今週の日本 Japanese Companies Still Invest in Themselves New York Times Founder of Japan's Red Army in final appeal for freedom Guardian Dollar tests 13-year low in ¥88 range; Nikkei off 5.6% Japan Times Japan OKs extension of anti-terror navy mission Washington Post Firms that cancel job offers to be named within month The Daily Yomiuri Gaffes put Japan's Aso under fire BBC Financial-Economic Crisis and the Asia Pacific Japan Focus Centenarian athletes and aged porn stars: the tip of Japan's demographic iceberg Times on Line Japan moves carefully toward Islamic finance Asahi Asada, Abbott win gold at Grand Prix finals Yahoo! Sports Last week's Japan news Japan Statistics Random attacks hit a record high in Japan this year. In the first 11 months of 2008, there were 13 random attacks that were prosecuted as murder or attempted murder. This is the highest since such statistics started being compiled in 1993. In total crime data, there were 1,674,773 criminal cases in the first 11 months of this year. That is a 4.9% decline on the previous year. Source: Kyodo News |