Japan’s space agency will launch a satellite later this month to monitor greenhouse gases around the world, officials said on Wednesday
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/ 17 November 2008
The main ship in Japan’s whaling fleet set out for the Antarctic on Monday for its first hunt in the region since limping home with just over half its
Crowds of Chinese students waving red flags and signs such as ”One World, One Dream, One China” scuffled with pro-Tibet protesters in the latest leg of the Olympic torch relay in Japan on Saturday. Commenting on the turmoil that has bedevilled the global relay, International Olympics Committee president Jacques Rogge urged the West to stop hectoring China over human rights.
Smog is menacing Japanese cities for the first time in 30 years and cropping up in rural areas for the first time ever, alarming the government and prompting experts to point the finger at neighbouring China. Warnings for high levels of hazardous smog have been issued in a record 28 prefectures so far this year.
A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 7,1 jolted the coastal area of central Japan on Sunday, killing at least one person and injuring around 110, Japanese officials and media said. The focus of the tremor was at a depth of 50km below the seabed off the Noto peninsula in Ishikawa prefecture, about 300km from Tokyo.
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/ 18 October 2006
United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice sought on Wednesday on a whistle-stop tour of the region to ensure North Asian powers were committed to a unified stance on United Nations sanctions following North Korea’s nuclear test. Rice arrived in Tokyo for talks with the Japanese foreign and defence ministers as intelligence experts warned a second nuclear test was likely.
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/ 11 October 2006
Japan announced on Wednesday it would impose new sanctions on North Korea over this week’s reported underground nuclear blast, while the reclusive communist state held out the threat of more tests. North Korea’s KCNA news agency said pressure from Washington to rein in its nuclear programme would be tantamount to a declaration of war.
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/ 11 October 2006
Japan is likely to announce new sanctions on North Korea later on Wednesday in response to its reported nuclear test this week, Tokyo television said, while the reclusive communist state held out the threat of more tests. NHK TV said Japan’s government had decided to impose fresh sanctions on Pyongyang and the decision would be formalised later in the day.
World powers neared consensus on a statement warning North Korea against a nuclear test on Friday amid speculation that the state might detonate a device deep inside an abandoned mine as early as this weekend. North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, making his first public appearance since the Stalinist state vowed on Tuesday to conduct a nuclear test, held a meeting to rally army commanders.