Bungling Japanese officials sparked a nuclear scare after a violent, late-night earthquake by ticking the wrong box on a fax form — inadvertently alerting authorities to a potential accident. Employees of the Tokyo Electric Power Company...
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Priyanka Chopra… Google Calendar crashes after massive outage… 6.8 magnitude earthquake strikes off coast of Japan… Acting Defense Secretary Pat Shanahan resigns… Facebook branching into cryptocurrency… Alabama man kept...
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TOKYO (Sputnik) – The Japanese government expressed concern on Tuesday over the United States’ plans to deploy additional 1,000 troops to the Middle East following the recent attacks on oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman.
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There is growing dissent between Bank of Japan (BOJ) Governor Haruhiko Kuroda and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe over the central bank's 2-per cent inflation target, as officials consider a possible policy response to the spillover effects of global...
Japan wants collective action to tackle the ocean plastic crisis at next week’s G-20 summit, although the country still has an obsession with plastic packaging.
After weeks of speculation, it looks like it's official.
President Trump on Tuesday broke the news that he will indeed be meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping next week at the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan, as the two look to hash out a deal...
A magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck off northwestern Japan on Tuesday, triggering a tsunami advisory for three prefectures in the region.
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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire on Tuesday urged Renault to back governance reforms at Japan's Nissan, saying it would send a "positive sign" for the future of the alliance between the two car makers.
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Manchester United forward Alexis Sanchez has said he "felt worse than I ever have before" in the six weeks before Chile's 4-0 win over Japan on Monday...
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Japanese coast guard boats have been pushing back hundreds of North Korean boats from fishing grounds rich with squid off Japan’s northern coast
My back to work morning train reads: • The Rate Cut the Economy Doesn’t Need, but the Markets Desperately Want (Barron’s) • Meatless Future or Vegan Delusions? The Beyond Meat Valuation (Musings on Markets) • Why Japan isn’t afraid...
Casting the Trump administration's credibility gap into sharp relief, allies like Japan and Germany have demanded more "credible" evidence to support the U.S. claim.
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The Pacific nation of Palau has amended plans to create a huge marine reserve so Japanese trawlers still have partial access to its waters.
It’s a big week for central banks. Several central banks globally meet to decide upon monetary policy this week. The biggest focus will be on the Fed FOMC but this week also sees Norges Bank, Bank of England, Bank of Japan and central banks in...
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Richard Javad Heydarian
Security, Asia
It’s the aggressive rise of China, and the fear that it’s instilling across the region, that is driving Tokyo and Manila closer together.
“Japan is a friend closer than a brother. That means Japan is a...
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VLADIVOSTOK (Sputnik) - Moscow is ready to organise a meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump even on the eve of the G20 summit in Japan, but there are no any relevant signals from the United States in this regard,...
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Tokyo (AFP) – Paul Pogba has given the strongest indication yet that he wants to leave Manchester United this summer to seek a “new challenge”.
The French World Cup winner rejoined United from Juventus for a then world record...
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The Group of 20 major economies were set to agree a deal on reducing marine plastic waste at a meeting in Japan Sunday where they also discussed energy security following the oil tanker attacks in the Gulf of Oman.
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After the propeller screws were replaced on the Pennsylvania, she sailed back to Bremerton, Washington, for immediate repairs and was overhauled in San Francisco in 1942. She participated in the...