News Headlines - 30 September 2020

▽Elite Tokyo school expels masked impostor who posed as his brother | The Times

Kaisei Academy in Tokyo, an all-boys school, said it had expelled one of its pupils after discovering that he was passing himself off as his younger sibling and had never passed its rigorous entrance examination.
The 16-year old younger brother of the fraudulent pupil succeeded in passing the examination for two private schools but chose not to go to the Kaisei Academy, according to the Japanese magazine Weekly Post.
Rather than informing the school, however, his family, who have not been named, sent their other son, who is believed to be two years older, to take up the place offered.

▽High court orders Japan gov't, Tepco to pay damages over Fukushima crisis - The Mainichi

The Sendai High Court on Wednesday ordered the state and the operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant to pay 1 billion yen ($9.5 million) in damages to residents over the 2011 tsunami-triggered disaster.
It was the first time for a high court to acknowledge the state's responsibility for the incident in about 30 similar lawsuits filed across Japan.
The amount the Sendai court told the government and Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. to pay to 3,550 plaintiffs was up from the sum of 500 million yen that a lower court ordered them to pay to some 2,900 plaintiffs in an October 2017 ruling.

▽AirAsia approves shutting down Japan joint venture - Nikkei Asia

Malaysia-based AirAsia Group, owned by aviation tycoon Tony Fernandes, is shutting down its Japan operations with an announcement slated for early next week, Nikkei Asia has learned, as the region's largest no-frills carrier struggles with grounded aircraft while most international borders remain closed as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

▽Nissan's ex-chairman Carlos Ghosn launches business program in Lebanon

Carlos Ghosn, the scandal-hit former CEO and chairman of Nissan who fled trial in Japan, is launching a business training program to help spark economic recovery in his native, crisis-hit Lebanon.
The French-Lebanese auto executive revealed on Tuesday plans to coach business leaders, provide tech training and create start-up jobs as part of a new tie-up with the Universite Saint-Esprit de Kaslik (USEK), a private university north of Beirut.

▽Disney to lay off about 28,000 parks unit employees due to coronavirus hit | Reuters

Walt Disney Co said on Tuesday it will lay off roughly 28,000 employees, mostly at its U.S. theme parks, where attendance has been crushed by the coronavirus pandemic, especially in California where Disneyland remains closed.
About two-thirds of the laid-off employees will be part-time workers, the company said in a statement.
Disney shut its theme parks worldwide when the novel coronavirus began spreading this year. All but Disneyland - nicknamed the Happiest Place on Earth - reopened, though the company was forced to limit the number of visitors to allow for physical distancing.