Japanese women are being exploited and abused in Japan’s multi-billion dollar pornographic film industry, rights advocates said on Thursday, calling on authorities to strengthen laws to protect them. Pornography is widely available in Japan, where some actresses become well known enough to appear on mainstream TV chat shows or as commentators in weekly magazines. But […]
A Chinese woman in her 30s has been deported from Japan for illegally working as a tour guide for foreign tourists in a southwestern Japan city and getting paid for taking them to duty-free shops, investigative sources said Thursday. The woman, who was in Japan on a dependent visa, is believed to have earned about […]
Weather News believes that in general cherry trees in wide areas of the country will bloom earlier than its previous forecast. Weather News, a meteorological information company based in Chiba, updated this year’s forecast on March 3 for the flowering dates of “someiyoshino” cherry trees in 700 locations across the country. Weather News believes that […]
Japan’s Robot Taxi Inc. has started a field test for driverless taxis in Fujisawa in Kanagawa Prefecture. In the test, 10 groups of participants will be transported between their homes and the Fujisawa outlet of major Japanese retailer Aeon Co. The unit of mobile video game service operator DeNA Co. also plans to carry out […]
Sides are being taken in Japan’s underworld. Following a series of violent incidents in Kanto over the weekend, likely involving the Yamaguchi-gumi and its newly formed rival, the Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi, hostilities are continuing this week, reports TV Asahi (Mar. 3). At approximately 4:00 a.m. on Wednesday, a vehicle plowed into the home of the chairman of a Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi […]
A Japanese government study has found nearly a third of working women who responded to a survey reported being sexually harassed on the job, such as being subjected to unwanted physical contact or degrading comments. The study, released Tuesday and the first of its kind, examined responses from more than 9,600 women employees, submitted by […]
Kyoto Prefectural Police have arrested a 26-year-old employee at a health food company after a spy camera was found mounted under the desk of a female colleague, reports the Sankei Shimbun (Feb. 29). The suspect allegedly used tape to attach the camera, measuring nine centimeters by five centimeters, under the desk such that it took footage […]
Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Force’s first woman destroyer captain assumed her duties Monday, taking the helm of the destroyer Yamagiri based at the Yokosuka Naval Base southwest of Tokyo. Cmdr Miho Otani, 44, who will be in charge of about 220 crew on the destroyer, said in a written statement that she wants to set a […]
Hiroshima Prefectural Police are investigating a string of incidents in Kure City in which women were sexually assaulted by a man wearing women’s clothing, reportsHiroshima Home Television (Feb. 29). At approximately 2:00 a.m. on February 10, Takahiro Murakami, a 41-year-old company employee, allegedly came up from behind a woman walking home in the Washonoborimachi and fondled her body. […]
The Meteorological Agency warned Hokkaido on Tuesday to brace for its worst blizzard in years, and airlines and railways halted some operations. As an intensive low-pressure system moved eastward near Hokkaido, the agency forecast a maximum instantaneous wind speed of 40 meters per second and 40 cm of snowfall in the 24 hours until 6 […]
