TOKYO, Japan – More than 60 people have committed suicides related to last year’s 9.0 quake and tsunami, the Japanese government says.The data comes as a family prepares to file the first lawsuit against the Tokyo Electric Power Co. over the suicide of a 58-year-old woman who set herself on fire in wake of...
TOKYO — Japan’s government on Wednesday approved a 1 trillion-yen, or $12.6 billion, bailout for the operator of the disaster-stricken Fukushima nuclear plant , putting the giant utility under temporary state control as it continues to deal with the extensive damage at the facility. Read full article >> (more…)
NAVIGATING your way around Tokyo's vast neighbourhoods is not as hard as you might think, writes Wayne Flower. (read the story…)
TOKYO, Japan — A Japanese power firm began switching off the country's last working reactor, leaving it without nuclear power just over a year after the world's worst atomic accident in a quarter of a century. As technicians close down the No. 3 unit at Tomari in Hokkaido, the debate over whether … (more…)
TOKYO – Japan Tuesday pledged to give $60 billion in loan to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for boosting efforts to ease European debt crisis. (read more…)
TOKYO: Japan will give the International Monetary Fund (IMF) US$60.0 billion as part of the US-based organisation's bid to boost a global firewall against Europe's debt crisis, Finance Minister Jun Azumi said Tuesday. (get the story…)
