1st aerial refueling drill conductedfor US F-35B
March 27, 2017
TOKYO- US Marine Corps has carried out the first aerial refueling drill for an F-35B stealth fighter jet deployed at its Iwakuni base in Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan, using an air tanker at the US Air Force’s Kadena base in Okinawa
Inada admits husband was in meeting between gov’t, Moritomo head
March 27, 2017
TOKYO- Japanese Defense Minister Tomomi Inada admitted Monday that her husband, a lawyer, attended a meeting between Yasunori Kagoike, outgoing head of controversial school operator Moritomo Gakuen, and government officials in January 2016. The husband’s advisory contract with Kagoike had already
Parliament enacts FY 2017 gov’t budget
March 27, 2017
TOKYO- Japan’s parliament enacted the government’s fiscal 2017 general-account budget worth a record 97,454.7 billion yen on Monday. The House of Councillors, the upper chamber, approved the budget for the year starting Saturday with majority support mainly from Prime Minister Shinzo
Vietnamese girl might have been kidnapped near home
March 27, 2017
MATSUDO- A nine-year-old Vietnamese girl who was found dead in Abiko, Chiba Prefecture, on Sunday might have been kidnapped within a few minutes after she left her home in Matsudo in the eastern Japan prefecture for school on Friday morning, police
Body of girl found near Tokyo
March 26, 2017
Abiko, Chiba Prefecture- The body of a girl likely to be aged around 10 was found near a drainage in Abiko, Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo, on Sunday. The Chiba prefectural police department received a report on the body from a
Families of abductees in North Koreamarks 20 years amid lack of progress
March 26, 2017
Tokyo- The family members of Japanese nationals abducted to North Korea in the 1970s and the 1980s are increasingly impatient, having aged without seeing progress over a decade in their bid to be reunited with the victims in the home country.
Japanese venture wins Startup World Cup
March 26, 2017
Silicon Valley- UniFa, a Japanese venture company offering a robot service to take care of children at kindergartens and nurseries, won the Startup World Cup on Friday. The company, based in the central Japan city of Nagoya, plans to use the
Shinkansen effects on tourism in Hokkaido still limited
March 26, 2017
Sapporo- In the year after the opening of the Hokkaido Shinkansen high-speed railway service, the number of visitors increased mainly in Hakodate, southern Hokkaido, the gateway to Japan’s northernmost main island. But positive effects on tourism from the 149-kilometer Shinkansen line
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