The operator of the Kyushu shinkansen bullet train line says the major earthquakes in southwestern Japan have caused extensive damage to tracks and stations.Kyushu Railway Company said on Sunday that its emergency inspections had found damage at about 100 locations in the worst-hit Kumamoto Prefecture.Shinkansen services have been suspended since the quake on Thursday. A section […]
The swarms of quakes in southwestern Japan are affecting the country’s manufacturing industry including major electronics companies and automakers.Electronics manufacturers have suspended production in Kumamoto Prefecture.Sony has had its image sensor factory in Kikuyo Town closed since the first major quake hit the area on Thursday.Mitsubishi Electric has suspended operations at its factory in Koshi […]
Most of the victims were girls, according to the agency. The number of people aged under 18 who fell victim to crimes through the use of social networking websites in Japan in 2015 rose by 231 from the previous year to 1,652, the largest since statistics began in 2008, the National Police Agency said Thursday. […]
Authorities in Japan have captured a chimpanzee that was on the loose for more than an hour after escaping from a zoo. Local media have reported staff at the Yagiyama Zoological Park noticed one of their five chimps was missing on Thursday afternoon and closed the park as a precaution. The 24-year-old chimp named Chacha […]
Continuing aftershocks in southwestern Japan are reminding people of the earthquake that rocked the region the night before. Nine people are dead and more than 1,100 others injured. The magnitude 6.5 quake also registered the highest possible intensity on the Japanese seismic scale.It hit Kumamoto Prefecture Thursday night. Officials say about 16,000 people have evacuated. Many people in […]
“Kilig,” a Filipino term used to describe one’s feelings, is officially included in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). On Thursday, OED released a list of new word entries, containing over a hundred words. According to OED, kilig can be both an adjective and a noun. Adjective: “Of a person: exhilarated by an exciting or romantic […]
With cherry trees in full bloom beside a vermilion-lacquered five-story pagoda, and snow-capped Mount Fuji as a backdrop, it’s no wonder tourists are flocking here in droves. The picture-postcard view from Arakurayama Sengen Park, on the slopes of Mount Arakurayama in central Japan, is made complete around this time of the year when 500 “somei-yoshino” […]
The US said Thursday it has launched South China Sea patrols with the Philippines and will temporarily deploy 275 troops and five warplanes in the country, escalating its presence amid a territorial dispute with China. “In the South China Sea, China’s actions in particular are causing anxiety and raising regional tensions,” Defence Secretary Ashton Carter […]
Dozens of fire trucks on Tuesday rushed to extinguish a blaze which gutted four buildings in a famed Tokyo bar district. Firefighters struggled for several hours to contain the flames and smoke rising from windows and corrugated metal roofs in the densely packed Golden-gai district, TV footage showed. Golden-gai is a roughly 2,000 square-meter patch […]
A number Filipino nurses and caregivers who seized the opportunity to undergo training in Japan to qualify for work there have ended up returning to the Philippines, including some who passed the tough licensure exam. “The journey to becoming a nurse in Japan was indeed a mission impossible….We were very tired physically, mentally and emotionally […]
