U.S. Supreme Court orders temporary halt to deportations of Venezuelan migrants

Tokyo, 19 April, /AJMEDIA/ The U.S. Supreme Court early on Saturday paused the Trump administration from deporting Venezuelan men in immigration custody after their lawyers claimed they were at imminent… Read more

Four centuries later, Easter’s date remains divisive. Some church leaders want that to change

Tokyo, 19 April, /AJMEDIA/ For more than 400 years, Catholic and Orthodox churches have used different ways to determine the date of Easter. But this Sunday will mark a special… Read more

U.S., Japan need to push back against China, new U.S. ambassador says

Tokyo, 19 April, /AJMEDIA/ The United States and Japan need to work together to align their defense forces in the face of an increasingly assertive China, new U.S. Ambassador George… Read more

Strange sell-off in the dollar raises specter of investors losing trust in U.S. under Trump

Tokyo, 19 April, /AJMEDIA/ Among the threats tariffs pose to the U.S. economy, none may be as strange as the sell-off in the dollar. Currencies rise and fall all the… Read more

Japan tweaks economic assessment as U.S. tariff fears grow

Tokyo, 19 April, /AJMEDIA/ The government on Friday changed the expression for its overall view of Japan’s economy for the first time in eight months, warning that higher U.S. tariffs… Read more

‘Star Wars’ fans wave lightsabers as upcoming film gets announced in Japan

Tokyo, 19 April, /AJMEDIA/ The Force was with many Japanese, as well as visitors from abroad, at a “Star Wars” event on Friday where Lucasfilm announced that the next installation… Read more

Fill-in-the-blank training primes AI to interpret health data from smartwatches and fitness trackers

Tokyo, 19 April, /AJMEDIA/ The human body constantly generates a variety of signals that can be measured from outside the body with wearable devices. These bio-signals – ranging from heart… Read more

Central Tokyo trains partly suspended as track-switching work begins

Tokyo, 19 April, /AJMEDIA/ Train services on Tokyo’s busy Yamanote and Keihin-Tohoku lines were partially suspended Saturday as track-switching work began to construct a new line for faster access to… Read more

Japan enacts emergency animal shooting law amid surge in bear attacks

Tokyo, 19 April, /AJMEDIA/ Japan on Friday enacted a revised law to allow municipalities to authorize “emergency shootings” by hunters when dangerous animals enter populated areas amid a rising number… Read more

Azerbaijan represented at 30th Rabat International Book Fair

Tokyo, 19 April, /AJMEDIA/ An Azerbaijani delegation is attending the 30th edition of the International Book and Publishing Fair (SIEL) in the Kingdom of Morocco. Organized by Azerbaijan’s Ministry of… Read more