Tag: Japan
S.Africa slams Japan newspaper column praising apartheid
South Africa has protested after a prominent columnist in leading right-wing newspaper in Japan praised racial segregation under apartheid as…
Japan set to end S.Korea currency swap pact
Japan was moving to end a 14-year-old, $10-billion currency swap accord with South Korea, as the neighbouring US allies fail…
IS claims beheading of second Japanese captive
The Islamic State group claimed in a video that it has beheaded a second Japanese hostage, drawing international condemnation and…
Jordan vows to do ‘everything’ to save life of IS-held pilot
Jordan vowed Sunday to do all it could to save an airman held by the Islamic State group after the…
Japanese hostage killing Abe’s fault – China paper
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is to blame for the death of a hostage at the hands of the Islamic…
IS confirms execution of Japanese hostage Haruna Yukawa
The Islamic State group confirmed Sunday its militants have executed Haruna Yukawa, one of two Japanese it has been holding…
We’ll not deal with terrorists, says Japan after IS kidnap citizens
The Japanese government said Tuesday it will not give in to “terrorism” after a video emerged in which Islamic militants…
Ex-AFP bureau chief in Nigeria passes on
Journalist Jacques Lhuillery, whose more than three decades with Agence France-Presse took him to three continents, died overnight aged 61,…
Japan’s Endo reaches 150 caps, says its insult on Lothar Matthaeus
Japan’s Yasuhito Endo reacted with mock horror after learning he had tied German superstar Lothar Matthaeus by winning his 150th…
University teacher, 55, left naked by student girlfriend
A 55-year-old Japanese university teacher stripped naked on campus in a bid to prove his love for a 21-year-old student,…
Honda, Okazaki star as Japan beat Palestine 4-0
Defending champions Japan thrashed Palestine 4-0 in their Asian Cup opener on Monday, giving them the perfect start in their…
Three dead after cargo ship sinks off Japanese coast
Japan’s coastguard said Friday that three foreign crew members had died among a group of 10 who were rescued after…
Citigroup selling its Japan retail bank business
Citigroup said Thursday it was selling its century-old Japanese retail banking operations to major lender Sumitomo Mitsui as part of…
Japan frees sex shop owner, vagina artist still in detention
A sex shop owner arrested along with a artist who makes objects shaped like her own vagina has been released…
Godzilla set to roar back in 2016
The original Godzilla is set to stomp through Tokyo again in 2016, a Japanese movie production company said Monday, in…