Japan

[ad_1] HAKONE – Aoyama Gakuin University took a first-day lead of 2 minutes, 38 seconds over defending champion Komazawa University on Tuesday in the annual two-day Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden road relay. Five Aoyama Gakuin runners clocked a combined 5 hours, 18 minutes, 13 seconds over 107.5 kilometers from Tokyo's Otemachi business district to the mountainous hot spring resort of Hakone in Kanagawa Prefecture — a record for the outbound route. […]

[ad_1] Products popular with tourists saw big sales increases in Japan in 2023, with heart stimulants seeing the largest year-on-year rise among daily consumer goods, reflecting growing demand amid a rapid post-pandemic recovery of inbound travel, a survey by a marketing firm showed. Sales of cardiotonics touting effectiveness against palpitations and other heart-related ailments grew 1.8-fold from the previous year, while vitamin B1, a product also popular among foreign visitors, […]

[ad_1] A Japan Airlines plan was burning on a runway at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport on Tuesday evening, according to footage from broadcaster NHK. The cause of the fire, and whether anyone was injured, remained unclear. NHK footage showed firefighters battling the blaze. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] The New York Times – When Thomas Wong set foot in the United States Embassy in Beijing this summer for a new diplomatic posting, it was vindication after years of battling the State Department over a perceived intelligence threat — himself.Diplomatic Security officers had informed him when he joined the foreign service more than a decade ago that they were banning him from working in China. In a letter, […]

[ad_1] A hefty book containing some 750 letters from Japanese students expressing gratitude for support they received from the United States after the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake has been preserved by a descendant of then-U.S. President Calvin Coolidge, a Japanese research team has learned.Researchers from Tohoku University and other institutions were shown the letters, written in English by students from disaster-affected areas and elsewhere in Japan. With the discovery coinciding […]

[ad_1] Japan's Reconstruction Agency is sharing insights garnered from the aftermath of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami with nations facing similar challenges.In the current fiscal year, which ends in March, the agency has drawn up a document titled "Great East Japan Earthquake Lessons Learned & Know-How Gained." The document is an English version of an original Japanese text that compiles from many regions examples of rebuilding infrastructure and the […]

[ad_1] Taipei – The head of China's Taiwan Affairs Office on Tuesday called on Taiwan's people to promote the process of "peaceful reunification," saying it was the common desire of people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. Song Tao's message, which comes less than two week's before Taiwan holds presidential and parliamentary elections on Jan. 13, follows President Xi Jinping's remarks in his New Year Eve's address that China's […]

[ad_1] Full-cycle onshore aquaculture, in which fish are raised from eggs from artificially hatched fish at facilities on land, is attracting attention in Japan.The farming method is being developed at a time when factors including overfishing are leading to falls in stocks and the impact of climate change is resulting in the poor growth of fish. Thanks to advances in related technologies, successful cases have already been reported, including for […]

[ad_1] As 2024 begins, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and the ruling Liberal Democratic Party find themselves grappling with the political fallout of an investigation by Tokyo prosecutors into allegations of unrecorded kickbacks to lawmakers from the sale of fundraising party tickets. The investigation, though centered on members of the faction once led by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, has raised questions about Kishida’s own future.A number of potential rivals to Kishida […]