Tag: Yokohama

Hedge funds are wagering one of their biggest bets against the Japanese yen in years, pushing Japanese authorities' tolerance of the currency's slide towards new 34-year depths to the limit.Although ... ( read original story ...)

Three foreign-born men now living in Japan have filed a lawsuit against the Japanese government over racial profiling. Each of the men claims to have been targeted by police because of his race, ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's business-to-business service prices rose 2.1% year-on-year in January, slowing from a 2.4% annual gain in December, central bank data showed on Monday. The Bank of Japan is closely watching ... ( read original story ...)

By Jihoon Lee and Cynthia Kim SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea hopes to mirror Japan's efforts to boost the value of its companies as the neighbour's stock market surges to a record high, with measures ... ( read original story ...)

More than 100 people, including Ukrainan refugees, held a demonstration in front of Shibuya Station on Saturday. They carried Ukrainian flags and placards reading "Stop Russia" to protest Moscow's ... ( read original story ...)

A whale as long as a train car that died after straying into a port in Osaka last month is set to be buried until it naturally becomes a skeletal specimen for a local museum. ( read original story ...)

A convenience store employee died after a man stabbed him and two other store staff members in Sapporo on Sunday. Police arrested the suspected assailant at the scene. The incident happened at a ... ( read original story ...)

A 56-year-old male worker died after falling through the roof of the station building onto the concourse seven meters below at Nakayama Station on the JR Yokohama Line in Yokohama on Saturday. ( read original story ...)

One person has died and two more were injured on Sunday morning in a stabbing incident in a convenience store in Sapporo on Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido, NHK broadcaster reported. A Seicomart ... ( read original story ...)

The earthquake hit parts of the Ishikawa region on New Year’s Day killing 241 people and sparking a major fire, water remains cut off to some areas ... ( read original story ...)

SAPPORO (Kyodo) -- A convenience store employee died after a man stabbed him and two other co-workers in Sapporo, northern Japan, on Sunday, with police arresting the assailant at the scene. The ... ( read original story ...)

A convenience store employee died after a man stabbed him and two other co-workers in Sapporo in the northernmost Japanese prefecture of Hokkaido on S ... ( read original story ...)

Kokugakuin University's Kiyoto Hirabayashi won the Osaka Marathon in his marathon debut Sunday with the seventh-fastest time ever for a Japanese runner. ( read original story ...)

The sea of chanting, nearly-naked men tussle, push and shove towards the shrine. "Washoi! Washoi!" they yell - let's go, let's go. It is scene that has barely changed in the 1,250 years the Hadaka ... ( read original story ...)

STORY: At the opening ceremony, Japan said it will give TSMC up to 732 billion yen ($4.86 billion) more in subsidies to help it build a second chip fabrication plant. TSMC's decision to build chips in ... ( read original story ...)

US President Joe Biden has signed an executive order aimed at bolstering US ports, strengthening maritime cybersecurity and fortifying supply chains amid growing worries over cyber security threats ... ( read original story ...)