A group of elderly Filipino women raped by Japanese troops during World War II called for compensation from Japan on Wednesday, following Tokyo’s pledge of $8.3 million for South Korean women forced into Japanese military-run brothels during the war. The women’s lawyers said they were also exploring the possibility of filing cases with United Nations […]
A 19-year-old living in Nagoya was arrested Jan. 5 over death threats targeting a prominent student activist and his family, Kanagawa prefectural police said. Police said the suspect has admitted to the crime, quoting him as saying, “I did it because I wanted to let off steam.” The unemployed minor was arrested on suspicion of […]
Police in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, said a skeletonized body has been found at an apartment in Sakae Ward. According to police, the body, which was found on Tuesday, has been dead for a few years and its gender and age were not identifiable, Fuji TV reported. This case came into light when a woman who […]
Japan’s public baths, known as sento, represent an institution with hundreds of years of history. They provided an important public service in the days before homes had their own hot-water bathtubs. Sento can range in style from simple hot springs piped into a large tub to modern facilities resembling theme parks and offering a range […]
Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani plans to meet with his Philippine counterpart Voltaire Gazmin in the Southeast Asian country as early as April to beef up security ties amid China’s increasing maritime assertiveness, a government source said Tuesday. In the talks, Nakatani could discuss the provision of Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Force TC-90 training aircraft to […]
Major Japanese newspapers handed out extras on the streets of Tokyo following North Korea’s announcement that it had tested a hydrogen bomb. Many readers in the Shibuya district expressed concern over the detonation. A 22-year-old university student said the Middle East is already unstable, and he now feels the danger is much closer to Japan. […]
Korean Central Television broadcast what it called an “especially important announcement”, at noon, local time, on Wednesday. The announcement said the hydrogen bomb test was conducted at a test site in a northeastern region at 10 AM. North Korea had conducted 3 nuclear tests in the past– in October 2006, May 2009, and February 2013, […]
The owner of a chain of sushi restaurants paid ¥14 million ($117,000) for a 200-kilogram bluefin tuna at the first auction of the year at Tokyo’s Tsukiji fish market Tuesday. Kiyoshi Kimura, president of Kiyomura Co., has won the year’s first bid for the fifth consecutive year. He told reporters the tuna “is in great form […]
The Philippine government said Monday that like Vietnam, it opposes China’s recent test of a newly completed runway on one of seven islands Beijing has constructed in the disputed South China Sea. Department of Foreign Affairs spokesman Charles Jose said the government was considering protesting China’s action, as Vietnam did, adding that the test at […]
Temperatures in many parts of Japan have hit record highs for the month of January. Record daytime highs were registered at 26 observation points on Sunday. They included the town of Hanawa in the northeastern prefecture of Fukushima, where the mercury rose to 16.9 degrees Celsius. Warmer-than-usual temperatures were reported in many other places. The […]
