Many municipalities vulnerable to injury from a potential Nankai Trough megaquake lack an understanding of how the federal government’s warning system works, a authorities survey confirmed Tuesday. The Cabinet Office survey discovered that 12.8% of at-risk municipalities weren’t conscious of particulars of the system totally or positive what measures they need to take when an […] More
Japanese productions proceed to shine abroad, with French-Japanese drama sequence “Les Gouttes de Dieu” (“Drops of God”) taking dwelling finest drama on the International Emmy Awards on Tuesday. Adapted by Quoc Dang Tran, the sequence is predicated on a 2004 manga by Yuko and Shin Kibayashi (beneath the pseudonym Tadashi Agi), and Shu Okimoto set […] More
Japan must strengthen assist programs for catastrophe victims, a authorities activity drive finding out catastrophe response mentioned in a report launched Tuesday. The panel — led by Nobuo Fukuwa, professor emeritus at Nagoya University — studied the perfect catastrophe response based mostly on information from the Jan. 1 Noto earthquake. The report highlighted measures to […] More
Israel and Hezbollah inched nearer to signing a cease-fire deal which may be concluded within the coming days, based on officers and other people accustomed to the matter, at the same time as the 2 sides continued to fireplace artillery and rockets at one another. Israel’s safety cupboard is anticipated to vote on an settlement […] More
Online flea market operator Mercari will improve its affirmation course of for merchandise and broaden the vary of things for harm compensation, the corporate introduced Monday. The firm has been criticized on social media for not responding appropriately to sellers’ complaints that completely different gadgets from what they offered had been returned by consumers. Mercari […] More
Oji Holdings, Japan’s main paper maker, owns and manages 635,000 hectares of forests throughout the globe. Forest assets — for wooden, paper and wood-derived supplies or for biomass energy technology — are attracting elevated consideration as sustainable assets. However, their sustainability hinges on how they’re utilized and managed.Oji, who has been planting timber for 100 […] More
Japan and Italy have signed a deal that may enable their respective armed forces to share gas, meals and companies, a transfer supposed to facilitate higher bilateral and multilateral army actions over the approaching years as Rome and Tokyo take steps to deepen protection and safety cooperation. Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya and Italian Defense Minister […] More
A 93-year-old inmate imprisoned over a automotive crash wherein a mom and her younger daughter had been killed in Tokyo’s busy Ikebukuro district in April 2019 has died of outdated age, it was realized Monday. Kozo Iizuka, former head of the federal government’s now-defunct Agency of Industrial Science and Technology, died on Oct. 26, sources […] More
Sado, Niigata Pref. – A Japanese authorities spokesperson stated Monday it was “regrettable” that South Korea pulled out of a memorial ceremony Sunday to honor wartime labor victims who labored on the now-defunct gold mines on Sado Island in Niigata Prefecture, together with these from the Korean Peninsula. Seoul is believed to take concern with […] More
Economists count on Chinese exports to achieve a historic excessive this 12 months as clients rush to front-load orders given President-elect Donald Trump’s risk of upper tariffs when he takes workplace in January. Export progress will speed up to 7% within the last three months from the identical interval final 12 months, based on the […] More
Japan and the U.S. purpose to compile a joint navy plan for a attainable Taiwan emergency that features deploying missiles, the Kyodo information company reported on Sunday. Under the plan anticipated to be accomplished subsequent month, the U.S. would deploy missile models to the Nansei Islands in Kagoshima and Okinawa prefectures, in addition to the […] More
Nagoya – Ichiro Hirosawa, former deputy mayor of Nagoya, the capital of Aichi Prefecture, is anticipated to win the town’s mayoral election on Sunday, defeating his six contenders, together with former House of Councilors lawmaker, Kohei Otsuka. The election was successfully a one-on-one battle between Hirosawa, 60, who was endorsed by the Conservative Party of […] More
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