Loading

Search

:

Japan's Main Opposition Begins 2-Horse Leader Race After Election Loss

  • Category:Other
KYODO NEWS
 
Japan's main opposition party the Centrist Reform Alliance on Thursday officially began a brief two-horse race to select its new leader, as the recently established party seeks to rebuild after a crushing defeat in the recent general election.
The new party head is set to be chosen F...

More

Japan To Boost Aid For Video Games And Anime As New Pillar Of Growth

  • Category:Event
JAPAN TIMES
 
The transport ministry plans to provide subsidies for measures designed to ease airport congestion caused by an increase in inbound tourists as part of efforts to address overtourism and create a more comfortable travel environment.
Specifically, the ministry is considering subsidiz...

More

Japan Justice Ministry Panel Outlines Retrial System Review

  • Category:Other
NIPPON
 
A Japanese Justice Ministry panel on Thursday compiled an outline of a review of the country’s retrial system that would continue to allow public prosecutors to file appeals against courts’ decisions to start retrials.
The Legislative Council also outlined an automobile driving punishmen...

More

Popularity Of Japan Anime Characters In China Unaffected By Strained Ties

  • Category:Other
KYODO NEWS
 
Strained Sino-Japanese relations over Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's remarks in November on a Taiwan contingency seem to have had little effect on young Chinese lovers of Japanese animation and video games, with long queues formed at character goods shops in China.
The country's mar...

More

Takaichi Will Retain His Ministers In Japan's New Cabinet

  • Category:Other
VOI.ID
 
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is reportedly considering retaining all of her ministers in the new cabinet to be announced next week.
After winning a landslide victory in the election for the House of Representatives on Sunday, Takaichi is expected to be reappointed as prime mini...

More

Japan Earns 1st Olympic Ski Jump Mixed Team Medal

  • Category:Event
NIPPON
 
Japan won the bronze medal in the ski jumping mixed team event at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics on Tuesday, earning its first Olympic medal in the event.
The Japanese team, consisting of Nozomi Maruyama, Ryoyu Kobayashi, Sara Takanashi and Ren Nikaido, brought the Asian country its e...

More

Death toll from heavy snowfall in Japan rises to 46

  • Category:Snow
JAPAN TIMES
 
Almost three weeks of heavy snowfall has killed 46 people and injured 558 others in Japan, fresh data from the Fire and Disaster Management Agency showed Tuesday.
Continued snowfall since late January has buried northern communities and caused traffic chaos, particularly along the c...

More

Japan Wins Figure Skating Team Silver at Milan-Cortina

  • Category:Event
NIPPON
 
Japan won the silver medal in the figure skating team event at the Milan-Cortina Olympics on Sunday, as it did at the 2022 Beijing Olympics.
The Japanese team earned a total score of 68, just behind the U.S. team's 69. Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara recorded the highest score in pair skat...

More

It’s Sanae Takaichi’s Japan, As PM’s Persona Powers LDP To Electoral Success

  • Category:Event
JAPAN TIMES
 
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s striking victory in Sunday’s election has catapulted Japan’s political landscape to a time many had already begun to forget — a time when her Liberal Democratic Party held largely unfettered control over the levers of power.
Following a short hiatus a...

More

Japan To Restart World's Biggest Nuclear Plant On Monday

  • Category:Other
JAPAN TODAY
 
Japan will switch the world's largest nuclear power plant back on next week, after a glitch with an alarm forced the suspension of its first restart since the 2011 Fukushima disaster.
The announcement came after TEPCO restarted the reactor on January 21 but shut it off the following...

More

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next