TOKYO (TR) – Tokyo Metropolitan Police have arrested a 30 ... incidents that took place in Shinagawa and Ota wards since April in which the value of lost property totals around 200,000 yen. ( read original story ...)
Typhoon Jebi: Japan hit by strongest storm in 25 years, leaves trail of destruction
Jebi was the strongest typhoon to make landfall in Japan since 1993, according to Japan’s Kyodo News service. The storm was heading north across a swath of Japan’s main island of Honshu toward ... ( read original story ...)
Powerful typhoon devastates western Japan, floods airport
Jebi was the strongest typhoon to make landfall in Japan since 1993, according to Japan’s Kyodo News service. The storm was heading north across a swath of Japan’s main island of Honshu toward ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s deadly summer grinds on with more than 1 million evacuated in worst typhoon in 25 years
Japan will be hoping for cooler, calmer weather when it hosts the Olympic Games in the summer of 2020. Kyodo News said Jebi was the strongest typhoon to make landfall since 1993, while NHK public ... ( read original story ...)
Powerful typhoon hits western Japan, flooding major airport
Jebi was the strongest typhoon to make landfall in Japan since 1993, according to Japan's Kyodo News service. The storm was heading north across a swath of Japan's main island of Honshu toward the Sea ... ( read original story ...)
Jebi sweeping through Japan as a life-threatening typhoon
Typhoon Jebi will continue to threaten lives and property as it sweeps through Japan into Wednesday. Jebi made landfall in eastern Shikoku around midday Tuesday, local time, with the equivalent streng... ( read original story ...)
Typhoon Jebi makes landfall in Japan, strongest in 25 years
The Universal Studios Japan theme park, one of Osaka’s main tourist draws ... attend events and ceremonies in conjunction with His birthday Funding Circle plans IPO with Danish billionaire’s backing V... ( read original story ...)
Japanese Crypto Firm Snaps up a Deutsche Bank Heavyweight for Strategist Role
Japanese crypto firm FXcoin has recruited Deutsch Bank’s former foreign-exchange dealer, Yasuo Matsuda as a senior strategist for the cryptocurrency startup. According to Business Times. ( read original story ...)
‘Break a leg’ Osaka in first Grand Slam quarter-final at US Open
NEW YORK: Japan’s Naomi Osaka reached her first Grand Slam quarter-final at the US Open on Monday, tearfully admitting she was prepared to “break a leg” to win the match. The 20-year-old defeated Aryn... ( read original story ...)
DOCOMO to Provide Prepaid SIM Cards at Tokyo 2020 World Press Briefing
TOKYO — NTT DOCOMO, INC. (DOCOMO) announced today that it will offer Japan Welcome SIM TM cards—prepaid SIM cards for overseas visitors to Japan—to all press and media representatives ... ( read original story ...)
Japan advises nearly 300,000 to evacuate amid typhoon Jebi’s approach
Japan issued evacuation advisories for almost 300,000 people and cancelled hundreds of flights in the face of strong winds and heavy rain as typhoon Jebi roared north and was set to make ... ( read original story ...)
Typhoon brings heavy rain, powerful winds to western Japan
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe cancelled a scheduled trip to Kyushu, Japan's southernmost main island, to oversee the government's response to the typhoon, Kyodo News service said. ( read original story ...)
Japan PM Abe says will raise sales tax ‘by all means’: Nikkei
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe vowed to proceed with next year’s scheduled sales tax hike “by all means” and take steps to ease an expected hit to consumption from the higher lev... ( read original story ...)
Japan finance minister seeks record 2019 budget to boost welfare, defence spending
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso said on Tuesday initial budget requests for fiscal 2019 would likely reach a record high around 102 trillion yen (714 billion pounds), given an ... ( read original story ...)
Japan finmin seeks record 2019 budget to boost welfare, defense spending
It is possible for the finance ministry to cut the final size of next fiscal year’s budget to below initial requests, but this is unlikely to ease concern about Japan’s debt burden ... ( read original story ...)
Typhoon Jebi hits THAI flights
"For safety reasons", THAI reschedules flights to Japan on Tuesday as follows. 4 flights cancelled 1. Flight TG646 from Bangkok to Nagoya, scheduled to depart from Suvarnabhumi airport at 10.45am and ... ( read original story ...)