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 ...)

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 ...)

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 ...)

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 ...)

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 ...)

Japan's hotels seek out foreign staff as customer base grows

OSAKA -- One day in early March, a 28-year-old woman from Canada was in the lobby of the Rihga Royal Hotel conversing with a guest in fluent Japanese. Rachael Buell has been working for the hotel in Osaka since last year in the guest relations group ... ( read original story ...)