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Car crash in Japan after collision of 2 trucks (Video/X@volcaholic1) A massive crash on Japan’s Kan-etsu Expressway killed one person and injured 26 as the country began its end-of-year holiday season, officials said.The Gunma Prefectural Highway Police said the pileup began late Friday in Minakami, about 160 km northwest of Tokyo. It started when two…
At least fourteen people were injured in a stabbing attack in a factory in central Japan on Friday. In the attack, an unspecified liquid was also sprayed.“Fourteen people are subject to transportation by emergency services,” Tomoharu Sugiyama, a firefighting department official in the city of Mishima, Shizuoka region, told news agency AFP.He said a call…
The Japanese government on Friday approved a record budget for the upcoming fiscal year, to pay for everything from bigger defence spending to ballooning social security costs as inflation persists.The 122.3-trillion-yen ($782 billion) budget for the fiscal year from April 2026 will include some nine trillion yen for defence spending, as Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi…
File photo (Picture credit: AP) TOKYO: The Bank of Japan hiked interest rates to a 30-year high of 0.75 per cent on Friday, the first increase since January, as it said the economy had shown signs of improvement.The unanimous vote to lift the main borrowing rate from 0.5 per cent came hours after official data…
Japan’s inflation rate held steady in November, official data showed Friday ahead of the Bank of Japan’s monetary policy decision which could see central bankers raise interest rates to their highest level in 30 years.The hike would be the first since January and could potentially exacerbate turmoil in debt markets.Yields on Japanese government bonds have…
Microsoft 365 services in Japan and China have been fully restored after thousands of users experienced widespread access and sign-in failures early Thursday. The regional outage affected essential tools including Outlook, Teams, OneDrive and Microsoft’s AI assistant Copilot, disrupting business operations and remote work across both markets. Sharing a post on microblogging platform X (formerly…
NEW DELHI: In the middle of Laxmi Nagar market is a single room, easy to miss in the chaos, that holds a few chairs. Seated are young men and women from Delhi, UP and Haryana, busy polishing ‘Ikura desu ka’ and ‘tetsudatte kuremasu ka’, Japanese phrases that translate, respectively, to ‘how much is this’ and…
An earthquake of 6.7 magnitude hit Japan’s northeastern region with an intensity of 4 at 11.44 am local time. The quake follows a larger earthquake with a magnitude of 7.5 that struck the same region on Monday.The JMA has issued a tsunami warning with waves expected up to 1 metre along the northern Pacific coastline(This…
Massive earthquake jolts Japan days after 7.5 tremors Source link
On the night of December 8, 2025, while people were sleeping peacefully in their houses, a strong undersea earthquake hit off the northeastern coast of Japan close to Aomori Prefecture. The magnitude of the quake was recorded at 7.5–7.6. The tremor was so strong that it created a strong “upper-6” level tremor in the cities…
