People often say that Japan is a land of contrasts. It’s a country where faxes coexist with futuristic robot technologies, ancient shrines peer out from the shadow of city high rises, and women in kim... ( read original story ...)
Multinational bunch of Tokyo Halloween revelers referred to prosecutors for overturning truck in Shibuya
Four other men in their 20s were arrested in December in relation to the incident on suspicion of property destruction ... talks to end a decades-long territorial dispute, but called on Tokyo to recog... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo gov’t mulls building int’l convention center at Tsukiji market site
According to the metropolitan government, it will implement measures against soil contamination and conduct investigations on buried cultural property after the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic ... ( read original story ...)
Patents – Patent litigation – Japan
In Japan, the Intellectual Property High Court (IPHC) established in 2005 has jurisdiction to handle intellectual property cases as second instance, and registered IP cases appealed against trial deci... ( read original story ...)
Hard Rock resort coming to Hokkaido, Japan
which will serve as the property signpost. Drawings also call for a Four Seasons Resort, Hard Rock Live venue and Music Rock-n-Roll Hall of Fame, which will highlight the achievements of Japanese, Asi... ( read original story ...)
‘Lost Fleet’ exhibit in Victoria explores Canada’s dark history of Japanese internment
In the early nineteen-forties, the federal government confiscated the property of Japanese Canadians and held them in internment camps. Now, a new exhibit aims to help make sure what happened doesn’t ... ( read original story ...)
Stop the escalating crisis in Japan-South Korea ties
The dispute between Japan and South Korea over Koreans mobilized for wartime ... damages to the former laborers — even though a 1965 bilateral agreement to settle property claims resolved the compensa... ( read original story ...)