US military remains a burden to Okinawa 45 years after reversion to Japan
May 15, 2017
NAHA, OKINAWA PREF.- Okinawa on Monday marked the 45th anniversary of its return to Japanese administration from US rule, but US military bases in Japan remain heavily concentrated in the southernmost island prefecture. Okinawa, which occupies only 0.6 percent of Japan’s
Toshiba posts 950 billion net loss in unaudited earnings
May 15, 2017
TOKYO- Toshiba Corp. released unaudited earnings for the year that ended in March on Monday, projecting a consolidated net loss of 950 billion yen chiefly stemming from massive losses from its nuclear operations. Toshiba announced the provisional figures as the company
Japan finds document on earliest landing on Senkakus
May 15, 2017
TOKYO- The Japanese government has announced the discovery of a document indicating that royal family members of the Ryukyu Kingdom, which ruled an area in southwestern Japan, landed on the Senkaku Islands in 1819, the oldest recorded visit to the Japanese-administered
Education ministry to send advisers to cut teachers’ overtime
May 15, 2017
TOKYO- In a bid to help reduce teachers’ overtime, Japan’s education ministry will launch a program next month to send advisers to local education boards. Experts in operational efficiency and officials of local governments that have been trying out their own
LDP to set up constitutional revision drafting panel
May 15, 2017
TOKYO- Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party will set up a drafting committee for a constitutional revision as early as this month, an LDP executive said Sunday. The committee will be established under the party’s Headquarters for the Promotion of Revision to
Japan, NZ agree to lead TPP talks without US
May 15, 2017
TOKYO- Japan and New Zealand agreed Monday to lead discussions at a ministerial meeting in Vietnam later this month of the remaining member economies of the Trans-Pacific Partnership to establish the free trade zone without the United States. Japanese Economic Revitalization
Alleged Japanese remains with bullet-like hole on head found in Bohol
May 15, 2017
A human skeleton allegedly of a male Japanese national, with bullet-like hole in the head, was found in a forested area in Bilar, Bohol, police said on Sunday. Bilar investigators suspected that they were remains of a Japanese because of
PH, Japan, ReCAAP ISC hold drill off Sulu
May 14, 2017
The Philippines and Japan coast guards, along with an international agency dealing with piracy and robbery at sea, have conducted communications and surveillance exercise in southern Philippines on Saturday. Commodore Leopoldo Laroya, commander of Maritime Security and Law Enforcement of
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