A 24-year-old man is under arrest for allegedly killing his girlfriend’s baby by feeding him a fatal dose of a kakuseizai stimulant drug in a hotel in the city of Kumamoto, police officials said. The Kumamoto Prefectural Police arrested Tensho Yoshimura on Sunday on suspicion of murder and violation of the Stimulants Control Law, investigative […]
Japan’s top business leader has asked the government to accept more foreign workers to fill labor shortages as the nation’s population ages and shrinks. The chairman of the Japan Business Federation Sadayuki Sakakibara met cabinet minister Katsunobu Kato on Monday. Kato is in charge of promoting the active engagement of all citizens in society. Sakakibara […]
Japan has banned imports of French foie gras due to a bird flu outbreak, an agriculture ministry official said. The ban, which became effective November 26, will be lifted 90 days after all affected French poultry farms finish culling their birds and conclude necessary sanitary procedures, the official told AFP. Japan took action to stop […]
A group of foreigners aspiring to become qualified nursing-care professionals in Japan have shared their experiences. Ten foreigners who are working in the Japanese nursing-care industry took part in a speech contest in Tokyo on Saturday. The event was organized by a body that offers Japanese lessons to foreigners wanting to become nurses and professional […]
Mystery surrounds a fleet of ghost boats with headless skeletons or rotting corpses on board that are washing up on Japan’s shores. At least 14 weathered vessels—some badly damaged or capsized—with almost two dozen bodies have been discovered since October. Mounting evidence suggests that the rickety boats have come from isolated and impoverished North Korea. […]
Isang magarang modelo ng smartphone ang inihahanda ng KDDI para sa publiko sa lalong madaling panahon at kung ikaw may hinalang ito’y kakaiba, tama ka, dahil kung noong una laking takot mo lang na malubog sa tubig ang iyong smartphone ngayon ay maaring mo na itong sabonin at lilinisin pa ng tubig. Ngayong buwan ng […]
Japan’s government is planning to offer an incentive to hotels and inns for upgrading their facilities. A subsidy to cover part of the improvement costs is aimed at expanding the amount of accommodation available to a growing number of foreign tourists. The number of foreign travelers to Japan has been surging, helped in part by […]
Police in Narita, Chiba Prefecture, have arrested a 23-year-old woman on suspicion of abandoning the corpse of her newborn baby in a paper bag last month. According to police, Atsuko Tanaka, who is a nurse, gave birth to a baby girl at her apartment between Nov 17 and 19, Sankei Shimbun reported. She placed the […]
Japan’s education ministry is considering ways to improve the English language ability of junior high school students. The ways may include requiring students to take new kinds of speaking tests. The ministry plans to introduce a nationwide English examination as early as fiscal 2019. That exam will assess junior high school seniors on their listening, […]
Railway workers in Japan have devised an ingenious scheme to prevent daredevil turtles from meeting a grisly end—and delaying trains—while crossing train tracks. The slow-moving reptiles in Nara Prefecture were responsible for 13 disruptions to train services between 2002 and 2014 after tumbling into the spaces between rail switches and getting squashed, according to West […]
