A remote Japanese fishing town has sparked debate after spending coronavirus relief funds on a giant squid statue that cost nearly $250,000 in a controversial bid to boost post-pandemic tourism.
Panic looms over Japan’s plummeting birth rate
The scale of Japan’s demographic crisis has been laid bare by figures that reveal the number of children in the country is the smallest since records began in 1950.The government marked Children’s Day …
Migrants from Japan to North Korea after war were promised ‘paradise on earth’ but ended up ‘in hell’
As the Korean War came to an end, the Japanese government wanted to get rid of the Koreans living in the slums, so it mounted a propaganda blitz, touting itself as a “paradise” with jobs} for everyone …
US, Japan, South Korea diplomats review North Korea strategy
Japan backs ADB with $15 mln for universal health coverage in Asia
TOKYO, May 5 (Reuters) – Japan will contribute $15 million to a fund aimed at promoting universal health coverage in the Asia-Pacific region to prevent the resurgence of the coronavirus and other …
Town in Japan builds giant squid with Covid relief funds
TOKYO -A coastal town in the western part of Japan has drawn ire on social media for using some of the coronavirus relief funds it was given by the government to build a statue of a giant squid in the …
New dinosaur discovered in Japan named after Shinto god
On 27 April, it was reported in the English scientific journal Scientific Reports that a never-seen-before dinosaur fossil was discovered on Awaji Island, in the Hyogo prefecture of Japan. The fossil …
Japan should cut its losses and tell the IOC to take its Olympic pillage somewhere else
Somewhere along the line Baron Von Ripper-off and the other gold-plated pretenders at the International Olympic Committee decided to treat Japan as their footstool. But Japan didn’t surrender its …
Sebastian Coe expects Tokyo Olympics to go ahead after test event in Japan
World Athletics president Sebastian Coe has reiterated that the Tokyo Olympics will take place in July despite the rising number of Covid-19 cases in Japan – and promised that the competition will be …
Japan, S.Korea meet with Blinken despite rifts
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday met jointly with his South Korean and Japanese counterparts to discuss North Korea, bringing together the allies despite renewed rifts.