Taiwan: Typhoon Danas Batters Southern Region, Leaving Widespread Damage 3

Typhoon Danas made landfall near Chiayi's Budai Township around 11:40 p.m. on Sunday, July 6, bringing gusty winds and heavy rainfall to the southern region. Typhoon Danas weakened to a tropical storm after its eye departed Taiwan early Monday.

Amazon Web Services Japan (AWS Japan) logo

Amazon Web Services Japan (AWS Japan) logo

Amazon Web Services Japan (AWS Japan) logo=April 15,2025,Tokyo

Amazon Web Services Japan (AWS Japan) logo

Amazon Web Services Japan (AWS Japan) logo

Amazon Web Services Japan (AWS Japan) logo=April 15,2025,Tokyo

Amazon Web Services Japan (AWS Japan) logo

Amazon Web Services Japan (AWS Japan) logo

Amazon Web Services Japan (AWS Japan) logo=April 15,2025,Tokyo

Amazon Web Services Japan (AWS Japan) logo

Amazon Web Services Japan (AWS Japan) logo

Amazon Web Services Japan (AWS Japan) logo=April 15,2025,Tokyo

Amazon Web Services Japan (AWS Japan) logo

Amazon Web Services Japan (AWS Japan) logo

Amazon Web Services Japan (AWS Japan) logo=April 15,2025,Tokyo

Amazon begins online pharmacy, drug delivery services in Japan

Amazon begins online pharmacy, drug delivery services in Japan

Hiroshi Maeda, an executive of Amazon Japan G.K., speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on July 23, 2024, over the launch of online prescriptions and medicine delivery services in Japan.

Amazon begins online pharmacy, drug delivery services in Japan

Amazon begins online pharmacy, drug delivery services in Japan

Hiroshi Maeda, an executive of Amazon Japan G.K., speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on July 23, 2024, over the launch of online prescriptions and medicine delivery services in Japan.

Amazon begins online pharmacy, drug delivery services in Japan

Amazon begins online pharmacy, drug delivery services in Japan

Hiroshi Maeda, an executive of Amazon Japan G.K., speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on July 23, 2024, over the launch of online prescriptions and medicine delivery services in Japan.

NTT Docomo and Amazon Japan Cooperation Conference

NTT Docomo and Amazon Japan Cooperation Conference

Conference on the new collaboration between NTT DOCOMO and Amazon Japan. From left, Motoyuki Ii, President of NTT DOCOMO, Jasper Cheung, president of Amazon Japan, LLC.=Date:April 10, 2024, Place: Tokyo

NTT Docomo and Amazon Japan Cooperation Conference

NTT Docomo and Amazon Japan Cooperation Conference

Conference on the new collaboration between NTT DOCOMO and Amazon Japan. Motoyuki Ii, President of NTT DOCOMO. =Date:April 10, 2024, Place: Tokyo

NTT Docomo and Amazon Japan Cooperation Conference

NTT Docomo and Amazon Japan Cooperation Conference

Conference on the new collaboration between NTT DOCOMO and Amazon Japan. From left, Motoyuki Ii, President of NTT DOCOMO, Jasper Cheung, president of Amazon Japan, LLC.=Date:April 10, 2024, Place: Tokyo

NTT Docomo and Amazon Japan Cooperation Conference

NTT Docomo and Amazon Japan Cooperation Conference

Conference on the new collaboration between NTT DOCOMO and Amazon Japan. Motoyuki Ii, President of NTT DOCOMO. =Date:April 10, 2024, Place: Tokyo

NTT Docomo and Amazon Japan Cooperation Conference

NTT Docomo and Amazon Japan Cooperation Conference

Conference on the new collaboration between NTT DOCOMO and Amazon Japan. Jasper Cheung, president of Amazon Japan, LLC.=Date:April 10, 2024, Place: Tokyo

USA-Japan State Dinner - Washington

USA-Japan State Dinner - Washington

Jeff Bezos of Amazon. attends an entertainment reception hosted by US President Joe Biden for Prime Minister Kishida Fumio of Japan in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington on April 10, 2024. Photo by Yuri Gripas/ABACAPRESS.COM

USA-Japan State Dinner - Washington

USA-Japan State Dinner - Washington

Jeff Bezos of Amazon. attends an entertainment reception hosted by US President Joe Biden for Prime Minister Kishida Fumio of Japan in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington on April 10, 2024. Photo by Yuri Gripas/ABACAPRESS.COM

Amazon e-cargo bike

Amazon e-cargo bike

Photo taken on Oct. 17, 2023, shows an electric cargo bike launched for urban deliveries in Japan unveiled by Amazon.com Inc. during a business presentation in Seattle, Washington, as it tackles driver shortages.

Amazon Japan delivery driver found eligible for workers' compensation

A self-employed delivery driver for the Japanese unit of Amazon.com Inc. has been deemed eligible for workers' compensation after he was injured on the job, a labor union said Wednesday.While self-employed individuals are generally not eligible for workers' compensation, given he received direct instructions from the online shopping giant, the man in his 60s was recognized by the Yokosuka labor standards inspection office as effectively being "an employee," according to Tokyo Union.

Muji-brand operator gives $200,000 to protect Amazon basin

Muji-brand operator gives $200,000 to protect Amazon basin

TOKYO, Japan - Ecuadorian Ambassador to Japan Leonardo Carrion (L) and Masaaki Kanai, president of Japanese retailer Ryohin Keikaku Co., shake hands in Tokyo on Dec. 27, 2011. Ryohin Keikaku signed a deal to provide $200,000 to protect an ecological site in Ecuador.

French anthropologist Descola wins Japan's Cosmos Prize

French anthropologist Descola wins Japan's Cosmos Prize

TOKYO, Japan - French anthropologist Philippe Descola speaks in an undated interview as a winner of the 2014 International Cosmos Prize sponsored by Japan's Foundation for the International Garden and Greenery Exposition for his ethnographic studies in the Amazon region in South America.

Amazon, Tokushima Pref. sign relief goods deal

Amazon, Tokushima Pref. sign relief goods deal

TOKUSHIMA, Japan - Amazon Japan K.K. President Jasper Cheung (L) and Tokushima Governor Kamon Iizumi show an agreement on the delivery of emergency relief supplies signed between the online retailer and the government of the western Japan prefecture at the latter's office in Tokushima city on Sept. 5, 2014. The pact will allow consumers to buy and donate disaster relief goods through Amazon's website if the prefecture is hit by a natural disaster.

Urban Animal Album

Urban Animal Album

OSAKA, Japan - A capybara relaxes under a hot-water drip at Nagasaki Bio Park, a zoo and botanical garden in Nagasaki Prefecture, on Dec. 18, 2013. The rodent native to the Amazon river basin dislikes cold weather and likes to soak in the open-air bath built at the park for exclusive use by the animal in winter.

Amazon distribution center

Amazon distribution center

YOKOHAMA, Japan - A worker sorts goods at a new distribution center of Amazon Japan K.K. as it began operations in Odawara, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Sept. 3, 2013.

Amazon distribution center

Amazon distribution center

YOKOHAMA, Japan - A new distribution center of Amazon Japan K.K. begins operations in Odawara, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Sept. 3, 2013.

Amazon distribution depot

Amazon distribution depot

NAGOYA, Japan - U.S. online retailer Amazon.com Inc.'s distribution subsidiary shows reporters its distribution depot in Tajimi, Gifu Prefecture, central Japan, on April 9, 2013. The facility began operation in November 2012.

Miyazaki zoo amuses visitors with "flying flamingo show"

Miyazaki zoo amuses visitors with "flying flamingo show"

MIYAZAKI, Japan - Toshihisa Deguchi, head of Miyazaki City Phoenix Zoo, has a Blue-fronted Amazon named Tiffany on his arm at the zoo in Miyazaki Prefecture on March 10, 2013.

Amazon CEO in Japan

Amazon CEO in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Amazon.com Inc. chief executive officer Jeff Bezos speaks during an interview in Tokyo on Oct. 24, 2012. The U.S. online retailer said the same day it will start selling Kindle electronic books and readers in Japan.

Amazon CEO in Japan

Amazon CEO in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Amazon.com Inc. chief executive officer Jeff Bezos holds a Kindle Fire HD in Tokyo on Oct. 24, 2012. The U.S. online retailer said the same day it will start selling Kindle electronic books and readers in Japan.

Amazon's Kindle Fire HD

Amazon's Kindle Fire HD

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle Fire HD, the sale of which is to begin in Japan in December 2012.

Amazon Japan Pres. Cheung, Sendai Mayor Okuyama

Amazon Japan Pres. Cheung, Sendai Mayor Okuyama

SENDAI, Japan - Jasper Cheung (L), president of Amazon Japan K.K., shakes hands with Sendai Mayor Emiko Okuyama at the Sendai city office on the afternoon of Sept. 27, 2011. The Japanese unit of U.S.-based Internet commerce giant Amazon.com Inc. said the same day it will open a call center in the capital of Miyagi Prefecture, which was hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, in March 2012.

Fish from Amazon at Tochigi aquarium

Fish from Amazon at Tochigi aquarium

UTSUNOMIYA, Japan - Large fish from the Amazon River swim in a tank at Nakagawa Aquatic Park in Otawara, Tochigi Prefecture, on July 29, 2010. The park has been inviting children to swim with the fish in the tank during a hands-on event Aug. 24.

Amazon Japan opens customer service center in Sapporo

Amazon Japan opens customer service center in Sapporo

SAPPORO, Japan - Employees of Amazon Japan K.K., the Japanese unit of Amazon.com Inc. of the United States, receive questions and complaints from customers via telephone and e-mail in a customer service center in Sapporo, Hokkaido Prefecture in northern Japan on Jan. 24. The center is the company's first in Asia.

Amazon launches Japanese-language site

Amazon launches Japanese-language site

TOKYO, Japan - Amazon.com Chief Executive Jeffrey Bezos speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Nov. 1. The leading Internet retailer said it has launched a Japanese-language site, Amazon.co.jp, to serve Japanese-speaking customers in Japan and around the world.

Amazon.com to market Pokemon goods

Amazon.com to market Pokemon goods

NEW YORK, United States - Holding a stuffed Pokemon character, Jeff Bezos, chief executive officer of Amazon.com, an Internet retailer dealing mainly in books and CDs, attends a press conference in New York on Nov. 9. Bezos announced that Amazon will begin marketing some 100 kinds of Pokemon merchandise from Nintendo Co. of Japan from Nov. 10.

Amazon Japan promotional event

Amazon Japan promotional event

Popular YouTuber Hikakin (2nd from L) attends a promotional event in Tokyo on June 23, 2022, for the July 12-13 Prime Day special sale for Amazon Japan members.

Amazon Japan delivery drivers form union, claiming overwork

A group of 10 people working as freelance delivery drivers for Amazon.com Inc.'s Japan unit have unionized and handed over a letter to the online shopping giant's Tokyo headquarters demanding that their poor working conditions be corrected, union members said Monday. The union claimed that, despite working as freelance drivers, Amazon Japan G.K. effectively controls their work hours by sending delivery instructions via smartphones and that outsourcing of delivery operations is a way to avoid signing labor contracts. Lawyers and supporters of the group said this is the first time Amazon delivery drivers have unionized in Japan.

Shinkawa Electric's vibration monitoring sensor "Zerk X8

Shinkawa Electric's vibration monitoring sensor "Zerk X8

The connected sensors acquire analog data such as temperature, pressure, water level and flow rate as well as vibration. The data is sent via wireless LAN to an antenna several dozen meters away. The data is collected in the "Machine Dossier" cloud system. The data is displayed in an easy-to-understand manner using graphs and other data. Amazon's Amazon Web Services (AWS) is used as the system infrastructure. The data can be easily viewed on smartphones and other devices. The annual fee for using the system is 48,000 yen (excluding consumption tax) for each eight-point sensor. SEC of America (North Carolina), a wholly owned subsidiary in the U.S., develops and produces the system. Shinkawa Sensor Technology (Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo), a subsidiary in Japan, will develop and produce higher-specification non-contact vibration sensors. (Photo taken on February 6, 2020, location unknown, credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images)

Manaus, big city in middle of Amazon rainforest

Manaus, big city in middle of Amazon rainforest

Photo taken from a chartered helicopter on May 5, 2016, shows the Amazonia Arena, where group stage matches of the Rio 2016 Olympic soccer tournaments will be held in August, including Japan men's first two matches against Nigeria and Colombia, in Manaus in northern Brazil. The Negro River, a tributary of the Amazon River, can be seen in the background. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Amazon expands area for maximum 1 hour delivery to cover Osaka

Amazon expands area for maximum 1 hour delivery to cover Osaka

Jasper Cheung, president of Amazon Japan K.K., poses for a photo in Osaka on Jan. 26, 2016. The company expanded the same-day one-hour delivery service area to cover the western Japanese city, as well as parts of nearby Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture and parts of Yokohama, southwest of Tokyo. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Amazon to launch Prime Instant Video service in Japan in Sept.

Amazon to launch Prime Instant Video service in Japan in Sept.

Jasper Cheung, president of Amazon Japan K.K., the U.S. online retailing giant's Japan unit, speaks in Tokyo on Aug. 26, 2015. Cheung said that the company will launch its Prime Instant Video service in Japan in September to allow prime members, who pay an annual membership fee of 3,900 yen ($33) unlimited viewing of movies, animations and other videos. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Amazon running bar in Tokyo's Ginza to boost liquor business

Amazon running bar in Tokyo's Ginza to boost liquor business

Amazon Japan K.K. unveils the "amazon bar" in Tokyo's posh Ginza district to the media on Oct. 19, 2017. The bar, with around 5,000 bottles of wine, sake and other alcoholic beverages, is open for 10 days through Oct. 29. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Amazon, Kumamoto Pref. join hands to support quake recovery

Amazon, Kumamoto Pref. join hands to support quake recovery

Photo taken April 11, 2017, shows Amazon.com Inc.'s Japan unit and the Kumamoto prefectural government having signed an agreement to support the recovery of Kumamoto following strong earthquakes last April. Kumamon, the popular black bear mascot of the southwestern Japan prefecture, attended a press conference for the announcement of the agreement. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Amazon starts music streaming service in Japan

Amazon starts music streaming service in Japan

Amazon launched the music streaming service Prime Music, available to the company's Prime membership program subscribers, in Japan on Nov. 18, 2015. Japan is the fifth country where the online retail giant's streaming music service has become available. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Amazon Japan Pres. Cheung, Sendai Mayor Okuyama

Amazon Japan Pres. Cheung, Sendai Mayor Okuyama

SENDAI, Japan - Jasper Cheung (L), president of Amazon Japan K.K., shakes hands with Sendai Mayor Emiko Okuyama at the Sendai city office on the afternoon of Sept. 27, 2011. The Japanese unit of U.S.-based Internet commerce giant Amazon.com Inc. said the same day it will open a call center in the capital of Miyagi Prefecture, which was hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, in March 2012. (Kyodo)

Fish from Amazon at Tochigi aquarium

Fish from Amazon at Tochigi aquarium

UTSUNOMIYA, Japan - Large fish from the Amazon River swim in a tank at Nakagawa Aquatic Park in Otawara, Tochigi Prefecture, on July 29, 2010. The park has been inviting children to swim with the fish in the tank during a hands-on event Aug. 24. (Kyodo)

French anthropologist Descola wins Japan's Cosmos Prize

French anthropologist Descola wins Japan's Cosmos Prize

TOKYO, Japan - French anthropologist Philippe Descola speaks in an undated interview as a winner of the 2014 International Cosmos Prize sponsored by Japan's Foundation for the International Garden and Greenery Exposition for his ethnographic studies in the Amazon region in South America. (Kyodo)

Amazon, Tokushima Pref. sign relief goods deal

Amazon, Tokushima Pref. sign relief goods deal

TOKUSHIMA, Japan - Amazon Japan K.K. President Jasper Cheung (L) and Tokushima Governor Kamon Iizumi show an agreement on the delivery of emergency relief supplies signed between the online retailer and the government of the western Japan prefecture at the latter's office in Tokushima city on Sept. 5, 2014. The pact will allow consumers to buy and donate disaster relief goods through Amazon's website if the prefecture is hit by a natural disaster. (Kyodo)

Fashion week opens in Tokyo

Fashion week opens in Tokyo

The "5-knot" brand clothes are introduced in Tokyo at the start of the Amazon Fashion Week, one of the biggest fashion shows in Japan, on March 20, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Fashion week opens in Tokyo

Fashion week opens in Tokyo

The "5-knot" brand clothes are introduced in Tokyo at the start of the Amazon Fashion Week, one of the biggest fashion shows in Japan, on March 20, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Amazon's Japan unit to return 2 bil. yen to suppliers

Amazon's Japan unit to return 2 bil. yen to suppliers

File photo taken in March 2018 shows a logo of Amazon.com Inc.'s Japan unit at its headquarters in Tokyo. Amazon Japan G.K. has pledged to return around 2 billion yen ($18.8 million) to about 1,400 suppliers after having them shoulder part of the costs to cover discounts the online retailer applied on goods, the Japan Fair Trade Commission said on Sept. 10, 2020, referring to the Japanese unit's proposed reforms submitted to the antitrust watchdog in late August.