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China’s Spring Festival was one of the biggest travel seasons in the world before the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic, and on Thursday, the state-run Global Times anticipated it would return to its full glory this year, with over nine billion passenger trips taken during the next 40 days.

Japan reported that the government of Prime Minister Kishida Fumio is seeking to establish contact with former President Donald Trump.

China has reportedly become the world’s top exporter of cars, surpassing Japan and well ahead of the United States.

A 90-year-old woman was rescued Saturday after being trapped underneath rubble left behind by the recent earthquake in Japan.

The U.N. Security Council (UNSC) on Wednesday held an emergency meeting to discuss missile, drone, and boarding attacks on Red Sea shipping by the Iran-backed Houthi insurgents of Yemen.

A Chinese television news anchor described Japan’s deadly earthquake as a “comeuppance” and “retribution” for releasing Fukushima wastewater.

The mayor of Suzu, Japan, said “90 percent of houses” in the small peninsula town were either “completely or nearly completely destroyed.”

Japan rang in the New Year with a 7.6-magnitude earthquake that killed at least four people and caused massive property damage.

Demographic decline was a big story around the world in 2023, as most industrialized nations wrestled with lower fertility rates while countries like South Korea and China slid into population crises.

People living in north-central Japan have been ordered to evacuate from a five-meter (16ft) tsunami expected after a major earthquake.

Japan on Tuesday announced that six synthetic substitutes for THC will be banned effective January 6 after making some users sick.

The Japanese company trying to purchase the United States Steel Corporation has manufacturing bases in China. The revelation raises more national security concerns as President Joe Biden has yet to commit to blocking the acquisition.

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) is leading Senators in demanding Biden’s administration save U.S. Steel from being bought by a foreign company.

Communist dictator of North Korea Kim Jong-un declared through state media on Wednesday that the launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) was necessary to “clearly show what action the DPRK [North Korea] has been prepared and what option the DPRK would take when Washington makes a wrong decision against it.”

Sens. J.D. Vance (R-OH), Josh Hawley (R-MO), and Marco Rubio (R-FL) are calling on President Joe Biden to block the sale of the United States Steel Corporation by Japan’s largest steelmaker.

The United States Steel Corporation, which played a critical role in helping the Allies defeat Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany in World War II, is now being sold to Japan’s largest steelmaker. 

The South Korean military confirmed the firing of a long-range missile from North Korea on Monday morning as Pyongyang announced that one of its top diplomats held a meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Beijing to cement their close alliance.

President Joe Biden declined an invitation this week from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit New Delhi for Republic Day in late January.

The defense ministers of Japan, Britain and Italy signed an agreement to establish a joint organization to develop a new advanced fighter.

The latest fallout from the global “climate crisis” is an uptick in bear attacks in Japan, if CNN is to be believed.

An earthquake hit Saturday just before 11:00 p.m. off the coast of the Philippines in Mindanao, igniting fears of a possible tsunami.

A U.S. military Osprey aircraft with eight personnel aboard crashed into the sea near Japan’s Yakushima Island on Wednesday morning. It is the latest in a string of accidents involving the tilt-rotor transport.

Former Major League Baseball all-star Ichiro Suzuki displayed his incredible at age 50 by ptching a complete game shutout against a girl’s high school team.

Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi insurgents seized a cargo ship called the Galaxy Leader in the Red Sea. The ship is owned by a British-based shipping company and operated by a Japanese firm, but the Houthis claimed it was an Israeli target.

Chinese dictator Xi Jinping met with Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum on Thursday for a frigid exchange in which Beijing claimed they agreed to pursue “constructive and stable” ties.

Automotive industry analyst Michael Dunne warned on Friday that China has become “the world’s electric vehicle (EV) Godzilla, poised to smash everything in its path.”

A Japanese airline had to book an extra flight for a large group of extra large Sumo wrestlers after they determined that the wrestlers exceeded the weight limit for the two aircraft.

United States Space Force Commander Gen. Chance Saltzman said that collaborating on space exploration with China would reduce tensions.

Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio used his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday night to invite North Korea’s communist dictator Kim Jong-un to meet “face to face” without preconditions.

North Korea claimed to launch its first nuclear attack submarine on Wednesday in a ceremony attended by a very excited Kim Jong-un.

Toyota, one of the world’s leading automakers, recently had to suspend operations in 12 of its 14 Japan-based factories due to a massive IT failure, resulting in a daily production loss of approximately 13,000 cars. The problem? The carmaker ran out of hard drive space.

Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio dined on Fukushima seafood to show the fish are safe after the release of treated wastewater.

The communist government of North Korea revealed on Thursday that it held multiple military exercises aimed at practicing nuclear weapons assaults on South Korea and “occupying the whole territory” of the country.

Japan’s defence ministry on Thursday announced it will seek a record $53 billion budget for the next fiscal year on the back of regional tensions driven by an increasingly assertive China and unpredictable North Korea.

Actor and singer Jaden Smith suddenly canceled a spate of events scheduled in multiple cities in China, the state propaganda outlet Global Times confirmed on Monday, after a mysterious user of a regime-controlled social media application accused Smith of shouting racial slurs at Chinese and other Asians on a train in Japan.

The Japanese Foreign Ministry and Prime Minister Kishida Fumio urged the Communist Party of China to protect Japanese citizens in the country from a wave of abuse against them as a result of Tokyo approving a plan to dump wastewater into the ocean from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant.