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Publication: The Japan Times - News & Business

First reported Jan 21 2013 - Updated Jan 22 2013 - 2 reports

Two Algerians with ties to JGC questioned

Algerian authorities are grilling two Algerian kitchen workers who had been serving food to employees of the Japanese company JGC Corp. at a natural gas complex in the Sahara, suspecting the pair provided inside information to the Islamic militants who ... [Published The Japan Times - News & Business - Jan 22 2013]

Entities: JGC Corporation, Workers, Tokyo, Natural Gas, Hostage

First reported Jan 20 2013 - Updated Jan 21 2013 - 3 reports

JGC Corporation

JGC workers angered by hostages' deaths

Employees of plant engineering firm JGC Corp. as well as relatives and friends of workers expressed anger and dismay after the government confirmed Monday that seven Japanese were killed during the hostage crisis at the Ain Amenas gas complex in Algeria ... [Published The Japan Times - News & Business - Jan 21 2013]

Entities: JGC Corporation, Hostage, Workers

First reported Jan 20 2013 - Updated Jan 21 2013 - 2 reports

NRA drafts tightened nuke plant safety rules

The Nuclear Regulation Authority presented a draft outline Monday of new safety measures to prevent or minimize the consequences of severe atomic plant crises. Among other features, the NRA said utilities will be required to build a special safety facility ... [Published The Japan Times - News & Business - Jan 21 2013]

Entities: Reactor, Nuclear Regulation Authority of Japan, Acts of Terrorism, Nuclear, Disaster

First reported Jan 20 2013 - Updated Jan 21 2013 - 2 reports

JGC called Algeria 'calm' in 2011 report

The Japanese company that helped build the remote Saharan gas plant at the center of Algeria's bloody hostage crisis, in which as many as a dozen Japanese nationals may have been killed, once told investors the country was a haven of stability as unrest ... [Published The Japan Times - News & Business - Jan 21 2013]

Entities: Algeria, Hostage, Workers

First reported Jan 19 2013 - Updated Jan 21 2013 - 2 reports

Bank of Japan

Yen slide poses problem for BOJ, Abe adviser says

The Bank of Japan will face a challenge if the yen weakens too far and the trend needs to be stopped, said Koichi Hamada, who's advising Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on choosing a new central bank chief. "It won't be easy," Hamada told reporters in Tokyo ... [Published The Japan Times - News & Business - Jan 20 2013]

Entities: Bank of Japan, Shinzo Abe, Akira AMARI, Tokyo

First reported Jan 19 2013 - Updated Jan 20 2013 - 2 reports

Algeria confirms Japanese hostages killed

An unknown number of Japanese taken hostage at a natural gas complex in Algeria were killed or are missing, the Algerian government told Tokyo early Sunday after ending its military mission against the hostage takers, a militant Islamic group. Reacting ... [Published The Japan Times - News & Business - Jan 19 2013]

Entities: Hostage, Algeria, JGC Corporation, Government of Algeria

First reported Jan 18 2013 - Updated Jan 19 2013 - 2 reports

Democratic Party of Japan (JP)

Japan to join child abduction treaty

Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida announced the government will sign the Hague Convention on cross-border parental child abductions, addressing one of the few sources of tension in Tokyo's ties with Washington. Japan has yet to ratify the 1980 Hague Convention ... [Published The Japan Times - News & Business - Jan 19 2013]

Entities: Japan, Child Abduction, Fumio Kishida, Democratic Party of Japan (JP), Abduction

First reported Jan 18 2013 - Updated Jan 19 2013 - 2 reports

Abe strikes control pose as Japan scrambles for information

With the whereabouts of 10 of the 17 Japanese taken hostage at a natural gas complex in Algeria still unknown, the government spent Saturday making desperate but fruitless efforts to gather more information on the situation. The Liberal Democratic Party ... [Published The Japan Times - News & Business - Jan 19 2013]

Entities: Japan, JGC Corporation, Liberal Democratic Party (JP)

First reported Jan 17 2013 - Updated Jan 18 2013 - 2 reports

Agura Bokujo victims may sue Kaieda

Investors who were fleeced when the Agura Bokujo cattle farm business went under are threatening to sue Democratic Party of Japan President Banri Kaieda for damages over articles and books he wrote 20 years ago recommending investment in the ranch, according ... [Published The Japan Times - News & Business - Jan 18 2013]

Entities: Tokyo, Democratic Party of Japan (JP), Cattle, District Court

First reported Jan 16 2013 - Updated Jan 18 2013 - 3 reports

Faulty batteries eyed in 787 probe

U.S. officials and Boeing Co. are investigating whether defective batteries from the same batch caused failures in two of the firm's 787 Dreamliners that triggered the plane's worldwide grounding, two sources said. If proven true, flaws may be confined ... [Published The Japan Times - News & Business - Jan 17 2013]

Entities: Boeing 787, Battery, Boeing Company

First reported Jan 13 2013 - Updated Jan 14 2013 - 3 reports

Worker: Decontamination shoddy

Contractors commissioned by the central government to decontaminate areas tainted by the Fukushima nuclear disaster lack the knowhow or manpower to handle the unprecedented work, one of the workers said. The worker, a 60-year-old man from Iwaki, Fukushima ... [Published The Japan Times - News & Business - Jan 14 2013]

Entities: Decontamination, Workers, Iwaki

First reported Jan 09 2013 - Updated Jan 10 2013 - 3 reports

Son hit repeatedly day before suicide: mom

The student in Osaka who hanged himself last month after enduring repeated beatings by his basketball coach at Sakuranomiya Senior High School told his mother he had been struck 30 to 40 times the day before he died, the local board of education revealed ... [Published The Japan Times - News & Business - Jan 10 2013]

Entities: Suicide, Osaka

Quotes

...The well-known advocate of "nation-toughening" said in a recent interview "Japan faces the risk of megaquakes. A strong eaquake just below Tokyo could destroy the heart of this country. We should be fully prepared."

'Nation-toughening' projects lauded [Published The Japan Times - News & Business - Jan 22 2013]

...Only half-jokingly, I ask him: "Are you insane still? Or were you always insane? How do you look at your sanity?"

Ban talks about Japan in the world in exclusive interview [Published The Japan Times - News & Business - Jan 22 2013]

...medical system should be changed so that the many terminal patients now using "government money" for expensive treatment "can quickly pass away. "Such patients can keep living even if they wish to die" Aso reportedly said during a meeting of experts, only to later scramble to retract his gaffe

Cut state funding to terminal patients so they "can die quickly": Aso [Published The Japan Times - News & Business - Jan 21 2013]

...Asked by The Japan Times what the country needs, she replied in feisty fashion: "The three things Japan should do in 2013 are raise wages, raise interest rates — and cut the crap." It was good advice, which challenges some obvious deficiencies in "Abenomics" as economists call the new policy of new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe

'Abenomics' out of the gate [Published The Japan Times - News & Business - Jan 21 2013]

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