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KAGOSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) — Japan launched an Epsilon-2 rocket on Tuesday (December 20) carrying the Exploration of Energization and Radiation in Geospace (ERG) mission satellite. The satellite will study the creation and disappearance of highly charged electrons in the region of outer space near the Earth along with space storms and the effects of solar winds. The rocket was successfully launched from the Uchinoura Space Center in Kagoshima prefecture, south-western Japan, at 8 p.m. local […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — The US Marines on Monday resumed flights of their controversial Osprey aircraft in Japan, less than a week after a crash off the southern island of Okinawa sparked local protests. Last Tuesday an MV-22 Osprey made what Marines called a “controlled landing” just off the Okinawan coast during a night training flight that left the aircraft in pieces. No one was killed but the accident sparked anger on the island — […]
by Anne Beade and Miwa Suzuki Agence France Presse TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — From a humble smiley face with a box mouth and inverted “V’s” for eyes, crude weather symbols, and a rudimentary heart — emoji have now exploded into the world’s fastest-growing language. There are now about 1,800 emoji characters — and counting. They cover everything from emotions and food to professions, are racially diverse and have become an integral part of the smartphone age. […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japan and Russia on Friday wrap up a summit aimed at making progress on a peace treaty to formally end World War II, focusing on economic projects in small Russian-occupied islands claimed by Tokyo. The second day of discussions in Tokyo comes after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and President Vladimir Putin met on Thursday in Abe’s ancestral hometown in western Japan in the hopes of achieving a breakthrough. Abe said […]
NAGATO, Russia (AFP) — Russia and Japan kick off a summit Thursday aimed at reaching a deal over a group of small islands that have prevented the countries from formally ending their World War II hostilities. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will host Russian President Vladimir Putin in the former’s ancestral city of Nagato in hopes of achieving a breakthrough over the territory off Japan’s northern coast seized by Soviet troops in 1945. The four […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japan is postponing a summit with China and South Korea, the government said Tuesday, after the impeachment of South Korean President President Park Geun-Hye. The Asian powers were planning to hold an annual trilateral gathering this month in Japan, which is the rotating chair. South Korea’s parliament voted Friday to impeach Park, who is engulfed in a scandal over her friendship with a long-time confidante who has been charged with meddling […]
by Maria Panina with Ursula Hyzyin Tokyo Agence France Presse MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin heads to Japan Thursday to meet Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in the latest bid to reach an elusive deal on a territorial dispute that has prevented their nations signing a formal treaty to end World War II. Abe will host Putin at the hot springs in his ancestral city of Nagato in the hope of breaking the […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japan has restarted one of its few operating nuclear reactors after a two-month safety checkup, despite still-heated debate over atomic power following the Fukushima disaster. The unit was shut down in October for inspections and maintenance under stricter rules brought in after a quake-sparked tsunami swamped the Fukushima plant in 2011, sending some reactors into meltdown and causing the worst nuclear disaster in a generation. Utility Kyushu Electric said it switched […]
TOKYO, Japan (Reuters) –Every December, 80-year-old Takashi Kawata travels to Tokyo from his home in northern Japan to participate in a rally calling for the return of the island he grew up on which is at the heart of a territorial dispute between Japan and Russia. He is one of the 17,000 Japanese who were expelled from a string of islands in the extreme north of Japan by the Soviet Union when it laid claim […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — The December 7, 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor triggered the United States to join its European allies in World War II. With Prime Minister Shinzo Abe due later this month to become the first Japanese leader to visit Pearl Harbor, AFP looks at the sequence of events that led to the US changing the course of the war. Japanese expansionism Japan’s policy of territorial expansionism, launched in the late 19th […]
TOKYO, Japan ( AFP ) — Tokyo stocks opened higher on Wednesday following another record close on Wall Street after Paris stocks reached the year’s highest level and Italian banks surged. Tokyo’s benchmark Nikkei 225 index rose 0.40 percent, or 73.45 points, at 18,433.99 in the first few minutes of the trade, while the broader Topix index of all first-section issues was up 0.45 percent, or 6.63 points, at 1,483.83.
DAVAO CITY (Eagle News) – Umabot sa 205 katao ang nahuli sa unang araw ng anti-jaywalking ordinance ng City Transport Management Office (CTTMO) nitong huwebes, December 1 sa Davao City. Ayon kay CTTMO Executive Service Officer Charlotte Parba, may parehong bilang ng lalake at babae ang kanilang nahuli. Karamihan aniya sa kanilang nahuli ay mga empleyado at estudyante. Mayroon din umanong foreign nationals na galing Pakistan, Japan, China, Denmark, at India ang dinala sa kanilang tanggapan. […]
