Yusaku Maezawa, the Japanese billionaire who sold his online apparel company to Masayoshi Son and is preparing to ride around the moon on Elon Musk’s spacecraft, jumped back into the country’s …
South Korea commemorates wartime ‘comfort women’
It continues to be a thorny issue between South Korea and Japan. Al Jazeera’s Rob McBride reports from Seoul, South Korea.
Philippines receives ¥50-B JICA loan for COVID-19 response
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has released to the Philippine government a ¥50-billion loan under the COVID-19 Crisis Response Emergency Support Loan (CCRESL) to immediately help …
UK to mark 75th anniversary of Victory over Japan Day
VJ Day was declared when emperor Hiroito ordered his people to stop fighting in second world war …
VJ Day: A WW2 hero and a reckoning with Japan’s past
The officers were little concerned by mass civilian casualties inflicted by the US bombing of Japan’s cities. Instead they were focused on one thing: the survival of the imperial …
S.Korea’s Moon to focus on victims in ‘comfort women’ dispute with Japan
President Moon Jae-in vowed on Friday to spotlight the plight of South Korea’s last few surviving “comfort women”, as those forced to work in Japan’s wartime brothels are known, in efforts to resolve …
South Korea’s Moon to focus on victims in ‘comfort women’ dispute with Japan
President Moon Jae-in vowed on Friday to spotlight the plight of South Korea’s last few surviving “comfort women”, as those forced to work in Japan’s wartime brothels are known, in efforts to resolve …
Japan’s emperor had to tell his people World War II was lost. He did so on a scratchy recording.
The emperor spoke on a scratchy recording, and ended World War II. An era of global devastation ended with announcement of Japan’s surrender.
Japan allocates about $ 3 mln to Kyrgyzstan within framework of scholarship program
The Japanese government has decided to provide gratuitous aid in the amount of JPY 305 million (approximately USD 2.9 million) under the Human Resource Development Scholarship Program (JDS) for the …
Growth ‘V’? Yes, Record China Debt, Japan to Crater: Eco Day
Welcome to Friday, Asia. Here’s the latest news and analysis from Bloomberg Economics to help take you through to the weekend.Bloomberg Economics’ GDP tracker suggests global growth picked up further …