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 ...)

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 ...)

Tokyo IT firm taps 3-D technology to offer perfect-fitting shoes

CHIBA – It’s every shoe lover’s dream: Footwear perfectly made for their feet. Tokyo-based information technology firm Flickfit Inc. is developing just that — a service that virtually fits shoes to a person’s feet using 3-D scans. The service ... ( read original story ...)

Yukio Kanao Named General Manager of Imperial Hotel, Tokyo

He was appointed Director of Sales and Marketing for Imperial Hotel, Ltd. in 2011, and from 2014 served as Deputy General Manager of the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo. Tokyo's Imperial was founded by Japanese aristocracy in 1890 on the same site it occupies ... ( read original story ...)