Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, left, and Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron shake hands after addressing the media during a news conference at in London on May 5. (AP Photo/ Pool) Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says Britain will be a less attractive destination for Japanese investment if it leaves the European Union.
Japanese global logistics company Nippon Express Co. is targeting Islamic markets by improving its halal credentials ahead of the implementation of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade pact.
Telecommunications giant Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. will extend its benefits for married couples to employees in same-sex partnerships in a move that could prompt other Japanese firms to follow suit.
Japan will print an additional 180 million 10,000-yen ($90) banknotes in fiscal 2016 from a year earlier to meet the rising demand as an increasing number of Japanese households are tucking the bills away at home.
A Tokyo cartoonist has created a manga epic inspired by his own experiences in the northeastern Tohoku region devastated by the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami to “share the feelings of disaster victims.”
Struggling Toshiba Corp. decided it will pull out of the TV production business, a division that has been accumulating losses for many years, as part of its streamlining efforts, sources said.
An international debate over accepting refugees is heating up in Japan, with anti- and pro-refugee protesters making their voices heard across the nation.
A Japanese citizens group on Nov. 18 submitted an “emergency request” to the government to provide official compensation and apologize to former “comfort women” for Japan’s wartime actions.
(THE ASAHI SHIMBUN) Japan is strengthening its anti-terrorist measures in the aftermath of the string of Nov. 13 terrorist attacks across Paris that left more than 120 people dead and hundreds injured.
It was the 24th consecutive year of increase since the ministry started compiling such statistics in fiscal 1990.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reshuffled his Cabinet on Oct. 7, but retained most key members.
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