Keonjhar: A herd of elephants, including calves, was prevented for hours from crossing the road at Putulupani in Keonjhar district on Tuesday due to heavy traffic from iron ore and stone mining ...

(Mainichi) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan sent 10 Maritime Self-Defense Force personnel to a multinational mine-sweeping exercise in the Black Sea in September 2024 as part of its cooperation with Ukraine ...

ATHENS - Mines attached to the hulls of ships and set off with timers likely caused blasts that have damaged two crude oil tankers in the Mediterranean Sea since January, three sources close to ...

From left: Japanese Minister of Education ... With 2025 marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, issues of historical perception are expected to attract renewed attention, and ...

Japan is grappling with the challenge of ensuring stable energy supplies in the wake of Russia's full-fledged aggression against Ukraine, which started three years ago. In particular, the fierce ...

Tokyo - Japan’s Emperor Naruhito renewed his wish for world peace on his birthday, marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, the Imperial Household Agency (IHA) said on Feb 23.

During World War II, Japanese-Americans in California were also interned. Capt. Kozo Nishino, the submarine captain, who was interviewed in Japan after the war, was reported by some historians to ...

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito, marking his 65th birthday, stressed the importance to keep telling the tragedy of the World War II to younger generations, pledging to contribute to the effort to ...

Experts from the Cambodian Mine Action Center determined afterwards from fragments that it was a rocket-propelled grenade. Old unexploded munitions are especially dangerous because their explosive ...

Before the Covid-19 pandemic, about a quarter of Japanese people held valid passports Only around one in six Japanese citizens hold valid passports, fresh data shows, with the number of residents ...

Japanese corporations have refocused their capital on Western Australia’s Pilbara, buying $10 billion worth of coal and iron ore mines in the past six months. Western Range will allow Rio Tinto ...