The 2020 Tokyo Olympics are more than a year away, but controversy for ticket holders is already brewing. Per the fine print on the terms and conditions of ticket purchase, attendees will be barred ... ( read original story ...)
Yokohama train left in wrong direction due to power unit glitch
YOKOHAMA--A power unit malfunction is believed to have caused an automated train here to depart a station in the wrong direction, injuring more than a dozen passengers. No irregularities were found in ... ( read original story ...)
Japan raises movie ticket prices for the first time in 26 years
Movie ticket prices in Japan have been raised for the first time in 26 years. Astonishingly, standard admission prices have stood at ￥1,800 (just under £14) since the last price hike, way back in 1993 ... ( read original story ...)
Ex-top Japanese official who killed reclusive son reportedly feared he ‘might harm others’
according to Kyodo News. In that incident, the suspect was also a middle-aged social recluse -- known in Japan as "hikikomori" -- who rarely left the house where he lived with his elderly aunt and ... ( read original story ...)
Thousands back Japan high heels campaign
The campaign is referred to in Japan as #KuToo. It plays on the Japanese words for shoes "kutsu" and pain "kutsuu" and also references the #MeToo movement, according to Kyodo News. Campaigners say ... ( read original story ...)
Top Japanese civil servant kills son after knife attack on schoolgirls
Hideaki Kumazawa, who served as a top bureaucrat in the farm ministry, was arrested on Saturday for stabbing his 44-year-old son Eiichiro to death at their home in Tokyo, Kyodo News agency reported. ... ( read original story ...)
Naomi Osaka calls French Open loss ‘probably the best thing that could have happened’
No. 1 Naomi Osaka was shockingly ousted from the French Open over the weekend, closing her shot at a third consecutive Grand Slam title and an eventual calendar Grand Slam. Osaka, who opened the year ... ( read original story ...)
Japan women kick back at high heels at work
Tokyo, Japan - A group of Japanese women Monday submitted a petition to the government to protest what they say is a de-facto requirement for female staff to wear high heels at work. The #KuToo ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Mizuho aims to build warchest for Asia fintech investment
TOKYO (Reuters) - Mizuho Financial Group aims to build a warchest of several billion dollars in the next five years to target financial technology in Asia, its chief said, as the Japanese megabank ... ( read original story ...)
ESR delays $1.4 billion IPO in Hong Kong amid trade tension market jitters: sources
At the top end of ESR’s IPO price range, the deal would value the company at $6.2 billion. ESR was formed in 2016 by the merger of the Japan-centric Redwood Group and China-focused e-Shang, which was ... ( read original story ...)
Japan Inc to keep up investment despite trade war worries
Nikkei Inc.'s latest capital investment trend ... This is the third consecutive year that corporate Japan has planned to increase its capital spending. But if business sentiment deteriorates ... ( read original story ...)
Reclusive Japanese man killed by father who feared he might run amuck: media
The incidents spotlight Japan's growing legion of adult hikikomori ... told investigators his alarm over his son was provoked by news last week of a knife-wielding man who slashed at a group of ... ( read original story ...)
‘We will get through it,’ Quebec nun says after fatal attack near congregation’s school in Japan
Gervais said she first heard the news late Monday night when a fellow ... when the Vatican asked Canadian priests to send missionaries to Japan. Cardinal Maurice Roy, who was serving as Quebec ... ( read original story ...)
Qantas eyes Airbus A380 upgrade for Sydney-Tokyo
If negotiations around Haneda Airport’s A380 cap prove unsuccessful, Joyce told Australian Business Traveller that Qantas will instead look at flying Boeing 787s between Sydney and Tokyo, and ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s business spending suggests upward revision to first-quarter GDP
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese business spending rose in January-March, continuing the expansion seen over the past two years and pointing to a likely upward revision in overall economic growth in the ... ( read original story ...)
Wooden beer bottles and paper straws — Japan shifts from plastic
Japan's market for shampoo in refill pouches ... is a big opportunity for us," a spokesman at Nippon Paper told Nikkei. "But to cover the decline in paper demand, we have to see if the replacement ... ( read original story ...)