Supplementary budget for relocating fish market to polluted Toyosu site approved

The Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly at its plenary meeting passed the governor-proposed supplementary budget drafted to relocate the famous fish market from Tsukiji to the polluted former gas plant site in Toyosu.

MV-22, before crashing in sea off Okinawa, repeatedly failed in attempts at aerial refueling

A U.S. report on a U.S. MV-22 crash that occurred in Okinawa late last year was published, attributing the accident to a mistake made by the aircraft’s pilot.

JCP in Diet debate: Gov’t should urge US to hold talks with N. Korea to avert military clash

Japanese Communist Party parliamentarians at off-session Diet committee meetings demanded that the Japanese government push the U.S. to hold direct talks with North Korea in order to avert a military clash.