NAGOYA Refusing membership to a golf club because a person was not born with Japanese nationality constitutes racial discrimination, the Nagoya High Court ruled.
Ryokan, or traditional Japanese inns, are the pinnacle of Japanese hospitality. Here are nine of the most luxurious ryokan with onsen (hot spring) baths in Japan.
Taiwan chipmaker Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp is considering around five sites in Japan, including Mie prefecture, for setting up a potential $5.4 billion factory as talks on subsidies progress, sources said. Powerchip announced in July it was setting up a joint venture with Japanese financial firm SBI Holdings with the aim of securing government subsidies to build a plant in Japan. The total cost of the factory is expected to be around 800 billion yen ($5.35 billion), one source s