A court sentenced a 43-year-old man to life imprisonment Tuesday for murdering two Japanese men for insurance money in the Philippines in 2014 and 2015, as prosecutors demanded. At his lay judge trial at the Kofu District Court in Yamanashi Prefecture, west of Tokyo, Shoichi Kubota was convicted of killing Shinsuke Toba, 32, and Tatsuya […]
Police officers and psychiatrists from across Japan have gathered to discuss how to rehabilitate stalkers who refuse to undergo psychiatric treatment. Some 80 officials and experts met at the National Police Agency in Tokyo on Monday. Since April last year, police began urging habitual stalkers to visit psychiatrists and undergo treatment or counselling. But the […]
Indonesia and the Philippines are moving to adopt terrestrial digital broadcasting technology, and this move by Southeast Asia’s two most populous countries could open business opportunities for Japanese companies with related hardware. The Philippine government will announce a plan Tuesday for shifting to the new technology. The private-sector GMA Network will invest 416 million pesos […]
Super Tamade Co, an Osaka-based supermarket market chain, and its personnel division chief have been fined for the illegally long hours worked by foreign student employees. The Osaka Summary Court fined the discount supermarket chain 1 million yen and the personnel manager Mitsutoshi Maeda, 41, 700,000 yen as demanded by prosecutors for violating the Immigration […]
A strong cold air mass has brought snow and brisk wind to much of Japan. Some areas in western Japan have had snowstorms. Weather officials warn of heavy snow and blizzards, mainly on the Sea of Japan coast. The Meteorological Agency says developing low pressure systems brought the air mass. As of 6 AM on […]
Ten thousand Catholics attended the beatification ceremony for Christian feudal warlord Takayama Ukon, who was expelled from Japan in the early 17th century for refusing to renounce his faith. Cardinal Angelo Amato was sent from the Vatican on behalf of Pope Francis to oversee the event at Osaka-jo Hall here on Feb. 7 that elevates […]
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Japan’s labor ministry says average monthly wages adjusted for inflation rose in 2016, the first increase in 5 years. The data is the preliminary result of a nationwide survey. The ministry says the average monthly wage, including bonuses and overtime pay, was about 315 thousand yen, roughly 2,800 dollars. That’s up 0.7 percent in real […]
The government is considering setting the minimum marriage age at 18 for both genders, scrapping a provision introduced shortly after World War II that allows 16-year-old girls to get married, a government source said Thursday. The government is considering including a provision for the unified minimum marriage age in a bill to revise the Civil […]
More than 100 workers, including three Japanese, were injured and at least three were missing in a fire that hit a huge factory south of Manila and sent thousands of employees scampering to safety, an official said Thursday. The fire at the House Technology Industries was under control but has not been fully extinguished nearly […]
