The Construction and Transport Ministry plans to extend expressway toll discounts currently implemented only on weekends and national holidays to Thursdays and Fridays before and during the weeklong Bon Festival holiday period in mid-August, the ministry said Monday.
Currently, there is a 1,000 yen ceiling on the expressway tolls for cars on Saturdays, Sundays and national holidays. The ministry will apply the discount system from Aug. 6 through 9 and from Aug. 13 through 16 because many people are expected to use expressways during the period for driving to and from their parental homes.
Cutting the toll for four consecutive days will allow drivers to use regional expressways at reduced tolls for a longer period, something the ministry hopes will reduce the extent of traffic jams. http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national...01TDY02309.htm
A 17-year-old girl had her hair cut by an assailant as she was on her way home in Ishinomaki City on Monday night, police said.
Police said the third-year high school student was walking home by herself when she was approached from behind by a person on a bicycle just before 9 p.m. The girl could not confirm if the assailant was male or female, as the person was wearing a dark hooded top and dark pants, and didn’t speak before riding off into the night.
Police said the girl was not injured but lost around 10 centimeters of her shoulder-length hair. http://www.japantoday.com/category/c...le-in-miyazaki
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what the heck was that about? ang haba kasi ng hair ng lola mo
reminds me of this sicko character from Charlie's angels
The Ishikawa prefectural assembly passed an ordinance Monday stipulating parents’ obligation to make efforts not to give cellphones to their children at the ages of elementary and junior high school students. The measure, to be enforced in January, would be the first local ordinance in Japan aiming to restrict mobile phone possession by children although it does not carry any penalties.
Assembly members from the Liberal Democratic Party and the New Komeito party had proposed the bill, which cleared the assembly by a majority vote. The proposing assembly members have advocated that a rule that would protect immature children is necessary. Opponents have said it is a matter to be considered individually at home and at school, including through dialogue with the children. The prefectural government now plans to ask local municipal education boards and parents and teachers associations for cooperation. It also envisions enhancing understanding by parents and related companies through explanations and leaflets. http://www.japantoday.com/category/n...ing-cellphones
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MAEBASHI -- Four college students accused of gang raping a drunken 18-year-old girl they met through an acquaintance have been arrested, police said.
Arrested were Ryoya Asaka, 20, a student at a welfare college in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, and three other 19-year-old students at the college, whose names have been withheld because they are minors.
Police said the four have admitted to the allegations against them.
The four are accused of leading the victim, who had been drinking with them at a karaoke establishment in Takasaki, into a vehicle at about 3 a.m. on Sunday, and sexually violating her as the car traveled around the Gunma Prefecture city of Fujioka and other areas.
A new project in which bioethanol will be produced from rice cultivated in fallow farmland and mixed with gasoline will begin in Niigata Prefecture in mid-July, it has been learned.
The project is being undertaken by JA Zen-Noh, the national federation of agricultural cooperative associations, in cooperation with the Niigata prefectural government.
With the central government having announced a policy of cutting rice hectareage, the sale of the environmentally friendly "green gasoline" is seen as an effective way of utilizing the resulting unused rice fields.
Although there are still some concerns over the cost of producing the fuel, the Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry said the project is the first of its kind anywhere in the world to use rice for fuel in this way. http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national...30TDY02310.htm
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same question. I wonder how much a liter of this fuel would cost.
Thirty-four people involved in training programs for non-Japanese died in fiscal 2008, up 13 from the previous year and marking a record high, according to a survey by a government-linked training body.
The leading causes of death were brain and heart disease, which claimed 16 lives, while five trainees were killed in work-related accidents and four died in traffic accidents. Supporters of foreign trainees said they suspect many of the deaths blamed on brain and heart disorders were actually the result of overwork.
Kawawang mga trainess...sakit sa puso at utak ang dahilan ng kamatayan dahilan sa overwork. Ingat po sa lahat ng mga nagtretraining sa Japan at baka maisama kayo sa listahan ng mga namamatay dito.
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MANILA, Philippines - A Filipino man has been tested positive for the A(H1N1) virus in Macau, making him the first such case in the former Portuguese colony.
Consul General Jaime Victor Ledda, told GMANews.TV that the Filipino was intercepted at the Macau International Airport on Wednesday after arriving from the Philippines, which already has 344 confirmed cases as of Thursday afternoon.
"He is now being attended to. He is quite alright," Ledda said.
The Filipino worker in Macau is the 12th reported case abroad that contracted the case from the Philippines, which includes a mother and daughter in Taiwan who visited the Philippines, two Filipino nurses in Saudi Arabia, two tourists and two workers in Hong Kong; Filipino-Japanese siblings in Japan; and one in Singapore.
The ruling and opposition camps have revised a contentious set of immigration bills in a way that increases government scrutiny of both legal and illegal foreign residents while extending additional conveniences, according to a draft obtained Thursday by The Japan Times.
Legislators from the Liberal Democratic Party-New Komeito ruling bloc and the Democratic Party of Japan hammered out the bills to reach a balance on how the estimated 110,000 undocumented foreigners living in Japan should be tracked. Currently, municipalities issue alien registration cards and provide public services to foreigners, even if they know they are overstaying their visas.
Eto na po ang pinakahihintay ng mga nakakaraming dayuhan sa bansang Hapon...ako wala akong problema dito kasi masunurin naman akong tao pero sa mga pasaway at mga OS ay nabibilang na ang mga araw nila
MANILA, Philippines—The number of Filipinos overseas who have registered to vote in next year’s presidential, senatorial, and local elections has surpassed the 100,000 mark, the Overseas Absentee Voting Secretariat of the Department of Foreign Affairs said Thursday.
DFA Undersecretary for Special Concerns Rafael Seguis said he expects more Filipinos abroad would register as the deadline for overseas absentee voting registration nears. Registration for overseas Filipinos started on February 1 and will end on August 31.
“This has always been the case in previous registration drives. The nearer it is to the deadline, the greater the number of last-minute registrants,” Seguis said.
As of June 17, the number of absentee voting registrants is 104, 475, with Asia and the Pacific getting the most number at 28,770, followed by the Americas at 21,386, then by Middle East and Africa at 18,627, then Europe at 12,618, the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration offices at 13, 588, the Ninoy Aquino International Airport at 8,757, and the Commission on Filipinos Overseas at 729.
MANILA, Philippines—A Japanese lawmaker has sought the assistance of Senator Richard Gordon in locating 500 Japanese war descendants in the country and help them obtain Japanese citizenship.
Of the 3,000 Japanese orphans surveyed in 1995, 27 of them had been identified and were given Japanese citizenship, said Hiroyuki Kawai of the Philippine Nikkei-jin Legal Support Center.
At present, however, Kawai said he and his group are trying to locate only 500 of 800 descendants as the rest have already died.
In a letter he personally handed to Gordon at a press conference on Wednesday, Congressman Mikio Shimoji of the Japanese parliament, requested the senator to help them coordinate with the Philippine government to locate these remaining Japanese war descendants.
“We request Senator Gordon to help us in coordinating with the Philippine government to constitute a committee, which consists of Department of Foreign Affairs, Bureau of Immigration, Department of Justice, and National Statistics Office,” Shimoji said.
“The committee will handle war-displaced Filipino Japanese descendants’ problem, especially in making a list war-displaced Japanese descendants. This list will prompt acquisition of Japanese nationality for the descendants at Tokyo Family Court,” he said. ... [Read More]
MANILA, Philippines—Filipino s were not among the top nationalities arrested for trying to cross the United States border illegally, the latest report by the US Office of Immigration Statistics said.
In it June 2009 report, the agency said that apprehensions made by the Border Patrol declined in 2008 at 723,840 persons from the 2007 figure of 876,803 persons. In 2005, apprehension reached its peak of 1,189,000.
The decrease in apprehension can be attributed to the financial crisis in the US and enhanced border enforcement efforts, according to the report.
There are close to three million Filipinos in the US, including 156,000 who are undocumented, according to 2007 figures.
Mexicans topped the nationality arrested in 2008 with 661,773 persons (91 percent), followed by Honduras (19,351), Guatemala (16,395), El Salvador (12,684), Cuba (3,351), Ecuador (1,579), Nicaragua (1,467), Brazil (977), China (836), Dominican Republic (819), Canada (610), and other nationalities (3,998).
Person apprehended are subject to deportation from the US for violating the Immigration and Nationality Act.
Most apprehensions, occurring near US borders shortly after an illegal entry, are made by the Border Patrol of US Customs and Border Protection.
About 7,300 public primary and middle school buildings and gymnasiums would be in danger of collapse if hit by an earthquake of intensity upper 6 or stronger on the Japanese seismic scale of 7, with the number decreasing by about 3,300 from last fiscal year, according to a national survey by the Education, Science and Technology Ministry, details of which were released Tuesday.
According to the survey on the country's 124,976 public primary and middle school buildings and gymnasiums, 41,206, or 33 percent, lacked sufficient seismic resistance as of April 1, including the 7,309 buildings that would not be able to withstand an earthquake of upper 6 or stronger.
East Japan Railway Co. started testing a bullet train capable of reaching 320 kph, the fastest ever.
JR East held test runs from late Monday to early Tuesday starting at Sendai Station.
The new train will be able to link Tokyo and Shin-Aomori stations in three hours and five minutes starting at the end of fiscal 2012. The run currently takes three hours and 59 minutes from Aomori to Tokyo stations via conventional and bullet trains.
The government is set to relax its new-flu guidelines so that people with mild symptoms can recuperate at home instead of being hospitalized, health ministry sources said Tuesday. The ministry will hear expert opinion and will officially decide to review the current rules later this week so as to focus more on efforts to contain the spread of the new strain of influenza among people at risk of developing severe symptoms, the sources said.
The government currently requires local municipalities where only a small number of new-flu infections have been confirmed to hospitalize all cases regardless of the severity of symptoms. In areas where the number of infections has been rising sharply, the government allows people with mild symptoms to recuperate at home. Following the revision, people with mild flu symptoms would remain at home in principle. But local authorities would ask people with underlying conditions to consider staying in hospital as they could become seriously ill, the sources said. http://www.japantoday.com/category/n...s-to-stay-home
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Kawawang mga trainess...sakit sa puso at utak ang dahilan ng kamatayan dahilan sa overwork. Ingat po sa lahat ng mga nagtretraining sa Japan at baka maisama kayo sa listahan ng mga namamatay dito.
MANILA, Philippines - A Filipino man has been tested positive for the A(H1N1) virus in Macau, making him the first such case in the former Portuguese colony.
hammered out the bills to reach a balance on how the estimated 110,000 undocumented foreigners living in Japan should be tracked. Currently, municipalities issue alien registration cards and provide public services to foreigners, even if they know they are overstaying their visas.
