Tag: Japan

SHINTO: Japanese engineer Masaaki Nagumo had always dreamed of suiting up as a robot from “Mobile Suit Gundam”, his favorite animation series growing up....

TOKYO: Masazo Nonaka from Japan was recognised Tuesday as the world’s oldest man at the age of 112, as his family revealed his secret:...

TOKYO: A 5.6-magnitude quake hit western Japan early Monday, injuring five people and damaging buildings and roads, as officials warned stronger tremors could come...

TOKYO: Japanese police have arrested a 73-year-old man suspected of keeping his son in a wooden cage for over 20 years, BBC News reported. According...

TOKYO: Oscar-nominated Japanese anime director Isao Takahata, who co-founded Studio Ghibli and was best known for his work Grave of the Fireflies, has died...

KARACHI: The government of Japan will provide a grant of $1.1 million to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) for supporting Non-Formal Education (NFE)...

TOKYO: About half of Japanese voters don’t support Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s administration amid suspected cronyism and cover-up, opinion polls by Japanese media showed. The...

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia and Japan's SoftBank will partner to develop a massive, multi-billion-dollar solar project in the kingdom that could generate 200 gigawatts by...

TOKYO: A Japanese official at the heart of a cronyism and cover-up scandal that has dented Shinzo Abe's popularity said Tuesday the prime minister's...

ISLAMABAD: The government of Japan would sign an agreement on Tuesday to provide US $4.7 million (500 million Japanese yen) in financial assistance for...

TOKYO: Across Japan’s capital, delicate pink and white cherry blossoms are emerging, but the famed blooms are facing a potentially mortal enemy, experts say:...

TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, his popularity plunging amid a cronyism scandal, took responsibility on Monday for a loss of trust in his...

TOKYO: Japan’s top government spokesman left the door open on Wednesday to a possible summit between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and North Korean leader...

TOKYO: Pressure mounted Tuesday on Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe over a ballooning cronyism and cover-up scandal, as a new poll showed his support...

TOKYO: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told a South Korean representative on Tuesday he wants talks with North Korea, called to dismantle Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons...

BRUSSELS: The European Union and Japan urged the United States on Saturday to grant them exemptions from metal import tariffs, with Tokyo calling for...

Japan may be an island nation surrounded by the bounty of the sea, but businessman Tetsuro Sogo is looking inland to raise one of...