Tugboat drifts into U.S. destroyer
November 19, 2017
WASHINGTON- A Japanese commercial tugboat drifted into the U.S. Navy’s guided-missile destroyer USS Benfold in Sagami Bay near Tokyo on Saturday, the Navy’s 7th Fleet said. The tugboat lost propulsion and drifted into the Benfold when the destroyer was participating
Japan to expand SDF base in Djibouti
November 19, 2017
Tokyo- Japan has agreed to lease 3 hectares of empty land in Djibouti for use by its Self-Defense Forces operating in the Gulf of Aden off Somalia on an antipiracy mission, government sources said Saturday. The lease is designed to
Japan Tobacco to promote Terabatake to president
November 19, 2017
Tokyo- Japan Tobacco Inc. plans to promote Masamichi Terabatake, executive vice president of JT International SA, a Swiss unit, to the post of president at the parent company, informed sources said Sunday. Terabatake, 51, is expected to assume the new
20 years on: Japan’s financial administration reaches turning point
November 17, 2017
Tokyo- With the problem of nonperforming loans that plagued Japanese banks winding down, the role of financial administration in Japan is undergoing a drastic change. In summer 2018, the Financial Services Agency plans to scrap the Inspection Bureau, which struck
More big hospitals in Japan to charge extra fees on patients
November 17, 2017
Tokyo- Japan’s health ministry plans to expand the range of hospitals that can impose additional fees on visits by patients with no referral from their regular doctors, as early as fiscal 2018, it was learned Thursday. Currently, such extra fees
Imperial Couple meet evacuated Kuchinoerabu residents
November 17, 2017
Yakushima, Kagoshima Pref.- Japan’s Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko on Thursday met with residents from the island of Kuchinoerabu in Kagoshima Prefecture who have been evacuated from the island after the May 2015 volcanic eruption there. The meeting took place
11 disaster-hit municipalities registered as athlete host towns
November 17, 2017
Tokyo- The Japanese government announced Friday 11 municipalities in northeastern Japan that will serve as Reconstruction “Arigato” Host Towns for athletes competing in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics. The municipalities in the three Tohoku northeastern prefectures that were hit
Nissan to cite poor awareness of compliance in scandal report
November 17, 2017
Tokyo- Nissan Motor Co. in a report seen to be submitted to the transport ministry as early as Friday over its vehicle inspection scandal, is expected to admit that poor awareness of compliance among its workers was behind the misconduct.
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