Japan's Emperor Naruhito plans to attend the funeral of Britain's Queen Elizabeth, while Prime Minister Fumio Kishida may also attend, Japanese media said. ( read original story ...)
Japan emperor expected to attend Queen Elizabeth’s funeral: media
Japan's Emperor Naruhito is expected to attend Queen Elizabeth's state funeral, local media reported on Saturday. ( read original story ...)
Japan August trade deficit seen at near 9-year high as weak yen boosts imports, Reuters poll shows
Japan likely recorded its biggest trade deficit in nearly nine years in August as the yen's plunge to 24-year-lows swelled import costs, a Reuters poll showed on Friday. ( read original story ...)
Deepening Tokyo Olympics bribery scandal casts shadow over Sapporo’s 2030 winter games bid
The International Olympics Committee meeting planned to be held in Mumbai was postponed after several governance issues. ( read original story ...)
Deepening Tokyo Olympics bribery scandal casts shadow over 2030 bid
A bribery scandal engulfing last summer's pandemic-delayed Tokyo Games has thrown a dark cloud over Sapporo's 2030 bid and raised fresh questions in Japan about hosting the Olympics again. ( read original story ...)
JR East driver viewed iPad while operating trains in Tokyo since June
A train driver browsed non-work-related websites on an iPad while operating a train in Tokyo for about 30 minutes, East Japan Railway Co. (JR ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Emperor Naruhito to attend Queen Elizabeth’s funeral in first overseas trip -media
Japan's Emperor Naruhito is planning to attend the funeral of Britain's Queen Elizabeth in his first overseas trip since his succession, Japanese media reported on Friday. ( read original story ...)
Tours of Tokyo manufacturing plant press all the right buttons
Since around the time he was 3, whenever he would see an elevator panel, he would rush to be the first to press one. Even at home, he added an illustration of buttons to a sliding door that he can ... ( read original story ...)
Language school in Japan decertified over Vietnamese student being chained for hours
A Japanese language school in Japan was decertified after one of its staff chained and padlocked a Vietnamese student for hours last year. The Nishinihon International Education Institute in the ... ( read original story ...)
Japan is slowly reopening to tourists: Here’s how I visited without a group tour
Japan currently requires almost everyone without a Japanese passport to apply for a visa to enter the country. And for most of the pandemic, tourist visas weren’t available. Finally, in June, Japan ... ( read original story ...)
Nissan tightens the screws on ongoing Ghosn case
Nissan has tightened the screws on Carlos Ghosn and Greg Kelly by dramatically jacking up its damages claims in civil cases against both men as acrimony continues to molder. ( read original story ...)
Tokyo Toni Slams Claims Blac Chyna Earned $240M On OnlyFans: ‘Get The F**k Out Of Here’
During a recent interview on Night and Day Network, Tokyo Toni shared it’s hard to believe her daughter, Blac Chyna, made $20 million a month on OnlyFans last yea ... ( read original story ...)
Osaka venture halts developing COVID vaccine after clinical trials fail to show effects
Pharmaceutical venture AnGes Inc. announced on Sept. 7 that it has suspended the development of a coronavirus vaccine. ( read original story ...)
‘We felt played’: Singaporeans say they were made to wander around Tokyo airport during 9-hour Scoot flight delay
Japan has eased Covid-19 restrictions to allow more foreign tourists into the country – good news for people who missed the sushi and ramen there.But several travellers from a Singapore tour group ... ( read original story ...)
‘A new way of life’: the Marxist, post-capitalist, green manifesto captivating Japan
Kohei Saito’s book Capital in the Anthropocene has become an unlikely hit among young people and is about to be translated into English ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo court orders medical university to pay for gender-biased entrance exams
Tokyo District Court has ordered a medical university to pay compensation of roughly 127,000 dollars to a group of women who said their entrance exam scores were lowered because of their gender. ( read original story ...)