Typhoon Mindulle lashed Tokyo on Monday, dumping heavy rain across the capital while nationwide at least two people were feared dead in storm-related incidents. Storm water coursed down usually placid rivers and left many streets flooded, with conditions expected to peak by the afternoon. The typhoon, the season’s ninth, landed near Tateyama on the Boso […]
Guns N’ Roses has announced concerts in Japan and Australia, extending a long-awaited reunion tour into 2017. The hard rock legends said they would play three shows in Japan in January—one in Osaka and two at Saitama Arena near Tokyo—followed by five Australian dates. Guns N’ Roses, whose 1987 “Appetite for Destruction” remains the top-selling […]
Japanese department store operator Isetan Mitsukoshi Holdings will work with compatriot Nomura Real Estate Holdings to develop commercial-residential facilities in the Philippines. The property will be built in a suburb of the capital, Manila, and is slated for partial opening as early as 2022. Project costs are seen totaling around 50 billion yen ($497 million). […]
Guinness World Records has confirmed that smartphone game app “Pokémon Go” set five world records since its global debut last month, including the number of downloads. The worldwide number of downloads of the game reached some 130 million during the four weeks from July 6, when the game made its global debut in the United […]
The Japanese government plans to increase the number of staff at nationwide emergency alert systems in response to North Korea’s recent launches of ballistic missiles.The J-ALERT and Em-Net systems are used to inform people of a missile launch and give an estimate of where it will fall. In February, North Korea launched a rocket in […]
A safari park employee in Gunma Prefecture died Tuesday after being attacked by a bear which had somehow climbed into her car, local officials and police said. An Asian black bear was seen climbing into a small vehicle at the Gunma Safari Park in Tomioka, and attacking park employee Kiyomi Saito inside the car, a […]
NASA’s Terra satellite flew over Tropical Storm Chanthu as it continued moving past the big island of Japan and staying to the east of the country. On August 15 at 11:00 a.m. EDT (15:00 UTC) the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) indicated that Chanthu was located about 424 nautical miles south-southeast of Yokosuka, Japan, near […]
Japan on Friday announced it is pouring $2.4 billion into a new railway aimed at easing Manila’s notorious gridlock. Japan, the Philippines’ top trading partner and source of aid, said the 38-kilometer (24-mile) elevated commuter line would connect Manila to nearby Bulacan province to decongest the capital and help spur economic activity. “This is one […]
The Japanese government is looking into the possibility of relaxing its restrictive hiring rules for Filipino health care workers who would attend to its greying population. Masato Ohtaka, deputy press secretary of the Japanese Foreign Ministry, confirmed that since his government opened the hiring of Filipino nurses and caregivers, the required number of health care workers […]
The western Japanese city of Nagasaki commemorates the 71st anniversary of the atomic bombing on Tuesday.The city was hit August 9th, 1945 by an American bomber, 3 days after a similar attack on Hiroshima.Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and representatives from 53 countries and territories are scheduled to attend a memorial ceremony that starts at 10:35AM.Participants […]
