Emperor, Empress leave for Vietnam
February 28, 2017
TOKYO- Japan’s Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko left for Vietnam on Tuesday morning for a six-day official visit aimed at promoting friendship between the two countries. A government jet carrying the Imperial couple took off from Tokyo International Airport at Haneda.
Japan, US security advisers to meet in Washington
February 28, 2017
TOKYO- Shotaro Yachi, head of the secretariat of Japan’s National Security Council, will visit Washington for three days through Wednesday, the Japanese government said Monday. Yachi will hold talks with H.R. McMaster, US President Donald Trump’s new national security adviser. They
Evacuation order to be lifted for Namie town
February 28, 2017
FUKUSHIMA- The town of Namie in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Fukushima on Monday accepted a central government plan to lift at the end of March the evacuation order for the town that was issued after the March 2011 nuclear accident.
Japan lower house passes record budget for FY 2017
February 28, 2017
TOKYO- Japan’s House of Representatives passed Monday the government’s fiscal 2017 general-account budget, worth a record 97,454.7 billion yen, which calls for directing funds to toward measures aimed at beating deflation and reviving the economy. With the approval of the all-important
Opposition Social Democratic Party to relocate main office to save costs
February 28, 2017
TOKYO- The Japanese opposition Social Democratic Party, whose presence has been declining sharply, has decided to relocate its headquarters from the Nagatacho political district in Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward to a building with a much lower rent in the capital in May.
Pandas at Ueno zoo mate for 1st time in 4 years
February 28, 2017
TOKYO- Tokyo’s Ueno Zoo confirmed Monday that its two giant pandas mated the same day for the first time in four years since March 2013. The zoo suspended public viewing of the male panda, Ri Ri, and his female partner, Shin
Proportion of fatal car-bicycle collisions high
February 28, 2017
TOKYO- Car-bicycle collisions accounted for about 40 percent of fatal traffic accidents in Japan last year in which passenger cars bumped into other vehicles as they encountered at intersections or other parts of the road, a National Police Agency survey has
Japan parties seen discussing abdication on Thursday-Friday
February 28, 2017
TOKYO- Tadamori Oshima, speaker of Japan’s House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the Diet, the country’s parliament, on Monday showed a plan to convene a meeting of representatives from both ruling and opposition parties on Thursday and Friday for discussions
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