“For 2018, we are expecting more than 70 foreign ships calling, which is 28 percent more compared to last season,” said Yutaka Yasunaga, senior vice president of marketing for the Yokohama Kawasaki In... ( read original story ...)
Russia-Kazakh Drama ‘Ayka’ Wins Grand Prix at Tokyo Filmex
Ayka by Sergey Dvortsevoy won the grand prix at Tokyo Filmex, which wrapped Sunday after seeing a 26 percent jump in attendances over last year. The Russia-Kazakhstan drama follows a Kyrgyz woman who ... ( read original story ...)
South Korean lawmakers land on disputed isle, prompting Japan protest
... lawmakers was carried out despite Japan's advance protests and requests to call it off," Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told a regular news conference. "In light of our country's ... ( read original story ...)
Olympics: Sheikh Ahmad case casts cloud over Tokyo meetings
TOKYO (Reuters) - Amid concerns about the 2026 Winter Games bidding process, a legal case hanging over a powerful International Olympic Committee member and lingering questions over boxing’s ... ( read original story ...)
TOKYO | Mitsubishi Motors fires Ghosn, CEO to be interim chairman
TOKYO — The board of Japanese automaker Mitsubishi Motors, which is allied with Renault and Nissan, voted Monday to dismiss Carlos Ghosn as its chairman after his arrest last week, citing a lack of tr... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s foreign workers increasingly join labor unions
Nikkei surveyed 22 major retail and service companies, including operators of supermarkets, restaurants and hotels. Eighteen of the companies, or 80% of the total, confirmed that non-Japanese ... ( read original story ...)
Sergey Dvortsevoy’s ‘Ayka’ Wins Grand Prize at Kinoshita-Backed Tokyo Filmex
The Tokyo Filmex festival concluded its 2018 edition by giving its grand prize to Sergey Dvortsevoy’s “Ayka.” This was the first edition of the festival under the control of property to entertainment ... ( read original story ...)
Olympics: AOC slams funding cuts for minor sports ahead of Tokyo
saying they would create “enormous problems” for planning and budgeting ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Games. The government-funded Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) announced a new investment ... ( read original story ...)
Japan delights at Osaka winning bid to host Expo 2025
"Osaka would have a bigger presence in Asia in terms of not only tourism but also business," Matsunaga said. However, some people have not been as enthusiastic about the upcoming expo. Koichi Maeda, w... ( read original story ...)
Japan November factory activity expands at slowest pace in two years: flash PMI
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese manufacturing activity expanded at the slowest pace in two years in November and new orders contracted for the first time since September 2016, a preliminary survey showed, ... ( read original story ...)
46% of Japanese favor initial return of 2 islands from Russia
the latest Nikkei/TV Tokyo survey finds. The Northern Territories, Japan's name for the southern Kuril Islands, are administered by Russia but claimed by Tokyo. The dispute has kept the two ... ( read original story ...)
Beating Yekaterinburg, Osaka wins bid to host World Expo
OSAKA, Japan - Defeating Yekaterinburg in Russia and the Azerbaijani capital Baku, Japan's Osaka won the bid to host the 2025 World Expo. The grand event, that would give Osaka a change to showcase th... ( read original story ...)
Japan-India collaboration yields a novel treatment method for male urethral stricture
13852) which is the official journal of Japanese Urological Association, is a result of collaboration between Japanese biomaterial technology and an Indian urologist Dr Suryaprakash Vaddi. ( read original story ...)
US-China confrontation weighs heavily on Japan
TOKYO -- As the U.S.-China confrontation heats up ahead of a crucial showdown between their leaders next week in Argentina, other countries like Japan are finding themselves caught in the middle. ( read original story ...)
SoftBank pushes for pay-to-play loans from lead IPO underwriters
Almost all Japan's biggest domestic banks are sponsors ... Banks are gearing up to fully mobilize to tackle the mobile unit's IPO. Even the world's most powerful investment banks are desperate ... ( read original story ...)
Nissan crisis sheds new light on Japan Inc’s awkward secrets
But however badly the affair reflects on the former chairman of Nissan as a business leader, his arrest last week over allegations of “significant financial misconduct” raises equally serious question... ( read original story ...)