Latest Japan Headlines
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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...
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...
Hapag-Lloyd, Japanese Shipping Firms Continue to Re-route From Suez Canal
Dec 29 2023 // Hapag-Lloyd will continue to divert its vessels around the Suez Canal for security reasons, a spokesperson for the German container shipper said on Friday, adding a further assessment would be made on Jan. 2. Mitsui O.S.K....
Japan Orders 4 Non-Life Insurers to End Anti-Competitive Business Practices
Dec 27 2023 // Japan ordered four major non-life insurance companies to improve business practices in connection with anti-competitive activity that aimed to keep premiums high, Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said on Tuesday. The order...
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...
Markets/Coverages: Coalition, MS&AD Insurance Offer Cybersecurity Solutions in Japan
Oct 5 2023 // Coalition, the San Francisco-based cyber managing general agent and cyber-security firm, announced a strategic partnership with Japan’s MS&AD Insurance Group to provide cybersecurity monitoring solutions for...
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...
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...
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...
People Moves: Dyer Appointed Chief Risk Officer for Aspen UK; Sompo Int’l Taps Walker From Allianz for Distribution Insurance, APAC; BMS Names Hewitt as Head of Japan
Aug 24 2023 // This edition of International People Moves detail appointments at Aspen Insurance Holdings, Sompo International, and BMS Group. A summary of these new hires follows here. Dyer Appointed Chief Risk Officer for Aspen...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Japan Cannot Confirm Security Leak After Report Says China Hacked Defense Networks
Aug 8 2023 // Japan cannot confirm if any security information has been leaked, the top government spokesperson said on Tuesday when asked about a Washington Post report on Chinese hacking into its defense cyber networks. Chinese...
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...
Japan to Release Fukushima Water as Soon as August: Reports
Aug 7 2023 // The Japanese government is preparing to start releasing treated wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear disaster site into the sea as early as late August, local newspapers including the Yomiuri Shimbun reported. Prime...
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.,...
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...
Japan’s Top Court Rules Government Restrictions on Transgender Employee’s Use of Restrooms Illegal
Jul 13 2023 // Japan’s Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that restrictions imposed by a government ministry on a transgender female employee’s use of restrooms at her workplace are illegal, in a landmark decision that could promote...
