TOKYO: Tokyo shares closed higher for a fifth straight day on Friday, while investors awaited key US jobs data. ( read original story ...)
Tokyo Metropolitan Government Opens a PR Site “#Tokyo Tokyo BASE” in Terminal 3 of Haneda International Airport!
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government on August 9, 2023 opened a Tokyo Brand PR site "#Tokyo Tokyo BASE" in Terminal 3 of Haneda International Airport, Tokyo and Japan’s gateway to the sky. At "#Tokyo ... ( read original story ...)
Japan is preparing for a massive earthquake
Quakes of this size could “challenge the survival of Japan as a state” and send economic shock waves around the globe, says Fukuwa Nobuo of Nagoya University. After the next Tokyo quake, recovering ... ( read original story ...)
Japan holds major disaster drill on centenary of Great Kanto Earthquake
Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio has urged people to act to protect their lives in a mock news conference for a national disaster drill on the centenary of the Great Kanto Earthquake. ( read original story ...)
Tokyo Has Lived on the Brink of the ‘Big One’ – for a Century
A hundred years ago today, Tokyo was flattened. The Great Kanto Earthquake, a magnitude 7.9 event, demolished the nascent Japanese capital, killing more than 100,000 people — some 3% of the city’s ... ( read original story ...)
Japan marks centenary of Great Kanto Earthquake disaster
Japan on Friday marked the centenary of the Great Kanto Earthquake that devastated the capital and surrounding areas, killing an esti ... ( read original story ...)
Workers stage Japan’s first strike in decades over department store sale
Workers at a major Tokyo department store went on strike on Thursday after talks with management over the planned sale of their company broke down, marking the first major walk-out the country has ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s toxic water discharge against global opinion
Life on Earth depends on the oceans. By dumping the nuclear-contaminated water into the sea for the next 30 years, Japan could pose a serious threat to marine life and turn the oceans toxic, affecting ... ( read original story ...)
Dairy farmers are “going out of business one after another” because they cannot keep up with the price increase.
Milk, yogurt, and other dairy products have been subject to a series of price hikes. The background is the rise in various costs, but even a series of price hikes has not been able to cover the cost ... ( read original story ...)
Japan denies massacre of Koreans after 1923 earthquake
The Japanese government has risked a new row with South Korea after insisting there was no official evidence of a massacre of ethnic Koreans following a catastr ... ( read original story ...)
CDL buys Osaka hotel for $78.5m, marking group’s third hotel acquisition of 2023
SINGAPORE - City Developments Limited on Thursday announced that it has acquired a hotel in Osaka, Japan for 8.5 billion yen (S$78.5 million). Read more at straitstimes.com. ( read original story ...)
Strike at Tokyo department store fails to stop sale of Sogo-Seibu
Seven & i Holdings Co. announced Aug. 31 that it will sell Sogo-Seibu Co. to a U.S. investment fund on Sept. 1 just as the subsidiary’s flagship department store in Tokyo was being shut down by a rare ... ( read original story ...)
‘It hurts my heart’: Japan’s Kanto massacre, 100 years on
Japan marks 100 years since the Great Kanto Earthquake that killed 105,000 people. Less well known is the subsequent massacre of thousands of ethnic Koreans that haunts the community to this day.Over ... ( read original story ...)
Japanese ministers eat Fukushima fish to show it’s safe after nuclear plant wastewater is discharged
Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and three Cabinet ministers have eaten Fukushima fish sashimi at a lunch meeting in an apparent effort to show that fish is safe following the release of treated ... ( read original story ...)
Glitch halts Toyota factories in Japan
The incident affected only Japanese factories, Toyota said ... This practice minimises costs while improving efficiency and is studied by other manufacturers and at business schools around the world, ... ( read original story ...)
Investigation finds late founder of Japanese talent agency for boy bands sexually assaulted teens
Another turning point came earlier this month when the U.N. Working Group on Business and Human Rights urged the Japanese government to take action. The group also accused Japan’s mainstream media of ... ( read original story ...)