Japan Post Co. plans to raise fees for its Yu-Pack parcel delivery service for individual customers by some 10 percent on average in March 2018, it was learned Friday. The size of hike will likely come to about ¥100 to ¥250 per item, sources familiar ... ( read original story ...)
Japan hits nuclear-armed North Korea with fresh sanctions
Japan said Friday it will impose fresh sanctions on North Korea by freezing the assets of Chinese and Namibian firms doing business with the nuclear-armed state. The move against a half dozen organisations and a couple of individuals comes days after ... ( read original story ...)
Russia, Japan Plan to Coordinate Joint Economic Projects in Southern Kurils
Russia and Japan are set to agree on joint economic activities in the Southern Kurils at upcoming Eastern Economic Forum (EEF), head of the office of the Japan Association for Trade with Russia and the Newly Independent States (ROTOBO) Daisuke Saito said ... ( read original story ...)
The $2,500 answer to Amazon’s Echo could make Japan’s sex crisis even worse
Japan has a sex problem. The country's birthrate is shrinking year after year, to the point where deaths are outpacing births. Simply put, Japan's population is decreasing. But let's be clear: Population change is a complicated subject affected by many ... ( read original story ...)
‘Made in Japan’ labelling encourages strategic export plans
Japanese heavyweight names, Shiseido, Kose, Kanebo, are using ‘Made in Japan’ labels on their products to engage Asian shoppers, notably Chinese consumers. In 2017, cosmetics exports in Japan are expected to reach “another all-time high”, Nikkei ... ( read original story ...)
Air Canada’s direct flights to Japan from Montreal expected to boost Quebec economy
Montreal Board of Trade president Michel Leblanc says the flights will provide business opportunities for Quebec companies in artificial intelligence, gaming, clean technology and food. Japan is Quebec’s sixth-largest market that purchased $1.3 billion ... ( read original story ...)
Japanese FM in Mozambique for conference on development
JOHANNESBURG — The foreign ministers of Japan and some African countries are in Mozambique for a development conference that also includes delegates from the private sector and non-governmental groups. The Portuguese news agency Lusa says Japanese ... ( read original story ...)
Porn billionaire reinvents himself as Japan’s social-conscious startup guru
Kameyama won’t disclose his profits, but he says there’s enough to fund all the new business without having to take DMM public, unless he tries something huge like building an amusement park based on Japanese anime characters. “Imagine what people ... ( read original story ...)
Japan Tobacco targets smoker-heavy zones
Japan Tobacco Inc., whose domestic market is predicted to shrink ... and grow sustainably to strength our business foundations,” spokesman Kana Miyauchi said via phone on Tuesday, when the company announced its largest Asian deal yet: paying about ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Tepco gets slapped with new U.S. lawsuit over Fukushima
Tepco has been hit with more lawsuits than in any previous Japanese contamination suit over the meltdowns of three reactors at its Fukushima Daiichi plant north of Tokyo after a massive earthquake and tsunami in March 2011. Radiation forced 160,000 people ... ( read original story ...)
Billionaire Porn King Reinvents Himself as Japan’s Startup Guru
Imagine the publisher of Pornhub.com being asked to address Harvard University undergraduates on the virtues of running a socially responsible business. That’s basically what happened in Japan this past December, when the country’s most prestigious ... ( read original story ...)
China’s XAircraft has a US$27k drone solution for Japan’s ageing farmers
XAircraft sees business potential from the Japanese market as local farmers are well acquainted with the use of advanced technologies. Nearly three-quarters of rice production in Japan is mechanised while over a third of rice farms made use of pesticide ... ( read original story ...)
The school beneath the wave: the unimaginable tragedy of Japan’s tsunami
The earthquake that struck Japan on Friday 11 March 2011 was the fourth most powerful in the history of seismology. It knocked the Earth six and a half inches off its axis; it moved Japan four metres closer to America. In the tsunami that followed ... ( read original story ...)
How the 2011 killer tsunami sent shock waves through Japan
The most powerful earthquake yet recorded, in 1960 off Chile, sent 80-foot waves across 10,500 miles of ocean — and struck Japan, half a world away, killing 142 people there. Japan is a magnet for super-tsunamis, which recur at intervals of 800 to 1,000 ... ( read original story ...)
Koike says no to eulogy for Koreans killed in 1923 quake
The Japan-Korea Society, the Japan-China Friendship Association ... will memorialize them together.” The Great Kanto Earthquake resulted in 100,500 deaths. ( read original story ...)
Shock waves in Japan
The most powerful earthquake yet recorded, in 1960 off Chile, sent 80-foot waves across 10,500 miles of ocean — and struck Japan, half a world away, killing 142 people there. Japan is a magnet for super-tsunamis, which recur at intervals of 800 to 1,000 ... ( read original story ...)