Washington Times – Nov 17, 2016 – TOKYO | A nervous Japanese government is trying to figure out how American security policies will change under a Donald Trump administration. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is set to meet with Mr. Trump Nov. 17 in New York in a bid to undo some recent political fallout. In September Mr. Abe met with Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, but pointedly did not meet with Mr. Trump. After the surprise…

FT – Nov 16, 2016 – At the end of last week, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand cut interest rates. It could yet prove the last central bank to do so in the current cycle. For an inkling of why, look no further than the US government bond market. Treasuries are enduring their worst sell-off since the taper tantrum of 2013, when then Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke first signalled the end of quantitative easing….

GamenGuide – Nov 15, 2016 – Bleach Manga series is not over yet. Latest reports claim that the franchise will be coming out with two new novels. Familiar writers will be writing the new novels slated this year and in 2017. The Japanese manga series by Tite Kubo is said to be his longest running manga series. Previous reports claimed that the series is coming to an end with the last volume allegedly released in Japan…

Nov 14, 2016 – iTech Post – The famous Japanese filmmaker, Hayao Miyazaki has revealed that he has come to a decision to suddenly step out of his retirement since 2013 after being inspired to work on and complete a new Japanese animated movie that can be compared to his previous works. Hayao Miyazaki recently went on a special broadcast titled, “Owaranai Hito Miyazaki Hayao”, translated as “The Man Who Is Not Done: Hayao Miyazaki”. The…

The Japan Times – Nov 10, 2016 – NewsPicks is a Japan-oriented financial news website focused on new technologies and IT, using corporate reporters to target young, tech-savvy readers. This is according to the company’s reporters themselves, who are newly recruited from the “old media” weekly business magazine Diamond, which, like other major Japanese newspapers, tends to focus more on the staid topic of corporate management than the latest trends in tech. Launched in 2013…

NATURE WORLD NEWS – Nov 9, 2016 – A busy street in a Japanese city was swallowed by a sinkhole near an underground train construction site. The city of Fukuoka in southern Japan stood witness as a five-lane highway was engulfed by a giant sinkhole. The sinkhole was attributed to the nearby underground subway tunnel works. At first, the sinkhole was only about 7 to 8 meters, based on reports the authorities received on Tuesday,…

Nikkei Asian Review – Nov 8, 2016 – TOKYO — Asia’s growing population and middle class hold great promise for non-life insurers as the newly affluent look to protect such assets as cars and houses, and Japan’s experience in deregulation can serve as a model of how to nurture those markets, according to Yasuyoshi Karasawa, the president and CEO of MS&AD Insurance Group. Speaking in Tokyo at the Nikkei Global Management Forum on Tuesday, the chief of…

MNR DAILY – Nov 7, 2016 – A lot of fans of the popular long-running Japanese manga, “Hunter X Hunter,” have been very eager to know the details as to when the series will return to its regular release schedule, particularly for chapter 361. Unfortunately, it seems like the manga has just been hit with another indefinite hiatus, as its author, also known as mangaka, Yoshihiro Togashi, hasn’t been feeling really well these past few months. However, it…

UNIVERSITY HERALD – Nov 2, 2016 – The Third New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival 2016 is slated to open with a preview of Sunao Katabuchi’s latest work, “In This Corner of the World.” The anime film, which debuted in the Tokyo Film Festival, depicts the Hiroshima bombing from a different angle according to sources. It is set several years before Little Boy was actually dropped. “In This Corner of the World,” or “Kono Sekai…

The Yomiuri Shimbun – Nov 1, 2016 – The word “autophagy” has become widely recognized since Yoshinori Ohsumi was named as winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for this year, but the academic vocabulary item had already been featured in a popular manga published in 2009. Autophagy, a complex cell biology system, was introduced to manga lovers in “TORIKO” by Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro. Ohsumi, an honorary professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology,…