TOKYO, Dec 18 (News On Japan) –
Japan has introduced a rise within the postal fee for letters from the present 84 yen to 110 yen, whereas postcards shall be raised from 63 yen to 85 yen.
The deliberate enhance, timed for subsequent fall, is available in response to the continuous slide in postal volumes.
Excluding changes made as a result of consumption tax enhance, the speed for letters has been unchanged since 1994.
News On Japan – Dec 18
Japan has introduced a rise within the postal fee for letters from the present 84 yen to 110 yen, whereas postcards shall be raised from 63 yen to 85 yen.
News On Japan – Dec 18
A 14-year-old boy who was annoyed together with his grades at college has been charged in reference to fires final month that burned clothes on three flooring of a shopping center in Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture.
News On Japan – Dec 18
A 17-year-old boy has been arrested for stabbing a major college principal and stealing his money in an Osaka park final Friday night time.
News On Japan – Dec 18
Ahead of the winter break, when the variety of ‘Toyoko children’ is predicted to develop round Tokyo’s Kabukicho leisure district, police have been conducting a mass operation to forestall these avenue urchins being coerced into crimes corresponding to prostitution.
NHK – Dec 18
Leaders of Japan and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations have agreed to advertise mutual safety cooperation, apparently with China’s growing maritime actions in thoughts.
News On Japan – Dec 17
A person in his 20s waving a knife demanding cash in a Hiroshima shopping center was subdued by safety guards on Friday night time.
News On Japan – Dec 16
An unknown man armed with a knife assaulted an elementary college principal on Friday night time, making off together with his bag containing about 20,000 yen.
News On Japan – Dec 16
A landslide in Hakuba, a well-liked ski village within the central alps of Japan, led to evacuation orders for 23 households following 24 hours of heavy rain.
News On Japan – Dec 16
The ‘Yassai Hossai’ fireplace pageant, relationship again to prehistoric occasions, reached its zenith on Thursday with a shocking fire-walking ritual, thrilling hordes of onlookers.
Al Jazeera – Dec 16
Japan has expanded its sanctions concentrating on Russia over its warfare in Ukraine, banning Russian diamonds for non-industrial use and including dozens of corporations and organisations to its commerce blacklist.
News On Japan – Dec 15
People who have been separated from their Japanese fathers throughout the Pacific War and subsequently lived with out citizenship within the Philippines have arrived in Japan to assemble details about their households, as they search to revive their Japanese nationality.
News On Japan – Dec 15
A 22-year-old autistic man has been despatched to jail for 23 years for stabbing and killing a feminine worker of an grownup leisure store in Tokyo two years in the past, when he was solely 19.
News On Japan – Dec 15
As the New Year’s vacation approaches, many individuals discover themselves glued to their cellphones, resulting in a phenomenon referred to as the ‘smartphone face.’
News On Japan – Dec 14
An aged man who was hit by a automotive whereas crossing a street within the early hours of Sunday morning, and whose physique was subsequently deserted within the mountains some 40 kilometers away, froze to demise, in keeping with an post-mortem.
News On Japan – Dec 14
Steel flying curler coaster “The Flying Dinosaur” at Universal Studios Japan (USJ) in Osaka, got here to an emergency cease on Tuesday morning at about 10:45, leaving passengers stranded for as much as 45 minutes. There have been no studies of accidents or well being considerations.
News On Japan – Dec 14
A buyer has suffered throat accidents requiring surgical procedure from a donut containing a steel fragment offered at a restaurant in “Ibaraki Flower Park”.