Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has asked for an urgent meeting of the UN Security Council on North Korea. The reason was the launch of a suspected intercontinental ballistic missile by Pyongyang. The projectile landed in the Japanese Sea, a few hundred kilometers off the coast. Abe promised to protect the Japanese population.
The Belgian television program Sorry voor alles received an Emmy on Monday in New York during the 45th International Emmy Awards Gala. The two Dutch contenders fell outside the prizes.
A Japanese train company apologized because one of its trains did not leave on time on Thursday. Instead of 09.44.40 local time, the train left at 09.44.20. No less than 20 seconds too early.
A scandal in the world of sumo giants. The famous Mongolian wrestler Harumafuji (33) would hit his competitor Takanoiwa (27) in October with an empty beer bottle. The victim was then severely injured in the hospital. The rel is now only out.
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The Japanese government parties have made a big victory in Sunday's election. The LDP party of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and coalition partner Komeito, according to the Japanese Broadcasting Corporation, can claim NHK a second-thirds majority in the House of Commons.
In Japan, at least two people were killed by the natural violence that Hurricane Lan brought with him. The typhoon reached Japan's mainland on Monday, but has now been tainted into a second category hurricane.
The Japanese authorities have advised tens of thousands of people in different parts of the country to evacuate due to approaching the typhoon Lan. The typhoon reaches Japan's mainland on Monday.
Japan and South Korea responded positively to the new sanctions against North Korea on Tuesday. The South Korean government said that Pyongyang should realize that 'recklessly challenging international peace' will only lead to further punitive measures.
The animal rights activists of Sea Shepherd are currently stopping their struggle at sea against Japanese whalers. Founder Paul Watson said, according to Australian media, it hardly competes with the 'military technology' that the Japanese use to protect their fleet.
The Nikkei Index in Tokyo has fallen as a result of the missile attack by North Korea. The stock market opened a loss of 0.7 percent and dropped to 19,304.76 points, the lowest since May.
The Dutch demand the value of 843 stolen bitcoins, together well for € 3 million. They were in possession of the hacked and bankrupt crypto platform Mt.Gox.
The Dutch demand the value of 843 stolen bitcoins, together well for € 3 million. They were in possession of the hacked and bankrupt crypto platform Mt.Gox.
On Tsuiji, the largest fish market in the world in Tokyo, a fierce fire broke out on Thursday. Every year tens of thousands of tourists visit the market full of stalls with exotic fish and sushi.
The intercontinental rocket that fired North Korea on Friday crossed the path of a Air France's Boeing 777. An American official flew at the spot where the rocket in the sea landed ten minutes earlier the passenger plane with 323 people aboard.
Young Japanese women spend a lot of time on summer nights at the luxury hotels. Not to swim, but to shine on social media. The goal of the girls is to make themselves in their bikini while having cocktails with friends on hot air beds.
About 380,000 Japanese people have been in Tokyo in recent months for the first major traveling exhibition of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.
Twitter with a blue check mark can be dating in a simple way. Loveflutter, a dating app that linked all users of the social media, made Blue a new version that only enabled verified accounts.
For the destruction of her ex-husband's violin collection, a Chinese woman was arrested in Tokyo. The 34-year-old woman broke into her ex and took over 54 violins, worth over 800,000 euros. They were in a divorce at that time, according to the BBC, based on the local press office Kyodo News.
The Efteling in Kaatsheuvel has been voted the best theme park in the world by the American website Themeparkinsider.com.
Chipmaker Intel is working with the International Olympic Committee. Intel wants to use drones, live virtual reality and 360 degree cameras to portray the sports.
The bodies of missing crew members of an American navy ship were found, reports the American navy on Sunday. Rescuers found the bodies in damaged and lowered parts of the USS Fitzgerald. How many bodies it is, let the Americans in the middle. According to Japanese media, all seven missing crew members were found dead.
Seven crew members of an American navy ship were missing Saturday after the ship had a collision with a Filipino container ship. At least three people were injured in addition. The accident took place southwest of the Japanese city of Yokosuka.
In Japan, the construction of an amusement park has been completely dedicated to Nintendo. Super Nintendo World must be ready in time for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.
A Japanese killer who stayed for police for 45 years has recently been arrested. Not earlier in Japanese history, a criminal was in flight for so long. Masaaki Osaka is unlucky, the assassination of murder has been abolished in Japan a while ago.
Many foreign interpreters do not know what they are facing by the US President Donald Trump. The translation of Trumps words mainly causes problems in Asian countries. For how do interpreters have to explain the president's often coarse call to polite television viewers?
Designers, supported by automaker Toyota, work on a flying small city car. It must debut during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in the summer of 2020.
Create images for Street View yourself. Google will soon make it possible for owners of a 360 degree camera. Cameras approved by Google get a Street View Ready certificate, known the search giant.
The upcoming chief of the South Korean intelligence service finds it too early for a summit between North and South Korea. Suh Hoon said Wednesday that the right conditions should be present before the new president, Moon Jae, can meet in his North Korean equality.
Germans can also order their daily groceries at Amazon. The webshop has a food branch, AmazonFresh, which supplies from Berlin in Berlin and Potsdam from Thursday. AmazonFresh has 85,000 items in the assortment and says that groceries ordered before 12:00 have been delivered before dinner.
