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[ad_1] Islamabad – Pakistan police warned Sunday they would come down hard on illegal gatherings after the party of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan urged supporters to protest against alleged rigging in last week's election.Independent candidates — most linked to Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Party — took the most seats in the polls, scuppering the chances of the army-backed Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) to win a ruling majority.However, independents […]

[ad_1] Monet Technologies, a Japanese mobility service firm partly owned by Toyota Motor, plans to test a self-driving taxi service in Tokyo's Odaiba district, starting in July, people familiar with the matter said Sunday. The test will start with Level 2 partially automated driving technology and will examine the feasibility of Level 4 technology that provides fully automated driving under certain conditions. The robotaxi service, partly designed to address serious […]

[ad_1] Japan's Mitsuki Ono won her third straight snowboarding halfpipe World Cup event Saturday in Calgary to clinch the women's overall title for the second season in a row.Compatriot Ruka Hirano joined Ono in claiming back-to-back overall titles after finishing second in the fifth and final round of the men's circuit in Canada.Ono scored 89.00 points on the first of her three runs, which would have been enough to win […]

[ad_1] Japan will pledge ¥15.8 billion ($106 million) in aid to Ukraine at a conference to be held in Tokyo on Feb. 19, Kyodo News reported Sunday, citing unidentified sources. The funding will be used for reconstruction in seven areas, including agriculture and the disposal of rubble, Kyodo said. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal are set to attend the conference, along with government and industry […]

[ad_1] “A murder!” Ryouji Shimada exclaims. We’re in Kasai Rinkai Park in Tokyo’s Edogawa Ward on a chilly Sunday morning. I rush over, binoculars swinging around my neck, my ill-chosen heavy leather shoes clumping on the ground. As Shimada picks up a feather from an array of them scattered messily across the grass, he shows me how the quill hasn’t broken, so the culprit is unlikely to be a tanuki. […]

[ad_1] The Japanese Defense Ministry plans to produce and stockpile whole blood products that can be transfused into injured Self-Defense Forces troops regardless of their blood types and also contain platelets, which help stop bleeding, ministry officials told Jiji Press.The use of whole blood products will help save front-line medical personnel time and effort to check blood type compatibility and provide speedier treatment to injured troops.The Defense Ministry is in […]

[ad_1] Naomi Osaka is one of the world’s most recognizable and marketable athletes. The Japanese tennis player, who’s lived most her life in the U.S., is a four-time Grand Slam winner.She’s been open about her struggles with depression and took a break from the sport starting in 2022. Osaka returned last month in Australia after giving birth to her first child in July.She spoke to Bloomberg in Abu Dhabi on […]