Japan Herald news Japan Herald news Rss feed

  • US cool over North Korea's latest talks offer US cool over North Korea's latest talks offer

    WASHINGTON - The United States has said it wants "credible negotiations" with North Korea as Pyongyang in its latest offer has expressed desire to start "senior-level" talks with America on regional peace and easing tensions. President Barack Obama and his South Korean counterpart, Park Geun-hye, are said to have discussed the issue by telephone Sunday evening. They agreed to close ...

  • Squeaky clean Tokyo favourite host for 2020 Olympics say IOC sources

    Tokyo is reportedly leading in the race for the host city for the 2020 Summer Olympics, according to members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The Japanese capital's emphasis on safety and security appears to be influencing the race for the 2020 Games by pitting its squeaky clean image against the turmoil and instability being witnessed in Istanbul and Madrid, The Japan Times ...

  • Japans ORIX acquires over 25 percent share of MEDGULF insurance firm

    ORIX Corporation, a leading integrated financial services group of Japan, has announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire 25.7 per cent of issued shares of Bahrain-based Mediterranean and Gulf Insurance and Reinsurance Company (MEDGULF). Founded in 1980 in Lebanon, MEDGULF is a business group with insurance businesses throughout the Middle East in Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and Jordan and ...

  • Japanese telecoms carry out tests of 4K television streams over the internet

    A Japanese telecoms company is carrying out tests to try to prove 4K-resolution video can be streamed over the internet to television set-top boxes. NTT West is hosting the trial - which runs until Friday - and says it believes it is the first of its kind. A new video compression standard is being used to reduce the amount of data that needs to be transmitted. 4K broadcasts offer four ...

  • Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to visit Tokyo in autumn

    TOKYO, June 18 (Itar-Tass) - The Japanese government considers an agreement on Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s visit to Tokyo in autumn substantial progress. This agreement was reached at the meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on the sidelines of the G8 summit in Lough Erne Golf Resort in Northern Ireland. "Foreign ...

Movie Review

El Norte [Blu-Ray]

El Norte [Blu-Ray]

When Gregory Navas El Norte was first released, Variety described it as the first independent American epic, and I cant think of a better description of this deeply moving film that is simultaneously entrancing, horrifying, sad, and profoundly humane. The story of two young Guatem ... ...

On Facebook

  • Japan revised April industrial output up 0.9 m-o-m

    industrial output rose 0.9 per cent in April, according to government data revised to reflect a change in the base year, showing a steady pickup in firms' productive activity. The government changes the base year for the data every five years. For April's revised figure, the base was shifted to 2010 from 2005, altering the weightings of items in the index and the method of adjusting ...

  • Japan moves to boost influence in Asia

    The Japanese government is engaged in its own diplomatic offensive to cement relationships with countries in Asia, in line with the Obama administration's efforts to undermine Chinese influence in the region. At the end of May, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited Burma (Myanmar) before hosting India Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Tokyo. In Burma, Abe met with President Thein Sein and ...

  • Japan Is That Really The Third Arrow

    In this Global Bite, Holger Schmieding assesses Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's recently announced structural reforms - the third of his "Abenomics" plan to fix Japan's stagnant, drifting economy. It's a ...

  • Top Russian diplomat to visit Japan in fall

    Edward Snowden, the fugitive former CIA employee and NSA contractor who leaked secrets about America’s spying operations, often hung out online with foreigners in Japan who shared his interests in anime, video games, martial arts, the stock market and the expat lifestyle. Snowden, who ...

  • Aum death-row inmates to be grilled in open court during cultist’s trial

    Creating a Japanese version of the U.S. National Security Council would risk adding rigidity to the decision-making process during a national ...

More Japan Herald news