Police in Ichinoseki City, Iwate Prefecture, have arrested an 87-year-old man on suspicion of attempting to kill his wife, who is in her 80s, at their home. According to police, Takashi Sato…
Category: Asia
Japan Proposes Economic Zone Linking Indian Ocean to Africa to Boost Regional Growth
Yokohama, Japan — In a major initiative unveiled at the 9th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD 9) on August 20, 2025, Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba proposed creating a new…
Japan, China commemorate World War II anniversary on different dates
Eighty years after the end of World War II, Japan and China are marking the anniversary with major events, but on different dates and in different ways. Japan remembers the victims in a…
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 August 6, 1945. Like thousands of other ethnic Koreans working in the city…
