“ All companies that do business globally will be impacted one way or another, ” he said. While Nintendo’s gaming consoles and physical products will be impacted, the games consumers can download won’t be subject to the new tariffs.... “ I think the consumers will still buy.” Japanese companies Kumano has spoken with said these tariffs are unlike anything they’ve seen before.“ I’ve actually had conversations with people from various companies, and they all say that things were changing so rapid

A piece of paper is seen taped to the Cenotaph for A-bomb Victims at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in the city's Naka Ward on June 24, 2021.... Around 1 p.m.on June 24, a tourist who visited the park in the city's Naka Ward discovered a piece of paper attached onto the cenotaph with adhesive tape.... It contained odd phrases including" Today at 18: 27 a meteorite at Yoshiura." An employee of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum filed a report with Hiroshima Prefectural Police after the museum w

The Hiroshima Prefectural Government's east building, which houses the Hiroshima Prefectural Police headquarters, is seen.... According to investigative sources, Takemori was arrested on Oct.... Takemori had initially told police he" didn't remember" what happened and was denying the allegations, but he has begun making statements to the effect that he was involved in the incident....

Katsuji Maeda, right, submits his application for an A-bomb survivor certificate to a Hiroshima Municipal Government official in Hiroshima's Naka Ward on Oct.... 6, 1945, but also at a time when the government has yet to clarify its new method of assessing who is eligible for the benefits and who is not.... Starting at 10 a.m., over 100 people, including the applicants themselves and others, visited a conference room in the city of Hiroshima, and submitted applications in which the applicants

People wearing face masks ride an escalator with banners to promote the Tokyo Olympics, on July 6, 2021.... The Japanese government will hold a five-party meeting including the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and the Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games as early as July 8 to make a final decision on spectators.... Even if the games were to be held without any spectators, attendance by those involved including parties related to the International Olympic Committee is bei

FUKUI/ FUKUSHIMA – The Mihama nuclear power station in Fukui prefecture, which started operations in the 1970s, is one of Japan’s oldest.It was suspended in 2011 after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, along with all other nuclear plants in the country. But as Japan pushes to achieve energy security and affordability in a climate-friendly way, the government is looking to restart more plants – just like the Mihama plant, which resumed operations in 2021 after implementing measures to meet enhanced

The National Diet building is seen in this file photo taken in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, on Sept.... 19 and 20 coupled with its own coverage of the situation.... The research results have shown that 63 constituencies are likely to see close races, and the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan( CDP) may significantly rack up seats if the situation in those constituencies turns in its favor....

Denny Tamaki expresses a strong sense of crisis over the rapid surge of omicron variant infections within the prefecture at the Okinawa Prefectural Government building in the city of Naha on Jan.... 4, Okinawa Prefecture confirmed 225 new daily infections, the highest figure recorded nationwide.... " The time required for infections to double is around 2.8 days for the omicron variant--extremely short compared to the seven-day period for the delta variant....