Japan protests North Korea over missile launch
April 29, 2017
TOKYO- The Japanese government lodged a strong protest on Saturday against North Korea’s latest ballistic missile launch through the embassies in Beijing. At a news conference in Tokyo, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga condemned the missile launch as a clear violation
Dismay spreads over potato chip famine
April 28, 2017
Tokyo- Things have come to a crunch for potato chip fans in Japan since major snack makers Calbee Inc. and Koike-Ya Inc. announced a halt to sales of many such products two weeks ago due to a potato shortage. People rushed
Women occupy record share of gov’t career recruits
April 28, 2017
Tokyo- The Japanese government said Friday that women accounted for a record 34.5 percent of its new career-track workers employed in fiscal 2017 for policy planning at ministries and agencies. Of 678 carrier-track employees, women totaled 234. The proportion was up
60% of junior high teachers hit overwork death threshold
April 28, 2017
Tokyo- About 60 percent of teachers at public junior high schools in Japan worked at least 60 hours per week in fiscal 2016, beyond the dividing line used by the state for determining death from overwork, an education ministry survey revealed
ASDF fighter jets join drill with USS Carl Vinson
April 28, 2017
Tokyo- The Japanese Air Self-Defense Force said Friday two of its fighter jets participated in a joint exercise between Japan and the USS Carl Vinson, in waters east of Okinawa Prefecture on the same day. The move was apparently intended to
Abe, Putin agree to send joint mission to disputed isles in May
April 28, 2017
Moscow- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed on Thursday that the two countries will send a joint public-private survey mission to northwestern Pacific islands at the center of the two countries’ territorial row as early as
Jobless rate falls to 22-year low in FY 2016
April 28, 2017
Tokyo- Japan’s average monthly unemployment rate for fiscal 2016 came to three percent, the lowest level in 22 years, the internal affairs ministry said Friday. The jobless rate, down 0.3 percentage point from the previous year, showed the best reading since
Visitors enjoys azalea flowers at a shrine garden in Tokyo
April 27, 2017
Visitors enjoy viewing blooms of azalea at a shrine garden in Tokyo, Japan, 27 April 2017. The garden, containing around 3,000 azalea bushes of hundred kinds, attracts visitors from mid-April to beginning of May but due to poor weather conditions
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