The Philippines’ foreign secretary has refused China’s offer to hold talks that would not encompass an international tribunal decision.The arbitration tribunal in The Hague last Tuesday dismissed Beijing’s claims over almost all of the South China Sea. China rejected the decision. Philippine Foreign Secretary Perfecto Yasay commented during an interview with a local TV broadcaster […]
The operators of Tokyo’s Haneda Airport were forced to close a runway for more than 9 hours on Monday after a Hawaiian Airlines plane made an emergency landing.Transport officials say flight 458 took off from Haneda in the early morning, bound for Honolulu. But it returned less than an hour later to make an emergency […]
Deer have been summoned from the woods in a ceremony at a park in Japan’s ancient capital of Nara.The deer calls started more than 100 years ago as a tourist attraction. About 80 deer appeared from the forest on Sunday after hearing a ceremonial horn.They were treated to acorns by the members of a local […]
The UN cultural agency has decided to add the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo to its list of World Heritage sites. The building was designed by the French architect Le Corbusier.UNESCO’s World Heritage committee announced the decision in Istanbul on Sunday. The meeting had been suspended because of the attempted coup in Turkey. […]
The Philippine government on Friday extended its sympathies to France after the truck attack that killed at least 80 people during a National Day celebration in the southern city of Nice. Foreign Affairs Secretary Perfecto Yasay started his statement during the 11th Asia-Europe Leaders Meeting (Asem) in Mongolia with an expression of solidarity with the […]
Every summer, a pair of rice paddies in Aomori Prefecture’s town of Inakadate transform into giant works of art. By planting various strains of rice which sprout as differently colored plants, the fields become canvasses for gigantic organic illustrations, with characters from Japanese folklore and Hollywood movies making appearances in recent years. For 2016, the […]
A Yamaguchi-gumi member and a rival gangster were arrested for assaulting one another at the Tori no Ichi festival. Tokyo Metropolitan Police have arrested a pair of gang members for a fight that broke out a festival in Taito Ward last year, reports TV Asahi (July 15). In November, Kiyoshi Nakahara, a 55-year-old member of an affiliate […]
A woman in her 80s has gone missing after torrential rain hit southern Kyushu in southwestern Japan on Thursday, with the Japan Meteorological Agency warning of landslides, floods and swollen rivers. Police and firefighters are searching for the woman after a resident in the town of Misato in Kumamoto Prefecture reported her missing. “I saw […]
The Philippines is urging China to accept a tribunal ruling that rejected China’s claims to historic rights in the South China Sea.An arbitration tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, ruled on Tuesday that China has no legal basis for its claims to most of the sea and that it had violated international law.China is firmly opposed […]
Three months have passed since the first in a series of powerful earthquakes hit Kumamoto Prefecture and surrounding regions in southwestern Japan. Many people who evacuated have not yet been able to return home.A quake measuring the maximum intensity of 7 on the Japanese scale hit the region on April 14th. The series of jolts […]
