Month: June 2018

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan, which just months ago had tens of thousands of Airbnb and home-sharing properties available, has approved only about 150 before a new law kicks in next week, meant to bring order to the market and create more lodging options for ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan and the United States are working to hold their first bilateral trade talks under a new framework in July, Japan’s Foreign Ministry said, in a sign Washington may ratchet up pressure on Tokyo to open up its markets. U.S. President ... ( read original story ...)

2018-Jun-08 — /Travel PR News/ — Emirates, the world’s largest international airline, will introduce regular scheduled commercial Airbus A380 services to Osaka (KIX) in Japan on 28 October 2018*. The deployment of the double-decker aircraft ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO — Asian shares were moderately lower Friday, as investors awaited the Group of Seven leaders’ meeting, continuing into the weekend, and for European Central Bank and Federal Reserve meetings next week. KEEPING SCORE: Japan’s benchmark Nikkei ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO >> Amid efforts to use only recycled metal in the medals for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, there is growing concern over a shortage of silver. Collection began a year ago and nearly twice as much silver is still needed. If the situation ... ( read original story ...)

On Monday, North Korea’s state-run Korea Central News Agency criticized Japan for asking other countries to put pressure on Pyongyang. In a commentary, it said Japan risks becoming isolated as North Korea and called the abduction issue “rubbish.” ( read original story ...)

North Korea's state-run Korean Central News Agency criticized Abe and other Japanese officials for insisting on pressuring the North. The news agency, quoting the North's Rodong Sinmun newspaper, said Japan worries about being "marginalized from the ... ( read original story ...)

Rental site Airbnb said Thursday it had been forced by Japanese authorities to cancel thousands of reservations ahead of a new law regulating short-term rentals, apologising for the "extraordinary disruption." "This stinks -- and that's an understatement ... ( read original story ...)

At a joint news conference, Trump said Abe told him Japan was buying “billions and billions of dollars of additional products of all kinds - military jets, airliners from Boeing, lots of farm products.” “We’re working hard to reduce our trade ... ( read original story ...)

That will be the case for one particularly rare find: a World War II-era Japanese Type 94 Nambu Nagoya Army Arsenal pistol. "It's dated and manufactured from 1934 to 1945, and the markings on it are in Japanese, so it was obviously brought back from World ... ( read original story ...)

A Japanese official told CBS News last week that the president "understands the importance of resolving this issue as soon as possible." A spokesperson for the National Security Council pointed CBS News to Trump's public statements on the abduction issue ... ( read original story ...)