“For 2018, we are expecting more than 70 foreign ships calling, which is 28 percent more compared to last season,” said Yutaka Yasunaga, senior vice president of marketing for the Yokohama Kawasaki In... ( read original story ...)
Russia-Kazakh Drama ‘Ayka’ Wins Grand Prix at Tokyo Filmex
Ayka by Sergey Dvortsevoy won the grand prix at Tokyo Filmex, which wrapped Sunday after seeing a 26 percent jump in attendances over last year. The Russia-Kazakhstan drama follows a Kyrgyz woman who ... ( read original story ...)
South Korean lawmakers land on disputed isle, prompting Japan protest
... lawmakers was carried out despite Japan's advance protests and requests to call it off," Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told a regular news conference. "In light of our country's ... ( read original story ...)
Olympics: Sheikh Ahmad case casts cloud over Tokyo meetings
TOKYO (Reuters) - Amid concerns about the 2026 Winter Games bidding process, a legal case hanging over a powerful International Olympic Committee member and lingering questions over boxing’s ... ( read original story ...)
TOKYO | Mitsubishi Motors fires Ghosn, CEO to be interim chairman
TOKYO — The board of Japanese automaker Mitsubishi Motors, which is allied with Renault and Nissan, voted Monday to dismiss Carlos Ghosn as its chairman after his arrest last week, citing a lack of tr... ( read original story ...)
Sergey Dvortsevoy’s ‘Ayka’ Wins Grand Prize at Kinoshita-Backed Tokyo Filmex
The Tokyo Filmex festival concluded its 2018 edition by giving its grand prize to Sergey Dvortsevoy’s “Ayka.” This was the first edition of the festival under the control of property to entertainment ... ( read original story ...)
Olympics: AOC slams funding cuts for minor sports ahead of Tokyo
saying they would create “enormous problems” for planning and budgeting ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Games. The government-funded Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) announced a new investment ... ( read original story ...)
Japan November factory activity expands at slowest pace in two years: flash PMI
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese manufacturing activity expanded at the slowest pace in two years in November and new orders contracted for the first time since September 2016, a preliminary survey showed, ... ( read original story ...)
Beating Yekaterinburg, Osaka wins bid to host World Expo
OSAKA, Japan - Defeating Yekaterinburg in Russia and the Azerbaijani capital Baku, Japan's Osaka won the bid to host the 2025 World Expo. The grand event, that would give Osaka a change to showcase th... ( read original story ...)
Japan-India collaboration yields a novel treatment method for male urethral stricture
13852) which is the official journal of Japanese Urological Association, is a result of collaboration between Japanese biomaterial technology and an Indian urologist Dr Suryaprakash Vaddi. ( read original story ...)
Report: Former ‘comfort woman’ donates to Japan’s pro-North Korea schools
... Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to apologize directly to women brutalized by Japan's wartime military, said she intends to donate another $17,000, South Korean news service Tongil News reported ... ( read original story ...)
Alibaba and Tencent rally on the back of recent M&A says Yokohama Daisan Management
OSAKA, Japan, Nov. 23, 2018 /PRNewswire/ - Japanese wealth management company based in Osaka, Yokohama Daisan Management has recently commented on the stock gains of the biggest Chinese technology gia... ( read original story ...)
Osaka wins bid to host 2025 World Expo
Supporters of Osaka’s bid leapt to their feet after the results were announced in Paris on Friday, and crowds marked the good news early Saturday morning in Osaka. The vote by the Bureau International ... ( read original story ...)
Osaka wins bid to host 2025 World Expo, plans futuristic fair on a man-made island
Osaka proposed an expo on a man-made island on the theme of ... Alexander Chernov, who led Yekaterinburg's bid, told Russian news agencies on Friday that it showed that "in some areas we didn't work h... ( read original story ...)
Nagoya’s Markeith Cummings scores 42 points in OT triumph over Toyama
The Nagoya Diamond Dolphins power forward scored a season-high ... is coping with lower back pain. The team issued a news release on Nov. 16 stating that the timetable for his return is uncertain. Ver... ( read original story ...)
Expo 2025: Osaka ‘excited’ to welcome the world
Leaders in Osaka, Japan celebrated the city being named host of Expo 2025 – an event they hope will revitalize a city that last hosted the event in 1970 and has since lost much of its lustre to ... ( read original story ...)