A member of popular Japanese boy band Tokio has been accused of forcibly kissing a high school girl at his apartment, local media said Wednesday. Tatsuya Yamaguchi's agents have acknowledged the incident and apologised. Police have referred the incident to ... ( read original story ...)
Dozens of letters by interned Japanese-Canadian teens donated to UBC
UBC has acquired nearly 150 letters written by young Japanese-Canadians interned in camps during the Second World War. The letters, amounting to more than 300 pages, were written to Joan Gillis by friends she met at Queen Elizabeth Secondary in Surrey ... ( read original story ...)
Scandals Keep Hitting Japan’s Finance Ministry, With Abe at Risk
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was no doubt looking forward to some good press to bolster his falling approval rating. Instead, most papers were focused on scandal. The top headlines carried news that the highest-ranking bureaucrat at the Ministry of ... ( read original story ...)
Japan protests dessert to be served to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un
Japan filed a protest on Tuesday with South Korea, a spokesperson for Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Natsuko Sakata, told ABC News. The disputed island grouping is located in the sea between South Korea and Japan; they’re known in South Korea as ... ( read original story ...)
Japan objects to Korean summit dessert
Japan has objected to the choice of dessert at Friday's summit between North and South Korea. The country's foreign ministry issued a "strong protest" over plans to serve a mango mousse, featuring disputed islands on a map of the Korean peninsula, at the ... ( read original story ...)
Japan Worries It’ll Be Forgotten as Its Allies Talk to North Korea
“For President Trump, it may be favorable to keep Japan feeling left behind and facing a threat,” Park Il, an economics professor and expert on the Korean Peninsula at Osaka City University, said on a Tokyo Broadcasting System news program. “Japan ... ( read original story ...)
Japan : #MeToo Japan: What happened when women broke their silence
In Japan, where the spectre of public censure looms large ... Hiroshi Shinozuka, the head of TV Asahi's network news division, explained she had taken her story to the magazine after being advised against reporting it. "We are doing some deep soul ... ( read original story ...)
Bank of Japan to keep policy unchanged but new deputy could amplify board differences
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan’s central bank is not expected to change settings at its policy review this week, but the debut of a dovish new deputy could widen a rift between advocates of continued stimulus and those wary of the rising costs of prolonged easing. ( read original story ...)
Bank Of Japan Preview: Steady as She Goes
We expect the Bank of Japan to maintain its ‘QQE with yield curve control’ policy unchanged at the next monetary policy meeting ending on Friday 27 April. We do not expect new super dovish deputy Wakatabe to team up with Kataoka in the dissenting camp ... ( read original story ...)
Unjust dessert? Japan demands Koreans wipe map off summit dinner mousse
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan has demanded that South Korea rethink a mango mousse dessert it plans to serve at a North-South summit dinner on Friday which features a map of the Korean peninsula, including islands disputed with Japan, a recurring irritant for Tokyo. ( read original story ...)
Mobile Factory, Outline and Future Prospects of Blockchain Business
Mobile Factory, Inc. (Hereinafter “Mobile Factory”, Headquarters: Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, CEO: Yuji Miyajima) (TOKYO: 3912) announced its start of development of “blockchain related services” in the financial results of January 19th, 2018. We inform ... ( read original story ...)
Japan seeks role in French-German marine surveillance plane project: sources
TOKYO/BERLIN (Reuters) - In a fresh bid to win its first major foreign arms deal since World War Two, Japan is proposing its P-1 submarine hunter for a French-German project to develop a marine surveillance aircraft, two Japanese government sources said. ( read original story ...)
Japan says trade talks with U.S. under new framework won’t start until June
Japan is wary of entering such talks and wants to convince Washington ... will be around mid-June or later," Motegi told a news conference. "We're not thinking of signing a bilateral FTA," he added. Trump pulled the United States out of TPP in early ... ( read original story ...)
Japan stocks outshine Asian peers as dollar climbs
Japanese equities have been slower than other Asian markets to recover from the global stock plunge in February. The Nikkei Asia300 Index, which tracks high-profile Asian companies outside Japan, has largely remained in positive territory this year ... ( read original story ...)
Nikkei rises, financials lead gains on higher U.S. yields
TOKYO, April 24 (Reuters) - Japan’s Nikkei share average rose to near seven-week highs on Tuesday, with financials leading the gains after U.S. bond yields spiked to four-year highs. The Nikkei advanced 0.67 percent to 22,235, near last week’s high of ... ( read original story ...)
Japan labors to add ‘fair’ and ‘reciprocal’ angle to free trade
TOKYO -- Although Japan and the U.S. will begin new "free, fair and reciprocal" trade talks soon, the two countries share little common ground as Washington tries to score a bilateral deal while Tokyo holds out for the original TPP. Dubbed the "FFR" talks ... ( read original story ...)