Japan condemned US President Donald Trump for comparing recent US strikes on Iran to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that ended World War II. “That hit ended the war,” Trump told reporters on Wednesday. “I don’t want to use an example of Hiroshima, I don’t want to use an example of Nagasaki, but that...
Japan has executed a man who murdered nine people in 2017, the first time since 2022 that the country has enacted capital punishment. The serial killings by Takahiro Shiraishi, dubbed the “Twitter killer”, had shocked the country and triggered debate over how suicide was discussed online. Shiraishi, then 30, lured his victims – most of...
A bear roaming a runway at a Japanese airport forced staff to cancel flights and declare itself off-limits to passengers for the day. The black bear reappeared on Thursday at northern Japan’s Yamagata Airport, after an initial disruption that caused flight delays and the closure of its runway. Staff used a car to chase it...
A court in Japan has sentenced a US marine to seven years in prison after finding him guilty of sexually assaulting a woman in Okinawa last year. Lance Cpl Jamel Clayton, 22, attacked the woman in her 20s, choking her from behind and attempting sexual intercourse, the court ruled. The case is one of a...
Tessa Wong BBC News, Asia Digital Reporter Reuters The Liaoning, seen here in a 2018 file photo, is one of two Chinese aircraft carriers taking part in the drill A Chinese naval drill near Japan has sparked concern from Tokyo, which in recent days lodged a protest with Beijing and made the rare decision to...
A Japanese plane headed from Tokyo to Texas had to make an emergency landing after a passenger tried to open one of its doors during the flight. All Nippon Airways (ANA) Flight 114 was diverted to Seattle hours after taking off on Saturday “due to an unruly passenger”, the airline said. Port of Seattle police...
BBC The skulls were handed to Masaru Okawa of the Hokkaido Ainu Association Three skulls from Japan that were given to Edinburgh University in 1913 have been returned to the indigenous community where they originated. The remains of the Ainu people – donated by Scottish anthropologist Dr Neil Gordon – were held in the university’s...
California’s economy has overtaken that of the country of Japan, making the US state the fourth largest global economic force. Governor Gavin Newsom touted new data from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the US Bureau of Economic Analysis showing California’s growth. The data shows California’s gross domestic product (GDP) hit $4.10 trillion (£3.08 trillion)...