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A survivor of the Tokyo air raids in 1945 points to a map showing burned areas of central Tokyo in red after the bombing, during an interview in the city in March 2015.
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 6, 2025
LDP to put off WWII air raid relief bill
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is believed to be concerned that it could lead to other compensation-related issues.
Parliament has passed a bill making communication skills training mandatory for all pilots working at busy airports.
JAPAN / Politics
May 30, 2025
Japan revises aviation law after 2024 Haneda collision
The revision makes communication skills training mandatory for all pilots operating at busy airports, including private and Japan Coast Guard aircraft.
South Korean Navy exercise off in 2010. Yonhap News Agency reported a South Korean P-3 patrol craft has crashed in the mountains of the country's east coast.
ASIA PACIFIC
May 29, 2025
Navy plane crashes in South Korea, killing two
The plane crashed in a mountainous area near the southeastern city of Pohang.
Boeing 737 MAX fuselages atop rail cars at a train yard in Seattle last December
BUSINESS / Companies
May 24, 2025
Boeing agrees to resolve U.S. criminal case over 737 crashes
The settlement was disclosed in a federal court filing Friday, just weeks before a trial was set to start June 23 in Fort Worth, Texas.
Self-Defense Force personnel transport debris believed to be part of the wreckage of the Air Self-Defense Force's T-4 training aircraft that crashed near a lake in Aichi Prefecture on May 15.
JAPAN
May 23, 2025
Two ASDF crew members confirmed dead in training plane crash in Aichi
The Air Self-Defense Force's T-4 training aircraft crashed near a lake in Aichi Prefecture immediately after taking off from the Komaki Air Base last week.
Defense Minister Gen Nakatani speaks during a news conference at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on Friday.
JAPAN
May 17, 2025
Possible remains of missing ASDF plane crew member found
The defense minister said that body parts possibly of a missing crew member of a Self-Defense Force trainer jet that crashed into a lake have been found.
Self-Defense Forces personnel collect apparent parts of an Air Self-Defense Force T-4 training jet from a reservoir in Inuyama, Aichi Prefeture, on Thursday. The jet crashed shortly after takeoff a day earlier.
JAPAN
May 15, 2025
Two crew feared dead after ASDF training jet crashes in Aichi
Pieces of the T-4 training aircraft and some of the crew's equipment have been recovered from the crash site — a large reservoir in Inuyama.
The motorcade of U.S. President Donald Trump is parked next to a 12-year old Qatari-owned Boeing 747-8 that Trump was touring in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Feb. 15.
WORLD / Politics
May 14, 2025
Trump’s freebie Qatar jet is the stuff of nightmares in spyworld
"If we had built the plane, knowing it was going to a foreign government, we would probably have bugged it,” said Thad Troy, a former station chief with the CIA.
India's air conditioner market is set to grow from the current 14 million units to 30 million units in terms of volume by 2030, driven by hotter summers and rising disposable incomes.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
May 13, 2025
Indians buy 14 million air conditioners a year, and need many more
A record 14 million AC units were sold in India last year, with a ninefold increase in residential ownership forecast by midcentury.
A staff member holds a barocaloric material used by Barocal in their solid state cooling technology, at their headquarters in Cambridge.
WORLD / Science & Health
May 13, 2025
U.K. lab promises air conditioner revolution without polluting gases
Approximately 2 billion air-conditioner units are in use worldwide, and their number is increasing as the planet warms.
Supervisor David Lindsay in the chilling plant beneath the headquarters of the United Nations in New York
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
May 13, 2025
As world heats up, U.N. cools itself the cool way — with water
As more and more people want to stay cool in a planet that is steadily heating up, energy experts point to this kind of water-based system as a good alternative.
Sailors inspect an F/A-18E Super Hornet on the flight deck of the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman in the Arabian Sea in 2020. An F-18 fighter jet tipped off the flight deck of the carrier into the Red Sea on Tuesday.
WORLD
May 7, 2025
Another fighter jet falls into sea from U.S. aircraft carrier
An F-18 tipped off the flight deck of the Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier into the Red Sea on Tuesday, the second such incident in about a week.
A medical evacuation helicopter. The control rod is in the tail rotor section of a helicopter.
JAPAN
May 3, 2025
Control device found broken in April chopper crash in Japan
An investigation of an ambulance helicopter that crashed last month has found that a key component controlling the aircraft's body had been broken.
Protesters march in Tokyo's upscale Ginza district Saturday, demanding relief for those who suffered during World War II.
JAPAN / Politics
Apr 20, 2025
Protesters march for WWII relief for civilians and others who were overlooked
Participants accuse the government of discriminating against civilian victims and people from the former Japanese colonies when it comes to state compensation for war damage.
First responders near the landing skids of a helicopter after it crashed into the Hudson River, in Newport, New Jersey, on Thursday.
WORLD
Apr 11, 2025
Helicopter crashes into New York's Hudson River, with all six aboard killed
The victims, the pilot and five passengers, were believed to include a family from Spain.
The Japan Coast Guard officers raid the office of SGC Saga Aviation in the city of Saga on Wednesday.
JAPAN
Apr 9, 2025
Japan Coast Guard raids operator of helicopter in fatal crash
A marine salvage company commissioned by SGC Saga Aviation began work Wednesday morning to lift the crashed aircraft out of the sea.
A boy watches forensic investigators comb the ground for DNA evidence near airplane debris at the crash site of an Ethiopian Airlines-operated Boeing 737 Max aircraft on March 16, 2019 in Oromia region, Ethiopia.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 8, 2025
Boeing settles to avoid civil trial over Ethiopian Airlines crash
The Boeing 737 Max plane crashed just six minutes after takeoff on March 10, 2019, killing all 157 people on board.
A medical helicopter pilot and other survivors are rescued after the aircraft crashed off the coast of Tsushima Island, Nagasaki Prefecture, on Sunday.
JAPAN
Apr 7, 2025
Three dead after medical helicopter crashes in waters off Nagasaki
An 86-year-old female patient, her 68-year-old son and a 34-year-old doctor died in the crash.
A V-22 Osprey in a simulated military assisted departure and evacuation of a U.S. embassy in Pendleton, California, Dec. 6, 2024
JAPAN
Mar 25, 2025
U.S. Osprey makes emergency landing at airport in Nagano Prefecture
No injury has been reported regarding the developments, according to prefectural government officials and others.
A university student reads out the names of victims of U.S. air raids on Tokyo during World War II, during a memorial ceremony held in the capital on Thursday.
JAPAN / History
Mar 21, 2025
Names of Tokyo air raid victims read out in ceremony
About 80 people spent about five hours reading out the names of 4,138 victims.

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