If there is one thing fashionistas wear or carry that this Italian luxury brand would never sell, it is uchiwa, a common Japanese fan traditionally made of paper and bamboo. Right? Wrong. Gucci does offer its own uchiwa, with its name splashed on one side. ( read original story ...)
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BUZ INVESTORS Japan NIKKEI 225 The Nikkei 225 closed 91 points or 0.5% lower at 18336 on Friday April 14th, extending losses for the fourth session. It is the lowest close since December 5th amid a stronger yen and geopolitical tensions. Other Asian ... ( read original story ...)
The Latest: Japan protests N. Korean missile test attempt
Japan's Foreign Ministry and the Prime Minister's office released ... 6 p.m. China's official Xinhua News Agency says China's top diplomat, Yang Jiechi, and U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson discussed the situation on the Korean Peninsula in a phone ... ( read original story ...)
Japanese ambassador conveys apology to murdered girl’s family
Japanese ambassador conveys apology to murdered girl’s family, social news, vietnamnet bridge, english news, Vietnam news, news Vietnam, vietnamnet news, Vietnam net news, Vietnam latest news, vn news, Vietnam breaking news ( read original story ...)
Lost Japanese logging camp in North Vancouver backcountry commemorated
Deep in the Seymour River Valley, in an area almost totally reclaimed by the forest, there rests the remnants of a mostly forgotten outpost of early Japanese settlers. On April 1, the 75th anniversary of internment of 20,000 Japanese-Canadians during the ... ( read original story ...)
Japan's Abe warns North Korea could fire sarin-loaded missile
Jose Sepulveda (@josesepulvedatv) has more. Buzz60 Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe warned Thursday that North Korea might be capable of firing a missile loaded with sarin nerve gas toward Japan. Abe, who made the statement at a parliamentary panel on ... ( read original story ...)
Hyogo Prefecture to gift a Japanese garden to Ahmedabad Management Association
AHMEDABAD: The Ahmedabad Management Association (AMA) will soon get a Japanese landscaped garden from the Hyogo Prefecture of Japan. Toshizo Ido, governor of the Hyogo Prefecture, promised the gift to AMA while welcoming an 11-member goodwill delegation ... ( read original story ...)
Japan vows to quickly solve murder of Vietnamese girl
Japan is committed to investigating the murder of Vietnamese girl Le Thi Nhat Linh in Chiba prefecture and punishing the culprit in line with the law, Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said on April 14. Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida He extended deep ... ( read original story ...)
Immigrants Flood Into Japan At A Record Pace
Japan's demographic "time-bomb" has been widely documented in recent years: as we discussed most recently in February, as troubling as Japan's deflationary economic quagmire is, the biggest threat facing Japan has little to do with its balance sheet and ... ( read original story ...)
Japan discusses how to evacuate citizens from South Korea if crisis hits
The United States has warned that its policy of "strategic patience" is over. Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told a news conference on Friday that the government was always collecting and analysing information about North Korea's moves but ... ( read original story ...)
Astro Japan completes purchase of ¥10B shopping mall
Astro Japan Property Group (ASX:AJA) has completed its purchase of a ¥10 billion shopping mall in Japan. In Australian currency, that works out to be $121 million. The property which the company acquired is the FKD Shopping Plaza in Utsonomiya City ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo treble on Mack's mind now
thoughts immediately switched to the prospect of swimming the middle and long-distance trifecta at July's world championships and then at the Tokyo Olympics. Prior to Horton's clean sweep at the Chandler Aquatic centre last week, Grant Hackett in 2008 was ... ( read original story ...)
Japan Weighs Plans for S. Korea Evacuation over Nuclear Crisis: Report
Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told a news conference Friday that the government was always collecting and analyzing information about North Korea's moves but refrained from commenting on details. "At present, we are in close contact with ... ( read original story ...)
Japan to conduct evacuation drill to prepare for North Korea missiles
Kyodo news agency reported Friday. The drill will simulate a summer North Korea missile strike against the Japanese city, according to the report. In Sasebo, a core city in Nagasaki Prefecture home to a U.S. Navy base, police, firefighters and self-defense ... ( read original story ...)
Japanese onsens and getting naked with strangers
JAPAN is frequently touted as a country where old meets new — where ancient temples stand alongside gleaming skyscrapers, and Geishas wander among teenagers with multicoloured haircuts. In this highly developed yet strictly traditional country, one ... ( read original story ...)
Japan index investors go with the flow
The Bank of Japan is another big user of the passive approach, every year purchasing 6 trillion yen ($55.2 billion) of exchange-traded funds that track the Topix index of all first section issues on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and the Nikkei Stock Average. ( read original story ...)