Новости за 13.04.2024

Tokyo police on Saturday arrested a man in his 30s for allegedly stealing a pure-gold tea bowl from an event site at an outlet of major department store operator Takashimaya.

The Foreign Ministry has called on Japanese nationals in Israel to exercise extreme caution amid growing tensions in the region.

President Joe Biden’s effort to build U.S. security alliances in China’s backyard is likely to reinforce the Chinese President Xi Jinping’s view that the United States is leading an all-out campaign of "containment, encirclement and suppression” of his country. And there is not much Xi can do about it.

A vessel has been seized by "regional authorities" between the United Arab Emirates and Iran, maritime security agencies said on Saturday, days after Iran warned it could close the area to sea traffic.

Electric car sales already are in a funk in key markets around the globe. Challenges finding enough repair technicians threatens to further stifle demand in the U.K., where consumer uptake has stagnated for the better part of two years.

An attacker who fatally knifed five people in a Sydney mall was shot dead by police in the city's beachside suburb of Bondi on Saturday, police said, as hundreds fled the scene.

Support is building among Africa and Caribbean nations for the creation of an international tribunal on atrocities dating to the transatlantic trade of enslaved people, with the United States backing a U.N. panel at the heart of the effort.

A large global survey issued on Friday showed a surge in despair and disillusionment with established politics, particularly among young American men, the only U.S. population group to turn more conservative over the past decade.

A cooperation agreement by the Philippines, the United States and Japan will change the dynamic in the South China Sea and the region, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said on Friday, while seeking to assure China it was not a target.

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida hailed his weeklong visit to the U.S. as a diplomatic win, brushing off questions about the possibility of calling an early election amid turmoil in his party over a political funds scandal.

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party is considering launching talks with its coalition partner, Komeito, on a proposed amendment of the political funds control law without first compiling a plan for the changes.

A second Donald Trump White House would seek to sharply reduce the power of U.S. financial regulators, according to a review of public documents and interviews with people allied with the former U.S. president.

The victory of South Korea’s main opposition party in parliamentary elections has made its leader a top contender for president in 2027, as long as he can manage a fickle public and stay ahead of a legal battle that could land him in prison before then.

U.S. intelligence analysts and officials said Friday that they expected Iran to strike multiple targets inside Israel within the next few days in retaliation for an Israeli bombing April 1 in the Syrian capital that killed several senior Iranian commanders.

Haiti's government on Friday issued a decree formalizing the creation of a nine-member transitional presidential council, a long-delayed move intended as the first step in restoring security to the gang-ravaged Caribbean country.

U.S. President Joe Biden wanted the presidential election to be about "Bidenomics." Instead, it risks being about "Bidenflation."

Japan is considering raising so-called adjustment allowances for public school teachers, which are paid instead of overtime pay, for the first time in about 50 years, sources have said.

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida sought to highlight his country’s investments in the U.S. with a visit to a Toyota plant in North Carolina, a crucial battleground state in the 2024 contest between U.S. President Joe Biden and Donald Trump.

One in five Japanese households by 2050 will be elderly people living alone, a new study said Friday, as Japan scrambles to find how to effectively care for its graying population.

Tomoki Yoshihara starts his shift at a meat-processing plant in rural Australia at 5 a.m., and earns three times more butchering lamb for almost 50 hours a week than he did as a member of Japan’s military.

U.S. Steel shareholders on Friday approved its proposed $14.9 billion acquisition by Japan's Nippon Steel, taking the merger one step closer to completion even as political opposition to the deal mounts.

Milan’s Salone del Mobile, the world’s premier event for design, is celebrating its 62nd iteration this year. As a major platform for launching new creations internationally, the trade fair and its accompanying SaloneSatellite exhibition of up-and-coming talent always attracts a pool of talented Japanese designers.