TOKYO -- Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Sunday that his government fully supports the U.S. stance on pressuring North Korea over its nuclear weapons program, with all options on the table. In a televised debate Sunday among leaders of major ... ( read original story ...)
Construction under way for 8,000-plus-panel solar project
will be built on about 10 acres of a 221.7-acre property owned by Teddy A ... Brookside Solar from the New York City-based Forefront Power LLC, a subsidiary of the Tokyo-based Mitsui and Co. Ltd., in March. Mr. Brennan, however, said AES Distributed ... ( read original story ...)
Decoding Shenzhen: The Chinese city that makes the world’s tech
CUHK's Chung says the concept of owning intellectual property rights is now catching on in the industry ... These days, people draw parallels between Huaqiangbei and Akihabara, Tokyo's vibrant and colourful district for electronics. Huang believes ... ( read original story ...)
Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Muroran in Japan
Close country/countries that might be effected, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ebetsu, Sapporo, Shizunai-furukawachō. Event epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Sapporo (c. ( read original story ...)
Counter intelligence: Japan brings out the bazooka in AI war with China
China may have the clear lead in the development of artificial intelligence (AI) systems in the region, but Japan’s government, realising how vital the sector is to its economic future, has intervened in the hopes of levelling the playing field. ( read original story ...)
Japanese firms explore business prospects in south central region
Khanh Hoa (VNA) – The “Meeting Japan – South Central Region” conference took place in Nha Trang city, the central province of Khanh Hoa on October 6 to discuss bilateral cooperative prospects in the near future. Attending the event were ... ( read original story ...)
Abe says Japan fully behind US on pressuring North Korea
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Sunday that his government fully supports the U.S. stance on pressuring North Korea over its nuclear weapons program, with all options on the table. In a televised debate Sunday among leaders of major political ... ( read original story ...)
Solar cars begin 3,000 km journey through center of Australia
Nagoya Institute of Technology team director Hiroki Tanaka told Kyodo News they have made a variety of design changes to this year's racer and hope to improve on their previous performance in 2015, when they placed 16th. "Compared to our previous cars ... ( read original story ...)
Is the response to scams criminally slow?
Forgery of an official seal on a document earned the offender confiscation of his property and banishment ... who holed himself up in his apartment in Osaka’s Kita Ward while his lawyer tried to work a deal with the prosecutor’s office. ( read original story ...)
‘Smaller’ earthquakes pose greater risk than the next Big One
One side will rush west, toward Japan. The other side will rush east, in a seven-hundred-mile liquid wall that will reach the Northwest coast, on average, 15 minutes after the earthquake begins. By the time the shaking has ceased and the tsunami has ... ( read original story ...)
Week Ahead: Earnings kick off, as IPO mania continues; top factors that could drive market
The IPO consists of a primary issue of 17.20 million equity shares ... going forward. Additionally, Japan would be declaring core machinery data, while US is set to declare core PPI data MoM and YoY basis. Additionally, US would also announce retail ... ( read original story ...)
Finnair mulling more Japan routes as tourism climbs
The Finnish carrier has narrowed its choices of new Japanese destinations to two or three, CEO Pekka Vauramo told The Nikkei on a recent visit to Japan. Finnair already offers routes from Helsinki to Narita Airport near Tokyo, as well as Nagoya's Chubu ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Dentsu gets token $4,400 fine for excessive overtime
Yoshimasa Obayashi, a Tokyo-based attorney who handles karoshi, told the Nikkei Asian Review that his case load has not declined "at all." In the past year, he said he dealt with cases ranging from a medical doctor to a driver. On Wednesday, Japanese ... ( read original story ...)
Earthquake of magnitude 6.0 strikes off eastern Japan, no tsunami risk
TOKYO (AFP) - A 6.0-magnitude earthquake hit off the coast of Fukushima in Japan on Friday (Oct 6) but there was no risk of a tsunami, officials said. The shallow quake hit at 4.59pm (3.59pm Singapore time), 255km east of Ishinomaki, according to the ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo Governor Koike leaves door open for ruling party PM post election
TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike does not expect her new conservative party to pick a candidate for prime minister during the campaign for the Oct. 22 election, leaving the door open to eventually backing a lawmaker from Prime Minister Shinzo ... ( read original story ...)
Death toll in tanker-Chinese fishing vessel collision rises to 13
Three patrol vessels of the Japan Coast Guard had begun work since early Friday with frogmen sent to search for the missing people, state-run Xinhua news agency quoted the consulate general as saying. Five bodies were found in the vessel on Friday morning ... ( read original story ...)