After four year of attacking dairy cows in Japan’s northernmost prefecture, the Ninja Bear ends up on the grill. For a period of four years, dairy farmers in the eastern part of Hokkaido Prefecture have been dealing with attacks on their livestock by a brown bear that...
Bakytbek Ysmanov, a 64-year-old native of Kyrgyzstan, has been working in Russia for 15 years. In the past 12 months he has watched the ruble fall by 28 percent against his homeland’s national currency, the som, with that slide in value picking up pace this summer. That is a big...
Nations and private sectors alike are scrambling to explore the moon in hopes of creating a new hub for mankind. The race comes as research papers released in recent years suggest that there is water on the moon. Japan is no exception. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA...
The average retail gasoline price in Japan climbed to a new high in 15 years by rising for the 14th consecutive week, Industry Ministry data showed yesterday. The national average price for regular gasoline as of Monday rose JPY1.8 from a week earlier to JPY183.70 per litre as of Monday...
Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands Manasseh Sogavare has condemned Japan’s decision to start releasing the nuclear-contaminated wastewater from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean. The prime minister of the Pacific island country made the...
