Новости за 19.05.2024

Tech billionaire Elon Musk launched Sunday his Starlink service on Indonesia's resort island of Bali as the country aims to extend internet to its remote areas.

Japan's industry minister, Ken Saito, on Sunday voiced the government's readiness to consider providing additional aid to Rapidus, which aims to mass-produce next-generation semiconductors.

China's Commerce Ministry said Sunday that it has launched anti-dumping probes into certain chemical products from Japan, the United States, the European Union and Taiwan.

Japan, China and South Korea are considering a plan for a joint statement highlighting the promotion of measures against infectious diseases and economic cooperation to be adopted at an expected trilateral summit later this month, Japanese government sources said Sunday.

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida visited a hospital in northeastern Japan on Sunday to learn firsthand about the situation surrounding local medical services.

Dmitry Medvedev, a former Russian president and regular forecaster of a third World War, had no hesitation in comparing the would-be assassin of Prime Minister Robert Fico of Slovakia to the young man who ignited World War I. Europe, he suggested, was once more on the brink.

Police on Sunday served a fresh arrest warrant on charges of murder to Hikaru Sasaki, one of six people held over the case of a Tokyo businessman and his wife whose charred remains were discovered in Tochigi Prefecture in April.

Major Japanese paper producers Hokuetsu and Daio Paper have opted to forge a strategic business tie-up.

This series explores topics surrounding women who began their careers in Japan following the implementation of equal opportunities employment legislation in the mid-1980s. With many now reaching the age of retirement, it is hoped their stories can provide insight and lessons for women in Japan’s professional world today.

Before SungWon Cho was a celebrated voice actor, he used to write radio plays, do voices for video game and anime characters and “post stuff online” under his internet moniker, ProZD.

Vietnam's Communist Party has named police minister To Lam as the state president, the government said Saturday, and also nominated a new head of the parliament in a major leadership reshuffle.

The drama starring former U.S. President Donald Trump that is now playing out in a New York City courtroom is more than just a criminal trial.

A light-brown complex in a residential area in western Tokyo’s suburban city of Fuchu could easily be mistaken for a city hall.

The Philippine military has replaced a key commander overseeing forces in the South China Sea, including Filipino troops garrisoned on a disputed reef.

A third year into an unprecedented housing downturn, China’s President Xi Jinping seems to be finally getting worried, prompting speculation of quantitative easing and fueling a bull run in Hong Kong-listed Chinese stocks.

The U.S. State Department plans to deploy an officer to the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo to monitor problematic behavior involving China and consider countermeasures from July, a department official said Saturday.

Japan Railways Group companies have begun expanding cargo transportation services using their fleet of shinkansen bullet trains.

Four rare short films from Japan's Studio Ghibli, including a sequel to "My Neighbor Totoro," will be screened at the Cannes Film Festival, organizers said Saturday.

From New York to London to Tokyo, if there’s one similarity among the world’s equity markets it’s this: record highs.

The Defense Ministry's Joint Staff is scheduled to conduct the Joint Exercise for Rescue (JXR) simulation drill involving the Self-Defense Forces Monday through Friday, preparing for a potentially massive earthquake occurring along the Japan and Chishima trenches in the Pacific Ocean.

The U.S. military's Yokota Air Base in a western suburb of Tokyo was opened to the public in a two-day event through Sunday, with an Air Force CV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor transport aircraft among exhibits.

The road to a nuclear-free world is becoming rockier a year after leaders from the Group of Seven adopted a landmark document on nuclear disarmament.

The incoming Taiwanese president's best strategy to stop China from seizing the self-ruled island will likely be to bolster an agile defensive "porcupine" approach by spending more on missiles and drones.

Standing on the shore of Taiwan's Kinmen island, Taiwanese tourists snap photos of the skyline of China's Xiamen city that is clearly visible across the sliver of water separating them.

Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili on Saturday put a mostly symbolic veto on the "foreign influence" law that has sparked unprecedented protests and warnings from Brussels that the measure would undermine Tbilisi's EU aspirations.