A property owner has been fined £18,000 after allowing Japanese Knotweed to spread to neighbouring homes. M B Estate Ltd ignored a community protection notice from May 2017 to deal with the invasive w... ( read original story ...)
Melco counts on Japan’s immigration bill to meet casino plans
“As part of Prime Minister [Shinzo] Abe’s reform packages, labor immigration is a key one,” he told the Nikkei Asian Review ... bulk of employees will be Japanese [eventually],” Ho added ... ( read original story ...)
5 U.S. marines missing after planes collide off Japan coast
A marine refuelling plane and a fighter jet crashed into the Pacific Ocean off Japan's southwestern coast after colliding early Thursday, and rescuers found two of the seven crew members, one of them ... ( read original story ...)
Five Marines missing after two U.S. aircraft collide, crash into sea off Japan
“We plan to keep at it all through the night,” Katsutoshi Kawano, chief of the Japanese Self-Defence Forces’ Joint Staff, told a news conference. The incident adds to a growing list of U.S. military a... ( read original story ...)
Japan arrests North Korea man for ‘fraud,’ report says
In a sign Tokyo may be stepping up pressure on the Kim Jong Un regime as denuclearization talks are delayed, Japanese police arrested a North Korean passport holder for working as a "key North Korean ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s most beautiful ryokans invite you to do absolutely nothing
For dinner, you may take dinner in your room, or in the private dining rooms on the property. Japan's best hotels are usually either hyper-traditional, with only wood, paper and lacquer, or ultramoder... ( read original story ...)
Second U.S. Marine found, five missing, after midair collision off Japan coast
“The incident is regrettable, but our focus at the moment is on search and rescue,” Japanese Defense Minister Takeshi Iwaya told a news conference, according to news agencies. “Japan will respond appr... ( read original story ...)
Second crew member rescued after US Marine Corps planes collide near Japan, as 5 remain missing
A second crew member has been found in the Pacific Ocean near Japan where two Marine Corps aircraft collided while refueling in mid-air early Thursday during a training exercise, a Marine Corps spokes... ( read original story ...)
SoftBank cell functions down for several hours in Japan
SoftBank is a top cell-service provider in Japan, with some 40 million users. The disruptions quickly became one of the trending topics on social media, and it was a major news items on public broadca... ( read original story ...)
F-18 jet and tanker crash in mid-air during refuelling near Japan
The crash is the latest in recent series of accidents involving the U.S. military deployed to and near Japan. Last month, a US Navy F/A-18 Hornet from the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan crashed in... ( read original story ...)
At least 2 U.S. Marines found after mid-air crash off Japan
More than 50,000 U.S. troops are based in Japan under the bilateral security pact. The Reuters news agency noted that U.S. military accidents are a "sensitive" topic in Japan, especially in Okinawa, w... ( read original story ...)
Softbank mobile service disrupted ahead of mobile unit IPO
Osaka, Nagoya and other major cities. In a message on its website, Softbank apologised to customers and said that it was "examining the cause" of the problem. The outage struck less than two weeks ahe... ( read original story ...)
SoftBank Sells All Shares for $23 Billion Telecom IPO
The shares of SoftBank fell 4.9 percent in Tokyo on Thursday, after reversing a steeper decline following the news that the IPO was fully subscribed. A mobile service outage in the afternoon didn’t ap... ( read original story ...)
Nikkei loses 1.9 pct as SoftBank weighs, Huawei arrest jolts chips
TOKYO, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Japan’s Nikkei closed at more than a five-week low on Thursday as chip-related stocks were hit after Canada arrested a top executive of Chinese tech giant Huawei at the reques... ( read original story ...)
Japan finds 2nd U.S. Marine crew member after planes collide
Japan's Defence Ministry says a second crew member has been found in the waters off the Japanese coast where two U.S. Marine Corps warplanes collided and crashed. Five others are still missing. The Ma... ( read original story ...)
As Japan Considers Allowing More Foreigners, Tiny Rural Town Wants to Go Further
AKITAKATA, Japan (Reuters) - Brazilian Luan Dartora Taniuti settled in the remote municipality of Akitakata in southwest Japan when he was nine. Leonel Maia of East Timor has been there nearly seven y... ( read original story ...)