Lending industry group to urge stronger measures against excessive debts
August 21, 2017
TOKYO- Japan’s nonbank lending industry group will urge consumer lenders guaranteeing unsecured loans on bank cards to strengthen measures to prevent clients from struggling with excessive debts, Jiji Press learned on Monday. The move by the Japan Financial Services Association
1945 Tokyo raid-surviving author keeps writing for peace
August 21, 2017
TOKYO- Katsumoto Saotome, an 85-year-old author and survivor of the Great Tokyo Air Raid, keeps interviewing other survivors and writing about the indiscriminative US firebombing on March 10, 1945, which killed an estimated 100,000 people in the Japanese capital. During
Japanese students sell halal-certified original fish sauce in KL
August 21, 2017
KUALA LUMPUR- Two students from Niigata Prefectural Kaiyo High School in central Japan stood as salesgirls at a store in Kuala Lumpur to sell halal-certified bottles of original salmon fish sauce produced by the school. Dressed in “yukata” casual summer
US Navy destroyer collides with tanker off Singapore
August 21, 2017
WASHINGTON- A US Aegis-class destroyer has collided with a tanker off the coast of Singapore, leaving 10 crew members missing and five injured, the US Navy said Sunday. The USS John S. McCain, which belongs to the Navy’s Seventh Fleet
Power balance changing within LDP
August 21, 2017
TOKYO- The power balance in Japan’s governing Liberal Democratic Party is starting to show changes ahead of the LDP presidential election slated for autumn 2018. Intraparty factions, including those led by Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Taro Aso and
Princess Mako visits museum in Budapest with father Prince Akishino
August 20, 2017
BUDAPEST- Japanese Princess Mako and her father Prince Akishino visited a folk museum in Budapest on Saturday. Specializing in museology, the eldest daughter of the Prince, the second son of Emperor Akihito, showed her curiosity about pottery wine jugs. When
Japan to promote farmland leasing in urban areas
August 20, 2017
TOKYO- The Japanese agriculture ministry plans to establish a new system for promoting urban agriculture by facilitating farmland rental, ministry sources said Saturday. Currently, permissions from municipal agricultural committees are necessary for letting out farmland. Under the proposed system, municipal
Landslide-hit section on Chuo Expressway reopens
August 20, 2017
GIFU- A traffic ban for a landslide-hit section in Gifu Prefecture on the Chuo Expressway was lifted on Sunday morning. Emergency recovery work was finished 34 hours after a slope near the Tokyo-bound lanes in the section between the Mizunami
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