Month: December 2024

"There is a high probability these horses will suffer or sustain an injury during this process or worse." But Adler refused a challenge issued by another Manitoba senator, Conservative Don Plett, to join him at the Winnipeg airport very early Monday morning to see horses being loaded onto a plane leaving for Japan. ( read ...

Meat from fin whales, caught legally for the first time in nearly 50 years, was auctioned in Japan on December 12, fetching prices as high as US$1,300 per kilogram ... ( read original story ...)

Meat from fin whales caught legally for the first time in nearly 50 years was auctioned in Japan on December 12 fetching prices as high as US1300 per kilogram ... ( read original story ...)

The Maglev is still under construction between Tokyo and Nagoya but will eventually extend to Osaka. Following completion of this Tokyo-Nagoya line, the train line will extend to stations in Nara, Mie ... ( read original story ...)

In a society used to quiet consensus-building, Tokyo has made bold changes to its defense policy. “Did I contribute to that?” Mr. Emanuel asked. “Uh, yeah.” ... ( read original story ...)

Police in Osaka have arrested a 77-year-old man on suspicion of attempted murder after he threw TV sets and other items from the window of his 8th-floor apartment. According to police, Takahiro ... ( read original story ...)

A junior high school student was stabbed to death and another wounded Saturday night by an unknown assailant at a McDonald's restaurant in southwestern Japan, local media reported. ( read original story ...)

U.S. Marines have begun a partial transfer from Okinawa to Guam, 12 years after Japan and the United States agreed on their realignment to reduce the heavy burden of American troop presence on the ... ( read original story ...)

The roughly $35 billion project began construction in 2019. Now, just four years later, the new line is fully operational. To compare that to U.S. train infrastructure, four years is around how long ... ( read original story ...)

In the high-profile homicide case, a couple and their two children were killed at their home in the ward's Kamisoshigaya district in December 2000. ( read original story ...)