Tokyo, 14 March, /AJMEDIA/ Chikage Ogi, an actor-turned-lawmaker who became the first female chief of Japan’s House of Councillors, has died. She was 89. Ogi, whose real name was Hiroko… Read more
Tokyo, 14 March, /AJMEDIA/ The number of women committing suicide in Japan increased for the third straight year in 2022, rising 67 from the previous year to 7,135, government data… Read more
Tokyo, 14 March, /AJMEDIA/ Japan will legally oblige companies to provide necessary services and infrastructure to assist people with disabilities from April 2024 by ensuring they set up measures such… Read more
Tokyo, 14 March, /AJMEDIA/ Japan’s Cabinet approved a bill Tuesday to recognize a sexual violation even in the absence of physical violence or coercion and raise the age of sexual… Read more
Tokyo, 14 March, /AJMEDIA/ Tokyo stocks plunged Tuesday, with the Nikkei suffering its biggest one-day point fall in 3 months, led by the selling of bank-related issues amid concern over… Read more
Tokyo, 14 March, /AJMEDIA/ TOKYO – “The day 72 million Japanese go hungry.” That’s the prospect Josei Seven (March 16) unfolds. For shock value? Yes and no. Certainly it’s shocking.… Read more
Tokyo, 14 March, /AJMEDIA/ TOKYO – With Japan preparing to welcome foreign visitors for the cherry blossom season for the first time in three years after loosening COVID-19 border controls,… Read more
Tokyo, 14 March, /AJMEDIA/ LOS ANGELES – Mike Trout smashed a three-run home run as the U.S. bounced back from their shock defeat to Mexico to rout Canada 12-1 in… Read more
Tokyo, 14 March, /AJMEDIA/ SAN FRANCISCO – Advances in artificial intelligence are coming so hard and fast that a museum in San Francisco, the beating heart of the tech revolution,… Read more
Tokyo, 14 March, /AJMEDIA/ A Kyodo News poll showed Monday that 57.1 percent of respondents in Japan support South Korea’s solution to a wartime labor row between the two countries,… Read more