4+ day, 33+ min ago   (152+ words) Tokyo, Sept. 11 (Jiji Press)--Japan's Crown Princess Kiko, the wife of Crown Prince Akishino, turned 60 on Friday. "I am grateful to have reached this day, and I hope that I can take on new activities," Crown Princess Kiko said in…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (160+ words) nippon.com - Japan Police to Deploy Up to 10,000 Officers for Asian Games Tokyo, Sept. 10 (Jiji Press)--Japan’s National Police Agency said Thursday that it will deploy up to 10,000 police officers per day for security operations at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games,…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (537+ words) Tokyo, Sept. 10 (Jiji Press)--In 1944, as World War II entered its final stages, Itaru Maruo was a promising student at an elite university, dreaming of a career in art. Then the Imperial Japanese military called him up. Deployed to China…...

5+ day, 9+ hour ago   (179+ words) Tokyo, Sept. 9 (Jiji Press)--Heavy rain struck areas stretching from the Tohoku northeastern region to the Chugoku and Shikoku western regions of Japan on Wednesday morning due to the impact of a weather front and a tropical cyclone near Shikoku....

5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (157+ words) London, Sept. 8 (Jiji Press)--Hiroshima Governor Mika Yokota promoted the prefecture's oysters and sake at an event in London on Tuesday, expressing her desire to boost exports to Britain and deepen friendship and business relations between Hiroshima and the European…...

6+ day, 8+ hour ago   (161+ words) Hakui, Ishikawa Pref., Sept. 8 (Jiji Press)--Agriculture minister Norikazu Suzuki has visited Ishikawa, Fukui and Toyama prefectures in the Hokuriku region, central Japan, to assess damage from heavy rain in late August. On Monday, Suzuki visited farmland near the Ouchigata…...

6+ day, 8+ hour ago   (356+ words) Tokyo, Sept. 8 (Jiji Press)--The Japanese government has called on China to withdraw its antidumping measures imposed on imports of a Japanese semiconductor material, Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara said Tuesday. "We have strongly protested the measures and requested their…...

1+ week, 4+ hour ago   (211+ words) Beijing, Sept. 7 (Jiji Press)--The Chinese Commerce Ministry said Monday that it would require importers of a semiconductor material produced in Japan, including by Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., to pay deposits of up to 99.2 pct as part of antidumping measures. The…...

1+ week, 9+ hour ago   (168+ words) Tokyo, Sept. 7 (Jiji Press)--Japan's Meteorological Agency issued Level 5 emergency landslide warnings for the village of Niijima, the town of Oshima and the village of Toshima in the Izu Island chain south of Tokyo on Monday after heavy rain triggered…...

1+ week, 8+ hour ago   (487+ words) Tokyo, Sept. 7 (Jiji Press)--Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward plans to basically ban "minpaku" private lodging operations in residential areas and near schools, in response to an increase in complaints, it was learned Monday. The ward plans to solicit public comments as…...