Japan News

Tokyo - The mainstream media, investors and officials are celebrating in stock markets everywhere after Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe vowed to implement "Abenomics," which is essentially to mimic the moves of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.

The founder of Twitter recently headlined a summit in Japan to offer advice to the country's entrepreneurs - but what should an entrepreneur do to gain Twitter followers and to move forward with 140-character nuggets?

Tokyo - April the twenty sixth, two thousand and twelve. A whole year ago to date. The time I fell in love with Tokyo, the motherland of all things Hello Kitty and kawaii.

‘Rent a Family Inc.’ is about a Japanese married father of two who spends his days moonlighting as a social stand-in while being relatively absent from his own home.

Tokyo - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was involved in a five-car pile-up at a toll gate in Tokyo en route to a rally on Saturday. He escaped unhurt, but two guards sustained facial injuries.

In an interesting experiment, a Japanese man uses an OKO filter to literally filter the water out of Coca Cola, then drank it. And it turns out that this wasn't exactly a new idea and it has actually been done before with a Brita filter.

China has accused Japan of increasing the tensions between the two countries over a group of disputed islands in the East China Sea.

Osaka - A recently-uploaded YouTube video in which a Japanese girl rants against Koreans and threatens to massacre them has gone viral.

The people of Nago are outraged after knowing that their elected Mayor Inamine has been targeted for removal by the Japanese and American governments as he becomes stronger spokesman for anti US-military base, and obstacle to its construction.

Beijing - China has displaced Japan to become the world's second largest movie market behind the United States, the MPAA is reporting.