The viral clip which was uploaded to Instagram on Tuesday generated more than 14 million views and 655,000 likes as of Thursday. ( read original story ...)
Japan marks first business day of 2024 with prayers
Japan marked the first business day of the New Year on Thursday. Business owners and employees went to holy places, seeking blessings for good fortune. The Kanda Myojin shrine in Tokyo was one such ... ( read original story ...)
While all the people on board survived, 2 passengers’ pets were killed in the devastating Japan Airlines fire
Japan Airlines said it "considers pets to be members of the family and expresses its deepest condolences" after two passengers lost their pets. ( read original story ...)
The pilot of the Japan Airlines plane didn’t know it was on fire until alerted by cabin crew: report
The pilot of the crashed Japan Airlines flight didn't know about fire until told by crew: report ... ( read original story ...)
Japan Airlines expects massive losses after deadly collision at Tokyo airport
Japan Airlines estimated Thursday it will take more than a $100 million loss after JAL Flight 516 was destroyed in a collision at Tokyo's Haneda airport that left five dead. ( read original story ...)
1 Big Lesson Every CEO Should Learn From the ‘Miraculous’ Japan Plane Crash and Evacuation
Make no mistake--that quick response made a lot of the difference. In 2019, there was a somewhat similar accident in Moscow, where an Aeroflot plane was struck by lightning and ignited during its ... ( read original story ...)
Japan earthquake update: Rescue operations continue after four days
Japan has deployed thousands of rescuers to search for the survivors of the New Year Day’s earthquake that killed at least 81 people in the country, in the quest to save as many as possible survivors. ( read original story ...)
Japan Earthquake Casts Cloud Over Push to Restart Nuclear Plants
Nuclear power plants dot the coast of mountainous Japan, which is prone to earthquakes and tsunamis due to its location on the seismically active "Ring of Fire" around the Pacific Ocean. ( read original story ...)
15 years ago, 3 Japanese chefs met in a Sydney bar. They went their separate ways, but ‘fate’ reunited them in Hong Kong
After a random meeting at a Sydney bar 15 years ago, three Japanese chefs went their separate ways. A second chance encounter in Hong Kong years later led them to open Enishi, one of Hong Kong’s ... ( read original story ...)
Japan to give Ukraine biofuel technology to support reconstruction
Japan plans to provide Ukraine with biofuel manufacturing technology to support reconstruction efforts of the Eastern European countr ... ( read original story ...)
Japan says Coast Guard plane apparently not cleared for take-off before runway collision
By Maki Shiraki, Daniel Leussink and Lisa Barrington TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese authorities said on Wednesday a passenger jet that collided with a Coast Guard turboprop at a Tokyo airport was given ... ( read original story ...)
A man who escaped the burning Japan Airlines plane with his wife and kids says they ‘dodged a really big bullet’
William Manzione told Sky News he was still in "shock" about the plane crash. ( read original story ...)
Japan launches 2 probes into deadly plane crash as transcripts are released
Two probes have been launched into Tuesday’s deadly plane crash where five people died after a passenger jet collided with a Coast Guard turboprop at a Tokyo airport. ( read original story ...)
Restaurant Fire Is Already Japan’s Third Disaster of 2024
The fire, which reportedly started in the kitchen of a restaurant, is the third disaster to strike Japan in the first three days of 2024. ( read original story ...)
‘It was hell’: Plane catches fire on runway after collision in Tokyo, killing five
A passenger plane and a Japanese Coast Guard aircraft collided on the runway at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport on Tuesday and burst into flames, with five people o ... ( read original story ...)
Japan Airlines’ excellent record ‘written in blood’ after worst ever crash saved lives in Tokyo
Officials for Japan Airlines explained that their gleaming safety record is 'written in blood' of the victims less lucky to have survived the airline's 1985 crash which killed 520 and became the worst ... ( read original story ...)