Japan

President Donald Trump meets with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba at the White House on Friday, February 7.

Police and first responders in Japan’s Saitama Prefecture struggled on Thursday to rescue a truck driver who became trapped in a gigantic sinkhole three days ago.

TOKYO — Japan issued a tsunami advisory on Monday after a magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck the southwest of the country. The public warnings to stay away from coastal areas were later lifted.

President Joe Biden has stopped Japan’s Nippon Steel Corporation from buying the United States Steel Corporation — a victory for President-elect Donald Trump who had vowed to take the action himself if President Biden had not.

Alibaba founder Jack Ma, once the richest man in China before he was ruined and exiled for daring to criticize the Chinese Communist Party, paid a visit to his company’s main campus in Hangzhou on Friday.

A popular Thanksgiving dinner staple in the United States is banned in several European countries and Japan due to two ingredients being linked to cancer.

Brigade-strength Japanese military forces will train alongside U.S. Marines in northern Australia from 2025 onwards it was confirmed during high-level talks hosted in the Northern Territory capital Darwin on Sunday.

North Korea launched several short-range ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan on Tuesday, just hours before the U.S. presidential election kicked into high gear.

North Korea confirmed on Friday that the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) the communist regime tested on Thursday was a new model, identified as the “Hwasong-19.”

The South Korean Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) reportedly told lawmakers on Wednesday that it had reason to believe communist North Korea has refurbished the Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site, unused since 2017, and could potentially detonate a nuclear weapon in time for the U.S. presidential election.

Japan’s governing Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) appears to have lost its majority in the lower house of parliament for the first time since 2009, reports from the country revealed on Monday.

The defense ministers of Japan, the U.K. and Italy agreed to accelerate the joint development of a next-generation fighter jet, and announced that a trilateral government organization would be established by the end of this year to work with the parties producing the aircraft, Japanese officials said Sunday.

Nihon Hidankyo, an organization of survivors of the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II, won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, the Nobel Committee announced on Friday.

Japan’s Miyazaki Airport shut down for a day, canceling dozens of flights, after a World War II-era bomb exploded underground on Wednesday morning.

The newly minted prime minister of Japan, Ishiba Shigeru, called the creation of an “Asian version of NATO” to contain China “essential” in recent remarks, Japan’s Yomiuri Shimbun reported on Sunday.

Former defense minister Ishiba Shigeru won his bid for leadership of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on Friday, all but guaranteeing he will become the next prime minister.

The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China conducted an unusual ICBM test launch into the Pacific Ocean for the first time since 1980.

The explosions of pagers and walkie-talkies that Lebanon’s Hezbollah terrorists obtained from foreign suppliers prompt worldwide anxiety.

Japanese handheld radio manufacturer Icom denies any connection to the discontinued radios that exploded in Hezbollah’s hands.

The Lebanon National News Agency reported that rooftop solar arrays in Beirut exploded at the same as Hezbollah’s walkie-talkies.

A ten-year-old Japanese boy died from his wounds on Thursday morning after he was stabbed by a 44-year-old Chinese man near a school in Shenzhen, China.

Demographic data reveals that Japan has a record-high population of more than 95,000 people aged 100 or over.

The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) reports that China has become the world leader in roughly 90% of critical technologies.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry confirmed on Tuesday that military units had arrived in Vladivostok, Russia, to participate in joint military exercises with Moscow, part of a greater plan to for China to also host the Russian military in exercises in the Sea of Japan.

Shares for the United States Steel Corporation fell as President Joe Biden is reportedly planning to block Japan’s Nippon Steel Corporation from purchasing the company.

Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, had nothing to say about China during the first press interview of their 2024 campaign. 

The South Korean Constitutional Court ruled on Thursday that many of the government’s climate change goals are unconstitutional.

Japanese tennis star Yoshihito Nishioka was compelled to withdraw from the U.S. Open on Monday after collapsing during the first round.

The Chinese government has implemented tighter health screening for travelers from Africa, where a new outbreak of monkeypox or “mpox” was recently declared a global public health emergency by the World Health Organization (W.H.O.).

Former President Donald Trump promised to block Japan’s Nippon Steel Corporation from buying the United States Steel Corporation.

Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio announced on Wednesday he will step down in September rather than seek reelection.

Japan was hit by a 7.1 magnitude earthquake on Thursday and officials have issued a “megaquake advisory” to residents.

The Japanese stock market suffered its worst single-day sell-off in history Monday, losing even more points than on “Black Monday” in 1987.

The Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) threatened to pursue “legal action” on Thursday in response to “slanderous” online comments.

Former North Korean diplomat Ri Il-kyu, whose defection to South Korea was made public last month, said on Thursday that the regime in Pyongyang will be interested in resuming nuclear talks if Donald Trump wins the 2024 presidential election.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken departs for a six-nation tour of Asia, derisively described by Chinese state media as his “farewell tour.”