A South Korean woman entered Japan last April passing through Japan’s biometric immigration screening despite her previous deportation record, Justice Ministry officials said Thursday.
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The Japanese people will vote for a change of power in a general election this year, main opposition Democratic Party of Japan leader Ichiro Ozawa said Thursday during an online live hookup via the Internet.
So-called barrier-free tours are on the rise at home and abroad as travel agencies try to come up with a wider variety of travel packages that cater to the needs of elderly and disabled people.
Leaders of Japan’s top three business lobbies on Thursday issued New Year messages stressing that an economic recovery and job security should be given top policy priorities in 2009 amid the deepening recession.
“Making the intangible tangible” Tatsuo Nakamura, CEO and co-founder of SO-TI, Inc, likes to use this phrase to describe his company’s unique product. Users navigating the patent jungle, composed of literally millions of patent filings, are often at a loss to know where to start.
A total of 870 people, including 127 women, were preparing as of Wednesday to file their candidacies in the next House of Representatives election to be held by September this year, according to a Kyodo News tally.
A South Korean woman barred from entering Japan last year passed through its immigration screening system by using tape on her fingers to fool a fingerprint reading machine, reports said Thursday.
Aso says Japan to be 1st out of recession (Moldova.org)
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Prime Minister Taro Aso, in a New Year’s message, said he will do all he can so Japan becomes the first country to emerge out of the global recession.Aso indicated he will not quit although his popularity ratings have dropped sharply in the short time he has been in office, saying, “I will never run away. I will move ahead steadily with the people,” Kyodo news service reported.The …
Prime Minister Taro Aso vowed to do his utmost to address the uncertainties in the current economic situation and people’s livelihoods and to make Japan the first country to overcome the global recession as he issued a New Year’s statement Thursday. ‘‘I will never run away.
The ‘‘rather rosy’’ start for Japan in 2008, as a senior Foreign Ministry official described it recently, with the handshakes and applause over commitments to climate change and African development in key summits hosted here had soon lost momentum with Japan’s domestic political chaos and the global economic crisis.