Kishida’s cabinet support rate edges up to 24.2%: poll

Tokyo, 14 May, /AJMEDIA/ The approval rating for Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s cabinet has edged up by 0.4 percentage point to 24.2 percent, a Kyodo News survey showed Monday,… Read more

Japan gets 1st online poll monitors in area with aging population

Tokyo, 14 May, /AJMEDIA/ Japan’s first online poll watchers will be introduced in two local elections next month amid a shortage of people to fill the role of observers, the… Read more

Japan to introduce online booking for Mount Fuji trail

Tokyo, 14 May, /AJMEDIA/ An online booking system for Mount Fuji’s most popular trail was announced on Monday by Japanese authorities trying to fight overtourism on the active volcano. Japan’s… Read more

Star witness Michael Cohen directly implicates Trump in testimony at hush money trial

Tokyo, 14 May, /AJMEDIA/ Donald Trump’s fixer-turned-foe, Michael Cohen, directly implicated the former president in a hush money scheme Monday, telling jurors that his celebrity client tasked him on several… Read more

Misery deepens in Gaza’s Rafah as Israeli troops press operation

Tokyo, 14 May, /AJMEDIA/ Aid workers struggled Monday to distribute dwindling food and other supplies to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians displaced by what Israel says is a limited military… Read more

U.S., Japanese banks lead fossil fuel financing

Tokyo, 14 May, /AJMEDIA/ The world’s biggest banks financed fossil fuels to the tune of $705 billion in 2023, with U.S. and Japanese lenders leading the way, an annual report… Read more

Small Chinese EV called Seagull rattles U.S. auto industry

Tokyo, 14 May, /AJMEDIA/ A tiny, low-priced electric car called the Seagull has American automakers and politicians trembling. The car, launched last year by Chinese automaker BYD, sells for around… Read more

Medvedev battles past Medjedovic, Osaka ousted at Italian Open

Tokyo, 14 May, /AJMEDIA/ Daniil Medvedev continued his Rome title defence with Monday’s hard-fought 7-6 (7/5), 2-6, 7-5 win over qualifier Hamad Medjedovic as the men’s tournament was left wide… Read more

Sweden’s small game studios punching above their weight

Tokyo, 14 May, /AJMEDIA/ “Minecraft”, “Valheim”, and “Raft”, just to name a few: Small or even one-man teams from Sweden have produced more video game hits than one would expect… Read more

OpenAI releases faster model to power ChatGPT

Tokyo, 14 May, /AJMEDIA/ OpenAI on Monday released a higher performing and more efficient version of the artificial intelligence technology that underpins its popular generative tool ChatGPT, making it free… Read more