Tag: tokyo

  • Aging, indebted Japan debates right to ‘die with dignity’

    Aging, indebted Japan debates right to ‘die with dignity’

    By Linda Sieg TOKYO (Reuters) – Retired Japanese airline employee Tarou Tanzawa said he hadn't thought much about his own death until his 84-year-old mother was diagnosed with malignant lymphoma and decided against costly and invasive life-prolonging treatment. Soon after, Tanzawa made his own “living will”, stipulating he did not want life-prolonging treatment if he…

  • VW chairman, CEO knew of defeat devices early: Bild

    VW chairman, CEO knew of defeat devices early: Bild

    Volkswagen AG's current chairman and chief executive were alerted by the carmaker's former CEO to the use of illicit emissions-control software in the United States two weeks before the carmaker disclosed the scale of its manipulations, Bild am Sonntag reported, without citing the source of the information. Martin Winterkorn, who resigned within a week of…