NewsOnJapan.comLatest News On JapanMainichi suspends reporter over 'vulgar' English column- June 28, 2008 The Mainichi Shimbun newspaper Friday suspended a reporter for three months and reprimanded four executives including President Yutaka Asahina over a column on its English language website that was closed following criticism for being "too vulgar." (Kyodo)http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D91IFGN01&show_article=1 Japan punishes bureaucrats over 'pub taxi' scandal- June 26, 2008 Japan's finance minister will return 20 percent of one month's salary to try to regain public trust after 600 ministry officials were found to have taken cash, coupons and beer from taxi drivers on late-night rides home. (Reuters)http://in.news.yahoo.com/137/20080625/362/twl-japan-punishes-bureaucrats-over-pub_1.html Japan aims to restart solar subsidies in 2009- June 25, 2008 A Japanese ministry aims to reintroduce subsidies on solar power equipment in 2009 to help boost Japanese firms' shrinking share in a 1 trillion yen ($9.25 billion) market, just as Germany cuts state support for such gear. (Daily Times)http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008%5C06%5C25%5Cstory_25-6-2008_pg5_38 Japanese student scrawled on world heritage cathedral in Italy- June 25, 2008 A female junior college student in Gifu Prefecture scrawled the nicknames of herself and her classmates, as well as an abbreviation of her school, on the wall of a world heritage cathedral in Florence, Italy, during a study trip in February, college officials revealed Tuesday. (Kyodo)http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D91GFSE00&show_article=1 Heavy rain, thunderstorms may hit areas of southwestern-eastern Japan- June 21, 2008 Heavy rain and thunderstorms may hit wide areas of southwestern to eastern Japan later Saturday through Sunday as a seasonal rain front stalls over areas from Kyushu to the Kanto region, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. (Kyodo)http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D91E3S3O0&show_article=1 Kitano receives lifetime achievement award at Moscow film festival- June 20, 2008 Takeshi Kitano, a globally well-known Japanese film director, was granted Thursday a lifetime achievement award for the outstanding contribution to film arts in the 30th Moscow International Film Festival at its opening day. (Kyodo)http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D91DBSAO0&show_article=1 Japan, seeking trimmer citizens, decides to measure millions of waistlines- June 14, 2008 Japan, a country not known for its overweight people, has undertaken one of the most ambitious campaigns ever by a nation to slim down its citizenry. (International Herald Tribune)http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/06/13/asia/13fat.php ANA, JAL planes have scrape at Haneda airport, no one injured- June 13, 2008 A minor collision occurred at Haneda airport Thursday between an All Nippon Airways Boeing 777 and a Japan Airlines jumbo jet, but none of the over 600 passengers on the two planes was injured, transport ministry officials said. (Kyodo)http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D918IT3G1&show_article=1 Let 10% of Japan be foreigners: Nakagawa- June 13, 2008 Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers made an ambitious proposal Thursday to raise the ratio of immigrants in Japan to about 10 percent over the next 50 years. (Japan Times)http://search.japantimes.co.jp/rss/nn20080613a2.html Poor households to get free digital TV tuners- June 12, 2008 The government plans to distribute free digital TV tuners to about 1.07 million households on welfare before Japan's terrestrial TV broadcasting services switch to digital format in July 2011, sources said. (Asahi)http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200806120059.html |