3D visual explainer: How JAL airliner collided with Coast Guard plane
TOKYO -- A Japan Airlines (JAL) plane collided with a Japan Coast Guard aircraft while landing at Tokyo's Haneda Airport and subsequently burst into flames on Jan 2.
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China's warehouse robots set to ease Japan's logistics crunch
DALIAN, China/TOKYO -- Chinese warehouse robot startups are keen on landing orders in Japan, a market scrambling to resolve a looming bottleneck in the logistics industry.
Global South on the rise but likely to make world order unpredictable
TOKYO -- The pole of the world is shifting, though swingingly, from north to south due to the rise of emerging countries collectively called the Global South. The shift can upset conventional wisdom in the international community, but it is hardly smooth.
Japan becomes the fifth country to land a spacecraft on the moon
TOKYO (AP) — Japan became the fifth country in history to reach the moon when one of its spacecrafts without astronauts successfully made a soft landing on the lunar surface early Saturday.
North Korea stresses alignment with Russia against US and says Putin could visit at an ‘early date’
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Sunday it has agreed to further strategic and tactical cooperation with Russia to establish a “new multi-polarized international order,” as the two countries work to build a united front in the face of their separate, intensifying tensions with the United States.
Japan and Bangladesh to negotiate economic partnership agreement
TOKYO/MUMBAI -- Japan and Bangladesh are set to agree to launch negotiations for an economic partnership agreement as early as end of the month, Nikkei has learned, with the countries aiming to seal the deal in 2025.
Japan eyes Latin America for mega-FTA to secure minerals, food security
TOKYO -- Japan is gearing up to enhance its economic ties with Central and South America in 2024 by pursuing an Economic Partnership Agreement deal with the Southern Common Market known as Mercosur, a trade bloc that encompasses Brazil, Argentina and other countries. A potential Japan-Mercosur EPA would likely be Japan's last mega-FTA.
Mizuho aims to double assets under management to $1 trillion
TOKYO -- Mizuho Financial Group plans to double the value of its assets under management to $1 trillion, or roughly 148 trillion yen, over the next 10 years, a top executive at the Japanese banking conglomerate told Nikkei in an exclusive interview.