Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and US President-elect Donald Trump plan to hold a meeting next week ahead of an APEC summit in Peru. Abe talked with Trump for about 20 minutes over the phone on Thursday. The Japanese leader congratulated Trump on his election victory and said he is convinced that the United States […]
Donald Trump has declared he has won the US election, in a speech to his supporters at his main election event in New York. He announced that his rival candidate Hillary Clinton has rung him to congratulate him, even though there are still some votes to be counted. “I’ve just received a call from Secretary […]
The developer of Pokemon Go says it has modified the settings so that people cannot use the app while driving. Fatal accidents have been caused in Japan by drivers who were absorbed in the popular smartphone game. Niantic said that on Monday it disabled the function for collecting items at “Pokestops” if players are travelling […]
South Korea’s military is on high alert for a possible provocation from North Korea, including a ballistic missile launch, on or around the day of the US presidential election. An official from the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff commented on the matter at a news conference on Monday. The official said that being mindful […]
A massive sinkhole has disrupted various public services and forced people to evacuate from a leading commercial district in Fukuoka City, western Japan. A section of a road caved in near JR Hakata station early Tuesday morning. Water from ruptured pipes is flowing into the sinkhole, which is 27 meters wide and 30 meters long. […]
A Catholic church in this western Japan city has become the first in Japan to be designated a “minor basilica,” a title granted by the pope only to specifically important places of worship. The Oura Church in 1865 was the site where a group of “hidden Christians” revealed their faith to Father Bernard Petitjean of […]
The Japan Foundation, a government body which serves to promote Japanese culture, opened its annual preparatory language training program for Filipino nurses and caregivers Friday, with hundreds of candidates having signed up to participate. Director of the Japan Foundation in Manila, Hiroaki Uesugi, told Kyodo News that 333 people, of which 39 are nurse candidates […]
A Chinese woman in her 20s was found bleeding from her neck in Tokyo’s Nakano Ward early Thursday and was later confirmed dead at a hospital, police said. The police found the woman with several stab wounds in the neck and cuts on her hand, indicating she tried to protect herself, at around 12:15 a.m. […]
The two tropical cyclones outside the Philippine boundary are slowly moving away from the country, the state weather bureau said midday Friday. Tropical storm Meari, located at 1,780 kilometers east of Central Luzon, was moving northeast slowly, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) said. Another tropical depression, located at 2,225 kilometers east of […]
Pop icon Lady Gaga, who owns six cars and just this year obtained a driving licence, said on Wednesday that she wants to “drive all over Tokyo”. The singer made the comment a week after she displayed her bad driving skills on the popular “Carpool Karaoke” segment of the U.S. “Late Late Show”, terrifying host […]
