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TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese court sentenced a man to death after finding him guilty of murder and other crimes Thursday for carrying out a shocking arson attack on an anime studio in Kyoto, Japan, that killed 36 people.
TOKYO (AP) — Weather officials in Japan predicted more heavy snow Thursday, a day after nearly 800 vehicles were trapped for hours on an expressway in central Japan.
I retired as a Ministry of Finance official in January 2003, after more than 35 and a half years of service. The reason I stayed on as vice minister of finance for international affairs for three and a half years, an unusually long term, seems to be that Finance Minister Masajuro Shiokawa decided to keep me on a bit longer, and my retirement was postponed by six months.
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.
Yuster Yu is CEO of Taiwan Cyber Security Foundry and previously served as president of the Institute for Information Industries in Taipei. Mihoko Matsubara is chief cybersecurity strategist for telecommunications group NTT in Tokyo and the author of "Ukraine's Cyber War."
TOKYO -- Currencies across the Asia-Pacific region have slipped to their weakest levels against the dollar in months, as the slowdown in China casts a shadow over countries holding strong economic and trade ties with Beijing.
TOKYO -- Japan's Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group will seek to grow its asset management subsidiary into a core business, MUFG President and CEO Hironori Kamezawa told Nikkei in a recent interview.
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.