TOKYO The cost of school uniforms weighs heavily on many a parent’s budget, and in Japan authorities have got involved, raiding one of the country’s biggest department stores on suspicion of price collusion. Daimaru Matsuzakaya Department Stores and its subsidiary were raided this week by the Japan Fair Trade Commission, according to the firms’ parent J. Front Retailing. “We take… Read more »
The government will provide additional support to farmers and small businesses as needed to quell concerns stemming from an expected Japan-U.S. trade deal, Japan’s recently appointed economic revitalization minister said Thursday. “As far as I understand, the negotiation (between Japan and the U.S.) is in the final stages, to be signed at the end of the month,” Yasutoshi Nishimura said… Read more »
A Japanese district court has found all three former executives of Tokyo Electric Power Company not guilty in the only criminal prosecution stemming from the 2011 nuclear disaster in Fukushima. The executives are: Tsunehisa Katsumata who was the chairman of TEPCO at the time of the accident, and two former vice presidents, Ichiro Takekuro and Sakae Muto. The judges acquitted… Read more »
By Iain Marlow September 17, 2019, 8:00 PM EDT Updated on September 18, 2019, 5:30 AM EDT Hong Kong’s government doesn’t see any benefit in conceding to more demands from protesters and the increasingly violent demonstrations are unlikely to stop anytime soon, according to a top adviser to leader Carrie Lam. Radical demonstrators — some of whom have lobbed petrol bombs at police… Read more »
Issued on: 18/09/2019 – 14:42 Article text by NEWS WIRES Toxic haze from Indonesian forest fires closed schools and airports across the country and in neighbouring Malaysia Wednesday, while air quality worsened in Singapore just days before the city’s Formula One motor race. Illegal fires to clear land for agriculture are blazing out of control on Sumatra and Borneo islands, with Jakarta deploying thousands of security… Read more »