EU leaders welcomed new Japanese prime minister Yoshihide Suga's pledge to achieve climate-neutrality by 2050 - a move that puts Tokyo's plans on the same timeline as Europe and a decade ahead of China.

TENSIONS in the Far East are soaring once again after Japan and the United States launched air, sea and land exercises in a show of force against increased Chinese military activity in the region.

This is a project for which a 23-year old graduate student did the preliminary design and design development. It is a work of collaboration created with local young architects and artisans. in Ehime Prefecture is a city known for Dogo Onsen. The area enjoys a mild climate thanks to the Seto Inland Sea, and with hot springs as a tourist resource, it is ranked as one of the most popular sightseeing destinations in Japan. Since 2014, art events have been held as part of the town revitalization strategy, and this facility was built for the 2019/ 2020 edition of the art project to provide a base for those activities. It is a small-scale, public architecture also used as a community hub.

The Japanese government has said it will cut the country’s carbon emissions to net zero by 2050, in the latest sign of growing momentum on international climate action

THE EUROPEAN Union is poised to offer Japan better access to its markets than the UK - prompting City supremo Catherine McGuinness to claim Britain's financial services industry was being "neglected" during EU-UK trade talks.

US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin were in high spirits, smirking and jovial, when they appeared in front of the press corps at the annual G20 summit in Osaka, Japan, in 2019.

Preliminary reports of a magnitude-6.3 earthquake striking in Japan's Ibaraki Prefecture; no tsunami warning issued - NHK

THE EUROPEAN Union is poised to offer Japan better access to its markets than the UK - prompting City supremo Catherine McGuinness to claim Britain's financial services industry was being "neglected" during EU-UK trade talks.

FEARS of open conflict in east Asia have surged after Australia agreed joined the US, Japan and India to join naval drills that experts claim are aimed at China.

Seiko Hashimoto, Japan's Olympic minister, said Tuesday that she believes the postponed 2020 Tokyo Games should be staged next summer "at any cost."