The Fukuoka Prefectural Government found that the inn only changed the bathwater twice yearly. A local ordinance says it should be changed at least once a week.
The head of an upscale Japanese inn apologized on Tuesday for only changing the water in its hot-spring bath every six months, allowing bacteria to breed 3,700 times over the standard limit. Local ordinances stipulate a weekly replacement of the water in which guests traditionally soak naked together after taking…
A former SMBC Nikko Securities Inc deputy president was indicted Wednesday in a deepening trading scandal over alleged market manipulation at the major Japanese brokerage. Toshihiro Sato, 59, who supervised the equity department, is suspected of colluding in placing large buy orders for an individual stock before the end of…