The reopening of the disco was supported by increases in the number of foreign tourists and the reviving popularity of discos among middle-aged people with grown-up children. Maharaja discos have already reopened in Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya. ( read original story ...)
Kerber ousts local favourite Osaka at Pan-Pacific Open
TOKYO — Seventh-seeded Angelique Kerber of Germany got a measure of revenge for a U.S. Open loss by beating Naomi Osaka 6-3, 6-4 on Monday to advance to the second round of the Pan-Pacific Open. Last month, Kerber was knocked out of the U.S. Open by the ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo champ Wozniacki finds mojo just in time
TOKYO: Defending champion Caroline Wozniacki clawed her way ... The Spaniard is playing her first tournament since reaching the top of the women's world rankings. Get latest news & live updates on the go on your pc with News App. Download The Times of ... ( read original story ...)
Japan to speed growth of hydrogen refueling stations
TOKYO -- Japan will ease up on regulations on hydrogen stations for fuel cell vehicles, making the refueling points less costly to set up and operate in hopes of helping the environmentally friendly cars catch on. By fiscal 2018, the Ministry of Economy ... ( read original story ...)
Fledgling Japanese fintech sector needs to ‘design for global use’
He was speaking on Tuesday at FIN/SUM, a conference in Tokyo jointly organized by NIKKEI and Japan's Financial Service Agency. According to a review of global fintech hubs released by Deloitte in April, Tokyo trails Singapore, Hong Kong and Sydney in the ... ( read original story ...)
Nikkei falls as geopolitical fears on North Korea sap risk appetite
TOKYO, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Japan’s Nikkei share average fell in choppy trade early on Friday, moving away from two-year highs as rising geopolitical tensions over North Korea sapped risk appetite. South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported North Korean ... ( read original story ...)
Nikkei probes more than 2-year highs as yen eases; Apple suppliers fall
Japan's Nikkei share average rose on Thursday, boosted by gains on Wall Street and a weaker yen after the Federal Reserve signalled it still expects to raise interest rates one more time this year. The Nikkei was up 0.8 per cent at the end of morning ... ( read original story ...)
Japan stocks higher at close of trade; Nikkei 225 up 0.18%
Investing.com – Japan stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Chemical, Petroleum & Plastic, Mining and Communication sectors led shares higher. At the close in Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 added 0.18% to hit a new 52-week high. ( read original story ...)
Stocks – Nikkei Edges Higher In Mixed Asian Share Trade On Fed Views, BoJ
Investing.com - Shares in Asia were mixed on Thursday with the market digesting the Fed views on rates and the latest Bank of Japan review. The Nikkei 225 rose 0.47%, while Australia's S&P/ASX 200 fell 1.09%. In Greater China, the Hang Seng index inched up ... ( read original story ...)
Why Japan doesn’t want to sign nuclear arms ban treaty
TOKYO -- Japan, the only country to have suffered atomic bomb attacks, has repeatedly called for a global ban on nuclear weapons. Yet it sided with the nuclear powers and NATO in refusing to sign a treaty to ban such weapons during the UN General Assembly ... ( read original story ...)
AP Explains: Why Japan doesn’t sign nuclear arms ban treaty
Japan, the only country to have suffered atomic bomb attacks, has repeatedly called for a global ban on nuclear weapons. Yet it sided with the nuclear powers and NATO in refusing to sign a treaty to ban such weapons during the U.N. General Assembly meeting ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s emoji creator saw nuance in pictures
They star in a new Hollywood film. The emoji is heir to a tradition of pictographic writing stretching back millennia to Egyptian hieroglyphics and the ideograms used to write Chinese and Japanese. Despite their ubiquity, they started in 1998 with one man ... ( read original story ...)
Reprocessed nuclear fuel returned to Japan for reactor use
(Madoka Ogawa/Kyodo News via AP) Without a plutonium-burning fast reactor, Japan has resorted to burning MOX, a mixture of plutonium and uranium fuel, in conventional reactors. Only three reactors, including two at Takahama, use MOX, a fraction of planned ... ( read original story ...)
Earthquake hits Japan off coast of Fukushima nuclear plant
A 6.1 magnitude earthquake has struck off the coast of Japan, just 320 kilometres east of Fukushima nuclear plant. The American scientific agency, which tracks natural disasters around the world, said the quake occurred 281 kilometres from Kamaishi ... ( read original story ...)
Powerful 6.2 magnitude earthquake strikes off the coast of Japan near Fukushima
A powerful 6.2 magnitude earthquake has struck off the coast of Japan near Fukushima. Details of the extent of the damage have not yet emerged regarding the quake which hit 281km South East of Kamaishi. A similar earthquake back in 2011 killed 15,894 ... ( read original story ...)
Families of Japan war dead to pray for fallen US soldiers
Dozens of descendants of Japanese soldiers killed in World War II have headed to Hawaii to pay respects to American war dead. Nippon Izokukai, the Bereaved Family Association of Japan, is sending 36 children, grandchildren and other relatives of fallen ... ( read original story ...)