The launches detected by South Korea and Japan are North Korea’s first public weapons firing activities in two months. North Korea has fired multiple short-range ballistic missiles off its east coast, according to South Korea and Japan. The launches took place at about 7:10am on Thursday (22:10 GMT, Wednesday), days…
A Japanese father and bodybuilder claims he is a “true master” and has “doubled” his life by only sleeping half an hour per night for a dozen years. Daisuke Hori, 40, says he has trained his body and mind to function normally and not feel tired as he targets between…
They’re hoping for more play and less work. The Japanese government is trying to encourage more businesses to adopt a four-day workweek due to a labor shortage in the country, which faces a potential shortage of a staggering 1 million workers in 2040, a recent study found. Japanese leaders even…
NewsFeed Video shows how strong winds brought by Typhoon Shanshan forced several airplanes to abort landings at Japan’s Fukuoka Airport. Several people have died as a result of storms and millions of people have been ordered to leave their homes. Published On 30 Aug 202430 Aug 2024 Check out our…
Powerful storm with gusts of up to 216km per hour made landfall near Satsumasendai city in southwestern Kyushu. Dozens of people have been injured and power was cut to a quarter of a million households after Typhoon Shanshan struck southwestern Japan. The typhoon, bringing gusts of up to 252 kilometres…
Authorities on Kyushu and Honshu islands order evacuations and carmaker Toyota suspends operations at 14 plants. Japan has issued an emergency warning as a powerful typhoon approaches its southwest, prompting carmaker Toyota to shutter factories and airlines to cancel flights. The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) on Wednesday estimated that Typhoon…
Tokyo summoned ambassador and lodged protest after surveillance plane was detected on Monday morning. Japan has said the violation of its airspace by a Chinese military spy plane was “utterly unacceptable”, a day after the country scrambled jets and summoned a Chinese embassy official in Tokyo in protest. Speaking at…
Tomiko Itooka went mountain climbing into her 70s, scaling Japan’s 3,067-metre Mount Ontake – in sneakers. A Japanese woman aged 116 is set to be named the world’s oldest person by Guinness World Records. The United States-based Gerontology Research Group announced on Wednesday that former mountaineer Tomiko Itooka, born on…
Passengers had to deal with hundreds of delayed flights on Saturday — because of a pair of scissors. A pair of shears went missing in a Japanese airport, causing security checks to be suspended for about two hours, local outlets reported. The scissors were missing from a store in the…
The winner of the Liberal Democratic Party’s leadership election in September will also become the next prime minister. Japan’s governing Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is set to elect its new leader and the country’s next prime minister in September. The party’s announcement on Tuesday came after Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s…
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