Despite a recent spike in tensions, China-Taiwan relations are still massively improved, exchanging university students and business investments rather than artillery shells and aerial bombs. However, the capabilities of the PLA have drastically increased in the interval as well. Here’s What You Need To Remember: In the event of military conflict, most believe China would use…
The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force increasingly resembles the former Imperial Japanese Navy, but in a smaller size. Here’s What You Need to Remember: One type of warship the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force won’t operate is a battleship, and there are no plans for a 21st-century version of the Yamato super battleship. The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force increasingly…
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The manager of a liquor store in the city of Fukushima cleans up after the earthquake on Saturday night. | KYODO A powerful magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck late Saturday off the coast of Tohoku, leaving at least 30 people injured and knocking multiple power plants offline. The quake, which measured a strong 6 on the…
Suga Yoshihide, Prime Minister of Japan speaks virtually during the 75th annual U.N. General Assembly, Sept. 25, 2020. Japan has joined a growing list of countries that are challenging China’s maritime claims in the South China Sea. On Tuesday, Japan presented a one-page diplomatic note to the United Nations rejecting China’s baseline claims and denouncing its efforts…
TOKYO (Kyodo) — An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.5 rattled northeastern Japan on early Monday, but no tsunami warning was issued, the weather agency said. The quake at 2:23 a.m. with its focus at a depth of 43 kilometers off Aomori Prefecture registered lower 5 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale of 7 in…
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Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga called an emergency meeting after 10,000 households lost electricity and 1,000 vehicles got stuck on roads The heavy snowfall was centred on Niigata and Gunma prefectures, which have had about 2 metres of snow over three days Trucks are stranded on a major road in Kitakami, Iwate Prefecture, after heavy snow…
Workers destroy fowl at a poultry farm in Saiki, Oita Prefecture, where a highly pathogenic avian flu strain was found. (Eiji Hori) The farm ministry has issued a nationwide warning about a potentially unprecedented spread of avian flu, which has already led to the culling of a record number of chickens. Ministry officials instructed all…
In October, 2,153 Japanese people committed suicide – a number that exceeds the country’s total Covid-19 toll which stood at 2,087 for the entire year to date. Japan has witnessed a sharp surge in suicides, mostly among women, amid the novel coronavirus pandemic that has forced governments around the world to impose lockdowns, curfews, and…