A Pokémon card crime spree has reportedly been sweeping Japan, with shop owners reporting tens of thousands of dollars in losses. A new report from The Wall Street Journal details the extravagant lengths thieves have gone to steal these highly sought-after cards – some of which...
It was all smiles for Kandace Schipper when she landed at the airport in Tokyo back on May 8. “Every single day she had been communicating with family and friends,” said Adam Willea, Schipper’s brother-in-law. “I mean text, phone calls, pictures, updates, Instagram posts. And then it all...
China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA), while participating in the Shangri-La Dialogue, Asia’s premier security summit, made a claim that the Indian military poses no credible threat to China and is unlikely to do so in the upcoming decades. The assertion came as a statement amid...
Two people were killed Wednesday after a cadet allegedly opened fire on members of his own unit at a military training center in central Japan, the country’s Ground Self-Defense Force (SDF) has told CNN. The shooting took place during a live-fire training exercise and several other people...
Japanese food maker Yaokin shocked generations raised on its Umaibo puffy corn snack last year when it increased its price from ¥10 for the first time in 42 years. Facing an outcry over a ¥2 increase, the company took out advertisements to apologize. Now it’s a different story: hardly...
