Transcript: Why Japan’s prime minister might call a snap election

Marc Filippino He said he’d received assurances that Iran had stopped killing protesters. People have taken to the streets in outrage for the past two weeks over economic hardship. Trump said on Tuesday, “Help is on the way”. Yesterday the US began evacuating some personnel from its largest base in the region in Qatar, which ...

36 Hours in Sapporo, Japan

The snowy capital of the island of Hokkaido offers a quieter alternative to Japan’s congested “Golden Route” of Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto. ( read original story ...)