Japan

In January, a trio of foreign-born Japanese residents filed suit in the Tokyo District Court against the Japanese state plus the Tokyo Metropolitan and Aichi Prefectural governments for what they claim is frequent police questioning based solely on their ethnicities, or racial profiling. So what can you do if police officers stop you on the street for questioning in Japan? The Mainichi asked Moe Miyashita, an attorney on the plaintiffs' […]

By: Emmanuel Akyereko The number of new born babies in Japan each year has hit a record low and is not expected to rise above 700,000 newborns, according to the economic think tank group of the Deloitte Tohmatsu Group. From January to October 2024, the number of newborn babies in the Island nation stood at 603,638. This figure is below 700,000 and represents the lowest ever record since the Japanese […]

Japanese Princess Aiko has been diagnosed with the seasonal influenza, the Imperial Household Agency said Monday. Aiko, 23, who is the only child of Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako, canceled her planned participation in an event to her grandfather celebrate the 91st birthday of Emperor Emeritus Akihito, held at his residence in Tokyo’s Minato Ward the same day. Though the Emperor and Empress showed no symptoms of the influenza, they […]

[ad_1] The number of foreign visitors to Japan is growing rapidly this year, with arrivals from January through September already topping last year's total, statistics from the Japan National Tourism Organization released on Wednesday show. Some 26.88 million foreign visitors arrived in Japan in the first nine months of this year, up 54.7% from the same period of last year, the organization said. The country had a total of 25.07 […]

[ad_1] London – Thomas Tuchel was named England's new manager on Wednesday, with the German set to start in the role from Jan. 1, 2025.The 51-year-old, who has been out of work since leaving Bayern Munich at the end of last season, succeeds Englishman Gareth Southgate as permanent coach and becomes the third foreign manager of the Three Lions after Sven-Goran Eriksson and Fabio Capello.A former coach of Chelsea, Borussia […]

[ad_1] Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has said that he “definitely” wants to make revisions to a key military pact with Washington “a reality,” but his push to change the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) governing the U.S. military presence in Japan is unlikely to happen any time soon, if at all.Ishiba repeatedly referenced revising the SOFA during his successful campaign for the Liberal Democratic Party presidency, and has continued to […]

[ad_1] KAIPING, China – A giant sphere 700 meters (2,300 feet) underground with thousands of light-detecting tubes will be sealed in a 12-story cylindrical pool of water in coming months for an experiment that will shine new light on elusive subatomic particles known as neutrinos.After years of construction, the $300 million Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) in China's southern Guangdong province will soon start gathering data on neutrinos, a product […]