The Group of Seven rich nations on Sunday set big new collective targets for solar power and offshore wind capacity, agreeing to speed up renewable energy development and move toward a quicker phase-out of fossil fuels.
Japan Eyes Developing Economic Ties with Iran: Envoy
Given the high potentials of Japan and Iran, Tokyo is ready to develop economic relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Japan army helicopter wreckage found with five bodies
Divers have recovered the wreckage of a missing military helicopter, along with the bodies of five of the 10 people on board, off the coast of Japan. The UH60 helicopter, known as a Black Hawk, vanished from radar screens near the Miyako island last Thursday. It was surveying the local area at the time it disappeared.
S. Korean finance minister to meet Japanese counterpart next month amid thawing relations
South Korean Finance Minister Choo Kyung-ho has said he will meet with his Japanese counterpart, Shunichi Suzuki, next month, the first meeting between the finance ministers of the two neighbors in …
Diplomats gather in Japan at ‘historic turning point’
Top diplomats from Europe and North America are arriving in the hot spring resort town of Karuizawa, Japan, to discuss the world’s most intractable crises, including ways to end Russia’s war in Ukraine,
US, Japan, South Korea to hold missile defence exercises to deter North Korea threat
The United States, Japan and South Korea said in a joint statement they discussed the regularisation of missile defence and anti-submarine exercises to deter and respond to North Korea’s nuclear and missile threats.
Explosive thrown at Japan PM at campaign event
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has been evacuated unharmed after someone threw an explosive device at a campaign event in a western port city. (April 15)
Japanese suspect throws smoke bomb at prime minister, gets tackled on video
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was evacuated from a campaign event in western Japan on Saturday after a male suspect hurled an explosive device in his direction.
Japan PM Kishida unhurt in ‘smoke bomb’ scare, resumes campaigning
The incident echoed the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest-serving modern leader, who was shot with a homemade gun last July while campaigning for a parliamentary …
Japanese prime minister evacuated after explosion sound at port he was visiting
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was unharmed and evacuated after an explosion was heard and a person was detained, Japan public broadcaster NHK reported.