Japanese service sector activity expanded at its quickest pace in seven months in March, underpinned by strong demand particularly for inbound tourism, a business survey showed on Wednesday. ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Royal Family Makes Formal Debut On Instagram
The Japanese imperial family's social media debut comes 15 years after Britain’s royal family joined Twitter in 2009. ( read original story ...)
Japan fights fakes whisky with new labelling rules
Japanese malts are among the most prized and expensive in the world. Yet their regulation has long been extremely loose ... ( read original story ...)
PAL spending $450 million in 2024
Flag carrier Philippine Airlines (PAL) will spend as much as $450 million this year to strengthen its fleet and refurbish jets in preparation for its expansion to Seattle and, eventually, to Europe. ( read original story ...)
‘Very Pr Clean’: Reaction Outside Tokyo’S Imperial Palace As Japan’S Royal Family Joins Inst…
Tourists and young people in Tokyo shared their thoughts on Monday on the new Instagram account launched by Japans imperial family. The family made an Instagram debut with a barrage of posts on Monday ... ( read original story ...)
‘Oppenheimer’ premieres in Japan: Here’s how Hiroshima survivors, Japanese residents reacted
The Oscars' best picture winner "Oppenheimer" premiered in Japan amid concern over how victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings would react. ( read original story ...)
Race Across The World 2024 contestants reveal their winning strategies and share the home comforts they’ll miss the most
Race Across the World, the BBC’s epic, hugely successful and much-loved BAFTA-award winning series returns to BBC One and BBC iPlayer for its hotly anticipated new season from Wednesday 10 April. ( read original story ...)
Japan Has Said Goodbye to Its Life-Sized Gundam
There was music, there was sadness, there was sparkling lesbians in the sky—a fitting farewell to the Yokohama Gundam ... ( read original story ...)
Mobile Suit Gundam Takes Over Japan’s Skies With Epic Drone Show
Gundam franchise began in the late 1970s, the mech story began by focusing on the Earth Federation's war against the Principality of Zeon. Fighting on the side of Earth, the young mech pilot Amuro was ... ( read original story ...)
Russian Strategic Bombers Spotted Patrolling Sea Of Japan
Two Tu-95MS aircraft conducted a 10-hour flight over the Sea of Japan only days after the U.S. announced military exercises aimed at deterring North Korea. ( read original story ...)
Digital Core REIT acquires another 10 percent share of Osaka data center in Japan
Digital Core REIT has acquired an additional 10 percent share in a data center in Osaka, Japan. The interest has been acquired via Digital Core REIT's subsidiary, Digital CR Singapore 4 Pte. Ltd., for ... ( read original story ...)
Naomi Osaka shares bad feelings for the defeat at the Miami Open
In a recent post on her X account, the Japanese tennis player Naomi Osaka expressed her disappointment at the elimination from the Miami Open (where she however showed a good tennis level), commenting ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo Metro forms a capital and business alliance with BtoB e-ticket platform Linktivity to develop packaged ‘Tokyo City Pass’
Toyo Metro and Linktivity, a BtoB e-ticket platform, formed a capital and business alliance with a plan to develop ‘Tokyo City Pass (provisional name),’ which is packaged with tourist attraction ... ( read original story ...)
Japan says it will restart support to UNRWA
Japan said Tuesday that it will continue funding a United Nations organization that helps Palestinian refugees after doubts have been cast on allegations that some of its employees were involved in ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s notoriously private royal family joins Instagram to appeal to a younger audience
Japan's imperial family made an Instagram debut with a barrage of posts on Monday, hoping to shake off their reclusive image and reach out to younger people on social media. ( read original story ...)
Open waste burning linked to air pollution in Northwestern Greenland
SAPPORO, Japan, April 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- To better understand the air quality risks faced by remote Arctic communities, an international team monitored aerial pollutants at a community in ... ( read original story ...)