A Michigan village has agreed to a $320,000 settlement with a man from Japan who was wrongly accused of drunken driving after a police officer badly misread a breath test, court records show. Ryohei Akima blew a 0.02 on the test, but it was mistakenly read by the Fowlerville officer as 0.22—nearly three times over […]
TOKYO—A man who died at a Japanese hospital this week told police before he passed away that he was one of the country’s most wanted fugitives and had been on the run for nearly 50 years for being part of a radical group that carried out bombings in the 1970s, police said Friday. Police had […]
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii—Ira “Ike” Schab had just showered, put on a clean sailor’s uniform and closed his locker aboard the USS Dobbin when he heard a call for a fire rescue party. He went topside to see the USS Utah capsizing and Japanese planes in the air. He scurried back below deck to grab boxes […]
TOKYO—Leiji Matsumoto, the famed Japanese manga and anime creator of epic space sagas including “Galaxy Express 999” and “Space Pirate Captain Harlock”, has died aged 85, his office said on Monday. The cause of death was heart failure, local media said. Matsumoto was also known for his work with Yoshinobu Nishizaki on the 1970s TV […]
Japan will launch its new heavy-lift H3 rocket for the first time at 7:45 p.m. ET on Feb. 16. The H3 rocket will carry a new land observation satellite with an experimental infrared sensor to detect missile launches. NTD will livestream the event.
TOKYO—China announced it was resuming issuing visas for Japanese travelers beginning Sunday, ending its nearly three-week suspension in an apparent protest of Tokyo’s tougher COVID-19 entry requirements for tourists from China. The decision was announced in a statement posted on the Chinese Embassy’s website. According to Asia Nikkei, the decision was to prioritize business in […]
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin hold a press conference with Japanese Foreign Minister Hayashi Yoshimasa and Japanese Defense Minister Hamada Yasukazu on Jan. 11. NTD will livestream the press conference.
This film is only available in the United States and Canada because of territorial licensing. Set in World War II in Thailand, this is the story of a Japanese soldier Kobori and a Thai girl Angsumalin. Kobori does everything to serve his nation but he has to lose everything to save his love.
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii—A handful of centenarian survivors of the attack on Pearl Harbor joined about 2,500 members of the public at the scene of the Japanese bombing on Wednesday to commemorate those who perished 81 years ago. The audience sat quietly during a moment of silence at 7:55 a.m., the same time the attack began […]
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TOKYO—An 83-year-old Japanese adventurer returned home Saturday after successfully completing his solo, nonstop voyage across the Pacific, becoming the oldest person to reach the milestone. Kenichi Horie arrived in the Kii Strait off Japan’s western coast, completing his trans-Pacific voyage in 69 days after leaving a yacht harbor in San Francisco in March. It was […]
MOSCOW—A Japanese billionaire and his producer rocketed to space Wednesday for a 12-day mission at the International Space Station. Fashion tycoon Yusaku Maezawa and producer Yozo Hirano, who plans to film his mission, blasted off for the International Space Station in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft along with Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin. The trio lifted off […]
