Tag: Japan

1988 image and one of the last pictures taken of of late Japanese Emperor Hirohito at the in Tokyo, Japan. The monarch died January 7, 1989, aged 87. (AP Photo)

Japan compiles 12,000-page bio of Emperor Hirohito

Washington Examiner · September 9, 2014 4:13 am

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivers a speech during his lecture at the University of the Sacred Heart in Tokyo, Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2014. Modi is currently on a five-day visit to Japan. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

Modi promises red carpet for Japan firms in India

Elaine Kurtenbach · September 2, 2014 10:01 am

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, right, watches Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi drink a bowl of green tea during a tea ceremony at a tea hut of the Omotesenke, one of the main schools of Japanese tea ceremony, in Tokyo Monday, Sept. 1, 2014. Modi was on his official visit to Japan. (AP Photo/Yuya Shino, Pool)

Modi visit draws pledges of support from Japan

Elaine Kurtenbach · September 1, 2014 4:31 pm

Live by the Sword, Die by the Sword

The Scrapbook · September 1, 2014 4:00 am

Indian and Japanese students walk together near a portrait of Mahatma Gandhi at Global Indian International School in Tokyo Friday, Aug. 29, 2014. Japan and India both have much to gain from a visit by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and more than a dozen Indian steel, energy and IT tycoons that begins Saturday in the ancient capital of Kyoto. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

India, Japan each seek deals during Modi’s visit

Elaine Kurtenbach · August 29, 2014 9:42 am

Pedestrians wait to cross a street at Shibuya shopping district in Tokyo, Friday, Aug. 29, 2014. Japan's vital signs remained weak in July as wages fell further and household spending dropped, signaling continued weakness in the world's third-largest economy. Data released Friday showed the inflation rate was unchanged from the previous month. The core price consumer index that excludes volatile fresh food prices rose 3.3 percent in July, the same as a month earlier. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

Japan economy stalls as incomes, spending languish

Elaine Kurtenbach · August 29, 2014 7:58 am

First Japanese flight kicks off aurora season

First Japanese flight kicks off aurora season

Washington Examiner · August 28, 2014 10:37 pm

Former NFL player Bob "The Beast" Sapp, center, arrives at the Sunan International Airport, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2014 in Pyongyang, North Korea. Sapp is participating in a two-day martial arts extravaganza in Pyongyang over the weekend organized by Japanese pro-wrestler turned politician Kanji "Antonio" Inoki in an oddball attempt at sports diplomacy. (AP Photo/Jon Chol Jin)

Japanese lawmaker, ex-NFL lineman in North Korea

Eric Talmadge · August 28, 2014 9:56 am

Stone-carved guardian dogs sit at the entrance of a memorial compound honoring World War II-era war criminals in Koyasan Okuno-in temple in Koya town, Wakayama prefecture, central Japan, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014. Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga acknowledged Wednesday that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on April 29 sent a note to the Koyasan temple's ceremony honoring hundreds of war criminals that praised their contributions to the country. Suga said that Abe sent the note to the ceremony, but in his capacity as head of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, not as prime minister. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, CREDIT MANDATORY

China calls on Japan to break with militarism

Mari Yamaguchi · August 28, 2014 4:59 am

Riken Center for Development Biology director Ryoji Noyori speaks to the media after submitting the government-affiliated research center's organizational overhaul plan to Japanese education, culture, sports and science minister at the ministry in Tokyo Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014. Riken, the Japanese laboratory that retracted a paper reporting a potentially major breakthrough in stem cell research, said Wednesday its researchers have not managed to replicate the results. Riken scientists said they are still trying to match results reported in two papers published by the journal Nature in January and then retracted in July. But they refused to say whether or not they expected to succeed in doing so. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT

Japan lab unable to replicate stem cell results

Elaine Kurtenbach · August 27, 2014 2:11 pm

In this undated photo released by Fujifilm Holdings Corp., anti-influenza tablets fabipiravir are shown. Japan said Monday, Aug. 25, 2014 it is ready to provide a Japanese-developed anti-influenza drug as potential treatment to fight the rapidly expanding Ebola outbreak. The drug, developed by a Fujifilm subsidiary Toyama Chemical Co. to treat novel and re-emerging influenza viruses, was approved by the Japanese health ministry in March. Fujifilm is in talks with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on clinical testing of the drug in treating Ebola, company spokesman Takao Aoki said. The label reads: fabipiravir. (AP Photo/Fujifilm Holdings Corp.)

Japan ready to offer flu drug for Ebola treatment

Mari Yamaguchi · August 25, 2014 3:23 pm

In this aerial image, rescuers search for the people still missing in the mud-covered residential area after the Aug. 20 landslides in Hiroshima, western Japan Monday, Aug. 25, 2014. The death toll from the landslides in the western city of Hiroshima climbed to at least 50 as local officials revised the number missing to 28 people. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT

Energy and Environment

Japan PM visits landslide site as complaints swirl

Elaine Kurtenbach · August 25, 2014 12:15 pm