About 190 staff working on safety maintenance for Japan’s famed shinkansen bullet train have undergone the training.
28 Aug 2018 9:32 AM
Mazda and Suzuki confirmed they submitted reports regarding improper testing to the ministry.
09 Aug 2018 10:24 AM
Tokyo Medical University altered entry test results since 2000, thinking women doctors on becoming mothers would shorten or halt careers.
07 Aug 2018 4:01 PM
Oil prices tanked earlier this week when US govt reported that US inventories rose 3.8 mn barrels in prior week.
03 Aug 2018 9:10 AM
Brent fell more than 6 per cent in July, while US crude futures slumped about 7 per cent.
01 Aug 2018 9:33 AM
BOJ decided to maintain its short-term interest rate target at minus 0.1 per cent.
31 Jul 2018 12:23 PM
OPEC hiked production by 70,000 barrels per day (bpd) to 32.64 million bpd, the most this year.
31 Jul 2018 10:22 AM
The Aum's 1995 sarin attack on the Tokyo subway during rush hour killed 13 people and injured thousands more.
26 Jul 2018 10:44 AM
Brent crude futures had risen 47 cents, or 0.6 per cent, to $74.40 a barrel, after gaining 0.7 per cent.
26 Jul 2018 10:05 AM
Brent crude oil was down 19 cents, or 0.3 per cent, at $72.87 a barrel, after settling down 1 cent.
24 Jul 2018 10:15 AM
But Japan’s inflation is seen as unlikely to reach the BOJ’s 2 per cent target even after the central bank.
23 Jul 2018 1:13 PM
US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) futures declined 13 cents, or 0.2 per cent, to $68.13 a barrel.
23 Jul 2018 9:37 AM
SoftBank and Didi are launching a taxi-hailing service in Japan that would match users to existing taxi fleets.
19 Jul 2018 11:13 AM
Brent futures were down 31 cents, or 0.4 per cent, at $71.85 a barrel by 0240 GMT.
18 Jul 2018 9:16 AM
The ambitious pact signed in Tokyo runs counter to President Donald Trump’s moves to hike tariffs on imports from many US trading partners.
17 Jul 2018 6:27 PM
SoftBank will buy 221 billion yen ($1.99 billion) of Yahoo Japan shares from Altaba.
10 Jul 2018 8:58 AM
Nissan said it had rechecked "reliable" data and confirmed that all vehicles, except the GT-R, had met Japanese safety standards.
09 Jul 2018 3:13 PM
Speaking in Tokyo, Pompeo said his efforts to push North Korea on disarmament had backing of the entire international community.
08 Jul 2018 12:59 PM
Authorities warned landslides could strike even after rain subsides as the calamity shaped up to be potentially the worst in decades.
08 Jul 2018 9:10 AM
Asahara claimed to have achieved enlightenment in Himalayas, preached mix of Eastern religions combined with own apocalyptic prophecies.
06 Jul 2018 12:08 PM