Olympics: Japan to test antivirus measures at baseball stadium

By Reuters,

Yokohama Stadium will hold three baseball games at around 80% capacity later this month as Japan looks to test its COVID-19 countermeasures at big eve...

antivirus measures , baseball games , COVID-19 , JAPAN , olympics , Yokohoma Stadium

Coronavirus concerns overshadow Olympic flame arrival in Japan

By Reuters,

An Olympic cauldron was ignited in Japan on Friday with a flame carried from Greece, with officials again pledging the Tokyo 2020 Games will proceed d...

olympics , Tokyo 2020

Coronavirus outbreak ‘getting bigger’ after Nigeria case: WHO

By Reuters,

Coronavirus outbreak is “getting bigger”, the World Helath Organization (WHO) said on Friday after Nigeria confirmed sub-Saharan Africa’s first ...

coronavirus

Tokyo 2020 holds torch relay rehearsal

By Reuters,

Japanese actress Satomi Ishihara performed the first ‘torch kiss’ handover of the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics torch relay on Saturday during a rehe...

olympics , Tokyo 2020

Nearly 600,000 advised to evacuate as storm makes landfall on Japan

By Reuters,

Heavy rains lashed parts of western Japan on Thursday as tropical storm Krosa made landfall, forcing the cancellation of hundreds of flights and train...

Hiroshima landfall , JAPAN , storm Krosa , Tokyo heat wave

Five missing US Marines declared dead after air crash off Japanese coast

By VOA,

Nearly a week after two U.S. Marine Corps aircraft collided in mid-air off the Japanese coast and crashed in the Pacific Ocean, the search for five mi...

Iwakuni air station , Japanese Coast , US Marines

Five missing US Marines declared dead after air crash off Japanese coast

By VOA,

Nearly a week after two U.S. Marine Corps aircraft collided in mid-air off the Japanese coast and crashed in the Pacific Ocean, the search for five mi...

Japan floods kill at least 126

By Reuters,

Rescuers in western Japan dug through mud and rubble early on Tuesday, racing to find survivors after torrential rain that began last week unleashed f...

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga , Hiroshima , JAPAN , Prime Minister Shinzo Abe

Japan races to find survivors of floods that killed nearly 100

By Reuters,

Rescuers in Japan dug through mud and rubble on Monday, racing to find survivors after torrential rains unleashed widespread floods and landslides tha...

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Japan jail escapee nabbed after massive 3-week manhunt

By AFP,

A thief who fled an open jail in Japan sparking a high-profile manhunt involving some 15,000 officers was taken into custody on Monday, police said, m...

JAPAN , Mukaishima island , open jail , Tatsuma Hirao

The world’s most outrageous staircases

By CNN,

Once referred to as "sculpture's gift to architecture" by dRMM co-founder Alex de Rijke, staircases are often become the centerpiece to a home or publ...

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Anti-nuclear group receives Nobel Prize as North Korea crisis escalates

By AFP,

The winners of the Nobel Peace Prize, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), on Sunday voiced alarm about an "extremely dangero...

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3.5-magnitude quake rattles North Korea near nuclear test site

By AFP,

A shallow 3.5-magnitude earthquake hit North Korea near the country's nuclear test site Saturday, US seismologists said, in what Chinese experts said ...

ballistic missile test , HYDROGEN BOMB , NORTH KOREA LAUNCH BALLISTIC MISSILE , UN SANCTIONS ON NORTH KOREA

North Korea celebrates nuclear test

By AFP,

North Korea held a mass celebration for the scientists involved in carrying out its largest nuclear blast to date, with fireworks and a mass rally in ...

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US warns N. Korea of ‘massive military response’ after nuke test

By AFP,

The United States warned it could launch a "massive military response" to any threats from North Korea following Pyongyang's provocative detonation of...

ballistic missile test , JAPAN , MISSILE , MOON JAE-IN , North Korea , North Korean leader Kim Jong Un , Pyongyang , South Korea

North Korea earthquake suggests sixth nuclear test

By Citizen Reporter,

North Korea detonated its sixth and most powerful nuclear test on Sunday, Japan and South Korea said, hours after Pyongyang said it had developed an a...

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North Korea Missiles Add Urgency to Hiroshima Anniversary

By Citizen Reporter,

Hiroshima’s appeal of “never again” on the anniversary Sunday of the world’s first atomic bomb attack has gained urgency as North Korea moves ...

75 Japanese companies , ATOMIC BOMB , Hiroshima , NAKASAKI , Nuclear Deal

South Korea says North’s nuclear capability ‘speeding up’

By Reuters,

South Korea's foreign minister said on Saturday that North Korea's nuclear capability is expanding fast, echoing alarm around the world over the isola...

Korea , North Korea , Nuclear , Nuclear power , South Korea , world

Obama makes history, confronts past in Hiroshima

By Reuters,

Honoring the memory of victims of the atomic bomb that fell on Hiroshima seven decades ago, U.S. President Barack Obama said the world has a shared re...

Barack Obama , Hiroshima , JAPAN , Obama makes history , U.S

U.S, Japan agree to lessen burden for hosting bases

By VOA,

Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will raise the issue of crimes committed by workers from U.S. military bases in a meeting with President Barack Ob...

JAPAN , U.S