News | APHRAOH

#theguardian.com. × Tokyo court orders dissolution of ‘Moonies’ Unification church. Assassination of former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe spurred official request for closure of South Korea-based sect

#theguardian.com. × Exonerated prisoner awarded $1.4m after 46 years spent on death row in Japan. Iwao Hakamada, the world’s longest serving death row prisoner, had been wrongly convicted of a quadruple murder

#theguardian.com. × Proposed nuclear power plants in Queensland could not access enough water to prevent a meltdown, research finds. About 1,000 times the combined capacity of Wivenhoe and Boondooma dams was required to cool Japan’s Fukushima nuclear reactors in 2011

#theguardian.com. × Back to the feudal: Assassin’s Creed Shadows is the most beautiful game I’ve ever seen. This thrilling trip through Japan is the best the series has given us in years

#theguardian.com. × Assassin’s Creed: Shadows – a historic frolic through feudal Japan. Ubisoft’s historical fiction series returns with its best adventure in years

#theguardian.com. × ‘It’s been a challenge’: Assassin’s Creed Shadows and the quest to bring feudal Japan to life. From watching classic samurai movies to rendering the unique way light falls on Japan’s mountainsides and modelling individual characters’ socks, Ubisoft has spared no effort recreating a fascinatingly

#theguardian.com. × Norwegian writer Dag Solstad dies aged 83. A hugely influential novelist and critic, Solstad won the Norwegian Critics prize three times, and his work was translated by Haruki Murakami

#theguardian.com. × Japan to deploy long-range missiles able to hit North Korea and China. Planned missiles on Kyushu said to be part of ‘counterstrike capabilities’, as fears grow over US security pact

#theguardian.com. × US deports 250 alleged gang members to El Salvador despite court ruling to halt flights. Trump invoked 1798 law previously used to detain Japanese Americans in second world war to justify deportations

#theguardian.com. × Trump’s ‘drill, baby, drill’ agenda could keep the world hooked on oil and gas. The US president is making energy deals with Japan and Ukraine, and in Africa has even touted resurrecting coal

#theguardian.com. × Toyota plans to build battery vehicles in UK and keep European plants. Japanese company announces two new EVs and promises another three by 2026, as well as new Lexus models

#theguardian.com. × Japan battles largest wildfire in decades. More than a thousand people have been evacuated near forest of Ofunato in northern region of Iwate

#theguardian.com. × Elon Musk rebuffs claims that Tesla could invest in Nissan. Japanese carmaker’s shares rise almost 10% after reports that a group wants US EV firm to put in money

#theguardian.com. × Three resort workers die in suspected gas poisoning near hot spring in Japan. Hydrogen sulphide gives Takayu Onsen its unmistakable sulphurous smell but can be dangerous if inhaled in high enough concentrations

#theguardian.com. × Japan releases 200,000 tonnes of emergency rice stockpile as prices soar. Agriculture minister says rising prices have ‘had a significant impact on people’s lives’ amid record heat, surges in demand and distribution problems

#theguardian.com. × Sweet romance: Japanese boys start buying into gift giving on Valentine’s Day. Women are traditionally expected to buy chocolates for male colleagues on Valentine’s Day but teenage boys are shunning the one-sided custom

#theguardian.com. × Nissan and Honda end $60bn merger talks. Both Japanese carmakers say they would continue to cooperate on electric vehicle technology

#theguardian.com. × Trump and Japanese PM Ishiba talk tariffs and vow to stand against Chinese ‘aggression’. Leaders praise each other at White House but president warns Japan could face tariffs if it doesn’t cut US trade deficit to zero

#theguardian.com. × Weather tracker: Japan’s record snowfall causes chaos as temperatures dive. Vehicles stranded, trains and planes cancelled, and schools closed after record 129cm of snow falls in 12 hours

#theguardian.com. × Parts of Japan blanketed by thick snow during strongest cold front for years. Hokkaido and the Japan Sea coast have been hardest hit, forcing domestic airlines to cancel flights between cities in the region and Tokyo

#theguardian.com. × Fears grow in Japan for truck driver trapped in sinkhole for third day. Residents near Tokyo question slow pace of effort to rescue 74-year-old as workers race to build 30-metre ramp

#theguardian.com. × SoftBank ‘in talks’ to invest up to $25bn in OpenAI. Reported move would make Japanese group largest financial backer of US startup behind ChatGPT

#theguardian.com. × Race to rescue driver trapped in Japan sinkhole for two days. Attempts in Japan to retrieve the man were temporarily halted early on Wednesday after a second sinkhole appeared

#theguardian.com. × Picture prefect: Japanese city deploys guards to control unruly tourists seeking perfect shot. Overseas tourists are blocking roads or walking onto railway tracks in Otaru to capture its views, stoking local resentment and complaints of overtourism

Filter: #theguardian.com. ×

Showing 1-24 of 35 items - Time: 0.1542 s. Memory: 12.6883 mb.