TOKYO: American Christina McHale pummelled Belgium's Elise Mertens ... 6-3 to set up a semi-final with Kato. Get latest news & live updates on the go on your pc with News App. Download The Times of India news app for your device. ( read original story ...)
Tokyo leapfrogs Cape Town to become ‘best value long-haul destination’
Tokyo has leapfrogged Cape Town to become the best value long ... meals and drinks in a wide range of centrally-located restaurants and bars. "It is also good news that prices have dipped in popular Caribbean islands." Prices were researched by tailor ... ( read original story ...)
Osaka, Okawa at the forefront of demographic changes altering power structures
Thus two very different men in western Japan have, through their different actions, sounded the alarm on a problem once thought remote but which is now quite close. View from Osaka is a monthly column that examines the latest news from a Kansai perspective. ( read original story ...)
Canada says it’s ‘gravely concerned’ about North Korea ballistic missile test over Japan
Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland joined other world leaders in condemning North Korea’s latest missile test over Japan calling it “a deliberate and reckless action.” “Canada is gravely concerned by the escalating aggressive behaviour ... ( read original story ...)
American in Japan describes jolting North Korean missile alert
North Korea's official KCNA news agency reported that officials had said that Japan should be “sunken into the sea by the nuclear bomb…” “Japan is no longer needed to exist near us," the committee said in a statement carried on KCNA. Galat said he ... ( read original story ...)
Sirens sound as North Korea again sends a missile over Japan
TOKYO -- Warning sirens blared when the North Korean missile was launched and again when it passed over Japan's northern island of Hokkaido as residents were just starting their day. Community loudspeakers instructed people to get inside any building and ... ( read original story ...)
North Korea fires missile over Japan in longest-ever flight
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - North Korea fired an intermediate-range missile over Japan into the northern Pacific Ocean on Friday, U.S. and South Korean militaries said, its longest-ever such flight and a clear message of defiance to its rivals. Since ... ( read original story ...)
North Korea fires ballistic missile over Japan in longest-ever flight as residents ‘duck and cover’
Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga denounced North ... "That is a very powerful tool and it has been used in the past," Tillerson said at a news conference. "We hope China will not reject that." In 2003, China shut down its oil pipeline ... ( read original story ...)
Japan residents advised to take cover as North Korea launches missile
about 1,240 miles or 2,000 kilometers off of the Cape of Erimo at the Japanese island of Hokkaido shortly after 7 a.m. local time, the NHK news agency reported, crediting the Japanese government. Japanese foreign minister Taro Kono said it appeared to be ... ( read original story ...)
North Korea fires another missile over Japan, South Korea says
Japan also convened a National Security Council meeting ... utterly," Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said in an interview with Sky News on Friday. "This is a sign, I believe, of their frustration at the increased sanctions on North Korea ... ( read original story ...)
North Korea launches missile over Japanese airspace, U.S. confirms
Japan's public broadcasting network NHK earlier reported that ... according to that country's Yonhap news agency. The launch is the 14th missile test conducted by North Korea in 2017. On September 3, North Korea said it tested a hydrogen bomb, leading ... ( read original story ...)
Play suspended at Sapporo golf tournament after North Korea missile launch
Griffin was one-under going into day two of the ANA event in Sapporo when the news broke. “Well this is a first. We currently have a suspension of play in Sapporo Japan due to North Korea launching ballistic missiles,” he tweeted. As the news reached ... ( read original story ...)
Yokohama Tire Enters “The Happiest Race on Earth!”
What started as Marines racing army Jeeps in the Pacific Islands during World War II has morphed into what we know as the 2018 Yokohama National Off-Road Racing Association’s (NORRA) Mexican 1000. For 51 years, racers have pitted themselves against 1,300 ... ( read original story ...)
Japan: North Korean threat to sink Japan is ‘outrageous’
"The four islands of the (Japanese) archipelago should be sunken into the sea" by a nuclear bomb, the statement reads in part. It was distributed by the Korean Central News Agency, the state news service. North Korea often issues bellicose threats that it ... ( read original story ...)
North Korea threatens to ‘sink’ Japan and reduce U.S. to ‘ashes and darkness’
Japan is no longer needed to exist near us," the committee said in a statement carried by the North's official KCNA news agency. Juche is the North's ruling ideology that mixes Marxism and an extreme form of go-it-alone nationalism preached by state ... ( read original story ...)
North Korea threatens to reduce the U.S. to ‘ashes and darkness,’ and to ‘sink’ Japan
Japan is no longer needed to exist near us,” the committee said in a statement carried by the North‘s official KCNA news agency. Juche is the North‘s ruling ideology that mixes Marxism and an extreme form of go-it-alone nationalism preached by ... ( read original story ...)