Saury fading from Japan's dining tables amid poor catches
Saury is losing its status as a common presence on Japanese dining tables, as the country struggles with sluggish catches and consumption.
Saury is losing its status as a common presence on Japanese dining tables, as the country struggles with sluggish catches and consumption.
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will meet his Chinese counterpart next week, the Pentagon said Friday, as Beijing wrapped up two days of large-scale military exercises around Taiwan.
The ruling Liberal Democratic Party is considering a plan to require political funds reports to record when so-called policy activity funds are used under proposed revisions to the political funds control law, multiple party sources said Saturday.
Japan is highly likely to suffer a scorching summer this year, after logging the hottest summer on record last year.
The wall in the police station was covered in sheets of paper, one for every building in the sprawling Beijing apartment complex. Each sheet was further broken down by unit, with names, phone numbers and other information on the residents.
A Conservative British prime minister sets the date for a long-awaited vote in the early summer and the United States follows with a momentous presidential election a few months later. It happened in 2016, when Britons voted for Brexit and Americans elected Donald Trump, and now it’s happening again.
Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike plans to run in the capital’s July gubernatorial election as she sets her sights on a third four-year term.
Protesters took to the streets in Taiwan on Friday night as opposition lawmakers pushed ahead with a bill intended to curtail the powers of the new president, Lai Ching-te.
The top U.N. court ordered Israel Friday to halt military operations in Rafah, a landmark ruling likely to increase international pressure for a cease-fire more than seven months into the war sparked by Hamas' Oct. 7 attack.
The U.S. Trade Representative's (USTR) office on Friday announced a further extension of all China Section 301 tariff exclusions on 352 Chinese import and 77 pandemic-related categories through June 14, and said some would be extended through May 31, 2025.
China’s outsized role in world trade is alarming global finance chiefs, who are poised to forge a united front in Italy priming their nations to challenge "harmful practices.”
The Liberal Democratic Party and main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan remain divided over whether the country should continue to allow political fundraising parties, following a scandal that enveloped the ruling party.
Japan stands ready to take appropriate action in the market "any time" to counter excessive moves in the yen, its top currency diplomat Masato Kanda said on Friday, issuing a fresh warning on the chance of renewed exchange-rate intervention.
K2 Pictures, a new film production startup headed by veteran producer Muneyuki Kii, aims to disrupt the Japanese film industry.
For 60 years, 85-year-old photographer Daido Moriyama has been influencing photographers around the world with his prolific output of gritty, urban imagery and commitment to sharing his work via self-publishing.
The quietude at Numazu Club is its biggest selling point. Even when the sliding doors of a guest room at the villa are wide open, there’s only the faint rustle of pine trees in the breeze and the odd splash of a few birds enjoying the spring water of a shallow garden pool.
For centuries, an African slave who entered the orbit of war-torn Japan’s leading daimyo was an interesting historical tidbit. As of last week, he became the catalyst for the latest in the so-called culture wars.