Mitoe Matsumoto was three years and four months old when an atomic bomb exploded over Nagasaki at 11.02am on 9 August 1945. Eighty-one years later, the 84-year-old Japanese survivor says the experience
Japan’s latest 20-year government bond auction on Wednesday attracted the strongest demand in four years, as higher yields enticed investors even amid political turmoil, Bloomberg reported. The auction drew a bid-to-cover ratio
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The U.S. Army has deployed its Typhon ground-based missile system in Japan for the first time, marking a significant step in Washington’s military presence in the Indo-Pacific region. Analysts view the move
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For nearly eight decades, Chiyoko Iwanaga has carried the scars of Nagasaki’s atomic bombing—both visible and invisible. Now 89, she continues to fight for recognition and support from the Japanese government, alongside
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi toured a Tokyo Electron semiconductor factory in Japan’s Miyagi prefecture on Saturday, signaling a push for closer technology and investment collaboration between the two nations, Bloomberg reports.
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Hamamatsu, a city long regarded as one of Japan’s key industrial powerhouses, is turning to immigration in an effort to counteract a shrinking population and an exodus of young workers to Tokyo.
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U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff policy is designed to bring manufacturing jobs back to American soil, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in an exclusive interview with Nikkei. Speaking 200 days into the
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“If you had been here on that day and at that hour, if you had seen the hell that opened up on Earth before our eyes, if you had even a glimpse
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Ayano Hirashima was just eight years old when she became a living witness to one of the darkest turning points in human history—not once, but twice. On the morning of August 6,
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A harrowing and long-suppressed chapter of Japan’s wartime past is finally coming to light, as survivors and campaigners in the village of Kurokawa shed silence over the fate of 15 young Japanese
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A long-overlooked act of wartime humanity has finally received the recognition it deserves. Eighty years after American and Japanese soldiers laid down their arms on a remote Okinawan beach, descendants, locals, and
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The $33 billion take-private transaction involving Toyota Industries, a key supplier to Toyota Motor, has come under sharp criticism from a leading corporate governance group, raising fresh concerns over Japan’s efforts to
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An explosion rocked a storage facility at the US Kadena Air Base in Okinawa on Monday, injuring at least four individuals, according to Japanese media and defense officials. The blast occurred around
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China’s BYD, the world’s leading electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer, is preparing to make a bold move into one of the most distinct corners of Japan’s car industry — the $18 billion kei
More Toyota is taking a major step into the high-stakes automotive software arena with the launch of its in-house operating system, Arene, which will debut in the next-generation RAV4 sport utility vehicle by
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The era of Japanese children being named Pikachu, Pudding, or even Prince may be drawing to a close, as new regulations designed to curb eccentric naming practices take effect this week. The
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