Tag: Nagoya

One of the most advanced warships in the world - Rupert Wingfield-Hayes, BBC News, Tokyo The area where the collision ... It sustained lighter damage to the port bow, according to Japanese national broadcaster NHK. ( read original story ...)

The U.S. Navy's USS Fitzgerald has collided with a Japanese vessel, CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports. The collision occurred at 2:30 a.m. local time on June 17, about 56 nautical miles off of Yokosuka, Japan. The collision was ... ( read original story ...)

Japan. Coast guard official Takeshi Aikawa said seven Navy crew members are unaccounted for, and one had a head injury. Further details of his or her condition were not known. Relatives of crew members were awaiting news of their loved ones. "Of course we ... ( read original story ...)

The U.S. Navy's USS Fitzgerald has collided with a Japanese merchant vessel, CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports. Seven sailors are unaccounted for, said a spokesman for Chief Naval Officer John Richardson, and the Japanese Coast ... ( read original story ...)

Japan. Relatives of crew members were awaiting news of their loved ones. "Just heard the sweetest voice and saw a wonderful face. He's okay. Thank you all for the prayers," Rita Schrimsher of Athens, Alabama, tweeted after speaking with her 23-year-old ... ( read original story ...)

Picture: AP The Japanese coast guard said it received an emergency call from a Philippine-registered container ship ACX Crystal in the early hours of Saturday morning that it had collided with the Fitzgerald. Relatives of crew members were awaiting news of ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese coast guard officials dispatched patrol vessels and ... A concerned parent wrote on the ship’s Facebook page: “The news just reported 7 missing sailors, this is making my heart ache, please let us know soon! Praying for all aboard!” ( read original story ...)

It said the Fitzgerald was operating under its own power, “although her propulsion is limited”. Kyodo news agency, citing the Japanese coast guard, said seven U.S. crew members were missing. Reuters could not immediately reach the Japanese coast guard ... ( read original story ...)

Japan has no regulations prohibiting such discrimination despite the growing use of genetic testing for predicting people’s vulnerability to disease and potential reaction to medicines. The survey also revealed that more than 30 percent of the ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO—Seven crew members are reportedly missing and one injured after a U.S. Navy destroyer collided early Saturday morning with a merchant ship off the coast of Japan, the country’s coast guard reported. Footage from the Japanese TV network NHK showed ... ( read original story ...)

Football Association of Thailand president Somyot Poompunmuang has wished Thailand playmaker Chanathip Songkrasin a successful career with J-League side Consodole Sapporo. Chanathip, who missed Thailand's World Cup qualifier against the United Arab ... ( read original story ...)

Nagoya University research identified a patient with the whole-body skin disease epidermolytic ichthyosis that had been inherited as a germline mutation from her father with the milder epidermolytic nevus. Analysis of genomic DNA from the patient revealed ... ( read original story ...)

(Kyodo News via AP) Under the law enacted Friday in Japan, the 83-year-old Akihito's abdication must take place within three years. The last Japanese emperor to abdicate was Kokaku in 1817. ( read original story ...)

Japan hopes to locate and start removing the fuel after Tokyo's 2020 Olympics. The biggest challenge is removing hundreds of tons of melted nuclear fuel and debris from the plant's three wrecked reactors. Earlier, snake and scorpion-shaped robots became ... ( read original story ...)

The law applies to organized criminal groups of two or more people that have engaged in specific preparations for a crime, such as scouting a location, according to Japan's Kyodo News service. A sizeable crowd protested outside parliament as upper house ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's lawmakers have passed a controversial bill allowing authorities to target terror conspiracies. PM Shinzo Abe's ruling bloc pushed it through the upper house early on Thursday, despite vocal opposition. The government argues the law is needed to ... ( read original story ...)