Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida confirmed his commitment to work to resolve the territorial issue and sign a peace treaty with Russia. "I will pursue developing the entire complex of Japanese-Russian ties, …
A magnitude 5.9 earthquake hit Aomori and Iwate prefecture in northern Japan early on Wednesday morning but did not cause a tsunami, Japan's Meteorological Agency said. The quake struck at around 2:46 a.m. local time (17:46 GMT). No …
The Lower House of the Parliament of Japan elected the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) Fumio Kishida as Japan’s 100th Prime Minister Monday, according to the vote, livestreamed on the Parliament’s website. …
North Korea test-fired a newly developed hypersonic missile this week, state news media KCNA reported on Wednesday, joining a race headed by major military powers to deploy the advanced weapons system
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North Korea has fired a short-range missile towards the sea off its east coast early on Tuesday, said South Korea's military. It happened at nearly the same moment its U.N. diplomat was decrying the U.S.’s …
North Korea test-fired two ballistic missiles into the sea off the east coast of the Korean Peninsula on Wednesday, September 15 according to Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff
The spectatorless 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games leaves a financial loss for host nation Japan, setting up talks in the coming months on filling the hole left by hundreds of millions of dollars in unsold tickets. Under the International …
Russian swimmer Valeria Shabalina won silver on Thursday at the 2020 Summer Paralympic Games in Tokyo in the women’s 100-meter backstroke S14 classification competition. Shabalina clocked the distance in 1 minute 06.85 seconds to …
Russia’s track and field Para athlete Galina Lipatnikova won gold on Wednesday at the 2020 Summer Paralympic Games in Tokyo in the women’s shot put F36 classification competition. The Russian Para athlete showed the result …
The team of Russian swimmers won gold on Tuesday at the 2020 Summer Paralympic Games in Tokyo in the mixed 4x100m freestyle relay event. The gold was won by the Russian Paralympic Committee (RPC) Team of Anna Krivshina, Daria Pikalova, …
Russian swimmer Valeria Shabalina won gold on Tuesday at the 2020 Summer Paralympic Games in Tokyo in the women’s 200-meter individual medley SM14 classification competition. Shabalina clocked the distance in 2 minutes 20.99 …
Russian female judo wrestler Alesya Stepanyuk overpowered Japan's Yui Fujiwara in a clash for the bronze at the Tokyo Paralympics tournament for visually impaired athletes in the weight category of under 52 kilograms. This is a …
Russian Para athlete Viktoria Potapova has won the bronze medal in the women’s 48 kg judo event at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games. This is the seventh bronze medal for Team RPC (the Russian Paralympic Committee). The team has …
Representatives of Azerbaijan Raman Saleh and Vugar Shirinli won gold medals at the Paralympic Games in Tokyo. Earlier, female judoka Shahana Hajiyeva has grabbed Azerbaijan`s first gold medal at Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. …
Russian swimmer Andrei Granichka won silver on Thursday at the 2020 Summer Paralympic Games in Tokyo in men’s 200-meter individual medley SM6 classification competition. Granichka clocked the distance in 2 minutes 40.92 seconds to …
Russian cyclist Mikhail Astashov has won gold in men’s C1 3,000m individual pursuit final event at the 2020 Summer Paralympic Games in Tokyo. Earlier on Thursday, he set a world record in the qualifying event covering the distance …
Japan’s sovereignty disputes with Russia (Southern Kurils/Northern Territories), the Koreas (Dok-do/Takeshima) and China (Diaoyutai/Senkakus) are resurfacing and rising to the fore. As Asia Times …
The Afghanistan Paralympic team will not compete in the Tokyo games with all commercial flights grounded as the Taliban seizes control of the country. "Due to the serious ongoing situation in the country, all airports are …
More than a million people were urged to seek shelter as torrential rain triggered floods and landslides in western Japan on Saturday, leaving at least one dead and two missing, France 24 reports. Authorities in Hiroshima and the …
