The government is considering reducing the upper limits of overtime allowed for workers as part of a push to overhaul Japan’s notoriously demanding labor culture. In Japan, companies can ask employees to work up to 45 hours of overtime work per month, or up to 360 hours per year, in addition to the standard 40-hour […]
Japan on Friday executed two death row prisoners, local media reported, as the government—backed by public opinion—continued to ignore calls by international rights groups to end capital punishment. Media identified the two inmates as Junko Yoshida, 56, a former nurse convicted of two murders for insurance in 1998 and 1999 in Fukuoka Prefecture, and Yasutoshi […]
Turkish media report that a Japanese man has been detained in Turkey on suspicion of seeking to join the Islamic State militant group.Multiple media report the 24-year-old was detained by security troops in southeast Turkey while heading by car for a town near the border with Syria.They say the man’s cell phone had records of […]
With less than 100 days in office, President Benigno Aquino III has created a high-level task force that would synchronize a “unified” government action in protecting the country’s sovereignty in the West Philippine Sea. In Memorandum Circular No. 94, the President has assigned the National Security Adviser to chair the National Task Force for the […]
The US commercial spacecraft Cygnus carrying the Philippines’ first microsatellite Diwata-1 was successfully launched into space yesterday morning in preparation for the satellite’s eventual deployment into orbit next month. Carlos Primo David, executive director of the Department of Science and Technology’s Philippine Council for Industry, Energy and Emerging Technology Research and Development (DOST-PCIEERD), said that […]
A woman dubbed the “black widow,” who is accused of murdering her husband and other partners with cyanide, is expected to plead not guilty to all charges in her upcoming trial, sources close to the matter said. Documents submitted by lawyers for 69-year-old defendant Chisako Kakehi indicate she will likely deny the charges of murder […]
Major restaurant chains in Japan are enhancing recruiting efforts in order to secure part-time workers. McDonald’s Japan released an animated short film online with the aim of attracting college freshmen to work for them. The academic year in Japan starts in April and ends in March. During this season, stores have to find new workers […]
Police have arrested a 69-year-old man on charges of assaulting his former wife in front of the Saitama District Court building. The incident occurred at around 10 a.m. on Tuesday morning, when Takahisa Matsumoto, a resident of Ageo, Saitama Prefecture, slashed his ex-wife’s left cheek with a knife in front of the entrance to the […]
A U.S. Navy sailor arrested on suspicion of raping a Japanese woman in Okinawa has admitted to the charge, having initially denied it, investigative sources said Wednesday. Justin Castellanos, 24, a seaman at the U.S. Marines’ Camp Schwab in northern Okinawa, was arrested on March 13 on suspicion of raping the woman in her 40s […]
A zebra that escaped overnight from a horse-riding club in Aichi Prefecture, Central Japan, has died after being shot with a tranquilizer dart.The 2-year-old male zebra was spotted on Wednesday at a golf course in neighboring Gifu Prefecture. It evaded police efforts to capture it for around 5 hours, and ended up in a pond […]
