A summer festival featuring enormous illuminated lantern floats is drawing many tourists in the northern Japanese city of Aomori.The annual Aomori Nebuta Festival began on Tuesday. It’s one of Japan’s most popular summer festivals.“Nebuta” refers to the giant floats that are decorated with the images of samurai warriors and mythical characters.Fifteen floats started parading along […]
The US military says North Korea launched two ballistic missiles on Wednesday morning. It says one of them exploded soon after launch and the other fell in Sea of Japan. It says the missiles were fired from the west of North Korea.Japan’s defense minister Gen Nakatani says one appears to have fallen into waters of […]
For BDO Unibank, the largest lender in the Philippines, now is the perfect time to team up with Japanese financial institutions. A growing number of Japanese companies are looking to expand into the country, while President Rodrigo Duterte has made wooing foreign investment and creating manufacturing jobs key policy priorities. On July 13, BDO signed a business […]
A group of bus operators in Japan is to offer unlimited ride passes to foreign tourists.
Operators hope to introduce the "Robot Shuttle" at a shopping mall to ferry customers around.
The draft calls for upgrading the current activities to help fifth- and sixth-graders become familiar with English to an regular subject.
Minamiaso Railway Co. in Kumamoto Prefecture partially resumed train operations on Sunday.
Hyogo prefectural police said Sunday they have arrested a 39-year-old prison guard on suspicion of filming up a woman’s skirt on an escalator at a train station in Kobe. According to police, the suspect, Hideaki Matsushita, used his smartphone camera to film up a 29-year-old woman’s skirt at JR Sannomiya Station at around 7 p.m. […]
Animal experts warn that bears in Japan have become accustomed to such sounds as radios and the ringing of bells used by humans to frighten them away and now may instead be attracted by the sounds as a marker of human prey. In Akita Prefecture, four people assumed to be victims of bear attacks were […]
Nintendo affiliate Pokemon Co. has announced that the Pokemon Go Plus wearable game accessory will not hit the market until September. The accessory to the “Pokemon Go” smartphone game was originally slated for release at the end of this month. The debut is reportedly being postponed because an update to “Pokemon Go” has been delayed and time is required […]
