Tokyo, 17 March, /AJMEDIA/ TOKYO -The Bank of Japan owned a record 52.02 percent of outstanding Japanese government bonds at the end of December, as the central bank was forced… Read more
Tokyo, 17 March, /AJMEDIA/ South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on Friday called for Japan to conduct a scientific analysis before releasing treated radioactive water into the sea from the… Read more
Tokyo, 17 March, /AJMEDIA/ TOKYO – Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Friday ordered a crackdown on crime rings that use social media to recruit new members and task them… Read more
Tokyo, 17 March, /AJMEDIA/ CANBERRA Australia said Friday it is planning to buy up to 220 Tomahawk cruise missiles from the United States after the U.S. State Department approved the… Read more
Tokyo, 17 March, /AJMEDIA/ TAKAMATSU – The government in Kagawa Prefecture has called on local hotel operators to stop asking foreign residents for identification when they check in, local officials… Read more
Tokyo, 17 March, /AJMEDIA/ NAHA – Japan on Thursday deployed Ground Self-Defense Force units including missile squads to a remote southern island near the disputed Senkaku islands and Taiwan, apparently… Read more
Tokyo, 17 March, /AJMEDIA/ HONG KONG – Chinese search giant Baidu unveiled its artificial intelligence chatbot Ernie Bot, presenting its rival to the Microsoft-backed ChatGPT in a pre-recorded video presentation… Read more
Tokyo, 17 March, /AJMEDIA/ TOKYO – Japan manager Hideki Kuriyama still gets a special tingle watching Shohei Ohtani. It’s been that way since Kuriyama managed the two-way star with the… Read more
Tokyo, 17 March, /AJMEDIA/ BEIJING – Japan has played up so-called “external threats” in recent years and greatly boosted its defense budget, and this tendency to return to the path… Read more
Tokyo, 17 March, /AJMEDIA/ Japan, Britain and Italy reaffirmed their commitment Thursday to push joint development of a next-generation fighter jet as a centerpiece of their increasingly close defense ties… Read more