Victims of Japan’s 1942 bombing remembered
February 19, 2017
DARWIN- More than 5,000 people attended a memorial ceremony in Darwin, northern Australia, on Sunday to remember the victims of Japan’s World War II airstrike against the city 75 years ago. On Feb. 19, 1942, the former Imperial Japanese military launched
Strict controls on domestic ivory market
February 19, 2017
TOKYO- Japan’s Environment Ministry will tighten controls on the domestic elephant ivory market, including making ivory traders register with the government and introducing harsher punishments for violators. The move is aimed at excluding malicious businesses from the market, following global moves
Drafts policy on more rare wildlife designations
February 19, 2017
TOKYO- The Environment Ministry has drafted a policy of designating a total of some 700 endangered wildlife species in Japan by fiscal 2030 to provide better protection by law, it was learned Saturday. Capturing and transferring designated wildlife species are banned
Project to make diamonds from disaster victim keepsakes
February 19, 2017
TOKYO- A funeral service company in northeastern Japan is working with a technology venture to start a project to create artificial diamonds from keepsakes related to victims of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Almost six years after the calamity, project
Tanaka exchanges views with Sendai N-plant hosts
February 19, 2017
KAGOSHIMA- Japan’s top nuclear regulator on Saturday visited Kagoshima Prefecture, home to Kyushu Electric Power Co.’s Sendai nuclear plant, to explain disaster management guidelines, including rules on evacuation, to local residents. Shunichi Tanaka, chairman of the Nuclear Regulation Authority, also held
Four Chinese ships enter Japanese waters near Senkakus
February 19, 2017
OKINAWA- Four Chinese coast guard ships sailed in Japanese territorial waters around the Senkaku Islands in the southernmost Japan prefecture of Okinawa for about two hours on Saturday. This was the first territorial intrusion by any Chinese government vessel since Feb.
LDP executive suggests study on acquiring attack capability
February 19, 2017
TOKYO- An executive of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party suggested Sunday that Japan possibly needs to consider whether it should acquire the capability to conduct preemptive strikes against enemy bases. Holding an ability to strike an enemy base to forestall a
Japan may boost purchases of US defense equipment
February 19, 2017
TOKYO- The Japanese government is looking at expanding purchases of US defense equipment in order to promote interoperability between the Self-Defense Forces and the US military and to reduce the US trade deficit with Japan. Japan hopes to promote the integrated
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