A giant “iron ball” discovered on beach in Japan has locals and officials baffled as the mysterious object’s origins remain unknown. The sphere, about 4.9 feet in diameter, was found by a runner on Enshuhama Beach in the coastal city of Hamamatsu
North Korea fired multiple ballistic missiles off the country’s east coast on Monday morning, one day after the U.S. held joint military drills with South Korea and Japan. Kim Yo Jong, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s sister, called the U.S. “the
North Korea launched a ballistic missile early Saturday afternoon, according to the Japanese and South Korean governments. The missile landed a short while later in the East Sea. The Japanese prime minister’s office said a “possible ballistic missile was launched from North
The number of official islands in Japan is expected to double from 6,852 to 14,125 after the government conducted the first survey since 1987 of its territorial waters, according to Kyodo News. Japan, a mountainous nation with a land mass of about
U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel on Wednesday said he has “full confidence” that the Japanese government will take the necessary steps to ban discrimination against LGBTQ people. Sexual minorities have been campaigning for the government to adopt an anti-discrimination law after
With World War Two nearing an end and the US and Britain succeeding in quashing the brutal assault of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party, Japan, aligned with Germany, took matters into its own hands, launching a series of balloons across America with the
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida fired one of his aides on Saturday for making anti-LGBTQ comments, calling the remarks “outrageous and completely incompatible with the administration’s policies.” Masayoshi Arai, an economic official who joined Kishida’s administration last fall, said people would leave
American professional skier Kyle Smaine was believed to have died Sunday after he was caught in an avalanche triggered near a ski resort in the backcountry of central Japan. Five foreign skiers were caught in an avalanche on the eastern slope of
Jeremy Hunt has said the UK’s economy has grown faster than France, Japan and Italy since 2010 in a major boost to the country. The Chancellor has been setting out his plans for the economy, adding that “the strongest grounds for optimism”
Japan is set to downgrade its classification of COVID-19 to that of a less serious disease on May 8, revising its measures against the coronavirus such as relaxing guidance that people wear masks in public indoor places, NHK public broadcaster said. COVID