Japanese Red Cross has committed $2.76 million to help a Vietnam Red Cross mangrove and disaster risk reduction project till 2015.

Electronics and manufacturing giant Toshiba said Wednesday it is to shut three semiconductor factories in Japan as part of a reorganisation of its business.

Japan-Vietnam Friendship Association in Kawasaki City has recently promised to gift children in Vietnam’s central region an addition of 4,000 bicycles from now to 2013.

Farmland in parts of Japan is no longer safe because of high levels of radiation in the soil, scientists have warned.

Japanese traditional music trio Trinity will perform Japanese folk, other Asian music, and some Beatles classics in Hanoi this week.