, also joined in urging North ... ( read original story ...)
Japan's gamble to help Myanmar's peace process
Japan has provided incentives for all parties to cooperate ... order with the [Burmese] military everywhere dominating people's lives," Jolliffe told the Nikkei Asian Review. "At the moment, it is unclear if the Tatmadaw, or Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, are ... ( read original story ...)
Russian plate and Japanese scroll take the top spots at Tamlyns Auctioneers auction
Further included in the auction was a Japanese Scroll, which realised £7,800 after a lengthy phone battle. The scroll was a gouache picture of magpies and prunus laid onto material, and was a number of Oriental items which attracted a worldwide audience. ( read original story ...)
Luxury property market in Vietnam keeps humming along
Most of the buyers come from Hong Kong, Taiwan, the Republic of Korea, Japan or Singapore ... Or in some cases they just pay cash and buy the property straight out. The lack of transparent guidance on how the money from a future sale of the property ... ( read original story ...)
The Trans-Pacific Partnership and intellectual property – an opportunity lost?
Japan, New Zealand, and South Korea. If the negotiations succeed, analysts do not think that the RCEP will include intellectual property provisions as strong as those in the TPP. But because of the primacy of place that the RCEP may assume, the RCEP's ... ( read original story ...)
Case of Japan painting theft to be concluded by early March
The case of a senior Commerce Ministry official who allegedly stole three paintings from a hotel in Japan could be finalised by early ... deputy director-general of the Department of Intellectual Property, wants five days to submit evidence and clarify ... ( read original story ...)
Justices to hear property rights dispute over family's land
Justices hear arguments Monday in a property rights case that involves a family's effort ... but happiness is declining. Japan and Russia hold talks on security, territorial dispute Japan and Russia hold talks on security, territorial dispute The foreign ... ( read original story ...)
Breakfast briefing: Monday, March 20
Top foreign stories Germany's Merkel and Japan's Abe urge free trade with jabs at US ... Reuters IBM and Wanda form China cloud computing partnership: IBM and a unit of China's property and entertainment conglomerate, Dalian Wanda Group, agreed on Sunday ... ( read original story ...)
Nagoya dye house looks abroad to keep traditional black in fashion
A dye house in Nagoya that specializes in kuro montsukizome, the dyeing of black-crested formal kimono that has been practiced since the Edo Period (1603 to 1868), is working on selling stoles and T-shirts that make use of the same technology. Yamakatsu ... ( read original story ...)
A Chinese Entrepreneur’s Plea for Rationality
Japanese companies are very conservative ... The most important foundation of the market economy is the protection of private property. Customers are resources that are part of that property, and they are the only source of return on investment. ( read original story ...)
Anti-base Okinawa activist released after five months in detention
Okinawa hosts the bulk of U.S. military facilities in Japan. At his first hearing at the district court Friday, Yamashiro admitted to the charge of destroying property by cutting barbed wire. But he pleaded not guilty to two other charges: the forcible ... ( read original story ...)
Germany's Merkel and Japan's Abe urge free trade with jabs at U.S.
Both called for a free trade deal to be reached quickly between Japan and the European Union, in comments made after G20 finance ministers and central bankers dropped a long-standing mention of open trade in their final communique after a two-day meeting ... ( read original story ...)
Edlinger claims World Cup title in Sapporo
The Austrian skier secured the women’s visually impaired title with guide brother Julian Josef in Sapporo, Japan. Austria´s Carina Edlinger and her guide Julian after their victory at the 2017 World Para Nordic Skiing Championships. © • Heinz ... ( read original story ...)
Japan and Russia hold talks on security, territorial dispute
TOKYO - The foreign and defence ministers from Japan and Russia are meeting in Tokyo for the first "two-plus-two" talks since Russia's annexation of Ukraine. Monday's one-day meeting comes as the sides work to end a decades-long territorial dispute that is ... ( read original story ...)
7 signs Japan has become a 'demographic time bomb'
Japan is dealing with what economists call a "demographic time bomb." Through a vicious cycle of low fertility and low consumer spending, the country's economy has gradually shrunk over the last 25 years. People are living longer, and they're heaping ... ( read original story ...)