It’s absolute proof of a transaction and at times feels like necessary proof that you exist here at all. Paperwork rules the roost in any Tokyo office. However, subscription-based software company SmartHR is here to change that. Its goal is to assist ... ( read original story ...)
Osaka floats out-of-box thinking for ties with North
View from Osaka is a monthly column that examines the latest news from a Kansai perspective. North Korea's official Pyongyang Broadcasting Station repeated on Friday that the abduction issue has "already been settled," according to the Tokyo-based Radio ... ( read original story ...)
Japan suspending sale of Canadian wheat after GMO discovery concerns Alberta farmers
Japan made the move on Friday after news surfaced that grain containing a genetically modified trait was discovered last summer in southern Alberta. “We are suspending the tender and sale of Canadian wheat until we confirm that the Canadian wheat that ... ( read original story ...)
Japan suspends sale of Canadian wheat after GMO grain found in Alberta
Alberta Economic Development and Trade Minister Deron Bilous will hold a news conference Friday afternoon about Japan’s suspension of Canadian wheat shipments. (Global News will livestream the news conference in the video player above.) Japan’s farm ... ( read original story ...)
Japan blocks Canadian wheat after unapproved GMO plants found in Alberta
A Japanese Farm Ministry official said on Friday it has suspended its tender and sale of wheat from Canada after grain containing a genetically modified trait was discovered last summer in Alberta. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) said Thursday ... ( read original story ...)
Nagoya Store’s Giant Mannequin Gets Wookie Makeover
The Meitetsu Department Store in Nagoya, Japan has a distinctive mannequin outside its men's department. The mannequin is known locally as Nana-chan, and she's a popular landmark for meet ups because she's easy to spot in the shopping district —she's 20 ... ( read original story ...)
Osaka makes final pitch to host 2025 World Expo
OSAKA – Osaka made its final pitch Wednesday in Paris to host the 2025 World Expo, emphasizing the Kansai region’s history as a center of Nobel-prize winning scientific research and telling expo delegates that the central government is willing to spend ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo Disney Operator to Spend $2.3 Billion in Resort Expansion
The operator of Tokyo Disneyland is investing 250 billion yen ($2.3 billion) to expand the Japanese resort as Walt Disney Co. continues to upgrade its theme parks in Asia. Oriental Land Co., which is licensed to operate the Tokyo resort, will expand the ... ( read original story ...)
Japanese utility eyes scrapping 2nd Fukushima nuclear plant
The utility responsible for meltdowns at a nuclear power plant in northeast Japan seven years ago said Thursday for the first time publicly that it might decommission another plant in Fukushima that narrowly escaped the crisis. Tokyo Electric Power Company ... ( read original story ...)
Japan Eying Abe-Kim Summit With Possible Pyongyang Visit: Paper
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks to media after the news conference by the U.S. President Donald Trump, after the summit between the U.S. and North Korea in Singapore, at Abe's official residence in Tokyo, Japan, June 12, 2018. REUTERS/Issei Kato ... ( read original story ...)
Coming of age: Why adults in Japan are getting younger
These are external links and will open in a new window Adulthood is about to come a lot earlier in life for many in Japan. The government has enacted a bill lowering the age of adulthood from 20 to 18, which will affect millions across the country when it ... ( read original story ...)
Rybarikova stunned at Nottingham, Osaka progresses
Japanese third seed Naomi Osaka recorded a dominant 6-3 6-2 win over Czech Republic’s Denisa Allertova in just over an hour to reach her first WTA quarter-final on grass, where she will take on rising Romanian Mihaela Buzarnescu. Buzarnescu had her best ... ( read original story ...)
Will US-North Korea deal leave Japan, South Korea vulnerable?
“This is bad news for both South Korea and Japan, as joint exercises form an important part of the US’ deterrence strategy,” Benoit Hardy-Chartrand, an adjunct professor at Temple University in Tokyo, said. South Korea’s defence ministry sought to ... ( read original story ...)
TOKYO | Stock markets rise ahead of Fed rate decision
TOKYO — Global stocks rose Wednesday as investors awaited an expected interest rate increase from the Federal Reserve and looked for hints of further hikes this year. KEEPING SCORE: France’s CAC 40 was up 0.3 percent at 5,468 and Germany’s DAX rose 0 ... ( read original story ...)
‘Dead’ husband returns alive year after Tokyo police misidentified body
TOKYO — A Japanese wife has told police the body she thought was of her missing husband belonged to a stranger after her spouse turned up alive a year later. Tokyo police acknowledged Wednesday that the body found in a river in eastern Tokyo in June 2017 ... ( read original story ...)
‘Dead’ husband returns after Japan police send wrong body
TOKYO -- A Japanese wife has told police the body she thought was of her missing husband belonged to a stranger after her spouse turned up alive a year later. Tokyo police acknowledged Wednesday that the body found in a river in eastern Tokyo in June 2017 ... ( read original story ...)