A 6.0-magnitude earthquake hit Japan Saturday evening outside Tokyo, shaking buildings in the capital, but no tsunami warning was issued, the country's meteorological agency said. The epicenter of the ... ( read original story ...)
Strong M6.0 earthquake hits near the east coast of Honshu, Japan
A strong earthquake registered by the JMA as M6.0 hit near the east coast of Honshu, Japan at 11:23 UTC (22:23 JST) on July 7, 2018. The agency is reporting a depth of 50 km (31 miles). USGS is report... ( read original story ...)
Japan: Momentum Slipping
Tankan survey and Japanese GDP. But don't forget investment. Bank of Japan still hamstrung by inappropriate inflation target. By Robert Carnell, Chief Economist Head of Research, Asia-Pacific Japan's ... ( read original story ...)
Japan unveils bullish GDP growth estimates for FY2019
The Bank of Japan is likely to cut its price growth forecasts at a policy meeting later this month as long-term inflation expectations stall, sources said, highlighting the central bank’s difficulty i... ( read original story ...)
38 killed, at least 50 missing as torrential rainstorms pummel Japan
firefighters and members of Japan‘s Self-Defense Forces were responding to appeals for help. The weather also hit industry. Some automakers halted production as the rain and flooding disrupted supply ... ( read original story ...)
Japan on alert after execution of doomsday cult founder
Kyodo news agency said on Friday, citing warnings by a senior police official that Aum followers remained active. The agency said it searched 16 facilities belonging to three groups across Japan on Fr... ( read original story ...)
Typhoon Maria to threaten lives and property on Japan’s Ryukyu Islands, eastern China next week
Maria is expected to barrel across Japan’s Ryukyu Islands and eastern China as a dangerous typhoon Tuesday through Thursday of next week. Maria will remain a powerful typhoon through this weekend as i... ( read original story ...)
Why the Japanese army’s WW II ‘comfort women’ are still waiting for their #MeToo moment
Lee Ok-sun was 15 years old in 1942, when two Japanese men in civilian clothes abducted her while she was out running errands in the port city of Busan, in what is now South Korea. She was eventually ... ( read original story ...)
Cult leader in Tokyo sarin attack executed along with 6 followers
Japan executed on Friday the former leader of a doomsday cult and six other members of the group that carried out a sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995 ... read out the names of the seven at ... ( read original story ...)
Japanese Journalist, Missing in Syria Since 2015, Appears in New Video
“I want to see you.” A few seconds later, a network voice-over in Japanese began summarizing the video’s contents, while continuing to show Mr. Yasuda speak. The segment that ANN News broadcast showed ... ( read original story ...)
OSAKA AND WAKAYAMA: 6-DAY ITINERARY
which started as a brewing factory and has now expanded to other lines of business such as health products, essential oils, and cosmetics. Filipinos love shopping for pasalubong whenever they travel o... ( read original story ...)
Japanese Sales App Soars in IPO — WSJ
This article is being republished as part of our daily reproduction of WSJ.com articles that also appeared in the U.S. print edition of The Wall Street Journal (June 20, 2018). TOKYO -- Japanese flea- ... ( read original story ...)
Takeda considers selling Osaka headquarters to fund Shire purchase
Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. is considering selling its symbolic Osaka headquarters building to help finance its £46 billion ($60 billion) deal to acquire Irish drugmaker Shire Plc., sources close to the ... ( read original story ...)
I rode superfast bullet trains in China, Japan, Korea, and Russia, and one is better than the rest
Last year, on a trip to Tokyo to launch Business Insider Japan, I rode a bullet train from Tokyo to Osaka. China's bullet trains stood out for their speed and the extensive network; Japan's trains wer... ( read original story ...)
PHL, Japan hold industrial-cooperation dialogue
THE Philippines and Japan conducted the third round of their Industrial Cooperation ... chemicals, information-technology-business process management particularly knowledge-process outsourcing, agribu... ( read original story ...)
Japan executes leader, six followers, of sarin attack doomesday cult
Justice Minister Yoko Kamikawa read out the names of the seven at a news conference and said what they had done was “extremely atrocious”. “These crimes ... plunged people not only in Japan but in oth... ( read original story ...)