Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani plans to meet with his Philippine counterpart Voltaire Gazmin in the Southeast Asian country as early as April to beef up security ties amid China’s increasing maritime assertiveness, a government source said Tuesday. In the talks, Nakatani could discuss the provision of Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Force TC-90 training aircraft to […]
Major Japanese newspapers handed out extras on the streets of Tokyo following North Korea’s announcement that it had tested a hydrogen bomb. Many readers in the Shibuya district expressed concern over the detonation. A 22-year-old university student said the Middle East is already unstable, and he now feels the danger is much closer to Japan. […]
The owner of a chain of sushi restaurants paid ¥14 million ($117,000) for a 200-kilogram bluefin tuna at the first auction of the year at Tokyo’s Tsukiji fish market Tuesday. Kiyoshi Kimura, president of Kiyomura Co., has won the year’s first bid for the fifth consecutive year. He told reporters the tuna “is in great form […]
Temperatures in many parts of Japan have hit record highs for the month of January. Record daytime highs were registered at 26 observation points on Sunday. They included the town of Hanawa in the northeastern prefecture of Fukushima, where the mercury rose to 16.9 degrees Celsius. Warmer-than-usual temperatures were reported in many other places. The […]
The naked body of Ryuta Sato, 17, was found at the bottom of the Tega River on Monday. Chiba Prefectural Police have arrested the members of a four-person group that allegedly killed a 17-year-old boy by dropping him into a river in Kashiwa City, reports Nippon News Network (Jan. 5). Police allege that Yohei Kojima, a 22-year-old […]
The Japanese government plans to both increase the number and expand the scale of exercises to counter cyberattacks as part of preparations for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, government sources said Saturday. The drills, now held about six times a year and involving central government ministry and agency officials, will be increased to at least 10 […]
Philippine residents can now get their hands on a plethora of Japanese items at TOKYO STYLE. Although a rising number of Japanese food, media, and accessory retailers online are beginning to go international, it still stands that the majority of the products produced within Japan are for domestic sale only, despite the increasing demand for these […]
A district of Tokyo that hosts many popular tourist sites is seeking to attract more foreign visitors by offering its official website in 89 languages. Taito Ward is home to such well-known attractions as Asakusa and Ueno Park. More than 5.3 million foreign tourists visited the ward last year. That figure represents about 40 percent […]
A total of 126 people remained on death row in Japan as of Dec. 27, 2015, according to the Ministry of Justice. It is the third straight year since 2012 that the number of inmates on death row at year-end has declined. In 2012 the number of death-row convicts at the end of the year […]
A 29-year-old woman suspected of mutilating and abandoning the corpse of a younger acquaintance at her home here was arrested on Dec. 29, police said. “There is a skull in my room, but I don’t want to say anything now,” Terumi Morishima, a self-described illustrator, was quoted as telling officers at Kadoma Police Station. The […]
