Updated on 12/24/2021 01:36 pm Is it a bus? Is it a train? It’s a DMV! The world’s first vehicle with two modes of operation, both road and rail, will make its public debut on Saturday in the city of Kaiyo, in Japan’s Tokushima prefecture. The DMV looks like a minibus and runs on normal […]
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Japan asks to analyze whether Seoul meets standards to join CPTPP
Updated on 12/14/2021 08:15 am The Government of Japan today pointed out the need to analyze whether South Korea meets the standards to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Treaty of Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), after Seoul announced its intention to adhere to the trade pact. “The first necessary step is to check whether an economy seeking […]
Japan backs down the suspension of international flight reservations due to the arrival of omicron
Updated on 02/12/2021 10:15 am The government of Japan reversed this Thursday to the suspension of all new reservations for international flights arriving in its territory until the end of the month, just one day after announcing this measure. The Executive led by Fumio Kishida said the day before that he had asked all airlines […]
Japan suspends flight reservations for omicron variant, which has already arrived in Latin America
Japan suspended on Wednesday for at least a month the new incoming flight reservations to the country, ignoring the WHO recommendation not to prohibit travel due to the emergency of the new omicron variant that has already arrived in Latin America. The appearance of this new variant, apparently more contagious and with multiple mutations, has […]
Traveler from Peru is second contagion by omicron in Japan
Updated on 12/01/2021 07:28 am The Government of Japan confirmed today the detection of the second case of the omicron variant of the coronavirus, in a traveler from Peru, and on the same day that the country announced additional border restrictions to try to stop the entry of the pathogen. After identifying the new variant […]
Japan announces plan to reactivate $ 490 billion economy
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced a record 56 trillion yen ($ 490 billion) plan to revive the world’s third largest economy after the pandemic. This stimulus, the third since the start of the pandemic, “it is enough to send a sense of security and hope to the Japanese people“, said In person, whose cabinet […]
A global supply chain to drive the hydrogen society
Japan has completed the first transport tests of hydrogen liquefied by sea around the world, within the framework of an ambitious project with which it aspires to commercialize a supply chain from that energy source. The project’s base of operations, which has attracted attention for its scale, unprecedented so far, is on an artificial island […]
Japan: Kishida clings to weak majority in parliamentary elections
Updated on 10/31/2021 11:24 am Exit polls of parliamentary elections in Japan on Sunday indicated that the ruling Liberal Democratic Party of the prime minister Japanese, Fumio Kishida, would retain his majority, albeit with losses that could slow his drive to ease wealth inequalities. Maintaining a majority in the lower house is seen as key […]
Political changes in Japan? The keys to a game that always wins
With more than six decades directing Japan, the conservative Liberal Democratic Party faces the elections this Sunday convinced of revalidating its mandate thanks to the approval of the young people and the weakness of the opposition. The pandemic, the controversial Olympic Games, the slow rate of vaccination or the recent fall of a prime minister […]
China, the eternal diplomatic dilemma for the new Government of Japan
The new Japanese government will face the diplomatic dilemma of following the toughest line towards China set by the Biden Administration or maintaining its traditional low profile vis-à-vis its main trading partner, amid growing tensions in the Pacific. Japan, which holds general elections this Sunday, is watching with concern the military boom in Beijing and […]