HAGATNA, Guam (AP) — Troops from the U.S., Japan and two European nations are gathering on remote U.S. islands in the Pacific for drills they say will show support for the free passage of vessels in international waters amid fears China could restrict ... ( read original story ...)
Japan's Gamba Osaka fined 2 million yen over Nazi-like banner – Kyodo
Japan's Gamba Osaka have been fined 2 million yen (13,560 pounds) and reprimanded by the J-League after a group of supporters displayed a Nazi-like banner at a game last month, Kyodo news agency reported on Thursday. The banner carrying a symbol resembling ... ( read original story ...)
X Japan's Yoshiki to Have Emergency Surgery
X Japan founder and bandleader Yoshiki made a name for the group ... Yesterday (May 9) the band cancelled all forthcoming shows following the news of Yoshiki's impending operation. A statement from the band's management reads that the drummer has sustained ... ( read original story ...)
Japan competes with China, makes sales pitch to win Malaysia-Singapore rail project
KYODO: Japan is stepping up efforts to win a Malaysia-Singapore high-speed railway project by sending a high-level mission to Kuala Lumpur to campaign for the adoption of the shinkansen bullet train system. During a recent high-speed rail symposium in the ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Korean community has high hopes for improved bilateral relations after Moon election
“The Abe administration needs to consider the people of South Korea as well and the effect on Japan’s relations with South Korea by pumping up such fears.” In a statement to Kyodo News, the pro-Seoul Korean Residents Union in Japan (Mindan) said that ... ( read original story ...)
Japan university to set up ninja studies centre
TOKYO: A Japanese university is planning what it says will be the world’s first research centre devoted to ninja -- the black clad assassins known for secrecy and stealth. While mostly confined to history books and fiction, ninja have been enjoying ... ( read original story ...)
Japan's Tepco to Seek Partners for Nuclear Business
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Tokyo Electric Power Co said on Thursday it will seek partners for its nuclear business as part of a recovery plan after the Fukushima disaster of six years ago brought the utility to its knees and put it under state control. ( read original story ...)
Tokyo urged to stop using cheap timber in centrepiece Olympic stadium
Tokyo's Olympic stadium will be constructed around an unusual ... Please credit the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, women's rights, trafficking, property rights, climate change and resilience. ( read original story ...)
BRIEF- Dear Life acquires land in Tokyo
* Says it acquired a plot of land located in Tokyo, for apartment building development, on May 10 Source text in Japanese:goo.gl/31IPm0 Further company coverage: (Beijing Headline News) Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles Next In Financials ( read original story ...)
Tokyo stocks mixed in morning as weak yen spurs buying, investors take profits
TOKYO, May 11 (Xinhua) -- Tokyo stocks were mixed Thursday morning, as buying prompted by the yen's depreciation against the U.S. dollar was counteracted by investors opting to sell to secure gains made following the market's recent closing highs. The 225 ... ( read original story ...)
DOXA 2017: Tokyo Idols is a J-pop shock doc
This was national news. Miyake wanted to find out what, exactly, was going on with this pop-cultural phenomenon. What she unearthed was troubling, enlightening, and complicated. Her resulting work, the U.K.–Canada coproduction Tokyo Idols (with producers ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo cops use DNA analysis to nab man in ’07 robbery case
Tokyo police have accused Toshifumi Yamaguchi of robbing a woman of 9,000 yen from her residence in Toshima Ward in 2007 (TBS News) TOKYO (TR) – Tokyo Metropolitan Police have used a DNA analysis to apprehend a suspect in a decade-old robbery case just ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo to shoulder all costs for Olympics temp facilities
Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike said Thursday the metropolitan government will in principle bear all the costs of temporary facilities for the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games to be built outside the capital. Following a meeting with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ... ( read original story ...)
Toyota see profit drop on yen, president promises change
TOKYO -- Japanese automaker Toyota's profit fell 6.6 per cent in the fiscal fourth quarter as an unfavourable exchange rate offset better sales, but its president said Wednesday that the company was merely investing in the future. Toyota Motor Corp ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo cops nab man suspected in Saikyo Line pickpocketing cases
Tokyo Metropolitan Police have arrested a 31-year-old man suspected in a series of pickpocketing incidents on a train line in the capital, reports TBS News (May 11). At around 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Nobutaka Ando allegedly reached into the bag of a woman ... ( read original story ...)
X Japan's Yoshiki needs urgent surgery after decades of intense drumming
The frenetic, intense drumming style of one of Japan's most famous rock stars has caught up on him, with the news that he needs urgent neck surgery. Yoshiki, founder of rock superstars X Japan, will have an artificial cervical disc inserted in his neck. ( read original story ...)