View of Mount Fuji and the Tokyo skyline at dusk. Yongyuan | E+ | Getty Images Japan’s economy shrank way more than expected in the July-September period, provisional government data showed Wednesday, amid slowing global demand and rising domestic inflation. Provisional gross domestic product fell 2.1% in the third quarter compared to a year ago, … Read more
South Korea-based church has come under scrutiny since the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Japan’s government has announced it will ask a court to revoke the legal status of the Unification Church after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s assassination raised questions about the group’s fundraising and recruitment tactics. Education Minister Masahito Moriyama said … Read more
Vehicles travel along a highway past commercial and residential buildings in Tokyo, Japan, on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Foreign investments into Japan’s real estate sector have been flourishing in the past year, buoyed by a weak Japanese yen as the country’s central bank maintains its ultra-loose monetary policy. “It … Read more
Comment on this storyComment TOKYO — The 85-year-old server was eager to kick off his shift, welcoming customers into the restaurant with a hearty greeting: “Irasshaimase!” or “Welcome!” But when it came time to take their orders, things got a little complicated. He walked up to a table but forgot his clipboard of order forms. … Read more
Tokyo, Japan – Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has appointed five women to his cabinet, the highest since 2014, as part of a ministerial reshuffle he hopes will boost his poor approval ratings. One of the notable additions to the cabinet is Yoko Kamikawa, who became Japan’s first female Minister of Foreign Affairs in nearly … Read more
In a news conference on Friday, J-pop star Kauan Okamoto, who revealed after the BBC documentary aired in March that he was abused by Kitagawa when he was 15, said that while he hated his actions, he had “no hate in my heart for Johnny”, adding that he was grateful to him “for introducing me … Read more
Comment on this storyComment TOKYO — Japan launched a lunar mission on Thursday, overcoming multiple failures and delays to become the fifth country to head to the moon just weeks after India in a global race to better understand the Earth’s closest neighbor. The small unmanned Japanese spacecraft, or the H2-A rocket, launched at 8:42 … Read more
TOKYO: Prosecutors in Japan indicted a 24-year-old man Wednesday on attempted murder and other charges in the explosive attack on Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in April, Japanese media reported. Kishida was campaigning for elections in Wakayama in western Japan when a man threw a homemade pipe bomb at him. Kishida was unhurt, but two others … Read more
Japan‘s “militarisation” complicates the situation in the Asia-Pacific region, the deputy chair of the Russian Security Council and former President Dmitry Medvedev said on Sunday.Russia and Japan have complex relations marked by decades of territorial dispute over a handful of small, Russian-held islands off Hokkaido that Moscow calls the southern Kurils but Japan claims as … Read more
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Thursday he would compile measures to help the fishing industry hit by China’s ban on Japanese seafood, after visiting Tokyo’s biggest fish market. The government will tap additional funds of about several tens of billions of yen (hundreds of millions … Read more