Pinasa na ng ahensiya ng mga talento ang dalawang kaso sa paninirang puri laban sa mga dating pop idols na hindi sumunod sa patakarang “no-dating contracts.” Isa sa mga dating idols ay pinagbabayad ng malaking halaga bilang kabayaran sa paninirang puri sa ahensiya subalit binaliwala naman ng isa pang pop idol ang nasabing demanda. Sa […]
A ruling party lawmaker in Japan has got into hot water for a remark that critics say could be taken as insulting toward US President Barack Obama. Liberal Democratic Party member of the Upper House Kazuya Maruyama was a target of criticism during Diet deliberations on Thursday. Maruyama said in an Upper House panel on […]
Tourists are venturing into a cave in Hokkaido to see ice stalagmites, which are called “ice bamboo shoots.” Ice stalagmites are created when groundwater dripping from the cave’s ceiling freeze on the floor in temperatures of minus 3 to minus 5 degrees Celsius. About 5,000 ice stalagmites are found in Hyakujojiki Cave in Date city. […]
Police have arrested three girls on suspicion of physically assaulting a 16-year-old girl. The suspects filmed the abuse and later posted it on YouTube. According to police, the video posted on YouTube last December shows the victim being repeatedly hit in the face and kicked and punched in the stomach while the three perpetrators, aged […]
A record high number of foreign tourists visited Japan in January, mainly due to a weaker yen. Officials at the Japan National Tourism Organization say over 1.85 million people visited Japan last month. That’s up 52 percent from a year earlier. The largest number of tourists came from South Korea, at 514,900. The figure was […]
Police on Wednesday are searching the home of a former caregiver at a seniors’ residence near Tokyo in connection with the death of a resident. Three seniors died at a nursing care facility in Kawasaki in 2014 after falling from upper-floor balconies. Hayato Imai, aged 23, was working at the time that each of the […]
An actor was fatally stabbed with a real or mock samurai sword while rehearsing a play at a Tokyo studio, and police were investigating whether his death was criminal or accidental. Media reports indicated several actors were performing an action scene when the man was stabbed Monday, and no one saw what exactly happened. Japanese […]
As a part of an ongoing investigation into a man and woman accused of repeatedly abusing of her daughter, Fukuoka Prefectural Police on Tuesday re-arrested the couple for forcing her to eat goldfish, reports Fuji News Network (Feb. 16). In early June of last year, Yuko Ogata and her common-law husband, Takashi Egami, forced the girl, who […]
Plans are under way to set up more free Wi-fi hotspots on and near Japan’s highest peak of Mount Fuji. The service is expected to make it easier for the growing number of foreign hikers to access information on safety. The Yamanashi Prefectural government says it will set up 19 new hotspots during fiscal 2016, […]
Labor unions and management of Japan’s automakers have begun their annual wage negotiations. Union representatives from Fuji Heavy Industries presented their demands at the firm’s headquarters in Tokyo on Wednesday. They’re asking for an average raise of 3,000 yen, or about 26 dollars, in monthly base pay and an annual bonus equal to 6.5 months’ […]
