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Japan to go panda-less as Ueno zoo pair set for China return in January
Kyodo News, Published on 16/12/2025
» Popular twin pandas at a Japanese zoo will be returned to China in late January, a move that will leave Japan without any pandas for the first time in around half a century and disappoint much of the public, the Tokyo metropolitan government said on Monday.
Chinese cluster now world's top innovation hotspot: UN
AFP, Published on 01/09/2025
» GENEVA - Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou has overtaken Tokyo-Yokohama to become the world's top cluster for innovation, the United Nations said Monday.
Travel cancellations hit Japan as typhoon nears
Bloomberg and Kyodo News, Published on 15/08/2024
» Hundreds of flights and some bullet train services will be suspended as Typhoon Ampil makes its way towards the main island of Japan on Friday, complicating travel plans during the country’s annual Bon summer break.
Japan PM apologises for forced sterilisations
Kyodo News, Published on 17/07/2024
» TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida apologised on Wednesday to victims of forced sterilisation surgery under a now-defunct “eugenics protection” law, two weeks after Japan’s top court ruled it was unconstitutional and the government must pay damages to plaintiffs.
US and Venezuela swap prisoners, 'Fat Leonard' as tensions ease
AFP, Published on 21/12/2023
» WASHINGTON - The United States released an ally of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in exchange for 10 American detainees and a fugitive dubbed "Fat Leonard" in a sweeping prisoner swap deal between the rival governments on Wednesday.
Japan's century of efforts to tame earthquakes
AFP, Published on 30/08/2023
» TOKYO - Takashi Hosoda was in a Tokyo skyscraper when the 9.0 magnitude quake struck on March 11, 2011, but the trained architect was "not particularly worried" as modern Japanese buildings are designed to protect their occupants.
LA County to pay $29 mn to Kobe Bryant's widow over crash photos
AFP, Published on 02/03/2023
» LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County has agreed to pay the widow of Kobe Bryant nearly $29 million after first responders shared gruesome photos of the helicopter crash that killed the NBA superstar.
Japan approves simple Alzheimer’s blood test
Bloomberg News, Published on 22/12/2022
» TOKYO: Japan’s health ministry has approved one of the world’s first blood test kits to detect signs of Alzheimer’s disease, paving way for a simpler and speedier diagnosis of the brain-wasting ailment for which a blockbuster therapy is finally on the horizon.
Japanese cannibal who walked free dies age 73
AFP, Published on 02/12/2022
» TOKYO - Issei Sagawa, a Japanese murderer known as the "Kobe Cannibal" who killed and ate a Dutch student but was never jailed, has died aged 73.
Japan struggles with record-setting seventh coronavirus wave
DW News, Published on 27/07/2022
» After some short-lived optimism that the worst of the Covid pandemic might be over, health experts are warning that the peak of the seventh wave has yet to arrive.