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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.
Huge quake off Russia sparks Pacific tsunami warnings
AFP, Published on 30/07/2025
» TOKYO - Tsunamis hit parts of Russia's Far East and Japan on Wednesday after a huge magnitude 8.8 earthquake, with warnings in place around the Pacific of waves of over three metres (10 feet) in places.
Japan PM urges better security after blast targets speech
AFP, Published on 16/04/2023
» TOKYO: Japan needs to increase security as Group of Seven officials visit, the country's prime minister said Sunday, a day after an explosive was thrown at him during a campaign event.
Japan PM Kishida unhurt after smoke bomb incident
AFP, Published on 15/04/2023
» TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida resumed campaigning on Saturday, shortly after being evacuated unharmed from the scene of an apparent “smoke bomb” blast, local media reported.
Japanese wave goodbye to 3 more pandas returning to China
Xinhua, Published on 23/02/2023
» SHIRAHAMA, Japan: Eimei, a giant panda that has lived in Japan for 28 years, has left west Japan's Wakayama park along with his twin daughters to fly back to China.
'Space pups': Mouse sperm stored on ISS produces healthy young
AFP, Published on 12/06/2021
» WASHINGTON - Turns out the comic books were wrong.
'Judo therapy': martial art with healing power
AFP, Published on 17/07/2020
» TOKYO - Judo is known for its killer throws and lightning-fast grappling moves but the sport has a lesser-known application popular in Japan: the ancient healing art of "judo therapy."
First passengers exit quarantined ship in Japan
AFP, Published on 14/02/2020
» YOKOHAMA: Japan on Friday began allowing elderly passengers who test negative for the new coronavirus to leave a quarantined cruise ship and finish their isolation in government-designated lodging.
After decades, Japan courts controversy resuming commercial whaling
AFP, Published on 30/06/2019
» TOKYO - Japanese fishermen set sail on Monday to hunt whales commercially for the first time in more than three decades after Tokyo's controversial withdrawal from the International Whaling Commission (IWC) triggered outrage from environmental groups.
Typhoon Trami batters Okinawa, heads to mainland
AFP, Published on 30/09/2018
» SHIBUSHI, Japan: A powerful Category 2 typhoon pummelled Japan's southern island of Okinawa Saturday, injuring at least 17 people, as weather officials warned the storm would rip through the Japanese archipelago over the weekend.