Новости за 13.05.2024

Blackstone is working with the management of I’rom Group to take the Japanese pharmaceutical services company private.

A 49-year-old stripper filed a lawsuit on Monday at the Tokyo District Court, demanding an adult video website operator take down pornographic movies in which she had appeared some three decades ago because she only consented for them to be shown in theaters.

The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department has launched an investigation into political group Tsubasa no To on Monday over alleged campaign obstruction activities in the April 28 Lower House by-election vote in Tokyo.

Visitors who plan to climb Mount Fuji will be able to book their places online from May 20 and make an advance payment of the mandatory ¥2,000 ($13) climbing fee.

The Northern Lights were observed in Hokkaido and other parts of northern Japan over the weekend following a powerful solar storm, adding a glow to the starry night in regions where the aurora is rarely seen.

The yen’s weakness is turning foreign investors away from Japanese stocks.

The Iwaki City Coal and Fossil Museum (Horuru) in Fukushima Prefecture is set to celebrate its 40th anniversary in October. Known as a "treasure house" for fossils, the museum showcases numerous ancient fossils and offers educational and fun experiences for families.

The Tokyo District Court on Monday sentenced a former industry ministry bureaucrat to 10 years in prison for drugging six women with sleeping pills and then raping or groping them in 2022.

SoftBank Group reported a second straight quarter of profitability on Monday as the Japanese tech conglomerate benefits from an artificial intelligence investment boom that has buoyed prized assets like Arm Holdings.

The Bank of Japan fell further behind its global peers on efforts to promote gender equality as it returned to an all-male lineup of executive directors after reshuffling its senior positions.

Pupils sitting cross-legged on the sand take classes in a tent near Khan Younis in Gaza. Two sisters connect online to a West Bank school from Cairo. A professor in Germany helps Palestinian students link up with European universities.

Indonesia’s President-elect Prabowo Subianto said his incoming administration will maintain an open foreign policy approach and not be drawn into choosing sides between the U.S. and China as they compete for influence.

For the first time since White-minority rule ended three decades ago, South Africa is heading into national elections in which an outright winner isn’t apparent. A series of opinion polls show the ruling African National Congress risks losing its majority in the May 29 vote and may have to enlist the support of one or more rivals to continue governing Africa’s most industrialized economy.

Malaysia’s Johor state is proposing its economic and petrochemical hubs as the sites for a special zone with neighbor Singapore, as it aims to become the "Shenzhen of Southeast Asia," according to a report in the Star.

The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) is committed to sustaining a presence in a disputed area of the South China Sea to ensure China does not carry out reclamation activities at the Sabina Shoal, its spokesperson said on Monday.

China is targeting citizens studying abroad for their political activism, rights group Amnesty International said Monday, with some students reporting harassment of family members back home.

While the government is boosting defense spending to “drastically strengthen” Japan’s defense capabilities, the Maritime Self-Defense Force’s Kure District Headquarters in Hiroshima Prefecture is also expanding its activities as it marks the 70th anniversary of its founding, on July 1.

Mount Ibuki, a 1,377-meter-high mountain straddling Shiga and Gifu prefectures that is visited by many climbers, is now on the verge of a crisis — being seriously damaged by wild Japanese sika deer eating its plants.

The Beijing startup founded by technology pioneer Kai-Fu Lee is introducing its first artificial-intelligence application for consumers, a step aimed at helping China capitalize on the promising technology.

In hopes of boosting bread sales, which slow down during the hotter seasons, some specialty stores and manufacturers in Japan are focusing on selling "cold bread" that can be eaten like a dessert.

As Japan embarks on a major military build-up, it's struggling to fill its ranks with the women that its forces need and its policymakers have pledged to recruit. Following a wave of sexual harassment cases, the number of women applying to join the Self-Defense Forces decreased by 12% in the year ending March 2023, after several years of steady growth. Some victims have said an entrenched culture of harassment could deter women from signing up.

Japan is seeing conditions fall in place for the central bank to normalize monetary policy, said ruling party heavyweight Katsunobu Kato, underscoring growing political support for further interest rate hikes.

As the yen plumbs new lows, some investors are pondering an almost unthinkable scenario in a region busy bolstering falling exchange rates — a series of competitive devaluations that starts a new Asian currency war.

A former U.S. Marine pilot fighting extradition from Australia on U.S. charges of training Chinese military pilots to land on aircraft carriers, unknowingly worked with a Chinese hacker, his lawyer said.

The death toll from heavy rains in Brazil's Rio Grande do Sul state has risen to 143, up from 136 on the day before, the local civil defense government body said on Sunday, as rain continues to pour on the state.