Flights and trains in Tokyo area cancelled as weather agency warns people of strong winds and heavy rains. Japan has ordered thousands of people to evacuate and cancelled dozens of flights as a “very strong” typhoon swerves dangerously close to the east of the country. The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA)…
Nanmoku, Japan – Like all bakers, their day starts before dawn. Hours later, as the mid-afternoon light streams through the windows of their kitchen, Masayuki Kaneta, 85, and his son, Shigeuki, are still at work, rolling out long strings of barley and brown sugar dough that will be chopped, baked…
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said he will step down in September, ending a three-year term marred by political scandals and paving the way for a new premier to address the impact of rising prices. “Politics cannot function without public trust,” Kishida said in a press conference on Wednesday to…
Kishida will not seek re-election as the leader of the ruling LDP in party elections next month. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has announced he will not seek re-election as the leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in next month’s party polls, in a decision that means the…
China has emerged as the world’s top producer of generative AI patents, but it is struggling to turn many of its ideas into action thanks to US export controls and longstanding struggles with its innovation culture at home. In July, the UN’s intellectual property agency reported that China had filed…
A powerful earthquake struck off Japan’s southern coast on Thursday, triggering a tsunami advisory. The Japan Meteorological Agency said the quake registered magnitude 7.1 and was centered off the eastern coast of Japan’s southern main island of Kyushu at a depth of about 18.6 miles. It issued a tsunami advisory,…
Fears about the health of the US economy are hitting Japan’s stock market and share indices around Asia. Japanese stocks have recorded their biggest losses since October 1987, extending last week’s sell-off spurred by concerns the United States’ economy may be in weaker health than previously thought. The Nikkei share…
Japan Meteorological Agency says temperatures were the highest since records began in 1898. Japan has experienced its hottest July in recorded history. Temperatures in the country were 2.16 degrees Celsius higher than average, the hottest since records began in 1898, the Japan Meteorological Agency said on Thursday. The previous record…
Olympics day three: Gold for Japan in men’s skateboarding and gymnastics, Canada achieves a judo first, and Great Britain wins a mountain bike thriller. Yuto Horigome of Japan has retained his Olympic title in men’s street skateboarding in Paris, clinching the top of the podium on his last trick in…
Washington says military restructuring aimed at countering growing threats from China, North Korea and Russia. The United States says it is revamping its military command in Japan as the two countries face what they call the greatest strategic challenge from China. US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says it is the…
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