TOHO Cinemas, a subsidiary of Toho, is a major movie theater operator with approximately 70 movie theaters nationwide. According to people involved, TOHO Cinemas is unfairly restraining the business of movie distributors by giving them preferential distribution and putting pressure on other companies not to distribute their films. The Japan Fair Trade Commission has been … Read more
The suspect arrested is Koji Yoneda (39), a musician who performs under the name “CHEHON.” According to the police, on the 11th of this month, a man is suspected of violating the Cannabis Control Act for possessing approximately 1 gram of dried cannabis at an apartment in Shinagawa Ward, Tokyo. Police received information that Yoneda … Read more
The US District Attorney’s Office in New York held a press conference on the 22nd, announcing that a federal grand jury had indicted five people, including Congressman Menendez of the ruling Democratic Party, who chairs the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Senate, his wife, and three businessmen acquaintances. It was announced that he had been … Read more
On the 19th of this month, a steel frame being lifted by a crane fell at a building construction site in Yaesu, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, killing two workers and seriously injuring three others. Did. Approximately 30 investigators from the Metropolitan Police Department inspected the scene from 9 a.m. to determine the detailed circumstances of the accident. … Read more
On the afternoon of the 21st in New York State, United States, and in the early hours of the 22nd Japan time, a large bus carrying about 40 people, including local high school students, veered off the highway it was traveling on and overturned. According to police, two adults were killed and at least five … Read more
On the morning of the 19th, a steel frame that had been lifted by a crane fell at the construction site of a building in Yaesu, Chuo Ward, Tokyo, and Yuichiro Hara (33), a company employee from Asaka City, Saitama Prefecture, was working on it. Two people, Yamato Hanada (43), a company employee from Ichikawa … Read more
The following year, starting in 2004, the Japan College of Analytical Chemistry, located in Kita Ward, Osaka, began investigating the degree of turbidity of river water and the number of bacteria. The water quality is improving, and the endangered Japanese eel was confirmed to be living there in November last year, but E. coli, an … Read more
The torrential rains that hit the Kii Peninsula on September 4, 2011 caused a series of river floods and landslides due to the typhoon, resulting in a total of 88 deaths and missing persons in Wakayama, Nara, and Mie prefectures. On the 4th of 2012, in Nachikatsuura Town, Wakayama Prefecture, where the most 29 people … Read more
“iDeCo” is one of the private pensions that individuals voluntarily join on top of public pensions, and there are preferential treatment that tax exemptions are made on contributions and investment profits. Regarding this iDeCo, Nippon Life decided to waive the account management fee, which subscribers pay 319 yen every month, from October. Regarding iDeCo’s account … Read more
Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Nomura told reporters on the 31st that the treated water accumulated at the Tokyo Electric Power Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant was “contaminated water” used by China, and then apologized and withdrew. Regarding this, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said at a press conference on the 1st that … Read more