3,000-year-old cedar toppled on typhoon-hit island in southwest Japan

Tokyo, 4 September, /AJMEDIA/ An iconic 3,000-year-old cedar on Yakushima Island in southwestern Japan has been toppled, likely due to strong winds brought by Typhoon Shanshan, local tour guides said… Read more

Mongooses eradicated on Japan’s natural heritage Amami-Oshima Island

Tokyo, 4 September, /AJMEDIA/ Japan’s Environment Ministry on Tuesday declared mongooses have been eradicated from Amami-Oshima Island in southwestern Japan, decades after launching efforts to eliminate the invasive species that… Read more

AI may not steal many jobs after all; it may just make workers more efficient

Tokyo, 4 September, /AJMEDIA/ Imagine a customer-service center that speaks your language, no matter what it is. Alorica, a company in Irvine, California, that runs customer-service centers around the world,… Read more

Venice lookback: When ‘Joker’ took the festival, and skeptics, by surprise

Tokyo, 4 September, /AJMEDIA/ After $1 billion at the box office, 11 Oscar nominations and two major wins, including for Joaquin Phoenix, it’s easy to forget the handwringing over “… Read more

BHOS teams reach final stage of “TEKNOFEST 2024”

Tokyo, 4 September, /AJMEDIA/ Eleven teams from SOCAR Baku Higher Oil School (BHOS) are set to participate in the final stage of “TEKNOFEST 2024,” which will take place from September… Read more

Azerbaijani beach volleyball squads to compete in European championship

Tokyo, 4 September, /AJMEDIA/ Azerbaijani men’s and women’s beach volleyball teams will showcase their skills at the “Bioderma Pro Beach Tour” Open Championship to take place in Mersin, Türkiye. Azerbaijan… Read more

COP29 Lead Negotiator: Baku Global Climate Transparency Platform to foster stakeholder cooperation

Tokyo, 3 September, /AJMEDIA/ “Transparency is a key factor to tackling climate change,” said Yalchin Rafiyev, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and COP29 Lead Negotiator, during the “High-Level Dialogue: Advancing… Read more

Release from the Press Service of the President

Tokyo, 3 September, /AJMEDIA/ On September 3, Ersin Tatar, President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, made a phone call to Ilham Aliyev, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.… Read more

Azerbaijan, CIS explore cooperation agenda & parliamentary elections

Tokyo, 3 September, /AJMEDIA/ Jeyhun Bayramov, Azerbaijan`s Foreign Minister, met with Leonid Anfimov, head of the CIS PA observation mission and First Deputy Secretary General of the Commonwealth of Independent… Read more

Azerbaijani FM and his Serbian counterpart discuss cooperation

Tokyo, 3 September, /AJMEDIA/ Jeyhun Bayramov, Azerbaijan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, met Monday with his Serbian counterpart Marko Djuric, who is on an official visit to the country. The minister… Read more