The head of Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Force has described the simultaneous launches of 4 ballistic missiles by North Korea as a threat to Japan and its neighbors. The 4 missiles fired from North Korea’s west coast on Monday flew about 1,000 kilometers toward the Sea of Japan. 3 of them are believed to have landed […]
Japanese government officials say a record-high number of foreign tourists stayed in hotels in Japan last year. Officials at the Japan Tourism Agency counted the number of stays by foreign visitors in hotels or Japanese-style inns in 2016. They logged more than 70 million. That’s an increase of 8 percent, from the figure for 2015. […]
Police say all 9 people on board a helicopter that crashed in snow-covered mountains of central Japan have died. The group was conducting a drill for rescuing climbers. Police, firefighters and Japanese Self-Defence Force personnel found the men in and around the mangled aircraft around 8 AM on Monday. The helicopter crashed shortly after 3 […]
Store owners in a tsunami-hit town in northeastern Japan have resumed their operations in a new shopping mall on elevated land. Minamisanriku’s Sun Sun Shopping Village has been relocated from a temporary site that was used until the end of last year. It was widely regarded as a symbol of reconstruction from the March 2011 […]
The Philippines made it to TripAdvisor’s list of 10 popular tourism destinations offering great accommodation value to American travelers. The list is part of the travel website’s 2017 Hotel Pricing Report, which is based on TripAdvisor hotel shopping data. “With its Hotel Pricing Report, TripAdvisor is helping travelers as they consider where and when to […]
A train on the JR Tokaido Line has derailed after colliding with a passenger car at a crossing in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan. Police say the collision occurred on Thursday morning at a crossing in Anjo City, causing the first car of the 6-carriage train to go off the track. The passenger car ran into […]
The Nikkei Philippines Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index, or PMI, rose to 53.6 in February from 52.7 in January, marking the end of a four-month slowdown in growth. A reading above 50 indicates economic expansion, while a reading below 50 points toward contraction. A further deceleration in output growth was offset by faster expansions in new […]
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.6 shook northeastern Japan on Tuesday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. No tsunami warning was issued. The 4:49 p.m. temblor, which originated at a depth of about 50 kilometers off the coast of Fukushima Prefecture, registered lower 5 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale of 7 in parts […]
Japanese retailers facing staff shortages are turning to self-checkout cash registers. A leading DVD rental chain introduced a self-checkout system at some of its outlets 2 years ago. It plans to have the system installed at nearly half its stores by March. Customers can settle their bills by placing products under a bar code reader. […]
A memorial museum in the atomic-bombed city of Hiroshima has reported a record number of visitors for the fiscal year that ends next month. Officials at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum welcomed the 1,593,281st visitor of the year on Friday, breaking the previous record set 25 years ago. The 29-year-old Tokyo resident, Yuri Takahashi, received […]
