Welcome to Black Tokyo! In a good demonstration of why the Japanese government doesn’t like surrogate births, a baby conceived of a Japanese father’s sperm and an unidentified donor’s egg and who was born in India in July, has been given a temporary one year visa to enter Japan with the father’s family. The complication [...]
Japanese universities look abroad in hopes of upping their sagging enrollments
Rie Yoshinaga had a wide range of colleges to choose from.
Globalization: Of the 6,000 students at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University in Kyushu, nearly half come from abroad, as does the faculty. Classes are taught both in English and Japanese. TOMOKO OTAKE PHOTOS
Having studied at a high [...]
Reporters can be a real pain in the ketsu (oshiri) when they ask questions that have much to do about zip. Ampontan reports that PM Aso firmly handled one reporter recently. Is this the beginning of “change” in the world of Japanese politics? Will PM Aso kick ass and take names or will he fall [...]
Welfare for Wall Street? Not really but the latest compromise on the $700 BILLION bailout is finally out for the public to see. The legislation is still being negotiated and elements of the bill could still change as shown in by the brackets “[ ]” in the document. The House is expected to vote tomorrow and [...]
Leo Lewis, Asia Business Correspondent reports, Japan’s powerful yakuza organised crime syndicates are mounting a widespread assault on the country’s financial markets that may have left hundreds of listed companies riddled with mob connections.
In a surprisingly stark admission, the National Police Agency (NPA) says that it is locked in a battle for the economic soul and [...]
Could rising prices kick-start the world’s second-largest economy?
Talk to almost any Japanese consumer, and you’re likely to hear a litany of complaints about skyrocketing food and energy prices. Though such bellyaching might be common enough in other parts of the world, in Japan rising prices are something altogether new after a decade-long struggle with deflation.
So [...]
