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☆ Planes Come Into Contact at Snowy Japan Airport
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-16 | by ( Miho Inada | Peter Landers | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Planes belonging to Korean Air, left, and Cathay Pacific, right, after a collision at a Japanese airport. Photo: KYODO NEWS/ASSOCIATED PRESSTOKYO—A Korean Air jet that was moving away from the gate in heavy snow touched a Cathay Pacific plane at an airport in northern Japan on Tuesday, the airlines said. No one was hurt and there was no fire, officials said. Korean Air said the incident happened about 5:35 p.m. at New Chitose Airport near Sapporo on the northern island of Hokkaido. The Korean Air Airbus A330, scheduled to fly to Seoul with 276 passengers and 13 crew aboard, had just departed the gate and was in pushback, meaning it was getting into position to head to the runway with help from a ground handler vehicle.

Organizations: Korean Air, Cathay, KYODO, New, Korean Air Airbus Locations: Korean, Cathay Pacific, Japan, New Chitose, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Seoul, pushback

☆ Miho Inada — Reporter at The Wall Street Journal
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-13 | by ( Miho Inada | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Miho InadaMiho Inada is a reporter based in The Wall Street Journal's Tokyo bureau covering business, healthcare, demographics and other subjects. Her articles have explored how companies, the government and average people are navigating the challenges of Japan’s aging and shrinking population. She has also written about the business of tourism and did a deep dive into the background of the suspect in the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Nara, Japan. She has experience shooting and editing video for the Journal’s video team. Miho, a native of Japan's Kansai region, is a graduate of the University of Washington.

Persons: Miho Inada Miho Inada, Shinzo Abe, Miho Organizations: University of Washington Locations: Tokyo, Nara, Japan, Japan's Kansai

☆ The Land Where Inflation Is Good News
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Miho Inada | Peter Landers | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

TOKYO—For a quarter-century, Japan tried every trick in the central-banking book to boost prices and jolt its troubled economy back to life. The cure turned out to be pandemic and war. Higher energy and food costs triggered by the Ukraine war, coupled with Covid-era supply-chain snags, are bringing a surprise end to the long, bleak era of Japanification. Businesses are increasing prices significantly, and wages have begun inching up.

Locations: TOKYO, Japan, Ukraine

☆ China Arrests Japanese Executive Despite Tokyo’s Appeals
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( Miho Inada | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The arrested Astellas Pharma executive disappeared in late March. Photo: Akio Kon/Bloomberg NewsTOKYO—China formally arrested a Japanese pharmaceutical executive who had been detained since March, Tokyo said Thursday, in a move likely to further chill business travel to the nation. Hirokazu Matsuno , Japan’s chief cabinet secretary, said the Astellas Pharma executive, whom China has previously identified as Hiroshi Nishiyama , was arrested in mid-October. Matsuno said Tokyo had made strong appeals to Beijing for the early release of the executive and would continue doing so.

Persons: Astellas, Akio Kon, Hirokazu, Hiroshi Nishiyama, Matsuno Organizations: Astellas Pharma, Bloomberg News TOKYO Locations: China, Tokyo, Beijing

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Persons: Dow Jones Locations: japan

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Persons: Dow Jones Locations: asia, fukushima

☆ Japan Starts Releasing Water From Fukushima Nuclear Plant Into Pacific
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Miho Inada | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Japan to Release Water From Fukushima Nuclear Plant Into Pacific This Week
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-21 | by ( Miho Inada | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Japan Discharge of Fukushima Radioactive Water Into Pacific Gets Green Light
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-04 | by ( Miho Inada | Dasl Yoon | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Sushi Boom Upends Japanese Tradition as Chefs Get Trained in Short Order
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-24 | by ( Miho Inada | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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Persons: Dow Jones, 826f1126 Locations: korea

☆ Even Japan Wants More Foreign Workers, and It Is Letting Them Stay for Good
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-09 | by ( Miho Inada | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ In China, a Detention and a New Espionage Law Have Businesses Worried
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( Yoko Kubota | Miho Inada | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

China’s detention of a Japanese executive at Astellas Pharma is one of a string of incidents that have sparked new concerns among foreign companies. Photo: Akio Kon/Bloomberg NewsBEIJING— Hiroshi Nishiyama , a veteran Japanese executive at Astellas Pharma Inc. and a prominent member of his country’s business circle in China, spent late March wrapping up his assignment there and preparing to head home. He never made it. Mr. Nishiyama disappeared on what was supposed to be his last day in China. A few days later, China’s Foreign Ministry said he had been accused of espionage and detained.

☆ Japan’s Kishida Is Targeted by Apparent Smoke Bomb, Escapes Unhurt
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-15 | by ( Miho Inada | Peter Landers | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

TOKYO—A man tossed an apparent smoke bomb near Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Saturday at a campaign stop. Mr. Kishida was unhurt and the man was arrested. Footage on public broadcaster NHK showed a commotion after the man threw an object into the air and he was wrestled to the ground by at least one bystander and security personnel. About 50 seconds after the commotion began, there was the sound of an explosion and smoke filled the air.

☆ Tiny Town Charges Visitors to Learn Its Baby-Making Tips
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-03 | by ( Miho Inada | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

NAGI, Japan—Mayor Masachika Oku is worried about the children in this remote town getting tired. “They’re being chased by visitors with cameras every day,” he said. The visitors, including Japan’s leader, are making the trek in search of a valuable secret that may lurk here: how to make more babies.

Three years into the pandemic, nearly everyone in Japan is wearing a mask most of the time in public, and in South Korea it is legally required indoors. Now these two Asian champions of mask-wearing say it is time to move on. Officials in Tokyo and Seoul on Friday called for easing of mask protocols, overriding concerns from some who say the practice still saves lives and keeps away a variety of ailments.

☆ Shinzo Abe Assassination Suspect Is Charged With Murder
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-13 | by ( Miho Inada | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Tetsuya Yamagami, suspect in the killing of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. NARA, Japan—Prosecutors on Friday brought murder charges against Tetsuya Yamagami, the suspect in the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe last July 8. Mr. Yamagami, now 42, shot and killed Mr. Abe at an election campaign rally in the western city of Nara using a homemade gun, according to prosecutors and videos of the event.

☆ Wealthy Chinese, Fed Up at Home, Find a Haven in Japan
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-27 | by ( Miho Inada | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

OTARU, Japan—A growing number of affluent Chinese are coming to Japan to live, according to real-estate brokers and people in the Chinese community here, in an indication of social and political tensions back home. Hideyuki Ishii, a real-estate broker on the northern island of Hokkaido, says he has been inundated recently with requests from Chinese nationals who want to buy property that they can use as a foothold to move to Japan.

☆ Japan Clamps Down on Moon Church’s Fundraising
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-10 | by ( Miho Inada | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The new Japanese law bars religious groups such as the former Unification Church from taking advantage of followers’ anxieties or fears in soliciting money. TOKYO—Japan’s Parliament on Saturday passed a law that bars high-pressure fundraising tactics, a measure aimed at the church founded by the late Rev. Moon Sun-myung. The law’s final approval came just five months after the July 8 assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe triggered a reappraisal of the former Unification Church, which until the killing had ties to many ruling-party members while drawing little public attention.

☆ As Japan Runs Short of Farmworkers, Bureaucrats Get Sent Into the Fields
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-24 | by ( Miho Inada | Photos Shiho Fukada For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

HIROSAKI, Japan—Many areas of Japan are running so short of working-age people that local-government administrators are helping out on farms. On a recent weekend, Yoshiaki Kato joined a few elderly women in harvesting apples at an orchard in Hirosaki, a city in the country’s north. Mr. Kato also occasionally carried baskets of the fruit and loaded them onto a cart before driving them away to be sorted by size and quality.

☆ A Salt-Loving Nation Tries to Shake the Habit
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-16 | by ( Miho Inada | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

TOKYO—Pickled squid innards and cucumbers in brine are among the foods that make Japanese meals strikingly salty. Don’t forget the soy sauce. Government health officials worry all that salt is driving high blood pressure, a condition sprinkled across half the adults in Japan. Yet rather than trying to remake Japanese cuisine, food researchers are working to sate salt lust without sodium’s unsavory side effects.

☆ Shinzo Abe State Funeral Brings World Leaders to Japan
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Alastair Gale | Miho Inada | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A temporary altar was set up for the public to pay respects outside the Nippon Budokan, site of Shinzo Abe’s funeral. TOKYO—World leaders gathered Tuesday for the state funeral of Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, Shinzo Abe , who was killed by an assassin’s bullet in July. Vice President Kamala Harris leads the U.S. delegation, which includes three former ambassadors to Japan and the current ambassador, Rahm Emanuel .

☆ Shinzo Abe State Funeral Draws World Leaders, Protesters
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Alastair Gale | Miho Inada | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

TOKYO—World leaders and successors of Shinzo Abe paid tribute to Japan’s longest-serving prime minister at a state funeral, while thousands of people protested the event nearby. The send off for Mr. Abe, who was killed by an assassin’s bullet in July, reflected the divisions that also marked his term in office. Vice President Kamala Harris remembered Mr. Abe as a champion of the U.S.-Japan alliance, and his allies mourned the loss of a leader they said devoted his life to improving Japan.

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