Japan on high alert ahead of Trump’s 4-day visit from Saturday
May 23, 2019
Tokyo–The Japanese government is making full-fledged preparations to receive U.S. President Donald Trump as a state guest from Saturday, with the Tokyo metropolitan area on high alert for terror attacks and other emergencies. A ban has been issued for drone
Ex-member of pop group arrested for cannabis possession
May 23, 2019
Tokyo–Junnosuke Taguchi, a former member of Japanese all-male pop group KAT-TUN, and actress Rena Komine were arrested Wednesday on suspicion of cannabis possession at their home in Tokyo. Taguchi, 33, and Komine, 38, were arrested by the narcotics control department
Global warming blamed for last year’s boiling heat in Japan
May 23, 2019
Tokyo–Japan’s extreme heat wave last July was caused by the impact of global warming, a research team said Wednesday. An article about the team’s research was published in a journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan. The team of researchers
Duterte inks law institutionalizing 4Ps
May 23, 2019
President Rodrigo Duterte has signed the law institutionalizing the conditional cash transfer program or known as the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps). Republic Act No. 11310, otherwise known as the “Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) Act, was inked on April
1,000-Yen congestion surcharge eyed during Tokyo Olympic
May 22, 2019
Tokyo–The transport ministry, the Tokyo metropolitan government and other authorities are considering a 1,000-yen congestion surcharge for some sections of the metropolitan expressway network during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, informed sources said Wednesday. The expressways subject to the
Government to support Japanese sentenced for spying in China: Suga
May 22, 2019
Tokyo–The government will do its utmost to support a Japanese man sentenced in China for espionage, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Wednesday. “We’ll give as much assistance as possible from the perspective of protecting Japanese nationals,” Suga told a
Man arrested for allegedly shining laser beam at U.S. Aircraft
May 22, 2019
Tokyo–Tokyo police have arrested a 60-year-old man for allegedly pointing a laser beam at U.S. military aircraft stationed at Yokota Air Base in Fussa, western Tokyo, it was learned Wednesday. The Metropolitan Police Department suspects that Yoshinori Shigekawa from Akiruno,
Comelec to request Congress to make changes on the partylist system
May 22, 2019
The Commission on Elections ( Comelec) will request to Congress to make necessary changes needed in the country’s partylist organizations system. “We are planning to ask Congress to fix the system,” Comelec commissioner Sheriff Abas said in a press briefing.
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