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#1 Japan to Release Water Into Sea From Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant on Aug. 24
Aug 22 2023 // Japan said on Tuesday it will start releasing into the sea more than 1 million metric tons of treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant on Aug. 24, going ahead with a plan heavily criticized...
#2 Why Is Japan Releasing Treated Radioactive Water and Is it Safe?
Aug 25 2023 // Japan began pumping more than a million metric tons of treated radioactive water from the destroyed Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on Thursday, a process that will take decades to complete. The water was distilled...
#3 What Caused Closure of Toyota’s 14 Assembly Plants in Japan?
Aug 30 2023 // Toyota Motor was ramping back production at its Japan-based factories on Wednesday after a computer system processing orders for vehicle parts broke down on Tuesday, forcing the closure of 14 assembly plants. The...
#4 Japan Begins Releasing Nuclear Wastewater in Process That Could Last 30 Years
Aug 24 2023 // Japan started the release of treated wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear site into the Pacific Ocean in a process that could last about 30 years, triggering an immediate retaliation by China to curb seafood...
#5 Toyota’s Japan Production at Standstill as System Failure Hits All 14 Assembly Plants
Aug 29 2023 // Toyota Motor Corp. on Tuesday said it has suspended operations at all 14 of its assembly plants in Japan due to a production system malfunction, bringing domestic output to a standstill at the world’s biggest-selling...
#6 Japan Airlines Flight Was Cleared to Land Before Fiery Collision at Tokyo Airport
Jan 3 2024 // As Japan Airlines Co. Flight 516 approached Tokyo’s Haneda Airport late on Tuesday afternoon, all signs pointed to an uneventful conclusion to the routine one-and-a-half hour journey from Sapporo in northern...
#7 Japan Casualty Insurers’ Shares Sink on Concerns Over Suspected Price Fixing
Aug 2 2023 // A price-fixing scandal at Japan’s biggest casualty insurers is escalating following a media report that the suspected collusion is likely to be wider than initially believed. Shares of Tokio Marine Holdings Inc.,...
#8 Japan Competition Watchdog Probes Insurers Over Price Fixing
Aug 8 2023 // Japan’s competition watchdog has begun an investigation into whether the top four non-life insurers colluded to set premiums for their corporate clients, according to a person familiar with the matter, becoming the...
#9 Typhoon Lan Grounds Flights, Halts Trains as It Crosses Japan
Aug 15 2023 // Typhoon Lan reached the coast of central Japan early Tuesday, grounding flights and halting trains as residents braced for heavy rain, flooding and landslides. Known locally as Typhoon No. 7, the storm has been traversing...
#10 Japan Airline’s Runway Collision Marks Test of How New Carbon Jets Cope in Disaster
Jan 5 2024 // Tuesday’s runway collision in Japan marks the first time a modern lightweight airliner has burnt down and is being seen as a test case for how well a new generation of carbon-composite airplanes copes with a...
#11 Ransomware Attack Hits Japan’s Biggest Port, Disrupting Cargo Shipments
Jul 5 2023 // Japan’s biggest maritime port was crippled by an alleged Russian cyberattack, disrupting cargo as operators rushed to prevent a wider delay in shipments. Ransomware — used by hackers to lock access to files or...
#12 Update: Japan Airlines Counts Losses From Wrecked Tokyo Plane
Jan 4 2024 // Japan Airlines (JAL) on Thursday said it expected losses of more than $100 million after one of its planes was destroyed when it collided with another aircraft on the runway at Tokyo’s Haneda airport this week. All...
#13 Buffett Watchers Tout Japan Insurers, Banks as Next Potential Value Targets
Oct 13 2023 // Warren Buffett’s buying of Japanese trading firms helped propel the nation’s stocks to multi-decade highs. Six months on, insurers and banks are emerging as the next potential value targets. Insurers have low...
#14 Japan Faces Another Typhoon With Trains, Hundreds of Flights Canceled
Aug 14 2023 // Japan is preparing for its second typhoon in a week, with airline companies canceling flights and rail operators halting some operations. Typhoon Lan is forecast to make landfall Tuesday in central Japan near Osaka, the...
#15 Bank of Japan Scraps Radical Policy, Makes First Interest Rate Hike in 17 Years
Mar 19 2024 // The Bank of Japan (BOJ) ended eight years of negative interest rates and other remnants of its unorthodox policy on Tuesday, making a historic shift away from its focus on reflating growth with decades of massive monetary...
#16 Japanese Used-Car Exec to Step Down After Revelations of Fraudulent Insurance Claims
Jul 26 2023 // The president of Japanese used-car dealership Bigmotor Co. Ltd. said he will step down after revelations of fraudulent insurance claims by the company’s repair shops, a scandal that has also ensnared Sompo Japan...
#17 Update: Major Japan Quake Topples Buildings, Killing Nearly 50 People
Jan 2 2024 // The death toll from a powerful earthquake that toppled buildings in the Noto Peninsula on Japan’s northwest coast rose to nearly 50 as rescue workers searched for survivors trapped under rubble. One of the places...
#18 Tokyo Airport Collision Leaves 5 Dead, Japan Airlines’ Aircraft in Flames
Jan 2 2024 // All 379 people aboard a Japan Airlines (JAL) plane escaped the burning airliner after a collision with a Coast Guard aircraft at Tokyo’s Haneda airport that killed five of six crew on the smaller craft on...
#19 Japanese Authorities Inspect Second Kobayashi Pharma Factory After Deaths
Apr 2 2024 // Health authorities searched a second Kobayashi Pharmaceutical factory in western Japan on Sunday after the company reported five deaths possibly tied to dietary supplements, an official said. The inspection in Wakayama...
#20 AM Best: Japan Quake’s Effect on Insurers ‘Manageable; KCC Says Losses to Hit $6.4B
Jan 5 2024 // The earnings impact on the major domestic non-life insurers of claims from the Jan. 1, 2024 earthquake in Japan is expected to be manageable relative to the sector’s net profit, according to AM Best in a market...
