Japan's western prefecture of Osaka on Wednesday saw a record high of daily COVID-19 infections for the second straight day, logging 1,130 new virus cases. A total of 4,312 new cases were reported ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Kumamoto Prefecture marks 5th anniversary of killer quakes
Japan's Kumamoto Prefecture on Wednesday marked the fifth anniversary of two sizable earthquakes that claimed the lives of 276 people. Five years since a magnitude 6.5 quake shook the southwestern ... ( read original story ...)
DNA Explainer: Japan plans to release 1.25 million tons of radioactive water in Pacific – what it means
Remember, in 2011 how a 9.1 magnitude earthquake and tsunami rocked Japan and destroyed the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant? Back then three nuclear reactors at the Fukushima plant suffered ... ( read original story ...)
NTT Launches First ‘Earthquake Resistant’ Data Center In U.S.
NTT’s new data center in Silicon Valley is earthquake resistant as NTT Global Data Centers Americas expands its footprint in the U.S. ( read original story ...)
Show me the medals: Ireland drops one place in Tokyo Olympic predictions
Predicting Olympic medal winners can be a futile business at the best at times; during pandemic times, when there’s still no predicting how exactly the Tokyo Olympics will unfold, it may even be ... ( read original story ...)
Why it’s hard to trust Japan’s handling of Fukushima wastewater
On Tuesday, The Japanese government decided to go ahead with the controversial solution to a 10-year-long crisis following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. The Fukushima plant, operated by the ... ( read original story ...)
Second chance: clock stopped after Japan tsunami starts ticking a decade later
The century-old temple clock has come back to life when an aftershock of the 2011 quake hit the region ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo bustling with people at night despite COVID-19 ‘quasi-emergency measures’
Although eateries in Tokyo are subject to requests to close early under the Japanese government's coronavirus "quasi-emergency measures" that took effect on April 12, crowds of people were seen in ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Toshiba President Steps Down Amid Acquisition Talks
The president of Toshiba Corp. has stepped down, a week after the Japanese technology and manufacturing giant said it was studying an acquisition proposal from a global fund where he previously worked ... ( read original story ...)
Toshiba: Japan’s Troubled Megacorp Facing Buyout Drama
Once a shining symbol of Japan's advanced technology and economic power ... But the conglomerate, whose vast business ranges from semiconductor manufacturing equipment and escalators to storage ... ( read original story ...)
UAE partners with Japan’s iSpace to send rover to the moon in 2022
Japanese company iSpace, founded in 2010 ... multimedia news provider reaching more than one billion people every day. Reuters provides trusted business, financial, national, and international news to ... ( read original story ...)
South Korea aims to fight Japan’s Fukushima decision in world tribunal
South Korea strongly protested against the decision and convened an emergency meeting. Read more at straitstimes.com. ( read original story ...)
South Korea to challenge Japan’s plans to release contaminated Fukushima water into sea
Since Japan announced the plan to release the water, environmental groups and fisheries have protested against the decision South Korea will challenge Japan’s decision to release water from Fukushima. ( read original story ...)
Grave threat to marine life as Japan set to release contaminated Fukushima water into Pacific Ocean
Japan has argued the water release is necessary to press ahead with the complex decommissioning of the plant after it was crippled by a 2011 earthquake and tsunami. It says similarly filtered water is ... ( read original story ...)
South Korea and China are unhappy with Japan’s decision to release radioactive water from Fukushima into the Pacific Ocean
Japan has been storing the water in tanks following the 2011 nuclear plant meltdown, which followed a devastating earthquake and tsunami that devastated northern Japan's coastal regions. South Korean ... ( read original story ...)
Downtown Tokyo bustles on after hours amid priority measures
Emergency-level priority measures to prevent the spread of novel coronavirus infections went into effect in Tokyo on Monday, requiring restaurants and bars to shorten their business hours to 8 p.m. ( read original story ...)