Tag: Yokohama

In Japan, the relationship between LDP lawmakers and the controversial Unification Church has gone from open secret to political crisis. At stake: The ruling party’s integrity. ( read original story ...)

Argument: Why Japan Should Join AUKUS Why Japan Should Join AUKUS... | View Comments () A new quad is coalescing in the Indo-Pacific, and it is likely to have an even greater impact than the ... ( read original story ...)

Multiple floors of a building in this city's Suminoe Ward were flooded by a malfunctioning sprinkler system on Nov. 15, forcing many business ... ( read original story ...)

Japan is lifting a ban on international cruise ships imposed following a coronavirus outbreak on the Diamond Princess. ( read original story ...)

Big problems can require multipronged solutions. In Japan, better train service and tiny cars helped bring down traffic fatalities. ( read original story ...)

The ban was enforced in March 2020 after the 2,670-berth Diamond Princess (built 2004) was quarantined at the Port of Yokohama with a massive Covid-19 outbreak. The incident was eventually to claim ... ( read original story ...)

The Japanese capital is not known as a hub of contemporary art, but Art Week Tokyo is changing perceptions by making it easier to see exhibitions. ( read original story ...)

Japan is lifting a more than 2 1/2-year ban on international cruise ships that was imposed following a deadly coronavirus outbreak on the cruise ship Diamond Princess at the beginning of the pandemic ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's biggest oil and gas explorer, Inpex Corp , said on Tuesday it will build facilities to produce hydrogen and ammonia using its domestically produced natural gas in Kashiwazaki, northern Japan, ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida told French President Emmanual Macron on Tuesday that Tokyo hopes to strengthen cooperation with France toward achieving a "free and open Indo-Pacific." ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s economy, the world’s third largest, unexpectedly shrank in the three-month period from July to September, as a weak yen and high inflation eroded Japanese consumers’ buying power and sapped ... ( read original story ...)

Multiple floors of a building in this city's Suminoe Ward were flooded by a malfunctioning sprinkler system on Nov. 15, forcing many business ... ( read original story ...)

COVID-19 infections in Japan will exceed 100,000 on Tuesday for first time in two months, Fuji Television reported. Cases have been on the rise in recent weeks in what some authorities have called the ... ( read original story ...)

A coalition of countries will mobilise $20 billion of public and private finance to help Indonesia shut coal power plants and bring forward the sector's peak emissions date by seven years to 2030, the ... ( read original story ...)

Foreign cruise ships will be able to return to Japan for the first time since the early days of the pandemic in 2020, when the luxury, 13-deck Diamond Princess was quarantined in Yokohama with ... ( read original story ...)

A private-sector English-speaking test will be introduced at the Tokyo metropolitan high school entrance exam for the first time in Japan this month, but the initiative to nurture “speaking skills” ... ( read original story ...)