5 Japanese power firms pay over ¥90 billion in dividends after fee hikes
March 19, 2017
Five major Japanese power companies have paid a total of some 90 billion yen in shareholder dividends since raising their electricity fees following the country’s worst nuclear accident in March 2011, Jiji Press learned Saturday. While the fee hikes lifted
Benzene 100 times limit detected in Toyosu groundwater: officials
March 19, 2017
TOKYO- Levels of benzene of up to 100 times the Japanese government-set environmental limit have been detected in groundwater samples taken in a planned wholesale food market in Tokyo, the metropolitan government said Sunday. The samples also contained cyanogen, a substance
Japan, Russia present proposals for joint economic activities
March 19, 2017
TOKYO- Japan and Russia presented their respective proposals in their first official talks in Tokyo Saturday on planned joint economic activities on four northwestern Pacific islands at the center of their territorial dispute. The Japanese list includes projects in areas
Government officially decides “under 100-hour overtime cap
March 19, 2017
TOKYO- The Japanese government formally decided Friday to cap monthly overtime work allowed exceptionally in busy seasons at less than 100 hours, in a meeting of its work style reform council. The exceptional overtime limit was included in a draft of
Abe denies alleged donation to embattled Moritomo Gakuen
March 19, 2017
TOKYO- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday ruled out a possibility that he made a donation of one million yen to embattled nationalist school operator Moritomo Gakuen, as its outgoing head, Yasunori Kagoike, claims. “I have no personal relationship with
G-20 countries drop pledge to fight protectionism
March 19, 2017
BADEN-BADEN- Top finance policymakers from the Group of 20 leading economies on Saturday dropped their long-standing pledge to fight protectionism due to opposition from the United States. The G-20 finance ministers and central bank governors ended their two-day meeting in Baden-Baden,
Top GSDF officers allegedly ordered deletion of South Sudan log data
March 17, 2017
TOKYO- Top officials of the Japanese Defense Ministry’s Ground Staff Office last month allegedly ordered the deletion of electronic data on daily logs of activities by Ground Self-Defense Force troops on a peacekeeping mission in South Sudan, informed sources said Friday.
Intelligence satellite launched
March 17, 2017
KAGOSHIMA- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency successfully launched on Friday an H-2A rocket carrying an information-gathering radar satellite. The H-2A Launch Vehicle No. 33 lifted off from JAXA’s Tanegashima Space Center on Tanegashima Island in Kagoshima
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