The Japan Meteorological Agency has urged residents of Okinawa and Kyushu to exercise extreme caution. Haishen morphed into a super typhoon on Saturday, with maximum sustained winds higher than 155 ... ( read original story ...)
Powerful Typhoon Haishen bears down on southern Japan
Haishen became the first super typhoon of the season in the western Pacific Ocean late this past week, according to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center. Despite losing some wind intensity and no longer ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo’s ‘Harajuku for Grandmas’ losing elderly appeal
Harajuku is renowned as Tokyo's mecca for outlandish youth culture, but over in the city's north-west is a district known as Sugamo that has come to be affectionately known as "Harajuku for Grandmas". ( read original story ...)
Super Typhoon Haishen likely to be record-breaking storm for Japan
Japanese residents braced for impact on Saturday as the powerful Super Typhoon Haishen barreled through unusually warm waters towards the Okinawa islands. ( read original story ...)
Naomi Osaka Wears Mask with Ahmaud Arbery’s Name and Wins Third Round at U.S. Open
Naomi Osaka continues to draw attention to police brutality and racism — and continues to win — at this year’s U.S. Open. On Friday, the 22-year-old tennis star wore a face mask with Ahmaud Arbery's ... ( read original story ...)
Schools in Japan are back in session amid coronavirus pandemic
Tokyo – While COVID-19 has sowed uncertainty and chaos in American education and left many kids to learn remotely, Japanese schools are back in session, thanks to a much lower rate of community spread ... ( read original story ...)
Torrential rainfall and fierce winds forecast as Typhoon Haishen nears Japan
Pouring rain, high tides and winds will hit before the typhoon on Sunday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. ( read original story ...)
Japan Coast Guard suspends search for crew of missing cargo ship with 43 sailors and 5,800 cows
The search for the crew of a cargo ship that went missing during Typhoon Maysak was suspended Saturday due to bad weather, according to Japan's Coast Guard. ( read original story ...)
Students in Japan return to in-person, but socially distanced classes
While the coronavirus pandemic is keeping many American students at home, children in Japan are back in the classroom. Schools there have been able to reopen because Japan, with about one-third of the ... ( read original story ...)
Powerful Typhoon Haishen closing in on Japan, South Korea
Typhoon Haishen is strengthening and, according to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center, has become the first super typhoon of the season in the western Pacific Ocean. ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Suga Signals Ultra-Easy Monetary Policy to Continue
Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, a frontrunner to be the next prime minister, said he would like the central bank to continue its ultra-loose monetary policy as the economy is still ... ( read original story ...)
The Biggest Failure of ‘Abenomics’: Japan Inc. Is Still Hoarding Cash
Ever since the real estate and stock market bubbles burst in the early 1990s, Japanese companies have relentlessly focused on accumulating a hoard of cash. That was supposed to change under Shinzo Abe ... ( read original story ...)
Soccer: Sanfrecce defeat Consadole 2-0 to end winless streak
Sanfrecce Hiroshima put on a counterattacking clinic against Consadole Sapporo in the J-League first division on Saturday, claiming ... ( read original story ...)
Japan coastguard suspends search for crew from capsized cattle ship due to bad weather
Japan's coastguard on Saturday suspended its search for crew missing from a cattle ship in the East China Sea due to bad weather from a typhoon, a coastguard said. ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Suga Gives Fiscal, Monetary Policy Views in Interviews
Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga signaled a continuation of the super-easy monetary policy pursued by the Bank of Japan, and ruled out any cuts to the country’s consumption tax in ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Suga says would like to see continuation of easing policies: Nikkei
Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said on Saturday that he highly approves of Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda and that he would like to see a continuation of easing policies, ... ( read original story ...)