https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/06/1080683499_0:43:1280:763_1200x675_80_0_0_078939988551ab5b3a7fcf9cba2e987c.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Rishikesh Kumar. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/military/202010061080681404-japan-holds-naval-exercise-with-chinas-iron-brother-pakistan-amid-high-decibel-quad-meet—video/ The foreign ministers of the Quad – India, the US, Japan, and Australia – met in Tokyo on Tuesday in an attempt to lead a regional initiative called “Free and Open Indo-Pacific” aimed at countering China’s growing assertiveness in the region. On the day of the Quad members meeting in Tokyo, Pakistan Navy Ship (PNS) Zulfiquar participated […]
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https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/0a/1080414700_0:0:3072:1729_1200x675_80_0_0_c7a33d3a47d0d194a527f89e1d8b9779.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202010041080658930-pompeo-cuts-his-asia-trip-short-planning-only-tokyo-meetings/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The planned Asia tour of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has been limited to Japan only, the US State Department informed in a statement. “Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo will travel to Tokyo, Japan on October 4 to 6. Planned meetings with the Quad Foreign Ministers in Tokyo will focus on pressing issues of […]
Japan’s Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) has shut down all trading for a full day due to a systemwide technical error. Though the exchange says the glitch is unrelated to hacking, it has yet to say when trading will resume. The TSE said it would halt trading for all of Thursday as it works to resolve the system failure, which was detected some two hours before markets […]
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) vice president John Coates has said that the postponed Summer Games in Tokyo will take place next summer regardless of the COVID-19 pandemic. Coates, who heads the IOC’s Coordination Commission for the Tokyo Games, noted that the highly anticipated summer sports spectacle will kick off on July 23 in 2021 adding that there will be no more delay or postponement. READ […]
After decades of teasing and disappointment since ‘Star Wars: A New Hope’ took to the big screen in 1977, it appears the world may soon finally have proper holograms, following a breakthrough by Japanese researchers. Using ‘metasurface’ materials which manipulate light at the nanoscale, a team of scientists at the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT) have created a bonafide 3D hologram, visible from multiple […]
Emperor Hirohito announced the surrender of Japan to the United States on 15 August 1945 as Soviet armies invaded his puppet state in Manchuria. After the Second World War ended, the US hunted down a broadcaster who had betrayed her country. Between 1941 and 1945 a succession of honey-voiced women broadcast in English on Radio Tokyo, serenading the American soldiers who were pushing the Imperial Japanese […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/07/0f/1079890276_0:33:2903:1665_1200x675_80_0_0_d86f577efb3dae2d6a13107297bbbf10.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/photo/202007151079890729-Telexistences-Kangaroo-Robot-Tokyo-Shops-Prepare-to-Welcome-New-Staff-Member/ According to the robot’s maker, its design is meant to help shoppers feel at ease because robots that look too human could make people feel uncomfortable. A shelf-stacking avatar robot developed to work in a convenience store was presented to the media in Tokyo last week. The robot’s maker, Telexistence, hopes that this new staff member will begin stacking […]
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Monday that Japan will lift a state of emergency for Tokyo and four remaining areas later in the day. Social distancing curbs were loosened for most of the country on May 14 as new infections fell, but the government has kept Tokyo and four other prefectures under watch. Abe also told reporters that it would still take considerable time to […]
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has acknowledged that the Tokyo Games would have to be cancelled if Covid-19 remains a threat next year The high-ranking official admitted that it’s impossible to constantly reschedule all major sports events and keep athletes, sports federations and thousands of employees in a state of uncertainty. READ MORE: The show must go on: IOC says delayed Tokyo Olympics going […]
Gin is a loudmouth drunk prone to fits of rage and sorrow. Miyuki is a rebellious teen with a fearsome angry streak. And Hana is a trans woman desperate for love and companionship. Brought together by happenstance and need, they’re a motley homeless trio whose wayward lives in Tokyo are forever altered by a Christmas miracle in Tokyo Godfathers, the late animation great Satoshi Kon’s 2003 […]
BEIJING (Sputnik) – Beijing has issued an official protest to Tokyo over an incident involving Chinese patrol ships and a Japanese fishing vessel near the disputed Diaoyudao Islands, known in Japan as Senkaku Islands, the Chinese Foreign Ministry’s spokesman, Zhao Lijian, said at a briefing on Monday. “According to our data, the Chinese coastal patrol ships carried out routine patrols near the Diaoyudao Islands when they […]