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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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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Japan Enters Flu Season

December 14, 2018

Tokyo–Japan has entered the influenza season, the health ministry said Friday. The timing of the full season start was almost the same as in usual years, according to the ministry. Some 5,000 regularly monitored medical institutions had a total of

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