Three major Japanese companies have launched an online source of information to help people abroad learn more about Japan. Travel agency JTB, logistics firm Nippon Express and department-store operator Isetan Mitsukoshi Holdings jointly established Fun Japan Communications. The new company takes over a web service previously run by Nippon Express and boasting around 330,000 members […]
Japan’s transport ministry has banned Samsung’s troubled Galaxy Note 7 smartphones on all flights in the country. The ministry has instructed Japanese airlines to notify passengers of the new restriction. South Korea’s Samsung Electronics has stopped production and sales of the new smartphone model following numerous reports of devices catching fire. The company is now […]
As lawmakers discuss a bill to improve the working conditions of foreign trainees in Japan, the first documented case of one such worker dying from “karoshi,” or death by overwork, has been confirmed in Japan. The death of a 27-year-old Filipino in 2014, who was working 78.5 to 122.5 hours of overtime a month, was […]
Ginanap ngayong araw sa Chita City (Aichi) ang Philippine Festival na kung saan inirepresenta ang kultura, sayaw, pagkain at mga damit na Pilipino. Ito ay sinuportahan ng mga iba’t ibang sponsors na au Shop Chita, Western Union, Philippine Airlines, JRF, TFC atbp May Filipiniana Fashion Show na may 8 na participants at may grand prize […]
Researchers say Mount Aso discharged around 510,000 tons of ash and volcanic rock when it erupted on Saturday. The figure is more than 10 times that of an eruption in September of last year and is on a par with the eruption of 1979. Researchers at Kumamoto University and other parties calculated the amount of […]
A main building of a castle in Kumamoto has been opened to media for the first time since strong earthquakes hit the southwestern prefecture in April. The jolts caused damage to buildings and stone walls of Kumamoto Castle, a historical landmark of the prefecture. They include 13 structures designated as important cultural properties. Thirty percent […]
The president of Tokyo Electric Power Company has apologized for an extensive blackout that struck Tokyo on Wednesday. President Naomi Hirose visited the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and met with Minister Hiroshige Seko on Thursday. Power transmission cables at a TEPCO facility just outside Tokyo caught fire and caused the blackout that affected […]
A team from the Yokohama municipal government launched an extraordinary on-site inspection on Tuesday of a hospital in the capital of Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo, following two elderly male inpatients’ poisoning deaths in suspected serial killings. The raid by the team comprising about 10 experts including doctors and pharmacists will mainly target facilities on […]
There was a large power outage in Tokyo on Wednesday afternoon. Tokyo Electric Power Company says at one point about 350,000 households were affected. The utility says a fire broke out at one of its facilities near Tokyo. The utility is investigating whether the fire caused the outage. No injuries were reported. The power failure […]
Still reeling from a series of earthquakes beginning in April, Kumamoto Prefecture is once again experiencing nature’s fury, this time in the form of Mount Aso’s eruption Saturday. Besides being on high alert for another volcanic eruption, Kumamoto residents are growing increasingly concerned about the long-term prospects for the prefecture’s tourism industry, which has yet […]
