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Cases top 90,000, new drugs to come ‘in months’: Virus update
Published on 03/03/2020
» Governments from Japan to the UK prepared emergency measures or economic packages to fight the spread of the coronavirus. Drugmakers said they hope to have antiviral treatments ready within months and vaccines by next year.
Iran cases surge, new Malaysia, Singapore infections: Virus update
Published on 01/03/2020
» Four new infections were reported in Malaysia and Singapore after Thailand, the United States and Australia recorded their first deaths caused by the coronavirus and cases in Iran and South Korea jumped by 376 but the number of new deaths fell in the epicentre of Hubei, China.
'Paradise on Earth': Ghost of N.Korea propaganda still haunts
AFP, Published on 21/02/2019
» NIIGATA (JAPAN) - Harunori Kojima still remembers the hot tears of joy that warmed his face against the sleet as he watched two Soviet ships set sail in December 1959 from Japan's Niigata port.
Man nabbed in shooting at de facto N.Korea embassy
Associated Press, Published on 23/02/2018
» TOKYO: Police said they arrested two Japanese men believed to be right-wing activists for shooting early Friday at North Korea's de facto embassy in Tokyo.
Businessman arrested for exports to North Korea
Kyodo News, Published on 14/12/2017
» KYOTO: A business executive and two others were arrested Thursday for allegedly exporting food and other items to North Korea in violation of the government's export ban, police said.
Koreans banned from re-entering Japan
Kyodo News, Published on 20/03/2016
» The 22 people recently banned from re-entering Japan after visiting North Korea include a rocket engine expert with a doctorate from the University of Tokyo, a Japanese government source said on Saturday.
De facto N. Korean embassy in Japan to stay put: reports
AFP, Published on 05/02/2015
» TOKYO - The de facto North Korean embassy in Japan appears to have won its battle to stay put in its sprawling central Tokyo location, despite having been forced to sell the property.
Pro-North Koreans lash out at Japan court 'discrimination'
AFP, Published on 25/03/2014
» Angry officials at North Korea's de facto embassy in Tokyo lashed out Tuesday at what they said was Japanese judicial discrimination, after a court ruled it must sell the building to developers.
Korean kids lose out after Pyongyang's nuclear test
AFP, Published on 27/02/2013
» As the world rushed to condemn North Korea for its nuclear test, the shockwaves from international politics rippled into the daily lives of ethnic Korean children living in Japan.