Both the Il-20M and the Il-38M are Ilyushin aircraft of Soviet design. The former is known by the NATO reporting name Coot-A and was intercepted by German fighter jets earlier this month in the Baltic Sea. ( read original story ...)
Spurs to jet off to Japan for pre-season
Tottenham Hotspur will head to Japan as part of their preparations for the 2024-25 Premier League campaign. The squad will travel to Tokyo to play reigning J1 League champions Vissel Kobe at the Japan National Stadium on Saturday, 27 July. ( read original story ...)
Is it Time for Japan’s Seven Samurai Stocks?
Japan’s stock market boomed last year, helped by a surge of interest from foreign investors including Warren Buffett. But will the central bank's decision to scrap its negative interest rate policy ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Retail Investors Bought Record Shares as Stocks Plummet
Japan’s retail investors purchased a record amount of domestic stocks last week, as the equity market sank on concerns ranging from tensions in the Middle East and the path of US interest rates to the ... ( read original story ...)
‘The thrill of escape’: 5 Japan teens referred to prosecutors over false police call
Five high school students in the Kanagawa Prefecture city of Kawasaki have been referred to prosecutors for obstructing police officers' d・・・ ( read original story ...)
Tennis-Osaka doing her homework on clay ahead of French Open
Naomi Osaka picked up her first win on clay in two years on Wednesday and while the former world number one is adapting to the slower surface ahead of the French Open she has no plans to abandon the ... ( read original story ...)
Madrid Open 2024: Naomi Osaka vs Liudmila Samsonova; Preview, Head-to-Head, Prediction
Naomi Osaka picks up from where she left off two years ago! The Japanese tennis star recently clinched her first clay-court win since the 2022 Madrid Open. by defeating Belgium's Greet Minnen in the ... ( read original story ...)
Osaka doing her homework on clay ahead of French Open
Naomi Osaka picked up her first win on clay in two years on Wednesday and while the former world number one is adapting to the slower surface ahead of the French Open she has no plans to abandon the ... ( read original story ...)
Morgan Stanley Warns of Possible Tokyo CPI Yen Shock Before BOJ
Morgan Stanley MUFG Securities economists flagged a risk of Tokyo inflation data causing a “knee-jerk reaction” in foreign exchange markets Friday morning just hours ahead of the Bank of Japan’s ... ( read original story ...)
New method introduced to crack down on street prostitution in Tokyo’s Kabukicho district
Police in the Japanese capital have introduced a new method to crack down on repetitive street prostitution in Shinjuku Ward's Kabukicho ente ... ( read original story ...)
What the End of Negative Rates Means for Japan
Japan’s experiment with negative interest rates is finally over. The Bank of Japan raised rates last month for the first time since 2007, and abandoned a yearslong commitment to keep government bond yields close to zero. ( read original story ...)
Battling climate change, Japan looks to seagrass for carbon capture
On a recent Saturday, some 100 volunteers gathered on a popular beach in the Japanese port city of Yokohama, wading in the shallows to plant strands of light-green eelgrass on the seabed. ( read original story ...)
Japan’s lunar lander still powers away 3 months later. What to know about SLIM mission
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA,) shared an image Wednesday on social media that SLIM beamed back to Earth as proof of life. ( read original story ...)
Yokohama reaches Asian Champions League final by beating Ulsan in penalty shootout 5-4
Japan's Yokohama F. Marinos advanced to the Asian Champions League final for the first time after a 5-4 penalty shootout win over against Ulsan HD of South Korea in a dramatic semifinal that ended 3-3 ... ( read original story ...)
Naomi Osaka funnily shares one ‘ironic’ thing she’d like to happen
Naomi Osaka reveals she would like to win a clay tournament but funnily admits that her first post-pregnancy title coming on the dirt would be ironic. ( read original story ...)
Japan’s moon lander has survived longer than the space agency expected after reaching 3 months on the moon
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency did not anticipate its moon lander, SLIM, to survive 1 weekslong lunar night on the moon and it has now lasted 3 after reaching the moon's surface on Jan. 20. ( read original story ...)