OSAKA – The Osaka Prefectural Government announced Thursday that staff from the Finance Ministry’s Kinki Local Finance Bureau met with its officials five times over 16 months to discuss scandal-plagued Moritomo Gakuen’s application to open a new ... ( read original story ...)
WHO: Japan needs anti-smoking law ahead of Tokyo Olympics
TOKYO -- A senior World Health Organization official says Japan should ban smoking in all public places if it wants to successfully promote tourism and host the Tokyo Olympics in 2020. Japan is often known as a smoker's paradise. The health ministry is ... ( read original story ...)
Nikkei gains limited by U.S. Syria strike; posts 4th weekly drop
TOKYO, April 7 Japan's Nikkei share average edged up in choppy trade on Friday but gains were limited as the U.S. missile strike on Syria curbed investors' risk appetite. The Nikkei rose 0.4 percent to 18,664.63 after traversing positive and negative trade. ( read original story ...)
Osaka Marathon, One of Japan's Biggest Citizens' Marathons, Ready to Accept Entry Applications from April 7
OSAKA, Japan, April 7, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- The Osaka Marathon Organizing Committee will start at 10 a.m. (Japan time) on Friday, April 7, the process of accepting applications for runners in the 7th Osaka Marathon scheduled for Sunday, November 26, 2017 ... ( read original story ...)
Yokohama Hires “Tire Tailors”
Artisans transform Yokohama tires into a range of interesting products. Yokohama Tire is celebrating the company’s 100th anniversary by demonstrating how Yokohama performance can enhance even non-tire items such as a surfboard, saddle and racing shoes. ( read original story ...)
ReNew Power plans IPO to raise up to $600 million
NEW DELHI: India's largest clean energy producer ReNew Power is planning an initial public offering (IPO) of shares to raise up to $600 million after it closed the latest round of funding from Japan's JERA, a joint venture between Tokyo Electric Co. and ... ( read original story ...)
Japan's retail investors pour into rand trading even as political crisis hits
According to the Tokyo Financial Exchange (TFX), a major Japanese trading exchange provider for retail margin trading, the rand came second in both February and March when measured by numbers of traded lots. The Turkish lira was third in February ... ( read original story ...)
Starbucks Japan Is Serving a Cherry Pie Frappuccino
Cherry blossom season is one of Japan’s most celebrated annual events, with trees in bloom and sakura flavor popping up in everything from Kit Kats to Krispy Kreme. This year, Starbucks Japan is celebrating the fruits of those blossoms in a uniquely ... ( read original story ...)
Japan and U.S. aren't discussing Westinghouse situation: Seko
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese trade minister Hiroshige Seko said on Friday it was not true that Japan and the United States were discussing the situation surrounding Toshiba Corp's (6502.T) troubled U.S. nuclear unit Westinghouse Electric Co. A U.S. official ... ( read original story ...)
Best onsen retreats in Osaka
Meeting planners can include a “spa day” as visits to onsen resorts are viable day-trip incentives from Osaka. Arima Onsen is one of the oldest onsen (hot spring) towns in Japan, founded 1,300 years ago. Located in a mountain setting, it’s just 45 ... ( read original story ...)
Japan's ANA to lease four Boeing 737-800s as MRJ delays continue
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's ANA Holdings Inc (:9202.T), will lease four Boeing (NYSE:BA - News) 737-800 aircraft while it awaits delayed deliveries of the country's first commercial aircraft in 50 years, the 90-seat Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ), a senior ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo’s unique shopfronts are captured in this series of beautiful watercolours
One Polish artist has immortalised Tokyo’s disappearing shopfronts in a series of watercolours. The Tokyo shopfronts series are capturing the old buildings of the city. Image by Mateusz Urbanowicz When Mateusz Urbanowicz moved to Tokyo in 2013 to begin ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo’s former deputy governor denies perjury in Tsukiji testimony
A former Tokyo deputy governor has denied allegations that he falsely ... for negotiations on its relocation after July 2001. Hamauzu said he will hold a news conference next Monday to counter the allegations and tell “all that I know regarding the ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo ponders new defense strategy
A panel studying Japan’s response to North Korea’s rapidly expanding nuclear/missile capabilities has recommended that Japan be equipped to retaliate should the North launch a ballistic missile at its heartland. The announcement was made March 30 and ... ( read original story ...)
Olympics – Surf's up for successful Olympic debut in Tokyo
REUTERS: The International Surfing Association is confident the sport's Olympic debut at the Tokyo 2020 Games will be a success despite some minor concerns over conditions, ISA president Fernando Aguerre said on Wednesday. The surfing competition will take ... ( read original story ...)
'Tokyo Ghoul' season 3 updates: Anime unlikely to arrive this year
After Viz Media's sales and marketing senior director Kevin Hamric's interview became inadvertently controversial, there is still no certainty as to when "Tokyo Ghoul" season 3 will arrive. Many "Tokyo Ghoul" fans jubilated when Hamric said in an interview ... ( read original story ...)