Still reeling from a series of earthquakes beginning in April, Kumamoto Prefecture is once again experiencing nature’s fury, this time in the form of Mount Aso’s eruption Saturday. Besides being on high alert for another volcanic eruption, Kumamoto residents are growing increasingly concerned about the long-term prospects for the prefecture’s tourism industry, which has yet […]
President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte will pay an official visit to Japan on October 25-27, the Japanese Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday. During the visit, Duterte is set to meet with Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. “The government of Japan sincerely welcomes the visit of the president [of Philippines] and hopes […]
Police marching bands from around the world have paraded through Tokyo’s upscale Ginza district before an audience of about 60,000 people. The annual World Police Band Concert took place in Japan for the first time in 4 years on Monday, a national holiday. Participants included bands from police headquarters across Japan, a group from the […]
The first snow of the season has fallen on the plains of Japan’s northern main island of Hokkaido. Weather officials said they confirmed the snowfall in the city of Wakkanai at around Thursday midnight. The city saw snow 15 days earlier than usual and 18 earlier than last year. It’s the second-earliest snowfall in the […]
The Japanese government decided Tuesday to consider allowing skilled foreign workers to work in the agricultural sector in certain special economic zones, while compiling plans to allow certain foreign nursing care workers to provide in-home care services as soon as next year. The moves target two industries suffering severe labor shortages in the face of […]
People in western Japan are staying alert as Typhoon Chaba continues to blow through the region. The powerful storm is moving in a northeast direction over waters off Kyushu. Japan’s Meteorological Agency says the typhoon is traveling at a speed of about 50 kilometers per hour. It is packing winds of more than 125 kilometers per […]
Police in Tokyo’s Meguro Ward are looking for the person or persons who left a newborn baby boy on a park bench on Monday evening. According to police, a man walking his dog in Himonya Park at around 6 p.m. found the baby with its umbilical cord still attached wrapped in a towel on a […]
Typhoon Chaba has passed Japan’s southern prefecture of Okinawa and is heading toward northern Kyushu on Tuesday. Japan’s Meteorological Agency says that as of noon, the violent typhoon was traveling north at a speed of 20 kilometers per hour in the seas north of Okinawa. It had a central pressure reading of 915 hectopascals and […]
A sushi restaurant chain has apologized for serving too much wasabi, or Japanese horseradish, to foreigners at one of its outlets. Ichibazushi Japan Corporation acknowledged on its website that the outlet in Osaka had been serving sushi with far larger amounts of wasabi than usual for over a year. The apology came after a tourist […]
Japan’s southwestern island of Okinawa is bracing for powerful typhoon Chaba. Domestic and international flights to and from Okinawa were all canceled after terminal buildings at Naha Airport closed down on Monday afternoon. The Meteorological Agency says Chaba is moving north-north-west at a speed of 20 kilometers an hour. The typhoon was about 130 kilometers […]
