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Japan retrieves rare earth mud from deep seabed in test mission

February 3, 2026 admin

Japan’s drilling-equipped research vessel Chikyu before its departure from Shimizu port to conduct a test recovery of rare-earth–rich mud near Minamitori Island, marking the world’s first attempt to continuously lift rare-earth seabed sludge from a depth of about 6 km onto a ship, in Shimizu, Shizuoka prefecture, Japan on January 12, 2026. | Photo Credit:…

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Japan PM Takaichi’s party poised for landslide victory, Asahi poll shows

February 1, 2026 admin

Sanae Takaichi, Japan’s Prime Minister and leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), Japan Innovation Party co-leader Fumitake Fujita and Hirofumi Yoshimura, Japan Innovation Party leader, attend an election campaign event on the first day of campaigning for the February 8 snap election, in Tokyo, Japan, on January 27, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters…

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Japan PM mulling snap election in coming weeks: Reports

January 10, 2026 admin

Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is considering calling a general election in the coming weeks to capitalise on strong public support for her government, media reports said on Saturday (January 10, 2026). Ms. Takaichi was appointed Japan’s first woman prime minister in October, and her…

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Japan prepares to restart world’s biggest nuclear plant, 15 years after Fukushima

December 22, 2025 admin

Japan is set to take the final step to restart the world’s largest nuclear power plant on Monday (December 22, 2025) when the region of Niigata votes on the resumption of operations, in a ‌watershed moment for the country’s pivot back to nuclear energy nearly 15 years after the Fukushima disaster. Kashiwazaki-Kariwa, located about 220…

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Japan’s nuclear ambitions must be stopped ‘at any cost’, says North Korea

December 21, 2025 admin

North Korea said on Sunday (December 21, 2025) that Japan’s nuclear ambitions “must be prevented at any cost”, after a Tokyo official reportedly suggested the country should possess atomic weapons. Pyongyang’s reaction came after the unnamed official in the Prime Minister’s office was quoted by Kyodo News on Thursday (December 18, 2025) as saying, “I…

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Japan will pay ‘painful price’ if it steps out of line over Taiwan, China military says

November 27, 2025 admin

Image used for representation purpose only. | Photo Credit: Getty Image/iStockphoto China’s Defence Ministry said on Thursday (November 27, 2025) that Japan will have to pay a “painful price” if it steps out of line over Taiwan, responding to Japanese plans to deploy missiles on an island some 100 kilometers from Taiwan’s coast. The remarks…

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Fire in southwestern Japan damages 170 homes, forces evacuations; one missing

November 19, 2025 admin

Residents watch flames rise from the site of a fire in Oita, southern Japan on November 18, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP Firefighters were battling an out-of-control fire on Wednesday (November 19, 2025) morning that has burned through a neighbourhood in southwestern Japan and forced more than 170 people to evacuate. At least 170 homes…

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Japan resumes seafood exports to China two years after Fukushima wastewater release

November 7, 2025 admin

Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Japan announced on Friday (November 7, 2025) that its seafood exports have resumed for the first time since China imposed a ban over the discharge of treated radioactive wastewater from the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant more than two years ago. Chief Cabinet…

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Japan successfully launches new cargo spacecraft to deliver supplies to ISS

October 26, 2025 admin

The H3 (7th) rocket by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), carrying a new HTV-X cargo transfer spacecraft, is launched from the Tanegashima Space Center in Minamitane, Tanegashima island, on October 26, 2025 | Photo Credit: AP Japan’s space agency on Sunday (October 26, 2025) successfully launched its new flagship H3 rocket carrying an unmanned…

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Crowds still throng to Hiroshima peace memorial, but Japan’s defence posture may be changing

October 25, 2025 admin

Eighty years after the U.S. attacked Japan with the atomic bomb, crowds still throng to the mound-shaped peace memorial and museum in Hiroshima to pay their respects to hundreds of thousands killed or affected. The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the subsequent surrender of Japan to allied forces in 1945 laid the foundation for…

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