Month: October 2021

A 90-year-old retired senior bureaucrat set to start a 5-year prison term for negligent driving causing death in an April 2019 accident that ･･･ ... ( read original story ...)

An unprecedented election pledge by Japan's ruling party to double defence spending underscores the nation's haste to acquire missiles, stealth fighters, drones and other weapons to deter China's ... ( read original story ...)

A ramp-up in vaccinations among factors helping push Covid infections to lowest levels in more than a year, but experts warn winter could spark a fresh wave ... ( read original story ...)

Japan stands apart. In the rest of the world, countries seeking to boost growth encourage foreign companies to set up new facilities on their soil or buy domestic companies, ventures known as inward ... ( read original story ...)

While theories that Native Americans are descended from people who migrated north from Japan, new research suggests that the earliest inhabitants of the Americas were descended from people in Siberia ... ( read original story ...)

I have helped finance two junior Isas for my British grandchildren and would like to invest in something similar ... ( read original story ...)

At host clubs, men serve customers their drinks, light their cigarettes, and make small talk with them. At a newly opened one in Osaka, they also dress as Nazis. That’s pretty fucked up. The name of ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo stocks opened lower Wednesday as investor sentiment was hurt by an International Monetary Fund downgrade of growth estimates fo ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese manufacturers have become less positive about business conditions whereas the service-sector outlook improved to a level not seen since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, showed the ... ( read original story ...)

Defeat in Saitama added further complexity to a World Cup qualification campaign that has proven a difficult one to nail down ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party has chosen a new leader to boost its chances of retaining power in this month’s election. But the LDP is still fully committed to the militarization of Japanese ... ( read original story ...)