Page 77 - Japan

How does Japan define 2018? With a Chinese character meaning 'disaster'

Throughout 2018, Japan endured a steady series of hammer blows

Shedding Fukushima fears, Japan's nuclear industry makes a comeback

Japan is on track to have nine reactors running in the near future

Why urns with ashes of the dead are piling up by the thousands across Japan

With Japanese wages barely growing, and many children of the elderly living on pensions themselves, managing death costs, including arranging for their burial, can be a burden

How the children of Japan's single mothers have become an underclass

While Japan's overall population is declining, the number of single-mother households in the country rose by about 50 per cent

Japanese firm says it will pay part of salaries in Bitcoin

The offer will be open to around 4,000 employees

Japan urges TPP partners to sign pact before elections

'Next year various countries have elections, there'll be movements in governments,' Economy Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said

How Japan wants to counter China: The plan includes US, India, Australia

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is expected to propose the idea to US President Donald Trump on November 6

Japan's voters poised to give Abe fresh mandate

The general election on Sunday is the first to be held since the legal voting age was changed to 18

Japan shares rise with Nikkei 225 closing at highest since 1996

Bolstered by companies in industries ranging from technology to retail

A pacifist Japan starts to embrace the military

Pacifism has been a sacred tenet of Japan's national identity since the end of World War II

Japan at Top of the Growth Table Among G7 Peers

Private consumption adjusted for inflation, which accounts for about 57%of real GDP

The pilot in the cockpit? In Japan, he might be a retiree

Miyazaki is a pilot with nearly four decades' experience at All Nippon Airways

Japan pictures show melted Fukushima fuel for first time

If confirmed, substance would be first discovery of fuel that melted during accident at Fukushima

Japan arrests 14-year-old for creating ransomware similar to WannaCry

The young boy, who supposedly learned by himself how to create this type of programme

In Japan, plastic food models aren't just for restaurants anymore

There is an entire industry devoted to creating these food samples

Japan sends largest warships to escort US vessel

The 19,500-tonne ship will escort a US supplies vessel towards the island of Shikoku

Even Japan's automated factories can't fix its productivity problem

Higher productivity is critical to sustaining economic growth

Sakura brightens streets and shops of Japan

Cherry tree blossoms spur marketing campaigns and tourism

Japan looks to India for IT talent, breaks cultural barrier

Japan has renewed its interest in Indian information technology talent. The country is now looking at India to hire software engineers on mobile, cloud and machine learning technologies as it struggles with a shortage of labour to work on emerging areas in its country.The Japanese province - Mie Prefecture, has sought help from Karnataka government to look for local software talent who can migrate to Japan on one-three year projects, ahead of the country launching its Green Card. It is looking to hire a few hundred engineers to begin with from Bengaluru, India's technology hub that has over one million software engineers and slowly expand the need.IT services industry experts and people who have worked in Japan as software engineers say this could be well a shift in the mindset. So far, Japan has hardly considered Indian talent beyond low-cost value addition. "They are an ageing society. They are looking at us for highly skilled software engineers. This will lead to more ...

North Korea missile threat: Japan launches spy satellite

The new satellite will succeed one of the three radar satellites launched in 2011