Low-priced bus tours tend to have lax maintenance of vehicles

The tragic crash of a ski tour bus in Nagano is causing another controversy over the fact that a bus operating company had contracted for the transport of skiers at a price far below the government-set standard.

Demanding pay raise, union workers surround bldg. of biggest business lobby

Union workers marched in demonstration at lunchtime through Tokyo’s business district to increase momentum before going into this year’s spring labor-management wage talks.

PM Abe admits poverty spreading in Japan

Grilled by the Japanese Communist Party in Diet deliberations, Prime Minister Abe Shinzo admitted that more and more Japanese people are falling into poverty and experiencing social inequality under his “Abenomics” economic policies.