KYOTO, Dec 30 (News On Japan) –
A Kyoto City initiative aimed to lowering automobile congestion round vacationer websites, providing 500-yen present coupons, has been flooded with bogus functions, with 99 % of entries deemed fraudulent.
To apply for “Park and Ride” marketing campaign, carried out in November, it was vital to connect a picture of a parking receipt from a chosen car parking zone. However, there have been quite a few fraudulent functions, together with these attaching manga pictures as an alternative of precise receipts.
In only one month, there have been almost 1,300 fraudulent functions, with solely 15 legit entries.
The metropolis has not been in a position to determine the people who made these fraudulent functions and has not been in a position to get well the issued present coupons and are contemplating submitting a police report.
News On Japan – Dec 30
A Kyoto City initiative aimed to lowering automobile congestion round vacationer websites, providing 500-yen present coupons, has been flooded with bogus functions, with 99 % of entries deemed fraudulent.
News On Japan – Dec 30
As Japan’s year-end journey hits full swing, ongoing strikes by Jetstar Japan crew over unpaid wages has led to the cancellation of 17 flights, affecting over 2,600 individuals.
News On Japan – Dec 29
The Tokyo stock market completed buying and selling on Friday at its highest year-end stage in 34 years.
News On Japan – Dec 29
A rocket fueled by cow dung and urine is making ready for launch in Taiki, Hokkaido, a city with a bovine inhabitants 5 instances larger than people, referred to as the “Town Close to Space.”
News On Japan – Dec 29
Friday marks the height of the New Year journey rush, as individuals head to their hometowns or trip spots to rejoice the end-of-year and New Year holidays. Congestion is anticipated within the air, on railways, and on highways.
News On Japan – Dec 28
Human bones have been found in a automobile buried underneath the landslide that engulfed a highway in Nara Prefecture on Dec 23, probably the stays of a person who has been lacking since that day.
News On Japan – Dec 28
In an effort to alleviate ongoing congestion at Kyoto Station, JR West has unveiled plans to put in new ticket gates and passageways, scheduled for completion by 2031.
News On Japan – Dec 28
The labor union of finances airline Jetstar Japan continues its strike over unpaid wages, threatening to spill into the New Year vacation season as negotiations with the corporate break down.
NHK – Dec 28
A gaggle of worldwide researchers together with Japanese professors says it discovered an enormous cliff in deep waters close to the epicenter of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake.
News On Japan – Dec 27
A Vietnam Airlines plane that skilled a cracked cockpit window throughout a flight from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, landed safely at Narita Airport on Tuesday afternoon, quickly closing the runway for inspection.
News On Japan – Dec 27
Three feminine workers of their 20s, working at a tax workplace in Tokyo, had been suspended from their jobs by the Tokyo Regional Taxation Bureau on Tuesday for working in nightclubs and fascinating in ‘Papa Katsu,’ or sugar courting.
NHK – Dec 27
Japanese boxing famous person Inoue Naoya has turn out to be the second particular person within the sport’s historical past to win all 4 main titles in two weight divisions.
News On Japan – Dec 26
A 25-year-old man has been arrested over the fatally stabbing of a girl in a Nagoya karaoke field on Tuesday, whereas one other girl was found drowned in his bathtub.
News On Japan – Dec 26
Rescue groups on the website of a significant landslide in Nara Prefecture that swept away a nationwide freeway Saturday night time have found a car buried underneath the rubble that’s suspected to belong to a lacking man in his 70s.
News On Japan – Dec 26
A Shinkansen driver, employed by JR Central, has been disciplined for utilizing a company-issued smartphone for private functions whereas working the high-speed practice.
News On Japan – Dec 26
Japan faces a extreme scarcity of lecturers, with greater than 3,000 positions in colleges remaining vacant, in response to a current survey carried out by the All Japan Federation of Teachers’ and Staff Unions.