ASHIKAGA, Tochigi — The government of this east Japan city announced on March 7 that an affiliate cultural foundation had acquired the centuries-old sword “Yamanbagiri Kunihiro,” now famous for its association with the online game “Touken Ranbu,” from a...
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SEOUL, March 8 (Yonhap) — South Korea and Japan held a vice-ministerial meeting Friday to discuss ways of cooperating on a wide range of economic and financial issues, Seoul’s finance ministry said. South Korea’s Deputy Finance Minister Choi Ji-young met with Japanese...
Specially designed to help people through one of the toughest times of year. April is the month for new beginnings in Japan, when a new school year commences and people start or switch jobs, sometimes even sparking a house move, leading to a period of change and upheaval in many people’s...
Tokyo and Washington will closely coordinate a timeline for resuming flights of V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft in Japan, the U.S. military and Japanese Defense Ministry said Friday, more than three months after a deadly crash of the controversial aircraft off Kagoshima Prefecture. The U...
Dubai (27/2) Tajikistan’s existential project to build the colossal 335-meter-high Roghun hydropower dam is proceeding apace, but costs are spiralling, and to a level that is making it hard to see where the government is going to find the funds needed to finish the work. To complicate...