Category: NEWS

Delta Air Lines is planning to resume service on the Seattle/Tacoma – Osaka route, last operated in November 2013. The route will be restored on April 1, 2019 and will operate daily with Boeing 767-30... ( read original story ...)

About 100 kilometres from Tokyo, the frenetic capital of Japan, in the mountain village of Nanmoku, elementary school principal Keiko Kato, points to a graph that lays out the dilemma facing her town. ... ( read original story ...)

... in Japan after severe rains The landslides and flooding across much of western Japan have killed at least 155 people, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told a news conference. Some of the tho... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO — Japanese internet company SoftBank Corp. is investing ... It offers online auctioning, film listings and the news. Altaba was ordered earlier this year to pay a $35 million fine to resolve fed... ( read original story ...)

The death toll increased to 126 on Monday after days of rain caused massive flooding and landslides that destroyed homes and roadways, cutting access to many communities, Japan’s Kyodo news agency rep... ( read original story ...)

The economic impact was being assessed. "I'm worried there could be a significant impact on production, consumption and tourism," Toshiro Miyashita, a Bank of Japan branch manager, told a news confere... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO — Global stock markets mostly rose Monday as the British government appeared to turn toward a more trade-friendly version of Brexit and as investors monitored the escalating trade standoff betwe... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO — Nissan Motor Co. said Monday that it altered the results of exhaust emissions and fuel economy tests of new vehicles sold in Japan, in the latest misconduct to surface at the Japanese automake... ( read original story ...)

He added that "in view of the tragic circumstances, we are ready to move our EU-Japan Summit from Brussels to Tokyo next week ... Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told a news conference Monday t... ( read original story ...)

(Bloomberg) -- Happy Monday, Europe. Here’s news and analysis from Bloomberg Economics to help get your day started: Theresa May faces a fresh crisis after key members of her government quit in protes... ( read original story ...)

Rescuers in western Japan dug through mud and rubble on Monday ... a trip to Europe and the Middle East that had been planned to start this week, Kyodo news agency quoted a top ruling party official a... ( read original story ...)

A China Airlines Boeing 737-800 was forced to make an emergency landing at Nagoya Chubu Centrair International airport on 8 July at 13:09 local time, due to low fuel warnings. China Airlines says the ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO — Asian shares are mostly higher after a weekend of relative quiet over the escalating trade stand-off between the U.S. and China. Investors appear optimistic about the outlook for the global ec... ( read original story ...)

Kyodo news service reported. Kochi prefecture, on Shikoku, issued landslide warnings almost over the entire island. The Japanese government set up an emergency office over the weekend, designed for cr... ( read original story ...)

At one point, evacuation orders were issued for up to 5.9 million people and over 30,000 were forced into shelters as of Sunday, Kyodo News Service reported. Throughout the hard-hit areas, rivers swel... ( read original story ...)

“This is a situation of extreme danger,” an official at the Japanese Meteorological Agency (JMA) told a news conference. A three-year-old girl whose home was hit by a landslide in Hiroshima prefecture ... ( read original story ...)