April 16, 2013
SHARI, Hokkaido--Brown bears greeted the winter thaw by emerging from hibernation in the Shiretoko National Park here earlier than usual, Environment Ministry officials said.
April 16, 2013
MAEBASHI--An amateur photographer has captured in sequence acrobatic maneuvers by U.S. military aircraft training in airspace above Maebashi, Gunma Prefecture, an area where military flights have long triggered complaints from local residents.
April 15, 2013
KYOTO--Democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi said April 15 that her country needs more women in politics to reverse the value system that produced decades of military rule in her native Myanmar.
April 15, 2013
URAYASU, Chiba Prefecture--Mickey Mouse and friends were out in full force on April 15 as Tokyo Disney Resort (TDR) celebrated its 30th anniversary here, a successful run that has attracted more than 560 million visitors since the opening in 1983.
April 14, 2013
A rare crested ibis chick was born in Japan’s wild for the first time this year, but Environmental Ministry officials plan to quarantine the bird because of concerns about the negative effects of inbreeding.
April 14, 2013
As Japan prepared to enter World War II, the government drew up codes disguised as weather bulletins, to be broadcast on public radio to relay the course of developments to officials and Japanese expatriates in the know.
April 13, 2013
JAKARTA--All 108 passengers and crew survived when a Lion Air Boeing 737 missed the runway on the Indonesian resort island of Bali on April 13 and landed in shallow water, an airline spokesman and government officials said.
April 13, 2013
Aung San Suu Kyi, standard-bearer of Myanmar's fledgling embrace of democracy, arrived in Japan on April 13 for her first visit in 27 years--and was clearly eager to catch up with old friends.
April 13, 2013
BEIJING--The Chinese capital reported on April 13 its first case of a new strain of bird flu, state news agency Xinhua said, the first time it has been found in a human outside of eastern China.
April 13, 2013
Recently discovered geoglyphs in the Nazca plateau of Peru seem to depict a beheading, according to Japanese researchers.
April 13, 2013
An earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 6.3 shook Awajishima island and surrounding areas in western Japan early April 13, injuring at least 23 people.
April 13, 2013
MINAMI-SOMA, Fukushima Prefecture--The cherry blossoms are in full bloom on the campus of Odaka Technical High School, but the school bell has been silent, the gymnasium empty, and the sounds of slamming lockers and cheerful cacophony of teenagers on their way to classes cannot be heard.
April 13, 2013
Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko showed off their two-step skills at a charity dinner in Tokyo on April 12, their first such public performance in 20 years.
April 13, 2013
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado--Space is playing an increasing role in security talks between the United States and China, although no formal dialogue dedicated to space security has begun, a senior U.S. State Department official said on April 11.
April 13, 2013
SAN FRANCISCO--Cyber security researchers have uncovered a Chinese hacking ring that they said broke into the servers of dozens of online video gaming companies and stole valuable source code over a four-year period.
April 12, 2013
Forty terminal cancer patients received lethal prescriptions for death with dignity at a cancer center in Seattle in 2009-2011, according to a report published in the April 11 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine. Twenty-four died after ingesting the medication.
April 12, 2013
MOSCOW—Japanese people were pleased to see how much Yume, a female Akita Inu from Japan, has grown since joining the family of Vladimir Putin last year.
April 11, 2013
For the next several years at least, Japan will probably have very limited ability to generate electricity through nuclear power.
April 11, 2013
Tokyo Electric Power Co. has decided to stop using all the underground tanks to store radioactive water at its crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.
April 11, 2013
Radioactive cesium has not been detected in 99 percent of people in Fukushima Prefecture, host of the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, and neighboring Ibaraki Prefecture since March 2012, a study showed.