TOKYO — The Japanese government is looking to relax restrictions on travel to Vietnam at the end of June, Nikkei has learned. The trial project will begin with a chartered flight for up to 250 …
BREAKING NEWS: This year’s Azerbaijan, Singapore and Japan Grands Prix CANCELLED due to the coronavirus pandemic
Grands Prix in Azerbaijan, Singapore and Japan will not take place this year, Formula One has announced. The three races have been cancelled as the sport makes changes to its calendar.
This Is the One Reason Imperial Japan Attacked America at Pearl Harbor
Tokyo needed new oil supplies to wage its war in China and the only way to get them would be to attack Washington’s allies in the Pacific.
Repaired USS Fitzgerald Sets Sail Three Years After Deadly Collision off Japan
Seven sailors were killed when the guided-missile destroyer collided with a commercial container vessel, the Philippine-flagged ACX Crystal, off Japan’s coast on June 17, 2017. On Saturday, the …
How Imperial Japan’s Pacific Blitzkrieg Was Decisively Crushed At Coral Sea
Many history books say the turning point of the Pacific War was the Battle of Midway in June 1942. But a month before Midway, in a patch of ocean 3,500 miles away near the coast of Australia, there …
Japanese, Singapore and Azerbaijan GPs abandoned by F1 for 2020
The Japanese, Singapore and Azerbaijan grands prix will not take place this year, Formula One has announced …
Why Imperial Japan Really, Really Hated This American Submarine
This submarine caused a lot of damage and would complete many missions. Here is her story. At 12:30 am, October 9, 1943, Commander Edward S. Hutchinson spotted his first targets as a submarine …
Japan’s exports to drop sharply and consumer prices to fall on virus crisis: Reuters poll
Imploding demand due to the coronavirus pandemic is likely to have resulted in Japan’s exports in May suffering their biggest decline since the 2009 global financial crisis, while consumer prices …
Formula One facing worsening financial crisis with races in Azerbaijan, Singapore and Japan cancelled
The autumn schedule looks increasingly uncertain with three races in the Americas also in serious doubt Formula One faces the prospect of a worsening financial crisis after accepting that grands prix …
Young Japan priests try to breathe life into fading Buddhism
Buddhism suffers from a gloomy image in Japan. It is so closely linked to death — funerals, graves and memorial rituals in which priests chant sutras based on Chinese rendering …