2,042 Ideas received for 2020 Tokyo Games mascots
August 16, 2017
TOKYO-The organizing committee for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics said Tuesday that it has received a total of 2,042 applications in a campaign to solicit ideas for official mascots for the quadrennial sporting events. Applications were accepted until noon
Japan renews pledge for peace on 72nd war-end anniversary
August 15, 2017
TOKYO- Japan renewed on Tuesday its pledge not to fight a war again at a government-sponsored ceremony to mark the 72nd anniversary of the country’s surrender in World War II. The ceremony, held at the Nippon Budokan hall in Tokyo’s
Company-run nursery capacity lifted to 70,000
August 15, 2017
TOKYO- The Japanese government aims to increase the combined capacity of company-led nurseries to some 70,000 children before fiscal 2017 ends next March, up from the initially targeted 50,000, Masaji Matsuyama, minister for measures to address the declining birthrate, said
TEPCO fails to meet Fukushima water treatment system rules
August 15, 2017
TOKYO- Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. said Monday that it failed to meet operational rules for its systems to remove cesium in radiation-tainted water at its crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power station for four days in March last
Young generations take over “Himeyuriˮ student corps storytelling
August 15, 2017
ITOMAN, OKINAWA PREF.- Young-generation workers at a peace museum in Okinawa Prefecture are telling the story of the “Himeyuri” wartime nursing corps of female students, more than two years after former members of the unit almost retired as storytellers due
Onodera tolerant of Osprey flights after crash
August 15, 2017
NAHA, OKINAWA PREF.- Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera at a meeting with Okinawa Governor Takeshi Onaga on Monday set out the central government’s stance of tolerating flights of the US Marine Corps’ MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor planes based in the southernmost
Abe makes ritual offering to Yasukuni Shrine
August 15, 2017
TOKYO- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made a “tamagushi” ritual offering at his own expense to Yasukuni Shrine on Tuesday, the 72nd anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II. But Abe, also president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party,
DOE donating 45 cars to Region 8 police through Japan gov’t grant
August 15, 2017
The Department of Energy (DOE), thru the Energy Utilization Management Bureau , is donating 45 hybrid patrol cars to the Philippine National Police (PNP) Region 8 in line with its mandate to promote the use of energy-efficient vehicles. In a
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