Japan Greenlights Fighter Jet Sales, Moving Away from ‘Pacifist’ Rules
The government of Prime Minister Kishida Fumio on Tuesday relaxed Japan’s export controls on defense equipment.
The government of Prime Minister Kishida Fumio on Tuesday relaxed Japan’s export controls on defense equipment.
Nothing to see here. That is the message being broadcast by Japanese schools taking part in the country’s annual spring baseball tournament to safeguard cheerleaders from upskirting pictures being taken by over-interested spectators.
The McDonald’s fast-food chain suffered a worldwide system failure on Friday that knocked out the ordering system in many of its restaurants.
A secret 2022 Chinese government directive called “Document 79″ seeks to “delete America” from the Chinese high-tech market.
TOKYO — Akira Toriyama, the creator of the best-selling Dragon Ball and other popular anime who influenced Japanese comics, has died, his studio said Friday. He was 68.
Japan, Singapore, and South Korea all posted record-low birth rates for 2023, providing the latest evidence that much of Asia is grappling with a severe demographic crisis that will lead to higher costs for social services and reduced manpower for industry in the near future.
A member of the influential Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference suggests lifting all restrictions on family size.
A leader within Japan’s Yakuza crime syndicate is accused of trafficking nuclear materials, including uranium and weapons-grade plutonium.
Japan’s economy and currency weakened somewhat more than expected in 2023, causing it to slide behind Germany to become the world’s fourth-largest economy.
Kim Yo-jong, the politically influential sister of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, said on Thursday that her brother might be willing to meet with Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio, who wishes to discuss the fate of Japanese civilians kidnapped by North Korea in the 1970s and 1980s, provided Kishida is “respectful.”
The Gunma Prefecture of Japan last week removed a memorial to Korean victims of Imperial Japan’s forced labor policy during World War II.
The Ukraine-born woman recently crowned Miss Japan has relinquished the title after a report alleged that she had an affair with a married man who is an influencer and doctor.
A source in the Japanese government said Chinese hackers leaked classified Japanese diplomatic telegrams in 2020.
Japan’s Moon lander resumed operations on Sunday some five days after it was reported to be in trouble on the lunar surface due to a lack of power.
China’s Spring Festival was one of the biggest travel seasons in the world before the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic, and on Thursday, the state-run Global Times anticipated it would return to its full glory this year, with over nine billion passenger trips taken during the next 40 days.
Japan’s lunar lander ended up standing on its nose with its engines pointing at the inky sky after its touchdown on the Moon’s surface, images released Thursday appear to show.
Japan reported that the government of Prime Minister Kishida Fumio is seeking to establish contact with former President Donald Trump.
China has reportedly become the world’s top exporter of cars, surpassing Japan and well ahead of the United States.
A 90-year-old woman was rescued Saturday after being trapped underneath rubble left behind by the recent earthquake in Japan.
Japanese authorities tallied 94 deaths, 222 people missing, and 846 trapped in unreachable parts of the Noto Peninsula due to the earthquake.
The U.N. Security Council (UNSC) on Wednesday held an emergency meeting to discuss missile, drone, and boarding attacks on Red Sea shipping by the Iran-backed Houthi insurgents of Yemen.
A Chinese television news anchor described Japan’s deadly earthquake as a “comeuppance” and “retribution” for releasing Fukushima wastewater.
The mayor of Suzu, Japan, said “90 percent of houses” in the small peninsula town were either “completely or nearly completely destroyed.”
A Japan Airlines plane erupted into a ball of flames after crash landing at Tokyo’s Haneda airport on Tuesday. The runway was also set alight.
Japan rang in the New Year with a 7.6-magnitude earthquake that killed at least four people and caused massive property damage.
Demographic decline was a big story around the world in 2023, as most industrialized nations wrestled with lower fertility rates while countries like South Korea and China slid into population crises.
People living in north-central Japan have been ordered to evacuate from a five-meter (16ft) tsunami expected after a major earthquake.
Japan on Tuesday announced that six synthetic substitutes for THC will be banned effective January 6 after making some users sick.
The Japanese company trying to purchase the United States Steel Corporation has manufacturing bases in China. The revelation raises more national security concerns as President Joe Biden has yet to commit to blocking the acquisition.
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) is leading Senators in demanding Biden’s administration save U.S. Steel from being bought by a foreign company.
Communist dictator of North Korea Kim Jong-un declared through state media on Wednesday that the launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) was necessary to “clearly show what action the DPRK [North Korea] has been prepared and what option the DPRK would take when Washington makes a wrong decision against it.”
Sens. J.D. Vance (R-OH), Josh Hawley (R-MO), and Marco Rubio (R-FL) are calling on President Joe Biden to block the sale of the United States Steel Corporation by Japan’s largest steelmaker.
The United States Steel Corporation, which played a critical role in helping the Allies defeat Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany in World War II, is now being sold to Japan’s largest steelmaker.
The South Korean military confirmed the firing of a long-range missile from North Korea on Monday morning as Pyongyang announced that one of its top diplomats held a meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Beijing to cement their close alliance.
President Joe Biden declined an invitation this week from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit New Delhi for Republic Day in late January.
The defense ministers of Japan, Britain and Italy signed an agreement to establish a joint organization to develop a new advanced fighter.
The latest fallout from the global “climate crisis” is an uptick in bear attacks in Japan, if CNN is to be believed.
An earthquake hit Saturday just before 11:00 p.m. off the coast of the Philippines in Mindanao, igniting fears of a possible tsunami.
A U.S. military Osprey aircraft with eight personnel aboard crashed into the sea near Japan’s Yakushima Island on Wednesday morning. It is the latest in a string of accidents involving the tilt-rotor transport.
Former Major League Baseball all-star Ichiro Suzuki displayed his incredible at age 50 by ptching a complete game shutout against a girl’s high school team.