Currently, Japan only accepts foreign care workers from Indonesia, Philippines and Vietnam under economic partnership agreements with these countries. A Diet committee on Friday approved bills to enable foreign trainees to take nursing care jobs in Japan, paving way for their enactment in the current Diet session as the rapidly graying country will face a […]
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is looking to offer 5 billion yen ($48.2 million) in loans when he meets with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte next week, bilateral diplomatic sources said Saturday. The financial support is aimed at helping facilitate agricultural development in the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, according to the sources. Duterte, who will make […]
Philippine Festivals 2016 in Japan at Kariya Industrial Promoltion Center in Kariya City (Aichi Prefecture). In this event, presented by Filipino English Teachers in Japan Global, there will be many presentations and food booths. Don’t miss it! Date: 2016, 17 December (Saturday) From 1 to 8 p.m
The talent contest with several music and dance presentations “The Search for Street Dancer of Aichi” has been held on Sunday (23th) in Ichinomiya City (Aichi Prefecture). Many people from all over Japan attended the event to enjoy the presentations and cheer up the performers. The winner of this edition was a group from Nagoya […]
The Philippines’ newly found affection for China has sparked concern in Japan that it would embolden the Asian giant to expand more aggressively in the South China Sea. Japan has worked with the U.S. and others to pressure China to accept an international arbitration ruling in July that rejected Beijing’s claims in the South China Sea. […]
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has declared a shift in the focus of his country’s foreign policy from relations with the United States to those with China. Duterte addressed a business meeting in Beijing on Thursday and said he announces his separation from the United States both in military areas and economics. Earlier in the day, […]
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.6 struck Tottori Prefecture in western Japan on Friday afternoon. The Japan Meteorological Agency says there is no tsunami theat. The jolt registered 6 minus on the Japanese seismic scale of 0 to 7 in central Tottori. The focus was 10 kilometers deep in the prefecture. There are […]
China has welcomed Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte in a ceremony that underscored warming ties despite bitter maritime disputes. Chinese President Xi Jinping greeted Duterte with a smile at the ceremony in Beijing on Thursday. Duterte had arrived in China on Tuesday night. The leaders later held their first summit. They signed an agreement to strengthen […]
Japan’s Empress Michiko has reflected on events of the past year. She turned 82 on Thursday. In a written response to reporters’ questions, the Empress refers to Emperor Akihito having expressed an apparent wish to abdicate in a video message in August. She says his comments reflect what he thinks. The Empress also says she […]
Tokyoites get to watch Godzilla come alive and shoot its atomic breath down over the unsuspecting denizens Kabukicho from the top of a building. But if you want to beat that experience, then travel to Sasebo, Nagasaki, where you can see a fire-breathing dragon, or at least a mechanical one that lights up and shoots […]
