Japan News for April 05, 2007
Today’s Japan-related news links:
- Japanese businessman Hirokazu Ota, the leader of Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church in Paraguay, was freed Friday following a 19-day abduction and a 140,000-dollar ransom payment. [Link]
- NTT East and NTT West said Friday they overcharged users of their Internet connection services by a total of 179 million yen. [Link]
- Police have obtained an arrest warrant for the fugitive boss of bankrupt IP phone company Kinmirai Tsuushin, accusing him of swindling huge amounts of cash from investors. [Link]
- Most of the women providing sex to Japan’s wartime military were not slaves, but professional prostitutes who made a fortune on the job, Japan’s former education minister said Friday. [Link]
- A total of 256 bureaucrats had landed post-retirement jobs as of 2005 at five public-interest entities raided Thursday on suspicion of rigging bids for projects ordered by the government-affiliated Japan Green Resources Agency, Diet documents showed Friday. [Link]
- The government has tentatively decided to issue passports to children not entered in family registers because of Civil Code regulations treating a child born within 300 days of a divorce as the former husband’s child. [Link]
- Japan’s Empress Michiko has recovered from stress-induced ailments two months after she suffered intestinal bleeding and other symptoms, palace officials said Friday. [Link]
- Police said Thursday they have no clues in the disapperance of a Japanese woman who has been missing in Hawaii for a week. [Link]
- Actor Kubozuka Yosuke, who stars in the new film about kamikaze pilots “I Go To Die For You,” has responded to critics of the film by saying, “Whoever says this film glorifies war is a dickhead. At least watch it before saying that”. [Link]
