Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and US Secretary of State John Kerry have agreed that the Hague arbitration tribunal ruling must be the basis for bilateral talks between the Philippines and China on the South China Sea issue.Duterte and Kerry met on Wednesday in Manila. The Philippine presidential office said Duterte made the suggestion, and that […]
Hiroshima and Nagasaki have asked the developer of Pokemon Go to exclude key places for prayer in the western Japan cities from the sites featured in the blockbuster smartphone game, it was learned Wednesday. According to the Hiroshima municipal government, “PokeStops” where players of the game can obtain “items” are found around Hiroshima Peace Memorial […]
Japanese women relinquished the world’s top spot in average life expectancy at 87.05 years in 2015, overtaken by women from Hong Kong at 87.32 years, according to the welfare ministry’s data released Wednesday. Men in Japan also fell to fourth from third place in 2014 at 80.79 years, data showed. Still, the figures for last […]
Pokemon Go has become a global phenomenon. But managers at many public and private facilities around Japan are telling the developers of the augmented-reality game that they don’t want to play along.Officials at several Japanese railway companies are worried that players absorbed in the game will bump into passengers or fall off platforms. So they’ve […]
Unknown assailant stabbed Chugoku Shimbun deliveryman about 10 times with an ice pick. Hiroshima Prefectural Police are searching for an assailant who stabbed a newspaper deliveryman with an ice pick in Hiroshima City early Wednesday, reports the Yomiuri Shimbun (July 27). At approximately 3:00 a.m., the assailant used a blunt object to strike the head of […]
In northern latitude 45 degrees 31′, the cape is the northernmost point of the main island of Hokkaido. You can see the Sakhalin Island on a fine day. A stone monument of triangular pyramid shape on the cape reads “The monument at the northern end of Japan” the place where many tourists visit has various […]
Japanese police are renewing their call for people not to play the hugely popular smartphone game Pokémon Go while driving a car or riding a bicycle.The National Police Agency is making the appeal after drivers and cyclists have caused 36 accidents since the game debuted in Japan last Friday. Four of them resulted in injuries. […]
A shark is believed to have attacked a 29-year-old man Sunday evening when he was surfing in shallow waters off Irino Beach, a popular surfing spot in Kuroshio, Kochi Prefecture. The local Japan Coast Guard office quoted the man as saying a creature that seemed to be a shark bit his left leg and tried […]
A Japanese council for cultural affairs endorsed on Monday Christian churches and related sites in the southwestern prefectures of Nagasaki and Kumamoto for addition to the UNESCO World Heritage list in 2018. Following cabinet approval, the Japanese government is set to submit the recommendation to the UNESCO World Heritage Committee by Feb. 1, 2017, for […]
A traditional ritual at a shrine in Fukushima Prefecture saw participants attempting to catch free-running horses with only their bare hands.The event took place on Monday, the last day of a 3-day traditional summer festival, in the Odaka district of Minamisoma City. Earlier this month, the government lifted an evacuation order on the district. It […]
