Thirty-six flights were cancelled and 201 delayed at a Japan’s Chitose airport on the weekend after a pair of scissors went missing in a store near the boarding gates.
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Thirty-six flights were cancelled and 201 delayed at a Japan’s Chitose airport on the weekend after a pair of scissors went missing in a store near the boarding gates.
Read More »Three foreign-born Japanese residents have filed a statement of claim against the Japanese national and local governments for the alleged police practice of racial profiling. Each of the applicants sought damages of 3.3 million Japanese Yen.
Read More »For years, there’s been a cottage industry in Japan and South Korea of renting strangers to impersonate friends, family members or other acquaintances, as a way to save face at social functions where plus-ones are expected.
Read More »The US State Department has issued a “Level 4: Do Not Travel” advisory warning against travel to Japan, where Covid-19 infection rates are rising two months before Tokyo hosts the Summer Olympic Games.
Read More »A week after Yoshiro Mori, the head of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic organizing committee, resigned in disgrace after complaining that women talk too much at meetings, Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party has propose allowing five female lawmakers to join the party’s all-male board meetings as observers only.
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