Japanese skiers and snowboarders took part in an unusual downhill race at a ski resort north of Tokyo that included their pet dogs.About 70 parents and children, along with 48 dogs, took part in the race in Nasushiobara City, Tochigi Prefecture, on Sunday. The participants on skis or snowboards raced down a slalom course marked […]
McDonald’s Holdings Co. (Japan) will raise the basic salary for regular workers by an average 2 percent from April, company officials said Thursday. It will be the second year in a row that the fast-food operator has raised the basic salary. Against the backdrop of a serious labor shortage in the restaurant industry, the company […]
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 […]
