Scientists at the Earthquake Research Institute (ERI) at the University of Tokyo prepared a closed research and recommendations for the UN and governments of world’s leading countries. The report contains a number of warnings about 2017. Unfortunately, most of those forecasts have already come true. India – January 4, with a magnitude of 6.7 – our forecast was at the beginning of... 

North Korea has fired yet another missile. Reports say sirens went off across parts of Japan. North Korea has reportedly fired a missile eastward from Pyongyang, Yonhap News Agency reported Thursday. The Japanese government said a ballistic missile launched from North Korea has flown over Japan and landed in the Pacific Ocean, according to NHK. Residents of Japan are being asked to avoid anything... 

Japan’s deputy prime minister, Taro Aso, is in hot water after suggesting Adolf Hitler might have had “the right motives.” He was criticized both at home and abroad, with the US-based Simon Wiesenthal Center saying the remarks were “downright dangerous.” “I don’t question your motives (to be a politician). But the results are important. Hitler, who killed millions of people, was no good,... 

North Korea launched an intermediate-range ballistic missile Tuesday that flew over the island nation of Japan. The suspected Hwasong-12 missile was fired from Pyongyang at 5:57 a.m. and passed over the Tohoku region at the northern end of the country, the South Korean military said. “It passed through the sky over Japan,” South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said, later noting that the missile... 

A strong typhoon battering southwestern Japan has cut power supply in 11,000 households, Kyushu Electric Power Company, an energy business powering seven prefectures, said Saturday. Noru, a category 5 typhoon, has winds of over 78 miles per hour and is expected to bring heaviest rains in half a century, meteorologists said. Japan’s Meteorological Agency predicted that the typhoon would hit the... 

The United States, Asia and Europe were three production centers in the global value chain for bulk trade of parts, a report said on Monday. Released by the World Bank, the World Trade Organization and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, the report aimed to provide solutions to uneven distribution under economic globalization, as well as to provide suggestions for developing... 

South Korea and Japan have been reluctant to take in refugees from Syria. The United States admitted more than 10,000 Syrian refugees on former President Barack Obama’s watch. Since 1994, 1,144 Syrians have requested asylum in South Korea, but refugee status has been granted to only three, government figures show. As of October 2016, Japan had taken in just six Syrian refugees. Japanese Prime Minister... 

Pyongyang says the missiles it fired toward Japan were part of an exercise targeting US military bases there. It comes as the White House announced the deployment of the advanced THAAD anti-missile defense system to South Korea to guard against the North. The test launches of four missiles, fired by North Korea into the Sea of Japan on Monday morning, were a drill carried out by an army unit commissioned... 

A team of Japanese scientists claim that they have solved one of Earth’s biggest mysteries: the third element that makes up the planet’s inner core. The Tohoku University researchers claim that silicon is the most likely candidate, based on the results of their research. Earth’s inner core is widely believed to be composed of 85 percent iron and 10 percent nickel, but the material comprising... 

Apple supplier Foxconn – from Taiwan – says it is in discussions to expand operations in the United States. Zero Hedge reported: There is over a month left until Trump’s inauguration, and the President-elect’s hard-hitting negotiating style may have scored yet another economic victory: according to a statement issued by Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics manufacturer and a... 

Ruling coalition lawmakers stand to approve the passage of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade deal in the lower house of the parliament in Tokyo on November 10, 2016. Japan’s Lower House of parliament has passed the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade agreement, despite the fact the deal is likely doomed after Donald Trump’s US presidential election victory. Even... 

As Europe tries to sort out the current migrant crisis, there are countries out there which sorely need an influx of much needed labor. Japan is one such country. Radio Sputnik discussed the issue with Japanese-affairs expert Valery Kistanov and Russia’s former envoy to Japan, Alexander Panov. In the coming decades Japan will need 17 million migrants to keep the country working, but changing the... 

Japan is putting its military on high alert, said to be ready to shoot down any missile heading for its territory. It comes amid rumors North Korea is preparing to launch an intermediate-range missile from its east coast. According to a Seoul military source speaking to Yonhap news agency, South Korea is “closely watching after detecting signs that the North is moving toward the launch of what appears... 

Rice harvested in Japan’s Fukushima region, heavily affected by a nuclear meltdown in 2011, is returning to the EU, starting with Britain next month, the Japan Times reports. A total of 1.9 tons of Fukushima rice called Ten no Tsubu will be sold in London, making the UK the first EU nation to import the region’s produce after the nuclear disaster. The sale became possible after a long campaign... 

The search continues for a 7-year-old boy missing in the bear-infested mountains of Hokkaido, Japan after being abandoned by his parents as punishment. Some 180 rescuers are involved in the search for Yamato Tanooka. After abandoning the boy as a form of punishment on Saturday, the parents returned to the site shortly afterwards to find he was no longer there, according to a police spokesperson. The...