Tag: Nagoya

Add North Korea as an interest to stay up to date on the latest North Korea news, video, and analysis from ABC News. Japanese police are investigating eight men found on Japan's northern coast who say they are from North Korea and washed ashore after their ... ( read original story ...)

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, asked if the possibility the men were spies had been ruled out, told a news conference authorities were handling the matter carefully. Japan is studying plans to cope with a possible influx of tens of thousands of ... ( read original story ...)

The eight men had no life-threatening injuries and appeared to speak Korean, the Kyodo News agency reported ... Police were not available to make any further comment. Last week, the Japanese Coast Guard rescued three North Korean crew members from their ... ( read original story ...)

The C-2A Greyhound crashed on Nov. 22 into the ocean southeast of Okinawa, Japan. Eight sailors were rescued about 40 ... whereabouts unknown (DUSTWUN)" status as of early Thursday, CBS News correspondent David Martin reported Wednesday. ( read original story ...)

Sapporo will now enter a dialogue process ... from the IOC by participating in working sessions to polish our hosting plans,” Akimoto said at a news conference. After the dialogue stage, the procedure will enter the candidature stage, where the selected ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO - The Japanese Olympic Committee and city of Sapporo announced Wednesday they will enter a dialogue process over a potential bid to host the 2026 Winter Olympics. JOC president Tsunekazu Takeda and Sapporo mayor Katsuhiro Akimoto made the ... ( read original story ...)

Yokohama Tire Canada brand ambassador Jean-Sebastien Sauriol. (Photo: Yokohama) The American Endurance Racing weekend at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course may not have turned out as successful as race driver and Yokohama Tire Canada brand ambassador Jean ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- U.S. and Japanese ships and aircraft were searching in the Philippine Sea on Thursday for three sailors missing since a U.S. Navy aircraft crashed a day earlier. Eight people were rescued about 40 minutes after the crash of the C-2 "Greyhound ... ( read original story ...)

“I did not hear a sound. I thought what I was witnessing was something rare.” The news comes as it was revealed Japan is now planning to build its own cruise missiles capable of taking out North Korean missiles before they even leave the groun ( read original story ...)

Desire for historically faithful reconstruction clashes with accessibility for wheelchair users. As is the case in many cities in Japan, Nagoya Castle is a modern, concrete reconstruction. Originally, Japan’s castles were made out of wood, which meant ... ( read original story ...)

Their C-2 “Greyhound” transport aircraft crashed while on its way to the carrier about 150 kilometres (90 miles) northwest of Okinotorishima, a Japanese atoll. The Navy said the ship was operating in the Philippine Sea, which is east of the Philippines ... ( read original story ...)

McCain, which killed 17 sailors. During the weekend, another US destroyer bumped into a Japanese tug boat after the tug lost propulsion. Nobody was injured. Fox News’ Ben Brown and The Associated Press contributed to this report. Lucas Tomlinson is the ... ( read original story ...)

Sputnik interviewed Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono, who commented on Japan-Russia relations, economic ties with Russia and the North Korean crisis. TOKYO (Sputnik) – The relationship between Russia and Japan is abnormal, due to the fact that despite ... ( read original story ...)

Eight people have been rescued after a US Navy aircraft carrying 11 crew and passengers crashed off the coast of Japan, the defence ministry has said. It says that preliminary US military reports indicated that engine failure may have caused the crash. ( read original story ...)

The Japan-based 7th Fleet says in a statement that the search and rescue operation has been launched from the carrier. It says the ship was operating in the Philippine Sea when the crash occurred at 2:45 p.m. Japan time. It says the names of the crew and ... ( read original story ...)

The resumption of TAAX's short-lived regular service to Sapporo, operated briefly in mid-2015, was confirmed by Mr Nadda, underscoring the airlines renewed route expansion, which will primarily cover Japan, South Korea and China. TAAX is working to offer a ... ( read original story ...)