TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese baseball legend Sadaharu Oh said Friday he expects Shohei Ohtani to focus on batting after the Los Angeles Dodgers star was
TOKYO (AP) -- Japan's most famous monster is back in "Godzilla Minus Zero" in all its fire-breathing, stomping glory, delivering its trademark allegor
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tokyo stocks rose Friday on hopes that the artificial intelligence boom will continue despite concerns about the future of Nvidia Cor
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Japanese government said Friday it will host the presidents of Chile and Peru next week for separate summit meetings with Prime M
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The number of humanoid robots could exceed 10 billion and outnumber the global human population by the 2080s, a recent analysis by U.
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Films by Chinese directors scooped up the best actress and Special Jury prizes at the 39th Tokyo International Film Festival.
TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi will visit China next week for the first time since she took office, attending an Asia-Pacific summit in Shenzhen, Tokyo said Friday. The trip comes at a time of particularly fraught relations between the rival nations after Takaichi suggested in November last year that Tokyo may intervene in any attack on the island of Taiwan, which Beijing claims as its territory. “Prime Minister Takaichi is scheduled to visit the Philippines and China from Nove...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- China is increasingly prioritizing control of the South China Sea to deter U.S. military intervention in the event of a potential inv
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama said Friday that Japan will continue to work closely with the United States and take appropriate ac
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi plans to propose a new cooperative framework with ASEAN members to address threats from advanc
TOKYO -- Japan's influenza season has begun more than a month earlier than last year, prompting health experts to urge people to take preventive measu
Tokyo on Friday said Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi will visit China next week for the first time since she took office, attending an Asia-Pacific summit in Shenzhen. "Prime Minister Takaichi is scheduled to visit the Philippines and China from November 16 to 19 to attend Asean-related summit meetings and the Apec summit," said deputy chief cabinet secretary Masanao Ozaki. At Apec, Ozaki said Takaichi – who became Japan's leader last October – would discuss issues such as "trade and i...
The yen slid to the verge of 160 to the dollar, a key threshold that’s raising the specter that policymakers in Tokyo will swoop in again to defend the currency.
Japan aims to become harder to defeat militarily and less vulnerable to economic pressure from China under plans to overhaul its three key security documents by the end of the year. Analysts said the proposed revisions could make it more difficult for China to achieve its military objectives or use financial leverage on Japan, but that their impact would depend on Tokyo’s ability to translate its plans into practical capabilities. Some also said that stronger Japanese defences could prompt...
Two Hong Kong-bound Cathay Pacific flights from London and Tokyo were forced to return or divert on two consecutive days after developing technical issues, prompting the airline to arrange alternative travel for affected passengers and issue apologies. The city’s flag carrier confirmed on Thursday that flight CX252, which departed London Heathrow Airport for Hong Kong on Tuesday, made a precautionary return to the airport following a technical issue, landing safely at 2.23pm local time. On...
Governor Yuriko Koike says the honor belongs to all 14 million residents, as the prize recognized citizen input and public-private cooperation in city-building. The post Tokyo Wins Top Prize at International Smart City Event first appeared on Japan Forward .
The Egyptian Commercial Service (ECS) at the Egyptian Embassy in Tokyo organised a high-level roundtable to explore opportunities for Japanese investment in Egypt’s green energy sector, with a focus on renewable energy and green hydrogen. The event, titled “Promoting Investment and Improving the Investment Climate across Egypt’s Green Energy Value Chain,” was chaired by Plenipotentiary […]
Hong Kong-based Swire Properties and its Thai partner City Realty are making an aggressive sales push with wealthy Hongkongers as they promote Upper House-branded residences in Bangkok. With more than 100 flats worth 10 billion baht (US$298 million) sold since the launch in May, the two towers – called the Upper House Residences Bangkok and The Wireless Residences by Upper House – had drawn buyers from Hong Kong, Tokyo, Taipei and Europe, according to the Hong Kong-based developer. Thai citiz...
One year after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s remarks on a Taiwan contingency froze Beijing-Tokyo ties, a Japanese media report has detailed a failed diplomatic mission to turn the table. The episode, revealed by the Yomiuri newspaper on Sunday, occurred during a meeting in Beijing on November 18 last year between Masaaki Kanai from the Japanese foreign ministry and his Chinese counterpart Liu Jinsong, then head of Asian affairs. The report said Kanai was conveying a message from Takaichi th...
An agreement between Japan and Vietnam to step up cooperation in critical minerals by tapping the Southeast Asian nation’s massive reserves could protect Tokyo from a slowdown in shipments from China, the world’s No 1 source of rare earth metals, analysts said, but replacing China was “unrealistic”. During Vietnamese President To Lam’s visit to Tokyo this week, the two countries released a “joint vision statement” that said both countries had consented to “look into the possibility of...
Japanese prosecutors on Tuesday sought an 18-month prison term at the trial of a former officer in Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force accused of breaking into the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo with a knife, Kyodo News reported.
Tokyo prosecutors are seeking 18 months in prison for Kodai Murata, a former Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) officer accused of breaking into the Chinese Embassy with a knife earlier this year, local media reported. The Tokyo District Court will hand down its ruling on December 24.
SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Yonhap) -- As South Korea gears up for its final international ba...
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