Tag: Japan
Japan scientists grow drugs in chicken eggs
TOKYO: Japanese researchers have genetically engineered hens whose eggs contain drugs that can fight serious diseases including cancer, in a bid to dramatically reduce the...
Quake measuring 6.3 magnitude strikes off eastern Japan
TOKYO: An earthquake measuring 6.3 struck off the eastern coast of Japan on Friday, the US Geological Survey said.
There were no immediate reports of casualties...
No Nobel for Haruki Murakami, while demand surges for winner Kazuo...
Tokyo: Japan had been pinning its hopes on its best-known novelist Haruki Murakami to win the Nobel Prize but eagerly claimed a link to...
Japan parliament dissolved, snap October 22 election expected
TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday called a snap election, as fresh opinion polls showed a fledgeling conservative party led by popular...
Japan’s ‘polka dot queen’ Kusama gets first museum
Tokyo: The first museum devoted to Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama opened its doors Wednesday, featuring trademark colourful paintings and spotted pumpkin statues from the...
Third ‘Blade Runner 2049’ short prequel all set to be unveiled...
Ahead of the release of “Blade Runner 2049,” an official short-film prequel by Japanese director Shinichiro Watanabe (“Cowboy Bebop”) is to be unveiled Tuesday,...
Japan’s Abe calls snap election
TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called a snap election on Monday, seeking a fresh term at the helm of the world´s third-largest economy...
Japan government not responsible for 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster
TOKYO: A Japanese court ruled Friday that the plant operator, not the government was responsible for the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, ordering the former to...
North Korea fires missile over Japan, lands far out in the...
SEOUL/TOKYO: North Korea fired a missile on Friday that flew over Japan’s northern Hokkaido far out into the Pacific Ocean, South Korean and Japanese...
India inks $19bn bullet train project with Japan
AHMEDABAD: Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday inaugurated India´s first bullet train project - a $19 billion line in the home state of...
N Korea threatens to sink Japan and turn US to ‘ashes...
PYONGYANG: North Korea has threatened to sink Japan and said the US should be “beaten to death like a rabid dog” after the two...
Japan urges world to put pressure on N Korea to abandon...
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called Thursday for the world to put the “greatest possible pressure” on North Korea to abandon its nuclear missile programme.
“The international...
N. Korea nuclear test 10 times more powerful than Hiroshima: Japan
TOKYO: Japan Wednesday again upgraded its estimated size of North Korea´s latest nuclear test to a yield of around 160 kilotons -- more than...
Japan says N Korea nuclear test more powerful than estimated
Japan's defence minister on Tuesday said North Korea's latest nuclear test was more powerful than initially estimated, with a yield that was around eight...
North Korea fires ballistic missile over Japan
The "unidentified ballistic missile" was launched at around 2057 GMT Monday from Sunan, near Pyongyang, the South's Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement, saying it travelled east "and over Japan".
Helicopter with nine aboard crashes in Japan
A helicopter conducting a mountain rescue exercise crashed with nine local officials aboard in Japan on Sunday and at least three people are feared...
Japan extends Rs 8 million grant for two school buildings in...
KARACHI: Japan has extended a grant of over Rs 8 million to the Participatory Research and Development Organisation (PRADO) for the project of construction...
