Tag: Japan

Japan’s first moon lander has survived a third freezing lunar night, Japan’s space agency said after receiving an image from the device three months after it landed on the moon.

Japan’s beloved Shinkansen trains are getting another upgrade – private rooms with doors in the upper class section.

Former Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso, a senior figure in the country’s ruling party, met with Donald Trump on Tuesday, becoming the latest U.S. ally seeking to establish ties with the Republican …

Japan’s defense minister on Tuesday said the United States will join search-and-rescue efforts for the seven missing Maritime Self-Defense Force members who crashed in two helicopters over the weekend.

A zoo in Japan has confirmed that a hippopotamus thought for seven years to be a he is, in fact, a she. A DNA test was carried out after zookeepers noticed that 12-year-old Gen-chan did not display typical male hippo behaviour. Gen-chan arrived in Osaka from Mexico in 2017, and customs documents at the time said she was male.

The Japanese trading house Sojitz has signed a 45 billion yen ($290 million) contract with MRT Jakarta, operator of Jakarta Mass Rapid Transit, to extend the subway network within the congested centra