Tokyo Metropolitan Police on Thursday announced the arrest of five men suspected in the swindling of dozens of businesses out of some 160 million yen through a cash-on-delivery scam, reports TBS News (May 20). Police have arrested Eiji Ogura ... ( read original story ...)
Nine medals for Brits in Tokyo
Britain’s swimmers continue to shine in the Far East after claiming a total of nine medals on day two of the Japan Open at the Tatsumi International Pool, Tokyo. Off the back of an intensive training camp in Thailand, the athletes swam through the pain ... ( read original story ...)
For Tokyo Vintage Store Nude Trump, It’s Business as Usual
TOKYO — Longtime Shibuya vintage store Nude Trump says its business remains unaffected by the erratic behavior of the American president with whom it shares a name. The store, located on the third floor of an Eighties-style building, offers a hodgepodge ... ( read original story ...)
From stardust to ashes: How Japan Post's $6.5b bet on Toll unravelled
In February 2015, bankers working on Japan's biggest IPO in three decades woke to news that left them shaken. Their client had just closed a multi-billion dollar deal - but had kept them firmly out of the loop. Just months ahead of its listing, state-owned ... ( read original story ...)
This Is Why Mark Zuckerberg Got Married the Day After Facebook’s IPO
It turns out, the IPO was going to be May 18th—one day before the secret ... That brings us to today. Some years we’ve gone to Japan or France. This year we’re traveling around the U.S. and we’ll be spending our honeymoon in rural Maine.” ( read original story ...)
Saudi Aramco's Only IPO Foray Provides a Cautionary Tale
Japan and China. Using PetroRabigh, S-Oil and Showa Shell Sekiyu as a combined benchmark to calculate the valuation of Aramco’s downstream business yields about $33 billion. Within Aramco today, the IPO of PetroRabigh is seen as a sore chapter ... ( read original story ...)
New Osaka hotel making its mark
OSAKA -- A hotel that opened last year in Osaka has become ... the hotel's operating company. The business was founded by the brothers' native Chinese grandfather some five decades ago. An angry outburst Before Oukyuu opened the new hotel last year ... ( read original story ...)
Japanese robotics startups look to foreign talent
Mohanarajah came to Japan from Sri Lanka in 2014 to start his business. One American engineer said the office environment is very international and gives him energy to work. Rapyuta also has offices in Switzerland and India. But Mohanarajah insisted that ... ( read original story ...)
Japan's milk crisis destined to linger
TOKYO/SAPPORO, Japan -- Japan's dairy industry is in crisis mode as the country's top milk producing area falls behind in raw milk production. Slammed by destructive typhoons last summer and facing fundamental challenges, dairy farms in Japan's large ... ( read original story ...)
L.L. Bean's newest Bootmobile is kicking it in Japan
The four-wheeled tribute to the Maine-based retailer's iconic boot is rolling across land of the rising sun, visiting L.L. Bean's 25 stores in Japan. The first Bootmobile was created to coincide with the retailer's 100th anniversary, and its popularity is ... ( read original story ...)
Japan's Cabinet Moves To Allow Emperor To Abdicate
Imperial law is strict: Succession to the Chrysanthemum Throne must be posthumous and only males are eligible, as Kyodo News reports. The Japanese public overwhelmingly supports allowing emperors to retire, according to Kyodo, but conservative supporters ... ( read original story ...)
Japan named world’s best skiing destination by Aussie travel magazine
SYDNEY – Overtaking New Zealand, Japan has topped the 2017 world skiing destination rankings compiled by Australia’s International Traveler magazine. Readers picked Japan as the best skiing destination thanks to its high-quality powder snow. ( read original story ...)
Japan scrambles fighter jets as China flies drone over disputed East China Sea
We have sternly protested [to China] that it is utterly unacceptable". The Chinese vessels were reportedly equipped with guns, Kyodo news agency cited Japan Coast Guard as saying. The Chinese ships were ordered to leave the waters but they left the waters ... ( read original story ...)
China and Japan find way to extract ‘combustible ice’ from seafloor, harnessing a legendary frozen fossil fuel
The official Chinese news agency Xinhua reported that the fuel was successfully ... moment heralding a potential “global energy revolution.” A drilling crew in Japan reported a similar successful operation two weeks earlier, on May 4 offshore the ... ( read original story ...)
Japan coastguard resumes drills as tensions rise
Japan flexed its military muscle on Saturday, as regional tensions multiply. The Japanese coastguard resumed annual drills in Tokyo Bay, after a five year pause. A mock rescue scenario was staged just days after a very real flare-up with regional rival ... ( read original story ...)
Japan scrambles jets after China allegedly flies drone
Tokyo (AFP) - Japan said Friday it scrambled fighter jets after a Chinese vessel sailing in disputed waters launched a drone, the latest bout of tension in a longstanding territorial row. The two countries are at odds over a group of small uninhabited ... ( read original story ...)