after a World War II-era bomb exploded in October. A survey will begin Monday night at Naha Airport after all flights have arrived or departed, a spokesman for Japan’s Ministry of Land ...

Above all, he wants to get things done. Yesterday. As the United States ambassador to Japan, a country where change typically follows a long process of quiet consensus-building referred to as ...

TOKYO, Dec 18 (Reuters) - Japan's exports rose faster than expected in November, data showed on Wednesday, helped by a weaker yen and solid global demand although businesses worry protectionist U ...

Obama and Pelosi should look much farther back than the 1961 Cuban Embargo. The unequal US-Cuban power relationship stretches back to the turn of the 20th century. Americans may have largely forgotten ...

Japanese exports of sweet potatoes have been brisk thanks largely to technology to prevent spoilage and efforts to tailor the spuds to an increasing number of targeted areas around the world ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a technology seen as key to future developments by economic and political decision-makers in Japan. In April 2024, the Japan Business Federation published a report ...

The U.S. Department of Defense sent over a thousand tons of ammunition to Israel on a ship that stopped at a U.S. naval base in Spain — a violation of Spain’s embargo on ships carrying ...

North Korea is also subject to an arms embargo. HOW ARE U.N. SANCTIONS MONITORED ... Earlier this month, the United States, South Korea and Japan launched a new multinational team to monitor ...

In December 1941 Japan attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor, Hawai'i, causing the U.S. to enter World War II. Over two years would pass until the Allies reached their great turning point in ...

Women were largely excluded from sake production until after World War II. Sake making has a history of more than a thousand years, with strong roots in Japan's traditional Shinto religion.