For BDO Unibank, the largest lender in the Philippines, now is the perfect time to team up with Japanese financial institutions. A growing number of Japanese companies are looking to expand into the country, while President Rodrigo Duterte has made wooing foreign investment and creating manufacturing jobs key policy priorities. On July 13, BDO signed a business […]
A group of bus operators in Japan is to offer unlimited ride passes to foreign tourists.
Operators hope to introduce the "Robot Shuttle" at a shopping mall to ferry customers around.
The draft calls for upgrading the current activities to help fifth- and sixth-graders become familiar with English to an regular subject.
Minamiaso Railway Co. in Kumamoto Prefecture partially resumed train operations on Sunday.
Hyogo prefectural police said Sunday they have arrested a 39-year-old prison guard on suspicion of filming up a woman’s skirt on an escalator at a train station in Kobe. According to police, the suspect, Hideaki Matsushita, used his smartphone camera to film up a 29-year-old woman’s skirt at JR Sannomiya Station at around 7 p.m. […]
Animal experts warn that bears in Japan have become accustomed to such sounds as radios and the ringing of bells used by humans to frighten them away and now may instead be attracted by the sounds as a marker of human prey. In Akita Prefecture, four people assumed to be victims of bear attacks were […]
Nintendo affiliate Pokemon Co. has announced that the Pokemon Go Plus wearable game accessory will not hit the market until September. The accessory to the “Pokemon Go” smartphone game was originally slated for release at the end of this month. The debut is reportedly being postponed because an update to “Pokemon Go” has been delayed and time is required […]
Police in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, have arrested a teenage couple on charges of burying the dead body of their newborn baby girl. According to police, the 16-year-old mother of the baby and the 17-year-old father placed the body of their newborn infant in a bag and buried it in a public park in Takasaki, Gumma […]
The organizing committee of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games will open official shops selling products designed for the Games on Friday.A day earlier, a media preview took place at a shop in Tokyo’s posh Ginza district. Another store is to open in the capital’s Shibuya area. About 100 items line the shelves, including […]
