(Bloomberg) -- Radiation from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is becoming the latest source of tension between Japan and South Korea, potentially undercutting Tokyo’s effort to promote the 2020 ... ( read original story ...)
NOCs confident Tokyo 2020 can overcome heat, water quality issues
TOKYO (Reuters) - Searing heat and water quality issues have dogged Tokyo 2020 organizers in recent weeks but delegates to a Chef de Mission seminar on Tuesday said they are confident their hosts ... ( read original story ...)
Yokohama plans to go all in on landing a casino resort in city
Yokohama officials are planning to spin the wheel in hopes of landing one of the three "integrated resort" (IR) locations in Japan that will include a casino, according to sources related to the ... ( read original story ...)
Analysis: History complicates Seoul-Tokyo trade dispute
Tokyo-Seoul standoff decades in the making, writes Kim Tong-hyung and Yuri Kageyama. A runaway train. Crashing billiard balls. A compound fracture. Journalists and academics in Seoul have been running ... ( read original story ...)
Japan approves further exports of high-tech material to South Korea: sources
SEOUL (Reuters) - Japan has approved shipments of a high-tech material to South Korea for the second time since imposing export curbs last month, two people familiar with the matter said on ... ( read original story ...)
Restaurateur, 86: Free lunch if you can put me down in arm wrestling
NAGOYA--Beat an 86-year-old man in arm wrestling and win a free lunch? Many have tried to their regret to put Eiji Okubo down at his restaurant here in the city’s Chikusa Ward. But most have been left ... ( read original story ...)
Japan Inc backs Abe’s tough trade stance vs South Korea amid row: Reuters poll
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese companies broadly support Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s tough trade stance against South Korea, a Reuters poll found. Three-quarters of companies in the monthly Reuters ... ( read original story ...)
UPDATE 1-Japan again approved shipment of photoresists to South Korea -Yonhap News
SEOUL, Aug 20 (Reuters) - Japan has approved shipment of a high-tech material to South Korea for the second time since imposing export curbs last month, Yonhap News Agency reported late on Monday, ... ( read original story ...)
How History Can Actually Solve the South Korea-Japan Crisis
Korea-Japan relations, already strained by South Korean Supreme Court rulings last fall ordering Japanese companies to compensate World War II victims of forced labor, began breaking down across new ... ( read original story ...)
Japan shrine for war dead vandalized by man claiming to be Chinese
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese police on Monday arrested a man claiming to be Chinese for throwing a black ink-like liquid on a curtain at one of the buildings of Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine for war ... ( read original story ...)
Yokohama to Bid for the Right to Host One of Japan’s First Casinos
According to Japanese news outlets, the Mayor of Yokohama, Fumiko Hayashi, may announce that her city will, too, bid for the right to host one of Japan’s three casino resorts later this week. It is ... ( read original story ...)
Yokohama to join race to host casinos
Yokohama Mayor Fumiko Hayashi may announce the city’s candidacy later this week at a news conference, the sources said. Under the integrated resorts promotion law, enacted in July 2018, Japan aims to ... ( read original story ...)
Yokohama to join bidding race for casino resort
TOKYO -- The City of Yokohama has decided to bid to host a large resort that will include a casino, Nikkei has learned. The Japanese government has announced a plan to build three so-called ... ( read original story ...)
Two signs of strain on the global economy just came out from Japan
Two fresh signs of strain on the global economy were delivered by Japan today, after the country unveiled that exports slipped for the eighth consecutive month in July. Japan’s Ministry of Finance ... ( read original story ...)
Sapporo preservation group frets over stories of aging Japanese who were held in Siberia after war
SAPPORO – A group passing on the experiences of the Japanese detained in Siberia by the former Soviet Union after the war has begun new activities to prepare for a time when none of the dwindling ... ( read original story ...)
Yokohama mayor backs casino, seeks promo budget: report
That work would be carried out by a team of Yokohama officials specially chosen for that purpose. According to the news outlet, a site close to Yamashita pier has been confirmed as the preferred site. ( read original story ...)