Two small planes ran out of fuel and ditched in the Pacific Ocean off Hawaii, but the five people aboard both aircraft survived, authorities said. The Coast Guard says the separate incidents Sunday involved a single-engine plane carrying a solo pilot about 250 miles ...
A patch of rough weather over the Pacific Ocean has forced two veteran pilots trying to break a pair of records to delay the launch of their helium-filled balloon. U.S. pilot Troy Bradley and colleague Leonid Tiukhtyaev of Russia had planned to lift off ...
Japan and China agreed Thursday to boost measures to prevent coral poaching by Chinese vessels in Japanese territorial waters, the Fisheries Agency said. Representatives of the two governments, meeting in Dalian, northeastern China, struck a deal to continue enforcing a stricter crackdown and impose ...
Palauan President Tommy Remengesau said Thursday his nation would welcome a possible visit by the Emperor and Empress next year in honor of the more than 10,000 Japanese soldiers who died there during World War II. The South Pacific island nation was the scene ...
More than 170 passengers and crew on a U.S. cruise ship in the Pacific have contracted Norovirus, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Sunday. The highly contagious stomach virus infected 158 of 3,009 passengers and 14 of 1,160 crew members, the CDC ...
An international body managing tuna fishing in the eastern Pacific failed to agree on tighter restrictions on bluefin tuna catches at its annual meeting in Peru last week, the Fisheries Agency said Saturday. Japan, Mexico and the United States, each a member of the ...
Trade talks in Ottawa end without a deal as U.S. midterm elections threaten to disrupt momentum.
Japan’s first “research whaling” trip since an international court banned such activities in the Antarctic earlier this year produced its lowest catch in northeastern waters since 2003, a whaling association said. The whalers caught 30 minke whales off Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, between April 26 ...
Several years ago, at the Kansai Economic Seminar, an annual snoozefest of pompous platitudes and pretentious, paternalistic pontificating by the old men who run Kansai’s major corporations, one senior leader called for entering the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations. Reflecting the conventional wisdom on PowerPoint slides, ...
Groundwater diverted from the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant passes radiation tests, as officials prepare to vent tons of it into the Pacific Ocean next week.
U.S. federal forecasters predict a warming of the central Pacific Ocean this year that will change weather worldwide. The warming, called an El Nino, can mean an even hotter year coming up and billions of dollars in losses for food crops. Australia and South ...
Tsunami of between 20 cm and 1 meter could reach Pacific coastal areas in Japan on Thursday morning, a day after a magnitude-8.2 earthquake struck off Chile’s northern coast, the Meteorological Agency said. If necessary, the agency will issue a tsunami advisory at around ...
