Higashiosaka, Japan—Feeling dizzy and unwell after cycling to work in Japan’s punishing summer heat, warehouse worker Isao Tabuchi headed for his company’s newest acquisition: a refrigerator for humans. The phonebooth-sized machine, where jets of chilled air ensure ice-cold…
LAPU-LAPU CITY, Cebu — Cebu Province and a Japan-based company will begin a feasibility study in September for a proposed integrated waste hub that would bring recycling, recovery, and treatment activities under one system. The proposed Green…
MANILA, Philippines — A defense logistics pact providing a framework for the reciprocal exchange of supplies and services between the Philippine and Japanese militaries took effect on Saturday. The Acquisition and Cross-Servicing Agreement (Acsa), signed by the…
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.9 struck eastern Japan early Sunday, disrupting transportation and leaving several people injured in the Tokyo area, according to the weather agency and local authorities. The quake struck at around…
TOKYO, Japan — The Asian Games begin in Japan next month featuring teenage prodigies, more athletes than the Olympics and a cruise ship that will house competitors in the middle of typhoon season. About 15,000 competitors and…
TOKYO, Japan — Alex Santisima shocked the boxing world on Aug. 16, upsetting former world champion and world-rated Yukinori Oguni via an eighth-round technical knockout at Korakuen Hall. With the victory, Santisima Jr., one of the Santisima…
Tokyo, Japan—Former Toyota head Hiroshi Okuda, credited with championing the pioneering Prius hybrid and turning the Japanese automaker into a global titan, has died aged 93, the firm said Wednesday. Okuda took the reins of the struggling firm…
HIROSHIMA – Marking the 81st anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing, Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui used his annual peace declaration on Thursday to urge global policymakers to demonstrate resolve and enact policies aimed at the abolition of…
Japanese companies have rolled out measures to protect employees from the intense summer heat, including installing air-conditioned portable toilets at construction sites and shortening work hours. Last year, the Japanese government required businesses to adopt measures to…
Kumamoto, Japan—Japanese emergency workers battled Thursday, July 30, to rescue any remaining survivors from a devastated shopping mall, as the death toll from a major earthquake hit 28 and thousands sweltered in punishing heat. The government issued the…
Kumamoto, Japan—A major earthquake that badly damaged a shopping mall and a factory in Japan killed at least five people, emergency services said on Wednesday, July 28. The dead included two women in the mall and three more…
An earthquake registering a preliminary magnitude of 7.1 shook Kumamoto on Japan’s southern main island of Kyushu late Tuesday afternoon and a tsunami advisory was issued, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.…
