Tag: tokyo

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other US lawmakers pressed their Japanese counterparts to move forward on LGBT rights ahead of the G7 in May ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese telecommunications NTT on Thursday unveiled a prototype chip that it believes will help boost communications speed in data centers and across undersea fiber optic cables in the future. ( read original story ...)

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, meanwhile, was greeting Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. Beijing has reinforced its anti-U.S. messaging this week, but lethal aid for Moscow still seems to ... ( read original story ...)

A Japan Airlines flight was denied landing and had to fly 550 miles back to Tokyo after missing an airport’s closing time by 10 minutes. Passenger flight JL331 was turned back outside Fukuoka Airport, ... ( read original story ...)

An employee at Yokohama Tire Manufacturing Mississippi is dead after a shooting this morning, according to a company press release. The employee was shot in the West Point facility parking lot at ... ( read original story ...)

Kazakh weightlifter Igor Son, who won bronze at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, has been banned for eight years for doping but will not be stripped of his medal, the country's weightlifting federation (WFRK) ... ( read original story ...)

Kazakh weightlifter Igor Son, who won bronze at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, has been banned for eight years for doping but will not be stripped of his medal, the country's weightlifting federation (WFRK) ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito has expressed deep sorrow for the suffering of people in conflicts around the world and stressed the importance of dialogue and cooperation in remarks released for his 63rd bi ( read original story ...)

Japan's biggest city gas supplier Tokyo Gas conducts a pilot programme of methanation, a technology to help decarbonise city gas, at its research centre in Yokohama, near Tokyo June 24, 20 ... ( read original story ...)

On a set outside Tokyo, Momoko Nishiyama sits with the drama's director and watches as a man undresses a woman, guiding the love scene as one of just two "intimacy coordinators" in Japan. The country's film and television industry has been hit by a string ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, Feb 22 (Reuters) - China said it was troubled by Japan's military build-up and Tokyo took aim at Beijing's military ties to Russia and its suspected use of spy balloons in the Asian powers' first formal security talks in four years on Wednesday. ( read original story ...)

UA is the next guest in the series. The singer is set to perform at the Women In Music Vol. 0 event to be held at Billboard Live Osaka on March 3. Since her debut in 1995, the Osaka native has released numerous hit songs including the massively popular “Jounetsu” (“Passion”) from 1996 and ...

A large metal sphere that washed up on a shore in Japan has perplexed locals and set off a flurry of speculation. Authorities can't say what it is yet - not even the police or bomb squad sent to investigate. But what is known is that it's hollow - and not ... ( read original ...

A large metal object appeared on a beach in Japan and shocked eyewitnesses and officials who have no idea what it is or where it came from. ( read original story ...)