Japan Display still swimming in red ink after missing Apple wave

TOKYO -- Japan Display's dismal fiscal 2016 earnings stood out in the sea of good results from electronic-device makers, but the company has only itself to blame for misreading a clear shift in demand from its biggest customer -- Apple. The major LCD panel ... ( read original story ...)

Japan bolsters defense-technology cooperation with Europe

TOKYO -- Japan plans to conclude separate treaties on defense-equipment and technology transfers with Italy, Germany and Sweden that will give Japan's Self-Defense Forces access to advanced technology from those countries. Strengthening cooperation in this ... ( read original story ...)

US, Japan, France, UK practice amphibious landings on Guam

HAGATNA, Guam (AP) — Troops from the U.S., Japan and two European nations are gathering on remote U.S. islands in the Pacific for drills they say will show support for the free passage of vessels in international waters amid fears China could restrict ... ( read original story ...)

X Japan's Yoshiki to Have Emergency Surgery

X Japan founder and bandleader Yoshiki made a name for the group ... Yesterday (May 9) the band cancelled all forthcoming shows following the news of Yoshiki's impending operation. A statement from the band's management reads that the drummer has sustained ... ( read original story ...)

Japan university to set up ninja studies centre

TOKYO: A Japanese university is planning what it says will be the world’s first research centre devoted to ninja -- the black clad assassins known for secrecy and stealth. While mostly confined to history books and fiction, ninja have been enjoying ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's Tepco to Seek Partners for Nuclear Business

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Tokyo Electric Power Co said on Thursday it will seek partners for its nuclear business as part of a recovery plan after the Fukushima disaster of six years ago brought the utility to its knees and put it under state control. ( read original story ...)

Japan to face a tough negotiator in Moon

SEOUL -- Given Moon Jae-in's uncompromising stance on hot historical issues like wartime "comfort women," Japan is increasingly wary of dealing with a tough-minded South Korean president amid a challenging political landscape in Asia. Tokyo is particularly ... ( read original story ...)

BRIEF- Dear Life acquires land in Tokyo

* Says it acquired a plot of land located in Tokyo, for apartment building development, on May 10 Source text in Japanese:goo.gl/31IPm0 Further company coverage: (Beijing Headline News) Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles Next In Financials ( read original story ...)

DOXA 2017: Tokyo Idols is a J-pop shock doc

This was national news. Miyake wanted to find out what, exactly, was going on with this pop-cultural phenomenon. What she unearthed was troubling, enlightening, and complicated. Her resulting work, the U.K.–Canada coproduction Tokyo Idols (with producers ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo cops use DNA analysis to nab man in ’07 robbery case

Tokyo police have accused Toshifumi Yamaguchi of robbing a woman of 9,000 yen from her residence in Toshima Ward in 2007 (TBS News) TOKYO (TR) – Tokyo Metropolitan Police have used a DNA analysis to apprehend a suspect in a decade-old robbery case just ... ( read original story ...)