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They said that Russian fishermen catching fish off Fukushima to sell to their country’s consumers suggest that either the vessel operators know that treated water discharged from the nuclear plant does not pose a danger, or they just do not care about Moscow’s claim of food safety issues over fish caught in the area.
Beer worth US$55.5 million was imported from Japan in 2023, up sharply from US$14.5 million the previous year and a mere US$6.9 million in 2021 and US$5.7 million in 2020. Japanese beer imports had risen to a high of US$78.3 million in 2018 but began to fall out of favour the following year, slipping to US$39.7 million, after Tokyo and Seoul became embroiled in a major diplomatic row over the two nations’ shared history that led to boycotts of Japanese goods in South Korea.
While the tourism industry has welcomed the government’s support, it is widely accepted that the Noto Peninsula, which bore the brunt of the earthquake and subsequent tsunami, will not be ready to welcome travellers for some time to come.
A panel set up by the Defence Ministry to come up with ways to increase recruitment recommended that the rules on haircuts be relaxed during a meeting on January 18, the Mainichi newspaper reported, with the changes to go into effect at the start of the 2024 financial year in April. The easing of the rules on hairstyles comes after the ministry lifted the ban on tattoos among recruits to the Self-Defence Forces last year.
Survey respondents that spoke to This Week in Asia, however, emphasised that they did not dislike the Chinese people and that they held largely positive feelings towards Chinese cuisine, history, art and culture. Their dislike was aimed primarily at the government in Beijing and the Communist Party.
Japan and the United States are close to reaching an agreement to allow privately operated Japanese shipyards to carry out major repairs on warships of the US Seventh Fleet, a move analysts say will benefit Japan financially while also strengthening US military readiness in the region.
However, women will still not be allowed to participate in the crescendo of the festival that it is most famous for – a rough-and-tumble scrum in which men wearing only loincloths attempt to touch a completely naked man designated as the shin-otoko, or “god man” in Japanese, to gain good fortune for the next year.
The Tokyo metropolitan government is playing Cupid with the city’s millions of unmarried residents, launching an AI-driven app to transform singletons into couples.