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The world's oldest known wild seabird has laid another egg. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says the Laysan albatross named Wisdom appeared at her nest site at Midway Atoll National Wildlife refuge last month. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reports biologists confirm she laid the egg. Wisdom and her ...
More than 75 years after nearly 2,400 members of the U.S. military were killed in the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, some who died on Dec. 7, 1941, are finally being laid to rest in cemeteries across the United States. In 2015, the Defense POW/MIA ...
Nobel laureates: Despite progress, 'world will never be cancer-free'
The winners of this year's Nobel Prize for Medicine say they expect substantial advances toward treating cancer in the next several decades, although it is unlikely the disease could be eradicated. James Allison of the United States and Tasuku Honjo of Japan made the assessments ...
China's unbridled export of coal power seen as imperiling climate goals
Even as China struggles to curb domestic coal-fired power and the deadly pollution it produces, the world's top carbon emitter is aggressively exporting the same troubled technology to Asia, Africa and the Middle East, an investigation by AFP has shown. The carbon dioxide emissions from ...
Toyota fears Trump's proposed tariffs could dent U.S. car sales
Toyota Motor Corp. executives are still concerned that President Donald Trump's proposed auto tariffs could come to pass and cut U.S. auto sales by about 2 million cars a year. Jim Lentz, chief executive officer of Toyota Motor North America, told the Detroit Economic Club ...
U.S. warship conducts Sea of Japan operation in challenge to Russia's 'excessive maritime claims'
The U.S. Navy has conducted a so-called freedom of navigation operation (FONOP) near disputed waters in the Sea of Japan, it said Thursday, to challenge "excessive maritime claims" made by Russia in the area. On Wednesday, the guided-missile destroyer USS McCampbell, which is forwards-deployed to ...
A special tribunal has begun the trial of eight suspected Islamic militants in an attack on a restaurant in Bangladesh's capital in which 22 people were killed, including 17 foreigners, seven of which were Japanese. Twenty hostages, including 17 from Japan, Italy and India, were ...
A new immigration policy for Japan
Japan should focus on accepting highly skilled immigrants and leverage domestic resources to solve its shortage of unskilled labor.
NASA deep space probe reaches asteroid deemed potential Earth threat
NASA's deep space explorer Osiris-Rex flew on Monday to within a 19 km of its destination, a skyscraper-size asteroid believed to hold organic compounds fundamental to life as well as the potential to collide with Earth in about 150 years. Launched in September 2016, Osiris-Rex ...
More Japanese women are working, but many still professionally underachieve.
For once, Trump triggered little political drama at G20 as peers adjust to dealing with the Donald
If there has been a constant to President Donald Trump's tumultuous first two years in office, it has been that his foreign trips have tended to be drama-filled affairs — the president barreling through international gatherings like a norm-smashing bull, disrupting alliances and upending ...
America mourns Bush as a great statesman, a man of uncommon decency
Former President George H.W. Bush is returning to Washington as a revered political statesman, hailed by leaders across the political spectrum and around the world as a man not only of greatness but also of uncommon decency and kindness. Bush, who died late Friday at ...
