Japanese e-commerce giant to offer delivery lockers
As the world gears up to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, it is high time for the Japanese government to adopt a correct attitude toward history and act in good faith to help maintain the postwar order.
The year of 2015 will be crucial for China-Japan relations, Chinese assistant Foreign Minister Liu Jianchao said here Wednesday.
Japan and the United States announced Friday that they will delay the revision of their defense guidelines planned in the end of this year until the first half of 2015 so as to keep in step with Japan's legislation over the right to collective self-defense, according to local media.
The passing year has witnessed continued chill in Japan's relations with major neighboring countries, mainly China, South Korea and Russia, a trend rarely seen in the country's post-war history.
China and Japan, whose relations have been constantly troubled by Japan's increasingly right-tilting moves over the past few years, have reached four-point agreement in November. Now the onus is on Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to walk his talk.
Japan's largely unpopular and highly controversial Special Secrecy Law came into effect Wednesday granting the government wider powers to declare and designate state secrets and impose harsher penalties on those charged with leaking them.
The Japanese government has been asked to apologize to the victims in the Nanjing Massacre and their surviving dependents and to pay suitable compensation.
Official campaigning for Japan's general election kicked off Tuesday, with over 1,180 candidates running for the 475-seat House of Representatives, or the lower house, in the country's bicameral parliament, but the result may disappoint voters as the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) may secure an unpopular victory due to a divided opposition camp and a twisted electoral system.
Japanese politicians have recently expressed growing concern about the rising numbers of a section of society aged roughly between 15 and 34 known both in Japan and globally by the acronym NEET (Not In Education, Employment or Training), as the government desperately tries to reboot the employment market as part of its bid to yank the world's third- largest economy out of recession and back on a recovery path.
South Korean boy band Big Bang's best album topped Japan's weekly album chart, the band's management agency said Tuesday. "The Best of Big Bang 2006-2014,"a compilation album featuring the band's hit songs and music videos, ranked first in Japan's Oricon Weekly Album Chart in the first week of its release on Nov. 26, said the YG Entertainment, which manages a stable of popular acts such as"Gangnam Style"rapper Psy and girl group 2NE1.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced Monday that they will launch their second-generation asteroid explorer Hayabusa 2 on Dec. 3.
As official campaign for Japan's general election on Dec. 14 is going to kick off quickly, major political parties here have unveiled their manifestos for the upcoming poll, with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's economic policies dubbed Abenomics being targeted by opposition camp which eyes to terminate Abe's administration.
Myanmar's Yangon Technological University (YTU) and Japan's Mitsubishi Electric Corporation will launch technological cooperation for the development of human resources in Myanmar in academic education under an internship program, sources with the Myanmar university said Monday.
Japan's auto giant Toyota Motor Corporation announced Tuesday that it will launch its hydrogen fuel cell vehicle (FCV) in Japan on Dec. 15, with the sales target of approximately 400 units in Japan by the end of 2015.
Japanese researchers used a synchrotron facility to analyze a glass plate found in a tumulus in Nara, western Japan, dating back to the late 5th century.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday held their first meeting since the duo took office in a sign of thawing ties between the world's second and third largest economies.
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