Topic: Kobe (Japan)

KOBE - Prosecutors said Wednesday they will not appeal former JR West President Masao Yamazaki's acquittal on charges of professional negligence...

Top Three in Japan

??The custom of making lists of the top three things in Japan supposedly goes back to the sankei list of the Three Best Views thought up by the...
Kobe, Japan, September 11, 2011 -(PR.com)- Japan is known for its quality English education system, including six years of mandated English studies...

The World's Most Expensive Waters

I admit to buying bottled water occasionally, but there's always the thought in the back of my head that I'm paying for something that I can get...

Yakuza Gangs and Organized Crime in Japan

??? ???Japan, stable and orderly, is a place where just rocking the boat is tantamount to rebellion. Yet, a not very well kept secret of this Japan...
Top Five Home Subscribe (RSS) . We may be decades away from the time when regenerative medicine cures disease completely, but scientists have...
Japan's government is dispatching four ministries and agencies to conduct an emergency survey of housing-materials prices to check for possible ...
The Japanese government plans to dedicate up to 10 trillion yen ($127 billion) in crisis lending to businesses to help them finance day-to-day...

Quake Response Puts Yen on the Line

One of the immediate financial consequences of the catastrophic Japanese earthquake is that Japan needs to call on its huge cache of foreign ...
Damage from Friday's earthquake and tsunami in Japan are likely to tally 15 trillion yen ($184.2 billion), or about 3% of the country's gross ...