Big tech firm Google is reported to be planning a push into Japan’s financial services market According to Nikkei, Google is in talks to acquire Tokyo-based cashless payment provider pring in a deal …
Japan’s Olympic-Sized Virus Control Task
Japan’s attention to detail. Outside Japan, there may still be some doubt about whether the upcoming Olympic Games will go ahead …
Tokyo Olympics will be held under a state of emergency as Japan mulls opening ceremony fan ban
The pandemic-delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympics will take place under a coronavirus state of emergency, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshide Suga confirmed Thursday.
Japan names Yano, ex-aide to Suga, as top finance bureaucrat
Yano, 58, will succeed Mitsuru Ota, 61, as vice finance minister, the top bureaucratic post at the most powerful ministry in Japan, effective Thursday. The government also named Masato Kanda …
China Will ‘Destroy’ Japan Forces In A Taiwan Conflict, Media Personality Says
Officials in Tokyo and Washington have skirted around the topic of a collective defense of Taiwan following remarks by Japan’s Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso.
Statue of ‘comfort woman’ in Japan draws crowds, jeers
Japanese far-right protesters calling for the severing of diplomatic relations with South Korea disrupted a “comfort woman” exhibit in central Japan.
Crews sift through debris of Japan mudslide; at least 4 dead and 24 missing
Search crews on Tuesday hoped to find more survivors of a mudslide in the Japanese city of Atami, which killed at least four people and left two dozen missing.
Japan’s pledge to defend Taiwan from Chinese is a big shift for a pacifist nation
For many people in China and Korea it is a frightening thought – Japanese military forces at large in East Asia, as they were in the Thirties and Forties , when they invaded, conquered and oppressed …
Rescuers search for missing in Japan amid fresh slide risks
Rescue workers are facing the risk of more mudslides as they search for more than two dozen people still missing three days after a torrent of mud and debris ripped through a Japanese resort town and …