Новости за 01.04.2024

Japan’s oldest giant panda, Tan Tan, died on Monday of heart disease caused by old age. She was 28 — which translates to roughly 100 human years.

Asahi Group Holdings is pushing into the crowded U.S. beverage market, placing its “premium” offerings and low-alcohol and nonalcoholic beverages front and center in a bid to differentiate itself.

A sprawling health scandal involving Kobayashi Pharmaceutical’s dietary supplements has caused a public scare around beni kōji (rice fermented with red yeast), with some worried consumers rushing to inquire about the safety of the food ingredient used by businesses with no links to the Osaka-based drugmaker.

Japanese banks have become less reluctant to finance hostile acquisitions because the government's new takeover guidelines have shaken off the taboo on such deals, Japan's new banking lobby chief said.

Former Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou left on Monday for an 11-day trip to China where he is expected to have his second meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping next week, at a time of simmering tensions across the Taiwan Strait.

Japan's royal family is now on Instagram — but don't expect any candid selfies from its official account, which went live Monday in a cautious social media debut for the ancient monarchy.

OpenAI plans to open an office in Tokyo in April, according to a person familiar with the matter, as the artificial intelligence pioneer begins to build out its international operations.

Princess Aiko, the only child of Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako, began working at the Japanese Red Cross Society on Monday.

In 500 years, everyone in Japan will have the surname "Sato" if the current practice of requiring married couples to share the same last name continues, it has been forecast.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faced growing challenges to power on Sunday as thousands gathered outside parliament to call for early elections in what were shaping up to be one of the largest demonstrations against the government in Israel since the start of the war in the Gaza Strip.

Three months after the New Year's Day earthquake rattled the Noto Peninsula, over 8,000 individuals continue to live in evacuation centers, prompting experts to question why lessons from past disasters haven’t been learned.

Rakuten Group, the debt-laden online retailer, has said it will consider combining its financial units to promote collaboration.

Japanese postwar pacifism reached its pinnacle in 1976. That year, Prime Minister Takeo Miki adopted two measures representing the tide of the moment: a cap on the annual defense budget equal to 1% of gross national product, and a de facto ban on arms exports applying to allies and enemies alike.

Japanese whisky is world-famous, often eye-wateringly expensive, and from Monday will be more strictly defined in an industry push to deter foreign-made imposters.

Taiwan's outgoing President Tsai Ing-wen plans to flee in a U.S. plane if war erupts with China, according to an unsubstantiated report first published in 2021 and echoed in the run-up to the island's January 2024 general election.

A New Year’s Day earthquake that hit Ishikawa Prefecture's Noto Peninsula placed a renewed spotlight on the need to incorporate gender perspectives in disaster prevention and relief, including the operation of evacuation centers and the stockpiling of necessary supplies.

CrowdTangle, a digital tool considered vital in tracking viral falsehoods, will be decommissioned by Facebook owner Meta in a major election year — a move researchers fear will disrupt efforts to detect an expected firehose of political misinformation.

A week after the Jan. 1 Noto Peninsula earthquake, the Shimoyama area in Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, was still cut off, with a road along a cliff overlooking the Sea of Japan having been gouged out by a landslide.

A new Palestinian government that includes both Gazans and four women was sworn in Sunday, but is already facing skepticism from its own people.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has suffered a shock defeat at the ballot box against the main opposition party, amid rampant inflation and the highest borrowing costs since he swept to power more than two decades ago.

The Bank of Japan will probably take its time before raising interest rates again, with October likely being the earliest it might move next, according to a former BOJ official renowned as one of the nation’s leading inflation experts.

It was still pitch-black outside when Indonesian housewife Sutinah made her way to a local police station early one morning last month, hoping to avoid queues and take advantage of a government scheme offering affordable rice.

The sentencing of cryptocurrency wunderkind turned convicted fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried to 25 years in prison — along with the forfeiture of more than $11 billion — looks like a fair outcome.

Japan’s largest service-sector firms are their most optimistic in more than three decades even as confidence among manufacturers softens a tad, a Bank of Japan (BOJ) survey shows, offering a largely positive outlook for the economy as the central bank mulls its next policy move.

Hearing overseas oil executives talk, you would think that Chinese drivers and air passengers were coming to the rescue of an oil market looking for direction.