A 27-year-old Iranian man has been identified as the victim of a predawn street assault Sunday in central Nagoya, in which he was stabbed and bashed by several Persian-speaking men before dying of blood loss in hospital six hours later, police said Wednesday. The victim, named by police as Anami Shirmard Milad, is believed to […]
Narita Airport introduced “Megahonyaku,” a combination of megaphone and honyaku (translation), on a trial basis earlier this month. Aiming to assist with the increasing number of foreign visitors and the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics scheduled for 2020, Panasonic Corp. has been developing a new megaphone system capable of translating a speaker’s voice from Japanese into […]
The government kicked off a campaign Monday to give tourists access to SIM cards and Wi-Fi routers, aiming to offer a better quality communications environment. The Japan Tourism Agency (JTA) said that while the government has been working to spread free Wi-Fi availability for international travelers, it isn’t possible to provide blanket coverage nationwide. Yet […]
McDonald’s Corp. is considering selling part of its stake in its Japanese unit, sources familiar with the matter said Tuesday. The U.S. fast food chain, which owns roughly 50 percent of McDonald’s Holdings Co. (Japan), is apparently seeking to weaken its control over the Japanese unit, with potential buyers including investment funds, the sources added. […]
The Japanese government plans to step up measures to support households that are struggling financially to raise children. The government will submit to the Diet early next year a set of bills addressing problems involving children in poverty. A government survey done every 3 years shows that one out of 6 children in Japan lived […]
A Japanese man in his 20s has died of caffeine poisoning after routinely drinking the caffeinated beverages known as energy drinks, the forensic medicine office of Fukuoka University found Monday. The office decided the cause of the death was heavy intake of caffeine. The man in the Kyushu region, southwestern Japan, drank such beverages frequently […]
Japanese jeans makers have been feeling the squeeze from cheaper imports. Now a project to twin denim with more traditional clothing may banish their blues. A long-established kimono store in Tokyo is selling a rather untraditional type of kimono. “I thought the material would feel stiff, but it’s very soft to the touch,” said one […]
Offering spectacular views and the setting for TV commercials and other productions, Tsunoshima Bridge was selected the top bridge in Japan by one of the world’s largest travel review websites. TripAdvisor, based in Massachusetts, said it calculated its “Japan bridge rankings” using such information as the number of reviews and assessments written in Japanese and […]
The Colombian contestant was already wearing this year’s Miss Universe crown when host Steve Harvey returned to announce on live television that he had mistakenly read from a cue card, and that the contestant from the Philippines was actually this year’s winner. In the following moments, the crown was removed and placed on the head […]
A foreign man in his late 20s or early 30s died after he was beaten to death by a gang of foreigners in Nagoya on Sunday morning. According to police, the incident occurred at around to 1:30 a.m. in Nakagawa Ward. Fuji TV reported that the man was driving along when a car passed him […]
