Tag: Japan

Humanoid Robot "Pepper" is displayed at SoftBank Mobile shop in Tokyo, Friday, June 6, 2014. The 121 centimeter (48 inch) tall, 28 kilogram (62 pound) white Pepper, which has no hair but two large doll-like eyes and a flat-panel display stuck on its chest, was developed jointly with Aldebaran Robotics, which produces autonomous humanoid robots. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

Emotional robot set for sale in Japan next year

Yuri Kageyama · June 6, 2014 4:20 am

Japan Dai-ichi Life to buy insurer Protective Life

Washington Examiner · June 4, 2014 6:16 am

Supporter Yang Chingja, second left, hands to a government official part of hundreds of pages of documents that experts say contain proof of coercion in the military-led âcomfort womenâ sex slavery system during World War II, as former South Korean victims, Kim Bok-dong, 88, bottom left, and Lee Yong-soo, 85, center on wheelchair, and Indonesian victim Mince, 86, far back center wearing a white cap next to Yang, look on. The group demanded Prime Minister Shinzo Abe face Japanâs wartime atrocity and formally apologize. Historians who helped compile the 529 pieces of official records, collected from in and outside Japan, show clear evidence of coercion by the Japanese military and government in recruiting and running the system. (AP Photo/Mari Yamaguchi)

Ex-sex slaves demand Japan PM acknowledge past

Mari Yamaguchi · June 2, 2014 4:09 pm

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivers his keynote speech on Friday, May 30, 2014 in Singapore. Abe is in Singapore to attend the 13th Asia Security Summit. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

Abe vows greater Japanese security role in Asia

Mari Yamaguchi · May 30, 2014 1:55 pm

US deploys first advanced drones to Japan

Eric Talmadge · May 30, 2014 9:51 am

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, center, speaks to the media about a three-day talks with North Korea in Stockholm at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo Thursday, May 29, 2014. North Korea has agreed to open a new investigation into the fate of Japanese citizens whom it abducted in the 1970s and 1980s, Japan and North Korea said Thursday. Abe said the agreement was just a first step toward resolving the kidnapping issue that has long kept the nations at odds. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, CREDIT MANDATORY

North Korea to investigate abductions of Japanese

Mari Yamaguchi · May 29, 2014 1:13 pm

Amid Asian feuds, Japan seeks bigger security role

Ken Moritsugu · May 29, 2014 8:24 am

In this May 1, 2014 photo, Tin Hsan, a woman whoâs family was forced move to make way for Thilawa Special Economic Zone, applies lime in to a betel leaf, sitting in her new home, in suburbs of Yangon, Myanmar. âMy husband is a farmer and he only knows how to work in the field. Since he has no work to do, he became depressed and is now drinking day and night,â said Tin Hsan, sitting in their rickety, one-room hut that fills a barren roadside lot. âSince we moved here and live in this small place with no space to grow anything, we are living hand to mouth and we are all miserable.â (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)

Japan aid widens Myanmar factories vs farms divide

aye-aye, winelaine-kurtenbach · May 29, 2014 8:05 am

Japan oil tanker explodes off SW coast; 1 missing

Washington Examiner · May 29, 2014 3:54 am

Russia's President Vladimir Putin and China's President Xi Jinping agreed to deepen cooperation in a range of areas after a summit meeting this week.

Examiner Editorial: America can’t ignore military muscle of Russia and China

Washington Examiner · May 28, 2014 10:27 pm

In 1st since WWII, Japan army chief visits Myanmar

Washington Examiner · May 27, 2014 3:42 am

Japan pop group AKB48 cancels events after attack

Mari Yamaguchi · May 27, 2014 3:32 am