Tag: Japan
Japan heads to polls in key test for Prime Minister Shigeru...
Japanese voters headed to the polls on Sunday in a tightly contested election amid public frustration over rising prices and the imminent threat...
How the U.S. and Japan Got Stuck on Cars and Rice
The Trump administration has threatened Japan with 25 percent tariffs. River Akira Davis, our Tokyo correspondent, explains how automobiles and rice have become...
Flash Floods Are the ‘Hardest Kind’ of Disaster to Prevent, Experts...
Officials in Texas are under scrutiny for a string of refusals to fund early warning systems for flash floods in an area where...
Japan has been hit by investing fever
It is not difficult to spot the change. Bookshops now dedicate entire sections to financial guides. Trains are plastered with advertisements for investing...
Goods from Japan and South Korea hit with 25% levy
Natalie ShermanBusiness reporter, BBC NewsGetty ImagesThe US has announced a new 25% tax on products entering the country from South Korea and Japan,...
Outrage as Trump compares Iran strikes to Japan atomic bombing
Japan condemned US President Donald Trump for comparing recent US strikes on Iran to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that ended World...
Japan executes ‘Twitter killer’ who murdered nine
Japan has executed a man who murdered nine people in 2017, the first time since 2022 that the country has enacted capital punishment.The...
US marine jailed for seven years for sexual assault in Japan
A court in Japan has sentenced a US marine to seven years in prison after finding him guilty of sexually assaulting a woman...
The Last Survivors of the Emperor’s Army Tell Their Tales
As the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II approaches, few of Japan’s aging war veterans are left. When they go,...
Japan is obsessed with rice. And prices have gone ballistic
A little more than a century ago, in July 1918, the wives of fishermen in Toyama began to protest against the export of...