The Japanese public transport service sometimes takes unprecedented proportions. The railways station Kyu-shirataki on the island of Hokkaido held open for a year longer say and write one loyal travelers. It was the girl Kana Harada, who could not be late to school without the train.
US Secretary of State John Kerry brings a historic visit to the Japanese city of Hiroshima in May. He is the highest American who visits the peace monument with the famous Genbakukoepel since the dropping of the first atomic bomb on August 6, 1945.
Thousands of people in Japan celebrated the male member and prayers to the fertility gods. That happened Sunday during the annual Kanamari Matsuri festival, the festival of the metal phallus in Kawasaki, a suburb of Tokyo.
US President Barack Obama has lashed out hard after the nuclear summit in Washington to the Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Obama responded to comments from Donald Trump that countries like South Korea and Japan to ensure that they possess nuclear weapons to neutralize the threat North Korea.
North Korea launched a short-range missile into the Sea of Japan. With the launch Pyongyang defies the meeting of world leaders in Washington who talk about international nuclear safety.
Social media Instagram was on Friday suffering from a global failure. This is evident from statistics Downdetector.com. Some users can not log or chart does not load.
The stock market in Japan posted a heavy loss Friday at the start of a new quarter. Sentiment in Tokyo was under pressure by negative reports about the Japanese industry. Also in China stock markets were down after lowering the outlook for China's credit rating by rating agency Standard amp; Poor's (S amp; P).
A plane en route from Hawaii to Japan has returned after a 72-year-old passenger went ballistic because he was not doing yoga and meditation exercises. When shortly after leaving Honolulu thought the food was served the South Korean Hyongtae Pae he back of the device or even could do his exercises. When the stewards and his wife called him to order, he onstak in anger. The pilot of United Airlines then decided to turn back.
There are many more tourists to come to Japan to spend more. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Wednesday launched a plan to double the number of tourists in Japan for 2020 and also the amount of money spend the visitors.
A fifteen year old girl two years ago was kidnapped in Japanese city of Asaka, managed to escape from her 23-year-old kidnapper. The girl was all the while held captive, and the man held her closely watched, reports The Japan Times Monday.
Driven by rising corporate earnings reports, books a few Chinese stock markets on Monday for the second consecutive trading day gains.
A zebra is deceased after the animal was chased for hours at a golf course in Japan. Presumably the animal drowned when it jumped into the water after it was shot with a tranquilizer dart.
Japanese whalers on Thursday with a big booty returned from the waters around Antarctica. Two ships arrived at the port of Shimonoseki, where 333 dwarf whales were brought ashore.
The United Nations Human Rights Council is looking at ways to pursue North Korea for crimes against humanity. The board has asked a group of independent experts to examine how North Korea may be asked to account. Also a role for the International Criminal Court is the subject of the investigation.
North Korea fired a ballistic missile. South Korea's Yonhap news agency announced on Thursday that the country has fired a missile toward the Sea of Japan. Last week, Pyongyang launched already two short-range missiles.
Japanese province of Aichi are looking for six full ninjas to boost tourism in the area.
North Korea on Thursday morning launched two short-range missiles. The projectiles came after about five hundred kilometers into the Sea of Japan, reported the South Korean Yonhap news agency the authority of the South Korean army.
The company behind the Asian popular chat application line, similar to WhatsApp, will for the summer at the fair in both Tokyo and New York. The aim is to raise up to $ 3 billion. Reported International Financing Review (IFR).
North Korea's boycott future sessions of the United Nations Human Rights Council in which it is itself subject. Resolutions on its human rights policy, it will,, never ever '' just attract. That said, the North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Su Yong Tuesday at a meeting of the council.
Belgium is sufficiently prepared for an accident in one of the nuclear plants. The emergency plans are not in order, the SHC judges Tuesday in a report following the nuclear disaster in Fukushima in Japan.
Five years, three managers responsible Tepco Concern been formally charged after the nuclear power plant disaster in Fukushima in Japan. The president and his two vice presidents Tepco is accused of the central had not protected from the tsunami that struck the area on March 11, 2011 after an earthquake. This was announced by the Japanese Monday.
Five years after the nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan despite protests from the population made a fourth nuclear reactor in operation. Operator Kansai Electric Power began reactor number four of the Takahama nuclear power plant in the western province of Fukui on Friday.
Iceland starts this year no more whales. Kristján Loftsson, the owner of the only remaining company that makes hunting the whale, has said Thursday in an interview. High transport of animals and strict controls provide too many problems.
Passengers of a Boeing 737 of Japan Airlines have the phone Tuesday to leave via the emergency chutes when smoke came from one of the engines in the cabin.
Carmaker Toyota calls back a large amount of cars back 2.9 million worldwide. The RAV4 Vanguard and SUVs fitted with rear seat belts that could be damaged in an accident possibly by a metal component. The belt can tear at worst. There are at least two cases in which the rear seat belts loosened by accident.
Police in the Japanese city of Fukuoka have arrested a woman who had her 16-year-old daughter forced thirty dead goldfish succession to eat. is also held by the woman's partner.
A Japanese actor was fatally wounded by a nepsamoeraizwaard during a theater rehearsal. This writes the newspaper The Japan Times.
North Korea is continuing its examination stop into the fate of Japanese who has kidnapped the country in the seventies and eighties.
The US Senate wants to see tougher sanctions against North Korea. The bill to make the country more stringent punishment for the nuclear program, human rights and espionage was supported unanimously. All 96 Democrats and Republicans voted for it.
