Japan

[ad_1] The number of foreign visitors to Japan is growing rapidly this year, with arrivals from January through September already topping last year's total, statistics from the Japan National Tourism Organization released on Wednesday show. Some 26.88 million foreign visitors arrived in Japan in the first nine months of this year, up 54.7% from the same period of last year, the organization said. The country had a total of 25.07 […]

[ad_1] London – Thomas Tuchel was named England's new manager on Wednesday, with the German set to start in the role from Jan. 1, 2025.The 51-year-old, who has been out of work since leaving Bayern Munich at the end of last season, succeeds Englishman Gareth Southgate as permanent coach and becomes the third foreign manager of the Three Lions after Sven-Goran Eriksson and Fabio Capello.A former coach of Chelsea, Borussia […]

[ad_1] Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has said that he “definitely” wants to make revisions to a key military pact with Washington “a reality,” but his push to change the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) governing the U.S. military presence in Japan is unlikely to happen any time soon, if at all.Ishiba repeatedly referenced revising the SOFA during his successful campaign for the Liberal Democratic Party presidency, and has continued to […]

[ad_1] KAIPING, China – A giant sphere 700 meters (2,300 feet) underground with thousands of light-detecting tubes will be sealed in a 12-story cylindrical pool of water in coming months for an experiment that will shine new light on elusive subatomic particles known as neutrinos.After years of construction, the $300 million Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) in China's southern Guangdong province will soon start gathering data on neutrinos, a product […]

[ad_1] Japan coach Hajime Moriyasu was left frustrated after his team's winning run in World Cup qualifying was ended by a 1-1 draw with Australia on Tuesday, but he believes the result will serve as a reminder to his players of the challenges that lie ahead.Japan had won all nine of their preliminaries for the 2026 tournament without conceding a goal until Shogo Taniguchi sliced the ball into his own […]

[ad_1] SEOUL – North Korean state media said on Wednesday that around 1.4 million young people have applied to join or return to the army this week, accusing Seoul of a provocative drone incursion that it says had brought the "tense situation to the brink of war."The young people, including students and youth league officials who had signed petitions to join the army, are determined to fight in a "sacred […]

[ad_1] Japan is grappling with a significant shortage of private-sector volunteer probation officers, known as hogoshi, who work with the government to assist in the rehabilitation of offenders.The shortage has been exacerbated by the aging of current officers, creating an urgent need to recruit new personnel.In late September, a panel of experts appointed by the Justice Ministry to review the probation officer system released a final report outlining several proposed […]

[ad_1] Nearly 70% of laws made in China this year feature language explicitly affirming the party’s authority. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] The divide could bolster Narendra Modi's image as a hawk on national security while taking the spotlight off of Justin Trudeau reportedly being asked to step down. [ad_2] Source link