Japan Sumo Association Chairman Kitanoumi died of multiple organ failure resulting from rectum cancer at a Fukuoka hospital in southwestern Japan at 6:55 p.m. Friday (9:55 a.m. GMT). He was 62. Kitanoumi, whose real name was Toshimitsu Obata, was born in Sobetsu in Hokkaido, northernmost Japan. He made a sumo ring debut in 1967 at […]
Hindi kapanipaniwalang paglaki ng isang bulkan ang nasubaybayan ng mga opisyales ng Japan Coast Guard mula ng nabuo ito sa pagsabog sa ilalim ng liblib na karagatang Pasipiko mga dalawang taon pa lamang ang nakakalipas. Sinasabing ang isla ng Nishinoshima ay lumaki ng 12 beses kaysa sa dating laki nito sa loob lamang ng dalawang […]
TOKYO – Sa loob pa lamang ng sampong buwan ngayong taon ay umabot na sa 16.3 milyong mga turista ang bumisita sa bansang Hapon ayon sa Japan National Tourism Oragnization (JNTO). Sinabi pa ng JNTO na lalagpasan pa nito ang panukalang 2o milyong turistang bibisita ngayon taon, balita ng Fuji TV. Ang umanong bilang ay […]
About 4,000 visitors Thursday got a peak at Expocity, the new 170,000-sq.-meter shopping and entertainment complex build on the site of the 1970 World Exposition in Osaka Prefecture. Developer Mitsui Fudosan Co. hopes to see ¥60 billion in annual revenue from the complex, which stands in Expo ’70 Commemorative Park in Suita. At the opening […]
A bank in Fukuoka Prefecture, western Japan, has assigned a humanoid robot the job of welcoming and entertaining customers. In a ceremony at the head office of the Kitakyushu Bank on Tuesday, President Toshio Kato read out a letter of appointment to the robot. The android responded by introducing itself as Pepper No.3, the new […]
The father of a 2-year-old boy and his girlfriend have been arrested for child abuse after he posted a video on Facebook that showed him forcing the boy to inhale directly from a cigarette. Police on Monday arrested the boy’s father, Shun Habuchi, 24, reportedly from Ashikaga, Tochigi Prefecture, and his 16-year-old girlfriend for forcing […]
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 […]
