Katayama Most Widely Seen Unfit for Cabinet Minister: Jiji Survey
December 15, 2018
Tokyo–Regional revitalization minister Satsuki Katayama is the cabinet member most widely seen by Japanese people as unfit to be a minister, a Jiji Press survey showed. Katayama was chosen by 43.7 pct of respondents, who were asked which members of
Mitsubishi Heavy Gets Another Compensation Order in S. Korea
December 15, 2018
Seoul–A South Korean district court on Friday ordered Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. <7011> to pay damages over wartime labor, following similar rulings by the country’s top court last month over two different lawsuits, according to local media. The appeals division
78.2 Pct of Japan High School Students Land Job Offers
December 14, 2018
Tokyo–A Japanese government survey showed Friday that 78.2 pct of high school students hoping to work after their graduation next spring had secured job offers as of the end of October. The figure rose 1.0 percentage point from a year
S. Korea Begins Procedures to Dissolve Comfort Women Foundation
December 14, 2018
Seoul–South Korea has launched procedures to dissolve a foundation established to support former wartime “comfort women,” an official at the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family said Friday. The foundation was set up under a 2015 agreement between Tokyo and
Japan Adopts 3-Year Program to Become More Disaster-Resilient
December 14, 2018
Tokyo–The Japanese government adopted Friday a three-year, 7-trillion-yen intensive program to make infrastructure across the country more resilient in the event of natural disasters. The fiscal 2018-2020 program, adopted at a meeting of relevant cabinet ministers, features 160 projects, including
Moon to Respect Court Decision on Wartime Labor
December 14, 2018
Seoul–South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Friday reiterated the government’s stance of respecting Supreme Court rulings ordering Japanese firms to pay compensation for wartime labor to South Koreans. In a meeting in Seoul with a visiting suprapartisan group of Japanese
Abe Cabinet’s Support Rating Down at 38 Pct: Jiji Poll
December 14, 2018
Tokyo–Public support for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s cabinet in December stood at 38.9 pct, down 3.4 percentage points from the previous month, a Jiji Press opinion poll found Friday. The figure dropped for the first time in six months.
Soil Placement Starts for U.S. Base Relocation in Okinawa
December 14, 2018
Naha, Okinawa Pref.–The Japanese government started the placement of soil in landfill work off the Henoko coastal district in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, on Friday morning in a controversial U.S. military base relocation project. It would be difficult to restore the
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