Japanese and South Korean buying helped drive the price of bitcoin to an all-time high this week, with the digital currency more than doubling its value since the start of the year, 

VietNamNet Bridge - Japanese investors are now eyeing non-production sectors, such as the retail industry.

 Japan is committed to the G20 agreement on foreign-exchange policy and is not manipulating its currency, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, the country's top government spokesman, 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Japanese police have confirmed the death of a Vietnamese girl in Akibo, Chiba Prefecture, who was reported missing last Friday,

 Japan and Vietnam have signed an agreement on a technical cooperation project to improve the network of medical laboratories in Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Japanese government is tightening management over admission to language schools, but this doesn’t mean the country will reject all Vietnamese students.

Japan's nuclear regulator on Tuesday requested the Tokyo Electric Power Co Holdings resubmit safety check applications for its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant

VietNamNet Bridge - While some analysts jeer at the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs’ (MOLISA) plan to export unemployed university graduates, others support the idea.

 The friendship between the Japanese Communist Party (JCP) and the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) has been reinforced in recent years, according to Ogata Yasuo – JCP Vice Chairman and Head of the JCP’s International Affairs Department.

 A virulent strain of airborne bird flu extended its shadow across northeast Asia as Japan launched a new chicken cull on a southern island, days after gassing hundreds of thousands of birds some 2,400 kilometers to the north.

 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan held a meeting with Ambassadors of ASEAN member countries on December 20 on the third anniversary of the ASEAN-Japan Summit (December 2013).

 Competition is cutthroat among Japan's thousands of pop idol wannabes, but a unique concept is winning fame for a band of "chubby" girls deploying their cheeky cuteness to combat prejudices against obesity.

 A powerful earthquake rocked northern Japan on Tuesday, briefly disrupting cooling functions at a nuclear plant and generating a tsunami that hit the same region devastated by a massive quake, tsunami and nuclear disaster in 2011.

 Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Malaysian counterpart Najib Razak affirmed their common stance on territorial disputes in the East Sea on November 16.  

The Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) had a working session with a delegation from Japan’s Mimasaka city in Hanoi on October 25 as part of the programme to boost culture and sports activities towards the Olympic Tokyo 2020.

 Honda Motor Co (7267.T) on Thursday said it was recalling about 668,000 vehicles in Japan to replace air bag inflators supplied by Takata Corp (7312.T), as part of an expanded nationwide recall announced earlier this year.

 Nineteen people are "in a state of cardiac arrest" after an attack by a knife-wielding man at a facility for the disabled in Kanagawa prefecture, southwest of Tokyo, a prefectural official said on Tuesday.

 At least six people died and a university student was missing on Wednesday as record-breaking rains battered parts of southwestern Japan still reeling from earthquakes two months ago, setting off flooding and landslides.

VietNamNet Bridge - While some analysts believe official development assistance (ODA) should be reduced, others believe that Vietnam still needs ODA capital for infrastructure development.

The deadly earthquakes that struck the southern Japanese island of Kyushu on Thursday and Saturday breached the walls of Kumamoto Castle which had previously withstood bombardment and fire in its four centuries of existence.