Businesses in Japan are gearing up for the first tax hike in two decades.
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Japan and UNDP intensify support to “Yolanda” recovery efforts
Japan and UNDP signed a memorandum of agreement to intensify Japan’s support for the victims of “Yolanda”
Japan Condemns Russia’s Move to Annex Crimea
International crisis in Ukraine continues to escalate as Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a treaty that returns Crimea to Russia. The Japanese government condemned Russia’s move, reiterating that this infringes Ukraine’s territorial integrity. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said that Japan would consult with Group of Seven allies and would look into on taking further steps against Russia.
Japanese parents of North Korea abductee meet granddaughter
(Reuters) – The parents of a Japanese girl who was abducted by North Korea more than three decades ago met their child’s daughter for the first time last week, Japan’s Foreign Ministry said on Sunday. North Korea admitted in 2002 that it had kidnapped 13 Japanese nationals in the 1970s and 1980s to help train spies and said eight of them had died, including Megumi Yokota, who was abducted in 1977 on her way home […]
3 Years After Japan Tsunami Disaster
Today marks the third anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that triggered the worst nuclear disaster in Japan.
Japan drafts revision of arms exports ban: source
By Nobuhiro Kubo TOKYO Sun Feb 23, 2014 1:51am EST (Reuters) – Japan has drafted new guidelines that would reverse a decades-old ban on weapons exports, a source with knowledge of the matter said on Sunday, a move that could further strain ties with neighbors China and South Korea. Tokyo has been reviewing the self-imposed export ban under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s new security strategy, aimed at bolstering the self-reliance of the military. Serving as […]
Snow storm in Japan hits charity walk
One of the bigger snow storms to hit Japan in decades has now become a hindrance to the charity walk being held there today, according to various reports. Up to 30 centimetres of snow was forecast for some parts of the country by Saturday morning, a week after the heaviest snowfall left at least 11 people dead and more than 1200 injured. The event, dubbed “WorldWide Walk” by the religious group Iglesia Ni Cristo (INC), began at the […]
Japan Ready For INC WorldWide Walk
Eagle News Correspondent in Japan, Dennis Lu, gives us an update on the preparations of Japan for the INC WorldWide Walk despite the bad weather conditions.
Toyota to recall 1.9 mln Prius cars for software defect in hybrid system
Feb 12 (Reuters) – Toyota Motor Corp on Wednesday issued a recall covering all 1.9 million of the third-generation Prius cars sold worldwide, due to a programming glitch in their hybrid system. About half of the recalls are in Japan and 713,000 in North America, a Toyota spokeswoman said. No accidents have been reported related to the defect. Toyota said the problem was in the software used to control the boost converter in a module that is part of […]
Eleven dead in Japan after worst snowfall in decades hits capital
(Reuters) – Eleven people died, more than a thousand were injured and tens of thousands lost power when the worst snowstorm in decades hit Tokyo and areas around the Japanese capital before heading north to blanket the tsunami-hit Pacific coast. Flights were still backed up at Tokyo’s Haneda international airport on Monday and the lobby was packed with anxious travelers, with some flights overbooked. As much as 27 cm (10.6 inches) of snow fell on […]
Japan ruling party candidate elected Tokyo governor, aiding PM Abe
(Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s favored candidate won Sunday’s election for governor of Tokyo, quashing efforts to make the vote a referendum on Abe’s pro-nuclear energy policy nearly three years after the Fukushima disaster The widely-expected victory by former health minister Yoichi Masuzoe comes as a relief for Abe, who had suffered a rare setback in another local election last month. The 65-year-old Masuzoe, backed by Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party, was the winner […]
China: Japan’s ‘hype’ on air defence zone spreads tension
(Reuters) – China does not feel threatened by countries in Southeast Asia and is optimistic about the situation in the disputed South China Sea, the Foreign Ministry said, warningJapan not to “spread rumors” it plans a new air defense identification zone. China alarmed Japan, South Korea and the United States last year when it announced an air defense identification zone for the East China Sea, covering a group of uninhabited islands at the center of a bitter ownership spat between China and […]
