The Japanese Transport and Tourism Ministry has a crazy idea to increase logistics efficiency, reduce road traffic, and avoid the increasingly dramatic labor shortage crisis the Asian nation is ... ( read original story ...)
Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks
Japan's government has finally eliminated the use of floppy disks in all its systems, two decades since their heyday, reaching a long-awaited milestone in a campaign to modernise the bureaucracy.By ... ( read original story ...)
Japan top court says forced sterilisation unconstitutional
Japan's top court has ruled as unconstitutional a defunct eugenics law which saw 16,500 disabled people forcibly sterilised between the 1950s and 1990s. The Supreme Court also ordered the government ... ( read original story ...)
Blackstone selling Japan drugmaker Alinamin to MBK Partners
Blackstone and MBK Partners said on Wednesday the U.S. private equity firm is selling Japanese drugmaker Alinamin Pharmaceutical to the North Asian buyout fund.The deal size would be 350 billion yen ... ( read original story ...)
Japan 2024 Pay Deals Conclude With 5.1% Gain, Most in 33 Years
Japan’s annual pay negotiations ended with the highest raises in more than three decades, according to the final tally of the country’s biggest union group, confirming an upward trend in wages sought ... ( read original story ...)
Exclusive: Japan to launch new floating-rate bonds as BOJ eyes rate hikes
Japan will introduce a new type of floating-rate note that helps investors mitigate the risk from rising bond yields, two government sources told Reuters, a sign policymakers are gearing up for ... ( read original story ...)
Bereaved families sue operator over Hokkaido boat accident
In the lawsuit filed with the Sapporo District Court, the plaintiffs, including the 29 family members of 14 passengers of the sunken boat, are seeking some ¥1,499 million ($9.2 million) in damages ... ( read original story ...)
Nagoya ranking list marks the end of one sumo era and the start of another
As the calendar turned to July, the banzuke (rankings) for the last-ever Nagoya tournament at Dolphins Arena (also known as Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium) were released by the Japan Sumo Association ... ( read original story ...)
Cash-based Japan issues first new bills in two decades, designed against counterfeiting
Japan has issued its first new banknotes in two decades, yen packed with 3-D hologram technology to fight counterfeiting. ( read original story ...)
Victims’ families seek damages over fatal 2022 Hokkaido boat sinking
The families of 14 victims of a fatal tourist boat accident off Hokkaido in 2022 that left 20 people dead and six missing filed Wed ... ( read original story ...)
Kiefer had to ‘make a move for myself’ in transfer to Yokohama
KIEFER Ravena is, indeed, staying in Japan for two more years after signing with Yokohama B-Corsairs. Ravena made the confirmation himself on Tuesday during the media day of Strong Group Athletics, a ... ( read original story ...)
Damaged Kindergarten In Odesa To Be Rebuilt Under Project Funded By Japan
Yokohama Mayor Takeharu Yamanaka and UNDP Tokyo Representative Office Director Hideko Hadzialic signed an agreement on cooperation in the reconstruct ... ( read original story ...)
Naomi Osaka details how she moved past one thing since making post-pregnancy return
In the past, Osaka was absolutely a dominant force and one of the best in the world. But her old winning formula might be a bit outdated as the 26-year-old says she is done with "revisiting the past" ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s service activity slips for first time in 2 years, PMI shows
Japanese service activity contracted for the first time in nearly two years in June as domestic demand cooled, a private sector survey showed on Wednesday, although business confidence and hiring ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s first new banknotes in 20 years use holograms to defeat counterfeits
Japan began circulating its first new banknotes in 20 years on Wednesday, featuring three-dimensional portraits of the founders of financial and female education institutions in an attempt to ... ( read original story ...)
B.League: Kiefer Ravena says leaving Shiga for Yokohama a ‘hard’ choice
Kiefer Ravena is looking for a change of pace to better himself and he did just that with his most recent move in the Japan B.League. After a rollercoaster string of seasons with the Shiga Lakes, ... ( read original story ...)