Maria is expected to barrel across Japan’s Ryukyu Islands and eastern China as a dangerous typhoon Tuesday through Thursday of next week. Maria will remain a powerful typhoon through this weekend as i... ( read original story ...)
Why the Japanese army’s WW II ‘comfort women’ are still waiting for their #MeToo moment
Lee Ok-sun was 15 years old in 1942, when two Japanese men in civilian clothes abducted her while she was out running errands in the port city of Busan, in what is now South Korea. She was eventually ... ( read original story ...)
Cult leader in Tokyo sarin attack executed along with 6 followers
Japan executed on Friday the former leader of a doomsday cult and six other members of the group that carried out a sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995 ... read out the names of the seven at ... ( read original story ...)
Japanese Journalist, Missing in Syria Since 2015, Appears in New Video
“I want to see you.” A few seconds later, a network voice-over in Japanese began summarizing the video’s contents, while continuing to show Mr. Yasuda speak. The segment that ANN News broadcast showed ... ( read original story ...)
OSAKA AND WAKAYAMA: 6-DAY ITINERARY
which started as a brewing factory and has now expanded to other lines of business such as health products, essential oils, and cosmetics. Filipinos love shopping for pasalubong whenever they travel o... ( read original story ...)
Japanese Sales App Soars in IPO — WSJ
This article is being republished as part of our daily reproduction of WSJ.com articles that also appeared in the U.S. print edition of The Wall Street Journal (June 20, 2018). TOKYO -- Japanese flea- ... ( read original story ...)
Takeda considers selling Osaka headquarters to fund Shire purchase
Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. is considering selling its symbolic Osaka headquarters building to help finance its £46 billion ($60 billion) deal to acquire Irish drugmaker Shire Plc., sources close to the ... ( read original story ...)
I rode superfast bullet trains in China, Japan, Korea, and Russia, and one is better than the rest
Last year, on a trip to Tokyo to launch Business Insider Japan, I rode a bullet train from Tokyo to Osaka. China's bullet trains stood out for their speed and the extensive network; Japan's trains wer... ( read original story ...)
PHL, Japan hold industrial-cooperation dialogue
THE Philippines and Japan conducted the third round of their Industrial Cooperation ... chemicals, information-technology-business process management particularly knowledge-process outsourcing, agribu... ( read original story ...)
Japan executes leader, six followers, of sarin attack doomesday cult
Justice Minister Yoko Kamikawa read out the names of the seven at a news conference and said what they had done was “extremely atrocious”. “These crimes ... plunged people not only in Japan but in oth... ( read original story ...)
I rode super-fast bullet trains in China, Japan, Korea, and Russia, and one is better than the rest
Last year, on a trip to Tokyo to launch Business Insider Japan, I rode a bullet train from Tokyo to Osaka. China's bullet trains stood out for their speed and the extensiveness of their network; Japan ... ( read original story ...)
Japan cult leader’s hanging closes chapter on shocking crime
TOKYO (AP) — The executions Friday of a doomsday cult leader and six of his followers closed a chapter on one of Japan's most shocking crimes, the poison gas attack on rush-hour commuters in Tokyo's s... ( read original story ...)
TOKYO | Japan cult leader’s hanging closes chapter on shocking crime
TOKYO — The executions Friday of a doomsday cult leader ... and that is beyond my imagination,” Justice Minister Yoko Kamikawa told a news conference. She said the crime affected not only Japan but al... ( read original story ...)
Japan households’ inflation expectations improve in June – central bank survey
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese households’ inflation expectations improved and pessimism about current economic conditions eased slightly, a quarterly survey from the Bank of Japan showed on Friday. The p... ( read original story ...)
Japanese Market to Outperform Europe in 3Q, Discount Bank Says
Israel Discount Bank recommends investors go overweight Japanese equities, underweight euro zone for the next three months based on findings from a model developed by strategist Shmuel Katzavian. Katz... ( read original story ...)
Japan executes cult leader behind 1995 Tokyo subway gas attack
Tokyo police have been placed on special alert and the chief cabinet secretary pledged “all possible measures” for public safety after the half-blind guru who led the Aum Shinrikyo Japanese doomsday c... ( read original story ...)