Harumi Ozawa
latest news & developmentsJapan condom makers hope for 2020 Olympic lift
Japanese condom makers are ramping up preparations ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games
Japanese minister resigns over insensitive comments
Japan’s economy, trade and industry minister has resigned over his comments about radiation contamination in crisis-hit Fukushima.
Japan plugs leak from nuclear plant
Workers at Japan’s crippled atomic power plant on Wednesday plugged a hole spewing highly radioactive water into the ocean.
Japanese whaling ship attacked by activists
Militant environmentalists hurled stinging acid for more than an hour onto a Japanese whaling ship off Antarctica on Monday, hurting three crew members, officials said. Both…
In Japan, laughter to be measured by ‘aH’
Japanese professor Yoji Kimura believes laughter is a weapon that in healthy doses can end the world’s wars. The only problem is finding a way to measure it. And so the expert on…
Sony scrambles to contain growing battery troubles
Japan’s Sony, scrambling to contain the fall-out from widening defective battery problems, launched a global replacement programme after China’s Lenovo became the latest computer…