One of Taiwan’s more bizarre national treasures is returning home after an exhibition drew thousands of visitors in Japan. Nearly 84,000 people came to see the famous Meat-Shaped Stone, which was on display at Japan’s Kyushu National Museum in the southern city of Fukuoka, the United Daily News reports. The daily average of 5,995 visitors was somewhat lower than a previous exhibition in Tokyo featuring Taiwan’s Jadeite Cabbage, which drew […]

Tokyo:  Japan said on Tuesday it would hold a bilateral military exercise with the United States in November to ensure smooth joint operations between the two countries’ militaries and bolster island defence capabilities. The field drill, called “Keen Sword”, is held every two years. It comes as Japan is engaged in a bitter island row with China, which is rapidly ramping up military spending, and amid concern over North Korea’s […]

If you’ve ever wondered what my nightmares are like, they pretty much go like this. On Sept. 27, a group of hikers was enjoying the fall weather on the Japanese volcano Mount Ontake. Suddenly, the volcano erupted, letting loose an incredible pyroclastic flow, a torrent of superheated ash that barrels down the slopes of the volcano like a thundering wall of death. The hikers tried to get away, but the […]

Tokyo:  The Indian Navy’s ability to carry out amphibious landing, casualty evacuation, humanitarian assistance and long-range surveillance and reconnaissance received a major boost today, with Japan agreeing to sell and transfer technology to India to build the specialised sea-plane, the US-2 produced by ShinMaywa. A joint statement, issued today in Tokyo after the summit meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, said, “Both sides directed […]

There are some things that make you squirm, yelp and shriek in horror. They make you question humanity and a man’s ability to differentiate between right and wrong. This is one such story. The Japanese have been known for their bizarre obsession with eating animal-based delicacies like horse sashimi, fermented duck eggs and wasp crackers. But eating a fresh frog that twitches and blinks while on your dinner plate is […]

By Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan could try to rescue its Antarctic whaling program by sharply reducing catch quotas after the highest U.N. court ordered a halt, rejecting Tokyo’s argument that the catch was for scientific purposes and not mainly for human consumption. The judgment by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) was a blow to Japan’s decades-old “scientific whaling” program, although Tokyo, which said it would abide by […]

In Pic :Electronics giant Sharp has been losing money fast Japan’s electronic giants once ruled the world. Sony, Panasonic, Sharp were household names. Now those same companies are in deep trouble, losing billions of dollars a year. How have the mighty Japanese companies fallen so low? The BBC’s Rupert Wingfield-Hayes in Tokyo looks at what went wrong. If you want to get an idea of what’s gone wrong with Japan’s […]