TOKYO -- Japan, the only country to have suffered atomic bomb attacks, has repeatedly called for a global ban on nuclear weapons. Yet it sided with the nuclear powers and NATO in refusing to sign a treaty to ban such weapons during the UN General Assembly ... ( read original story ...)
AP Explains: Why Japan doesn’t sign nuclear arms ban treaty
Japan, the only country to have suffered atomic bomb attacks, has repeatedly called for a global ban on nuclear weapons. Yet it sided with the nuclear powers and NATO in refusing to sign a treaty to ban such weapons during the U.N. General Assembly meeting ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s emoji creator saw nuance in pictures
They star in a new Hollywood film. The emoji is heir to a tradition of pictographic writing stretching back millennia to Egyptian hieroglyphics and the ideograms used to write Chinese and Japanese. Despite their ubiquity, they started in 1998 with one man ... ( read original story ...)
Reprocessed nuclear fuel returned to Japan for reactor use
(Madoka Ogawa/Kyodo News via AP) Without a plutonium-burning fast reactor, Japan has resorted to burning MOX, a mixture of plutonium and uranium fuel, in conventional reactors. Only three reactors, including two at Takahama, use MOX, a fraction of planned ... ( read original story ...)
Earthquake hits Japan off coast of Fukushima nuclear plant
A 6.1 magnitude earthquake has struck off the coast of Japan, just 320 kilometres east of Fukushima nuclear plant. The American scientific agency, which tracks natural disasters around the world, said the quake occurred 281 kilometres from Kamaishi ... ( read original story ...)
Powerful 6.2 magnitude earthquake strikes off the coast of Japan near Fukushima
A powerful 6.2 magnitude earthquake has struck off the coast of Japan near Fukushima. Details of the extent of the damage have not yet emerged regarding the quake which hit 281km South East of Kamaishi. A similar earthquake back in 2011 killed 15,894 ... ( read original story ...)
Families of Japan war dead to pray for fallen US soldiers
Dozens of descendants of Japanese soldiers killed in World War II have headed to Hawaii to pay respects to American war dead. Nippon Izokukai, the Bereaved Family Association of Japan, is sending 36 children, grandchildren and other relatives of fallen ... ( read original story ...)
Japan Open: Kidambi Srikanth, HS Prannoy enter quarters
World No.8 Srikanth, who clinched back-to-back titles in Indonesia and Australia this year, demolished Hong Kong's Hu Yun 21-12 21-11 within half an hour to make it to the final eight of the $325,000 Japan Open Super Series, on Thursday. The Indian will ... ( read original story ...)
Magnitude 6.1 earthquake strikes off Japan
A magnitude 6.1 earthquake has hit off the coast of Japan, the US Geological Survey says. The agency's website says the quake hit early on Thursday about 283 kilometres southeast of the city of Kamaishi and more than 322km east of Fukushima. A massive 2011 ... ( read original story ...)
TD re-enters Japan with Tokyo fixed-income sales desk
"We can't afford not to be in Japan, in Tokyo," TD Securities chairman and CEO Robert Dorrance ... TD said last month it was expanding its operations in Ireland to strengthen its European business. ( read original story ...)
Apple-backed group to buy Toshiba chip business for $18 billion
Toshiba is selling its prized memory chip business for $18 billion to a group of buyers that includes Apple. The Japanese conglomerate is offloading major assets to try to deal with a crippling financial crisis. The memory chip business is its crown jewel ... ( read original story ...)
Japanese video gaming adapting new tech for familiar titles
CHIBA, Japan — The Japanese video game industry is finding its way out of the doldrums by adapting new technology for decades-old titles. And that energy was evident at the annual Tokyo Game Show, which opened to media Thursday before opening to the ... ( read original story ...)
Optimistic outlook for Japanese real estate
Organised in partnership with Japanese developer Dualtap, highlights included insights into Japan’s property market for 2018 and an overview of real estate laws and tax regulations. Sigrid Zialcita, managing director and head of Asia Pacific ... ( read original story ...)
AP Interview: Japan’s emoji creator saw nuance in pictures
TOKYO — The Japanese creator of the first emoji wanted to add nuance to mobile phone messages and never imagined what he created in 1998 would become a global phenomenon. Shigetaka Kurita says he was rushing to meet a deadline at his phone company when ... ( read original story ...)
Amazon takes on Japan’s business-to-business market
TOKYO -- Amazon.com has launched its business-to-business operation in Japan, where the U.S. tech giant is expected to carve out space against long-established rivals well-versed in this country's corporate norms. All-in-one solution Debuting in April 2015 ... ( read original story ...)
Valu, the Startup in Japan That Lets Anyone Hold a Personal IPO
Nuko Numano is a cosplayer in Japan who regularly hosts livestreams for her fans, but only to a select few who own five of her shares priced at $38 apiece. That seems like a bargain, considering they were trading for as much as $585 in July. The 23-year ... ( read original story ...)