SEOUL: South Korea has said it will strike back with immediate and overwhelming force if North Korea launches an attack on its territory, days after Pyongyang said it had entered a “state of war” with its neighbour.
Published02 Apr, 201305:00am
IT begins benignly enough, with an image of a sleeping young North Korean man, and a genteel piano version of the US feel-good pop anthem, We Are the World, providing the musical backdrop.
Published07 Feb, 201312:01am
ALMOST two years after the triple meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi power plant sent shockwaves around the world, Japan’s government is attempting to resell the nuclear dream to a traumatised public.
Published13 Jan, 201312:00am
TOKYO: A quarter of the 11.7tn yen the Japanese government allocated to rebuild the region devastated by last year’s earthquake and tsunami has been spent on projects unrelated to the disaster.
Published01 Nov, 201202:52am
TOKYO: That Saburo Shochi completed a round the world trip using only public transport was impressive enough; that he did so at the age of 106 was even more remarkable. Yet in his native Japan, there is no
Published16 Sep, 201202:46am
BEFORE last year’s triple disaster in northeast Japan, Tsuchiyu Onsen drew tens of thousands of tourists in search of the recuperative qualities of its piping hot spring water.
Published11 Aug, 201212:00am
TOKYO: Anti-nuclear campaigners in Japan have launched the country’s first green party, more than a year after the triple meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi power plant created a groundswell of opposition to atomic energy
Published01 Aug, 201201:15am
TOKYO: Last year's accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was a manmade disaster caused by poor regulation and collusion between the government, the operator and the industry's
Published06 Jul, 201202:59am
SEOUL: While the UN Security Council prepares to discuss its limited options in response to Friday’s failed rocket launch, the repercussions inside North Korea should prove far more illuminating.
Published14 Apr, 201211:01pm
WASHINGTON: With Barack Obama and John McCain in the White House, 2009 was a pivotal year in American politics. Democrats and Republicans worked together to pass a jobs bill, close Guantanamo and end the recession. Obama rallied liberals behind a version
Published10 Apr, 201212:02am
TOKYO: The remains of the shattered reactors are still some distance away when you first notice the sheer destruction of Japan’s nuclear disaster. The journey into the heart of the world’s worst nuclear crisis since
Published29 Feb, 201211:00pm
TOKYO: Concern is growing that the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan is no longer stable after temperature readings suggested one of its damaged reactors was reheating.
Published12 Feb, 201209:42pm
TOKYO: Advisers to Japan’s nuclear safety agency have said power plant stress tests do not prove that a nuclear plant is safe, as the country faces the prospect of a summer without a single nuclear reactor in operation.
Published28 Jan, 201209:11pm
OSAKA: After decades of tacit acceptance, Japan`s 22 yakuza gangs are facing their biggest challenge: not from the police, but from ordinary citizens who are under pressure to shun the mob or be named and shamed
Published06 Jan, 201211:00pm
TOKYO: The tsunami that devastated the north-east coast of Japan on 11 March was created by at least two wave fronts that merged to form a far more destructive “double tsunami”, scientists in the US have said.
Published08 Dec, 201109:19pm
