Tokyo, 7 April, /AJMEDIA/ Israel’s military hit sites in Lebanon and Gaza early on Friday, in retaliation for rocket attacks it blamed on the Islamist group Hamas, as tensions following… Read more
Tokyo, 7 April, /AJMEDIA/ Having made a splash in the World Baseball Classic, hard-throwing Roki Sasaki was an 11-strikeout force in his Pacific League season debut Thursday, going six innings… Read more
Tokyo, 7 April, /AJMEDIA/ Chinese state-owned telecom firms are developing a $500 million undersea fiber-optic internet cable network that would link Asia, the Middle East and Europe to rival a… Read more
Tokyo, 7 April, /AJMEDIA/ As lawmakers debate whether to ban TikTok nationwide, its Chinese parent company has introduced a new app that’s already getting some traction. The app, called Lemon8,… Read more
Tokyo, 7 April, /AJMEDIA/ Nineteen Japanese have been detained in Cambodia for alleged involvement in phone scams in Japan, authorities in both countries said Friday. Tokyo police obtained arrest warrants… Read more
Tokyo, 7 April, /AJMEDIA/ Toyota Motor Corp. said Friday it will expand its all-electric vehicle lineup by launching 10 new models and aim to sharply increase its EV sales to… Read more
Tokyo, 7 April, /AJMEDIA/ Outgoing Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda has learned the hard way that even a decade of unprecedented monetary easing is not enough to attain a… Read more
Tokyo, 7 April, /AJMEDIA/ The government on Friday formally appointed academic Kazuo Ueda as the next Bank of Japan governor for a five-year term, succeeding Haruhiko Kuroda, in the central… Read more
Tokyo, 7 April, /AJMEDIA/ Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is a potential 2024 Republican presidential candidate, is considering a visit to Japan in late April, a diplomatic source said Thursday.… Read more
Tokyo, 7 April, /AJMEDIA/ Japan decided Friday to extend its sanctions on North Korea, including a ban on all trade, by two years amid a series of ballistic missile launches… Read more