Suga urges S. Korea to take cautious approach toward N. Korea
March 6, 2018
Tokyo- Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga on Tuesday called on Seoul to take a cautious approach toward North Korea. South Korea should be fully aware that past dialogue with the North has not led to the country’s denuclearization, Suga
Japan adopts ordinance for Emperor Akihito’s abdication ceremony
March 6, 2018
Tokyo- The Japanese government, at a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, adopted an ordinance stipulating that a ceremony will be held to mark Emperor Akihito’s abdication on April 30, 2019. The ordinance is intended to give a statutory basis to the
Abe calls for regulatory checks on discretionary work
March 6, 2018
Tokyo- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stressed on Monday the need for labor standards inspectors to check appropriately how companies are operating discretionary work systems. Abe was discussing the suicide in 2016 of a male employee of Nomura Real Estate
Ten Japanese SMEs offer new technology to help Philippines
March 6, 2018
Ten Japanese small and medium enterprises (SMEs) offered to help the Philippines in addressing various development challenges using new technology and ideas, a press statement from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) said Tuesday. About 70 public and private stakeholders
Japan to cut price of cancer drug Opdivo by over 20%
March 5, 2018
Tokyo- Japan’s health ministry said Monday that the government-set price of cancer drug Opdivo will be reduced by over 20 percent from the current level in fiscal 2018, which starts next month. According to an official gazette from the ministry,
Shifts to generics to cut Japan FY 2017 medical costs by 1.3 trillion yen
March 5, 2018
Tokyo- Switching to generic drugs from brand-name drugs for which patents have expired is estimated to lower Japan’s total medical costs by 1,299.1 billion yen in fiscal 2017, the health ministry said Monday. The reduction is some 40 percent larger
Emperor, Empress to Visit Okinawa from March 27
March 5, 2018
Tokyo- Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko will visit the southernmost prefecture of Okinawa for three days from March 27, the Imperial Household Agency said Monday. The Imperial couple will visit World War II battlefields in southern Okinawa to mourn
Fukushima students attend NY ceremony for 2011 disaster
March 5, 2018
New York- Students from Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, attended a memorial service held in New York on Sunday for the victims of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami and the subsequent nuclear accident. Satsuki Sekine, 16, a second-grader from Futaba
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