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In some areas, bluefin tuna is harvested at triple the levels considered to be sustainable + READ ARTICLE (TOKYO) — The latest scientific assessment paints a likely bleak future for the Pacific bluefin tuna, a sushi lovers’ favorite whose population has dropped by more than 97% from its historic levels. A draft summary of a report by the International Scientific Committee for Tuna and Tuna-like Sp

Niculas Fernando was in Tokyo to see his son and sit out potentially violent elections at home. The Sri Lankan’s death, in a cell monitored around the clock, reveals fatal flaws in a system stretched by record numbers of asylum seekers. 日本語版 (Read in Japanese) TOKYO – Niculas Fernando died at a Tokyo immigration detention center sometime between 9:33 a.m. and 10:44 a.m. on November 22, 2014, accor

Police in Japan have dealt with more elderly crime than juvenile crime in the past six months, it's reported. It's the first time that people over the age of 65 have surpassed teenagers in crime statistics since 1989, when Japan's National Police Agency started publishing age-related crime data, the Kyodo News Agency reports. Officers took action against more than 23,000 elderly people in the firs

The newly-created Nishinoshima island at the Ogasawara island chain, 1,000 kilometres south of Tokyo, pictured on March 25, 2015The newly-created Nishinoshima island at the Ogasawara island chain, 1,000 kilometres south of Tokyo, pictured on March 25, 2015 (AFP Photo/) Tokyo (AFP) - A brand new island emerging off the coast of Japan offers scientists a rare opportunity to study how life begins to

For the first time since records were collected in 1955, Japan's population is drawing down its savings and the savings rate, calculated as savings divided by disposable income plus pension payments, was negative 1.3%. It's a dramatic change from when the Japanese saved nearly a quarter of their income (23.1%) when the savings rate peaked in 1975. Japan had the highest household saving rate in the

―― 再増税反対を唱える野党も、財源のプランを明確にできれば勝負はできると思うのですが。 そうですね。消費税への傾斜を今回の選挙でひっくり返すのは難しいのかも知れませんが、野党はそこに力を入れてほしいですね。 安倍首相が解散権を口にしたとたんに、民主党も含めてみんなが雪崩を打つように増税延期に傾いてしまった。争点が消失してしまったわけですね。「大義なき解散」という人は、争点のなさを問題にしているわけです。 しかし、私は消費税の延期にみんなが賛成したとは思っていません。首相の会見でも、延期はしても社会保障と税の一体改革の流れは堅持すると明言されていました。つまりこの道は、いずれにしても消費税は上がるという道なんです。仮にリーマン・ショック級のショックがあったとしても、どこかの時点で10％までは確実に上がる、これは動かしがたい現実です。 この現実を打破するような政党が現れるかどうかが一つのポイ

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and Japan on Friday agreed on language aimed at giving Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe political cover to bring the world’s third-largest economy into negotiations on a U.S.-led free trade agreement in the Asia Pacific region. U.S. President Barack Obama shakes hands with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L) in the Oval Office of the White House in Was

Japan’s Citizen KaneA media mogul whose extraordinary life still shapes his country, for good and ill THE ECONOMIST’S office in Tokyo is in the headquarters of the Yomiuri Shimbun, the world’s biggest-selling newspaper. Every day, as you walk past bowing guards and immaculate receptionists, set back in a corner you pass a bronze statue of an owlish man with a bald head and thick, round-rimmed glas