Japan’s economy contracted for the second consecutive quarter in July-September, reflecting sluggish corporate capital expenditures and a slow recovery in consumer spending, government data showed Monday. The country’s seasonally adjusted gross domestic product fell 0.2 percent from the previous quarter in inflation-adjusted real terms, shrinking at an annualized rate of 0.8 percent, the Cabinet Office […]
A UN human rights envoy has retracted her claim that 13 percent of schoolgirls in Japan are involved in forms of paid dating that can involve sex, the Japanese government said Wednesday. The step came shortly after Tokyo bitterly complained to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and demanded it […]
Police arrested on Tuesday a 18-year-old boy and his 21-year-old brother for allegedly throwing some 300 eggs at cars driving on an expressway and damaged them in Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo. The boy, a third-year high school student, and the brother, a company employee, both living in the Kanagawa city of Hadano, were charged […]
A Tokyo man accused of accessing a woman’s Facebook account and allegedly downloading pictures of her wearing underwear has been arrested. In what is being reported as Japan’s first such arrest, Ryosuke Koga, 25, allegedly logged into the victim’s Facebook account 17 times between January and March, a Metropolitan Police Department spokesman said. The police […]
Hyogo Prefectural Police have again arrested a 28-year-old male company employee for hiding inside a storm drain to take illicit photographs of female pedestrians in Kobe, reports the Sankei Shimbun. On August 16 at 7:50 a.m., Yasuomi Hirai is alleged to have used a smartphone to film up the skirt of a 37-year-old beauty artist […]
A male Chinese tourist who dressed as a woman to enter the female section of a public bath in Wakayama Prefecture, was arrested on suspicion of unlawful entry, police said. Xia Liang, 36, allegedly went into a women’s dressing room at a seaside open-air bath in Shirahama, a major tourist spot, wearing a kimono and […]
Kinumpirma ng Japanese Officials ang pinaka unang na diagnose ng cancer na may kinalaman sa trabaho sa Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Ito ang pahayag ng Ministry of Labor noong martes. Ang lalaking manggagawa ay kasali sa recovery at paglilinis pagkatapos ng meltdown noong March 2011. Siya ay na diagnose na may leukemia at aprubado na […]
Hinihinalang umaabot sa 4.5 milyon katao sa banssang Hapon ang naghihirap sa dementia, isang sakit sa isip o ang kawalan ng memorya, atensyon, pagpapasya, lingwahe o kawalan ng kakayahan sa pagtugon sa suliranin. Maging ang mga kapamilya nito’y nagdudusa rin kung sakaling sila’y makawala sa kanikanilang mentalidad man o maging sa pisikal. masugid na bumabantay […]
Artistang si Tomoko Tabata, 34, ay nasa mabuting kondisyon na sa ospital pagkatapos niya umanong tangkaing magpakamatay.Iniulat ng Japanese media na si Tabata ay naglaslas ng kanyang kaliwang pulso na nangyari sa tirahan ng kanyang 38-taon gulang na kasintahan sa Setagaya Ward Tokyo bandang alas-7 ng umaga noong Huwebes. Ayon sa pulisya, walang katibayan na mayroong […]
Pinagkaloob ni Emparador Akihito ng bansang Hapon ang karangalan na “Order of Culture,” ang pinakamataas na karangalang kultural ngayong taon sa dalawang nagpipitagang Nobel Prize Winners at sa mga iba pang mga tanyag na panauhin. Ang seremonya ay ginanap sa Imperial Palace sa Tokyo noong nakaraang Martes. Anim sa mga Pitong tumanggap ng nasabing karangalan […]
