Japan
5 Jan
Japanese authorities began culling some 50,000 chickens Sunday after a bird flu outbreak at a farm in the northern Iwate region. It is the 19th bird flu outbreak of the season in Japan, the agriculture ministry said. The latest farm reported increasing deaths of fowl, and test results confirmed Sunday that bird flu was the…
4 Jan
The world's oldest person, Japanese woman Tomiko Itooka, has died aged 116, the city where she lived, Ashiya, announced on Saturday. Itooka, who had four children and five grandchildren, died on December 29 at a nursing home where she resided since 2019, the southern city's mayor said in a statement. She was born on May…
3 Jan
The United States on Friday announced the approval of a $3.6 billion sale of up to 1,200 advanced air-to-air missiles and related equipment to Japan, one of Washington's closest allies in Asia. China's increasingly assertive presence around disputed territories in the Pacific has sparked Japan's ire in recent years, leading Tokyo to boost security ties…
27 Dec
Japanese stocks rose Friday on a weaker yen after a muted day on Wall Street following the Christmas holiday.
25 Dec
Japanese foreign minister Takeshi Iwaya raised "serious concerns" on Wednesday over China's military buildup as he met counterpart Wang Yi in Beijing, Tokyo said. On his first visit to China since becoming Japan's top diplomat earlier this year, Iwaya told Wang that Tokyo was "closely monitoring the Taiwan situation and recent military developments", according to…
24 Dec
A North Korean hacking group stole cryptocurrency worth over $300 million from the Japan-based exchange DMM Bitcoin, according to Japanese police and the United States' FBI.
23 Dec
Japanese authorities will hand Google a cease-and-desist order over an alleged antitrust violation in the first such move against a US tech titan, a government source said Monday.
20 Dec
Japanese inflation accelerated in November, with prices rising 2.7 percent on-year partly due to higher energy costs, government data showed Friday.
19 Dec
The yen fell against the dollar on Thursday as the Bank of Japan left borrowing costs unchanged and warned of uncertainty over the economic policies of US president-elect Donald Trump.
17 Dec
Japanese auto giants Honda Motor and Nissan Motor will enter talks on a merger aimed at helping them compete against Tesla and other electric vehicle makers, newspaper Nikkei reported early Wednesday. The two firms are looking to operate under a single holding company and will soon sign a memorandum of understanding for the new entity,…
17 Dec
Japan wants renewables to be its top power source by 2040 in a push to reduce dependence on coal and gas and become carbon neutral by mid-century, government plans showed Tuesday.
14 Dec
The United States has begun relocating thousands of Marines from the Japanese island of Okinawa, Tokyo and Washington said Saturday, after decades of mounting grievances among locals over America's military presence. In 2012, the United States said it would redeploy 9,000 Marines from the island where communities complain bases are an unfair burden -- with…
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