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TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — More than 600,000 Japanese people over 40 are living in complete isolation from society, staying at home for more than six months without social interaction, the government estimated on Friday. The phenomenon is so widespread in Japan it even has its own name — hikikomori — defined as someone who does not go to school or work for six months and does not interact with anyone outside their family during […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japan’s closely watched factory output rose modestly in February with unemployment staying at record low levels, official data showed Friday, underscoring the patchy recovery of the world’s third largest economy. Factory output for February rose 1.4 percent month-on-month after a 3.4 percent dip in January, the trade and industry ministry said Friday. The reading compares with market expectations of a 1.0 percent rise. “The recovery in output is not strong, reflecting […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Asian markets were gripped by volatility Thursday as investors grow increasingly worried about the state of the global economy, sending them rushing to safe-haven assets and fuelling talk of possible recession. The pound was managing to hold its own despite another night of drama in Westminster that saw Prime Minister Theresa May offer to resign if MPs backed her Brexit plan and lawmakers reject a series of alternative options on […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japan will for the first time next month lift an evacuation order in one of two towns where the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is located, officials said Tuesday. The government plans to lift the order for part of Okuma town on April 10, cabinet office official Yohei Ogino told AFP. It will be the first time the government has lifted an evacuation order in the towns — Okuma and Futaba — […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Asian markets plunged Monday after a sharp sell-off on Wall Street fuelled by concerns about the global economy and a possible recession in the United States. There appeared to be very little reaction to news that an investigation found no evidence of collusion between Donald Trump’s election campaign and Russia, which observers said removed some uncertainty from markets. After a broad-based rally since the start of the year built on […]
Net trust for Australia, Japan “good” (Eagle News)—Net trust for the United States remained “very good” among Filipinos, while that for China was at neutral, and for Australia and Japan “good,” a recent Social Weather Stations survey found. The Fourth Quarter 2018 Social Weather Survey said the +60 net trust rating for the US in December 2018 translated to 71% with much trust and 11% with little trust in the country, hardly moving from the +59 […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Former Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn is seeking court permission to attend a board meeting at the Japanese automaker while out on bail, local media reported Monday. Ghosn wants to attend a Tuesday meeting at the company’s headquarters in the city of Yokohama, Kyodo news agency reported, citing one of his lawyers. The office of Ghosn’s lead lawyer Junichiro Hironaka declined to comment. Nissan said it could not confirm that Ghosn was […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — A 116-year-old Japanese woman who still enjoys studying math and playing board games has been recognized as the world’s oldest person, the Guinness World Records said Saturday. Kane Tanaka was born on 2 January 1903, the year when the Wright brothers launched humanity’s first powered flight, according to Guinness. Tanaka’s recognition was celebrated at the nursing home where she lives in western Japan’s Fukuoka by city mayor Soichiro Takashima and other […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — At least 87 passengers in a high speed ferry were injured in an apparent collision with a marine animal in the sea of Japan on Saturday, coastguards and media said. Five people were seriously injured in the accident, which occurred just before the hydrofoil was due to arrive on Sado island after a short trip from the mainland, the Japan Coast Guard said. It is likely the ferry hit a […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — A 116-year-old Japanese woman who still enjoys studying math and playing board games has been recognised as the world’s oldest person, the Guinness World Records said Saturday. Kane Tanaka was born on 2 January 1903, the year when the Wright brothers launched humanity’s first powered flight, according to Guinness. Tanaka’s recognition was celebrated at the nursing home where she lives in western Japan’s Fukuoka by city mayor Soichiro Takashima and […]
by Harumi OZAWA / Natsuko FUKUE TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Former Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn left his Tokyo detention center Wednesday after more than 100 days in custody, following a shock court decision granting him bail of one billion yen ($9 million). Ghosn left the detention center in northern Tokyo flanked by guards, wearing a blue cap, a white medical face mask and a work jacket with orange reflective stripes. Unrecognisable from the tycoon who […]
by Thomas URBAIN NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Japanese architect Arata Isozaki has been awarded the Pritzker Prize, considered architecture’s highest honor, for a lifetime of work that found global resonance while mining local traditions. The 87-year-old’s more than 100 built works range from the Palau Saint Jordi, built in Barcelona for the 1992 Summer Olympics, to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, his first international commission. His hometown of Otai, Japan […]
