Japan

A town in Japan took hundreds of thousands of dollars they got in COVID-19 relief funds to build a giant squid statue. The coastal town of Noto reportedly used the U.S. equivalent of nearly $230,000 to build a massive pink statue with money that had previously been marked for pandemic relief, the New York Post…

April 24, 2021 5:31 PM ET Police arrested a 39-year-old Japanese man who allegedly dated 35 women at the same time in order to receive birthday presents throughout the year, according to the Tokyo Reporter. A Japanese man has been arrested after reportedly dating more than 35 women at the same time in order to…

An image shared on Facebook purportedly shows a model of nuclear waste pollution from Japan releasing water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the ocean. Verdict: False The image shows a “maximum computed tsunami amplitude” model for the 2011 tsunami that hit Japan, not waste water pollution from the Fukushima nuclear power plant.…

President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga reaffirmed Friday the United States and Japan’s shared commitment to counter China’s influence in the Indo-Pacific region and on the global stage. Biden, speaking after his first in-person bilateral meeting since becoming president, said that Japan’s selection “is indicative of the importance the value we both…

April 11 (UPI) — Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama held off an erratic Xander Schauffele for a one-stroke victory at the 85th Masters Tournament on Sunday at Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia, claiming his first major title and the Green Jacket. With the victory, he made history as the first male golfer from Japan to win a…

Foreign spectators have been banned from the Summer Olympics in Tokyo over coronavirus concerns, the Associated Press reported. Organizers announced the decision Saturday after a meeting between the International Olympic Committee, the Japanese government, Tokyo authorities, and the International Paralympic Committee. Officials decided the risk posed by the pandemic was still too great to allow…

As if the speculative EV mania needed any more fuel thrown on its fire, Japan is joining numerous other countries - and California - in setting a date to make all new cars electric and "eco friendly" by the mid 2030's. The country's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry has said they are considering abolishing conventional…

Many of our readers have no doubt come across my speculative pieces stating the (possibly crazy) proposition that COVID-19 was bioengineered specifically not to afflict Oriental Asiatic people, such as those from China, Japan, North and South Korea and the like. In other words, COVID-19 is possibly a bioweapon, released perhaps by accident, but deployed after the…

October 23, 2020 8:27 PM ET Supporters of President Donald Trump from Japan were seen cheering him on Thursday outside the Luzerne Country Board of Elections in Pennsylvania , according to the Times Leader.  Bob Caruso, a volunteer for the Democratic nominee Joe Biden, said that these people were not from Luzerne county, according to…

Many people are aware of the Johns Hopkins COVID-19 tracking site and its cool, end-of-the-world looking dark mode maps with all their data about the coronavirus. Here is what it looks like at the time of this writing: No doubt everybody knows the US leads the world in reported cases, but what may be less…