Tag: Japan
Australia to buy 11 advanced warships from Japan
Australia will upgrade its navy with 11 Mogami-class frigates built by Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Defence Minister Richard…
Japan trade negotiator to visit US to press for swift implementation of auto tariff deal
TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's top tariff negotiator Ryosei Akazawa said he planned to visit Washington from Tuesday to press…
Australia awards navy frigate contract to Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy
By Alasdair Pal and Kirsty NeedhamSYDNEY (Reuters) -Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries will deliver Australia's new A$10 billion ($6.5…
Japan’s oldest person is a 114-year-old retired doctor who carried an Olympic torch in 2021
TOKYO (AP) — Shigeko Kagawa, a 114-year-old retired physician from Nara Prefecture, has became Japan’s oldest living person,…
17 heat records broken in Japan
Seventeen heat records were broken in Japan on Monday, the weather agency said, after the country sweltered through…
80 years on, Korean survivors of WWII atomic bombs still suffer
Bae Kyung-mi was five years old when the Americans dropped "Little Boy", the atomic bomb that flattened Hiroshima on…
Photos of searchers seeking victims of a Hiroshima bombing 80 years later on a nearby island
NINOSHIMA, Japan (AP) — When the first atomic bomb detonated 80 years ago on Aug. 6, thousands of…
Japan sweats through hottest July on record
Japan sweltered through its hottest July since records began in 1898, the weather agency has reported, warning of…