Japan News

by No Author on 24 May, 2019 at 2:04 pm

A record number of women are set to enter India’s Parliament after a marathon election that returned Prime Minister Narendra Modi to power, initial results ... […]

by No Author on 24 May, 2019 at 1:45 pm

Mazda Motor Corp. launched fully remodeled Mazda 3 compact sedans and hatchbacks in Japan on Friday, claiming they are the first of the Japanese automakers’ ... […]

by No Author on 24 May, 2019 at 1:26 pm

Prime Minister Theresa May’s resignation announcement Friday sets the stage for a leadership battle in her Conservative Party that will determine who becomes Britain’s next ... […]

by Ken Y-N on 13 February, 2019 at 4:27 pm

Let’s celebrate the Chinese New Year of the pig by a survey from @nifty looking at pigs and their meat. In Japan the year’s animal is a wild boar rather than a pig, but as far as I am aware wild boar meat (and game in general) is not very popular […]

by Ken Y-N on 4 February, 2019 at 2:32 pm

This fun ranking survey from goo Ranking looked at what RPG class or job Japanese people might like to be or do in a real fantasy life. This was an open survey, and I voted! I chose necromancer, but I’d only want to be one in-game; if it were […]

by Ken Y-N on 28 January, 2019 at 4:42 pm

Here’s a fun survey from goo Ranking on foods people came to like as adults. The most hated foods (I would guess) from both sides of the Atlantic don’t make in onto this list. In the UK, Brussels sprouts were definitely something I disliked […]

by Pernille Rudlin on 21 May, 2019 at 8:03 pm

My first job at Mitsubishi Corporation was exporting British made shoes from companies like Trickers and Crockett & Jones to Japan. They are high end shoes anyway, and Japanese tariffs of 30% on shoe imports certainly pushed them even further … The […]

by Pernille Rudlin on 21 May, 2019 at 12:38 pm

My least favourite Japanese expression is “kusai mono ni futa” – when it stinks, put a lid on it. It is at the root of many Japanese corporate governance scandals. Mistakes are made or problems surface and instead … The post Brexit […]

by Pernille Rudlin on 3 May, 2019 at 4:20 pm

The UK is still overwhelmingly the most popular place for Japanese residents in the EU to live, according to Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. There are over 62,000 Japanese nationals living in the UK, compared to 45,000 in the … The post […]

by Motoko Hunt on 30 April, 2019 at 7:52 pm

Today is the end of the Heisei era in Japan, which lasted for 30 years from 1989 to 2019. It’s an extremely significant event for Japan as the Emperor abdicated for the first time in 200 years. May 1, 2019, is the start of the Reiwa era. The era-year […]

by Motoko Hunt on 31 March, 2019 at 10:07 pm

On March 31, 2019, Yahoo! Japan shut down its GeoCities services. It is indeed one of the ends of an era. GeoCities originally started the services in the US, and in 1997, they expanded the services to Japan. Since Yahoo! Japan took it over in 2000, it […]

by Motoko Hunt on 22 February, 2019 at 10:42 pm

While most websites have logic in its content structure, it is very common that managing the website content becomes complicated as new content is added to the site. The websites with multiple product lines, multiple languages, and multiple target countries […]

by Melissa Conley Tyler on 24 May, 2019 at 12:00 am

Author: Melissa Conley Tyler, Asialink At the end of April 2019, ASEAN officials descended on Melbourne to discuss AANZFTA: the ASEAN–Australia–New Zealand Free Trade Agreement, which turns 10 years old in 2019. What has AANZFTA achieved? And what […]

by Peter Drysdale on 23 May, 2019 at 10:00 pm

Author: Peter Drysdale, ANU There’s no more important issue for Australia at this time in the history of its international economic and foreign affairs than to get the relationship with China right. It’s an issue that went through to the keeper […]

by Tomoo Kikuchi on 23 May, 2019 at 10:00 am

Authors: Tomoo Kikuchi, RSIS and Yohei Tanaka, INPEX In 2015, 24 per cent of total global energy was consumed in the form of natural gas, closely behind oil at 33 per cent and coal at 29 per cent. Its use is rapidly on the rise — in the United States, […]