Month: September 2023

Japan’s prime minister says China’s blanket ban on Japanese seafood in reaction to the release of treated radioactive water from a tsunami-ravaged nuclear power plant contrasts starkly with broad unde ( read original story ...)

Osaka gave birth to her daughter Shai with boyfriend, rapper Cordae, in July, CNN and ESPN reported. Both media outlets said that she will have a busy schedule in 2024. The four-time major champion told ESPN, “It’s definitely way more tournaments than ... ( read original story ...)

Naomi Osaka stepped out for her first red carpet since the July birth of her daughter to celebrate the Victoria's Secret World Tour, kicking off New York Fashion Week. ( read original story ...)

Tokyo prosecutors say they have arrested a former vice foreign minister of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s Cabinet on suspicion of accepting more than 61 million yen ($414,000) in bribes from a wind power company in return for his promotion of wind power and other favorable treatment. ( read original story ...)

The niece of Johnny Kitagawa, the late J-pop mogul at the centre of a sex scandal that has shocked Japan, said on Thursday that she had stepped down as the head of the talent agency her uncle had founded. ( read original story ...)

Defence chiefs from the U.S., South Korea and Japan on Thursday jointly condemned North Korea's recent test of missiles and agreed to accelerate missile tracking cooperation, South Korea's Ministry of National Defence said in a statement. ( read original story ...)

Space mission will attempt to land on the moon early next year and is carrying an onboard X-ray telescope ( read original story ...)

Japan launched its lunar exploration spacecraft on Thursday aboard a homegrown H-IIA rocket, hoping to become the world's fifth country to land on the moon early next year.Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said the rocket took off from Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan as planned and successfully released the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon ...