90,000 volunteers to help visitors to Tokyo Games
July 19, 2017
TOKYO- The Tokyo metropolitan government and the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic organizing committee aim to secure more than 90,000 volunteers to welcome visitors to Japan during the 2000 Games. The capital is pondering ways to attract and train volunteers to
Firm successfully launches microsatellite
July 19, 2017
TOKYO- Japan’s Weathernews Inc. said Tuesday that it has successfully launched a microsatellite designed to observe sea ice and support the safe passage of vessels in the Arctic Ocean. The WNISAT-1R microsatellite was launched on board a Russian Soyuz rocket from the
Gov’t promoting “gibierˮ to protect farmers
July 19, 2017
TOKYO- The Japanese government is promoting a program to use game meat in meals in the face of ever-increasing wild animal damage to farm products. “This is so tasty that I could eat it every day,” Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
Tokyo perplexed by Seoulʼs offer of military talks with Pyongyang
July 19, 2017
TOKYO- The Japanese government appears to be perplexed by South Korea’s proposal on Monday to hold military talks with North Korea, despite Japan’s initiative to increase international pressure on the North over its nuclear and missile development. “South Korea is out of
Prayers offered to victims 2 weeks after Kyushu downpour
July 19, 2017
ASAKURA, FUKUOKA PREF.- Residents and others in this southwestern Japan city offered silent prayers to rain disaster victims on Wednesday, two weeks after record downpours began hitting the region with floods and landslides. The death toll from the disaster has reached
LDPʼs Nikai, US lawmakers call for stronger Japan-US alliance
July 19, 2017
WASHINGTON- Toshihiro Nikai, the visiting secretary-general of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party, on Tuesday agreed with US lawmakers on the need to strengthen their countries’ alliance further. Nikai met with Senate President Pro Tempore Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), House of Representatives Armed Services
Fossil teeth of plant-eating dinosaur found
July 18, 2017
FUKUI- Thirty-five fossilized dinosaur teeth have been found in a stratum some 81 million years old on Nagasaki Peninsula, southwestern Japan, the Nagasaki city government and the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum said Tuesday. The fossils are believed to be teeth
Japan pledges $1 billion aid for world’s children, youth
July 18, 2017
NEW YORK- Japan will provide some one billion dollars in aid for children and the youth around the world over the next two years as part of efforts to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals, Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said Monday. Japan will
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