Новости за 23.05.2024

In whale-motif jacket, shirt and tie plus a whale-shaped hat, Hideki Tokoro shows off Japan's new whaling "mother ship," the Kangei Maru — slicing blades, butchery deck, freezers and all.

Japan's top power generator Jets warned on Thursday that it could consider fuel purchases and investments in Asia, the Middle East and the United States if Australia does not provide sufficient financial support.

Sony Group on Thursday unveiled a strategy to boost its anime business, aiming to make it a new cornerstone of its entertainment operations alongside games, music and movies.

A health ministry panel is urging small drugmakers to merge with their bigger counterparts to ensure a stable supply of generic drugs in Japan amid an ongoing shortage.

Japan's inflation-adjusted real wages fell 2.2% from the previous year in fiscal 2023, which ended in March — the sharpest decline since the 2.9% drop in fiscal 2014, when prices were pushed up by a consumption tax hike — a labor ministry report showed on Thursday.

The leaders of South Korea, China and Japan will hold their first trilateral summit in more than four years in Seoul on Sunday and Monday, Seoul's presidential office said on Thursday.

The House of Representatives on Thursday passed a bill to create a Japanese version of Britain's Disclosure and Barring Service to check whether people holding or seeking jobs that involve contact with children have sex crime records.

Parliament began deliberations Thursday on bills submitted by the ruling and opposition parties to revise the political funds control law.

A Japanese government council has decided to discuss as early as this summer regulations aimed at mainly developers of generative artificial intelligence.

China, the world's biggest agriculture importer, has set targets to drastically reduce its reliance on overseas buying over the coming decade in line with its push for food security, but they will be exceedingly difficult to meet, experts say.

Experts from around the globe ended their two-day meeting in Yokohama on Wednesday with a call for dialogue on the impact of artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies on nuclear disarmament.

The decision of Karim Khan, the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor, to publicly seek arrest warrants for the leaders of Hamas and Israel this week will be one of the most significant and contentious of his career.

The decision by Spain, Norway and Ireland to recognize an independent Palestinian state reflects growing exasperation with the Israel of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, even from traditional friends, and suggests that international pressure on him will grow.

Shizuoka's gubernatorial election is now a close race between candidates from the ruling party and the main opposition, with speculation continuing that Prime Minister Fumio Kishida might call a snap election this summer if the Liberal Democratic Party candidate is defeated.

Infighting among some of Europe’s largest far-right parties has thrown pre-election campaigning into turmoil, threatening to spoil a parliamentary vote that was supposed to see ultra-conservative groups win major gains.

Japan’s premier agricultural bank, Norinchukin, is planning a complete overhaul of its investment strategy after massive losses on its overseas portfolio.

Recently released documents from the National Consumer Affairs Center (NCC) reveal a significant uptick in complaints regarding pest extermination services, particularly among young consumers who report charges far exceeding those advertised online, with complaints in the year ended in March seeing a 1.5 time increase compared with the previous year.

North Korea’s cult of personality has entered a new phase by elevating the portrait of Kim Jong Un next to that of his grandfather and father, showing him in a similar status as its two former leaders regarded as demigods at home.

Japanese researchers have confirmed a way to predict the onset of Alzheimer’s disease with a high degree of probability, by checking blood for the presence of a certain type of abnormal protein that causes the illness.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has called a surprise U.K. general election for July 4, with the leader battling a Downing Street downpour and protesters to set his Conservative Party up for a bruising six-week battle to try to stop Keir Starmer’s poll-leading opposition Labour Party from taking power.

Nvidia, the chipmaker at the center of an artificial intelligence boom, gained in late trading on Wednesday after a bullish sales forecast showed that AI computing spending remains strong.

Tokyo police on Wednesday arrested Terumi Ogura, 78, a former star of the all-female musical theater troupe the Takarazuka Revue, on suspicion of defrauding a fan out of ¥10 million.

A Uyghur organization said members of the ethnic group in France face "intimidation and harassment" amounting to "repression" by the Chinese state in a legal complaint filed Wednesday.

Microsoft President Brad Smith said the tech company's high profile deal with the United Arab Emirates-backed AI firm G42 could eventually involve the transfer of sophisticated chips and tools — a move that a senior Republican member of Congress warned could have national security implications.

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday police reinforcements in New Caledonia would remain as long as required, as he arrived in the French-ruled Pacific island in an attempt to end deadly riots triggered by a contested electoral reform.