9+ hour, 57+ min ago   (128+ words) Read full story here Torrential rain hits central Japan, floods vital infrastructure in Nagoya Japan weather agency warns of intense rain in Tokyo, 12 areas through Monday 1 dead, over 40 hurt as heavy rain hits central Japan, swamps Nagoya Japan PM Takaichi…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (218+ words) wkar.org - On Air Now Playing WKAR NewsTalk - AM 870 | 102.3 FM - On Air Now Playing WKAR Radio Reading Service Big Annie’s Protest and Mickey Mantle’s Home Run | September 10 Today in 1913, Ana Clemenc, known as “Big Annie,” was jailed during a protest…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (744+ words) September 1, 2026 at 16:09 JST Hitachiomiya Mayor Sadayuki Suzuki, left, receives a government request for a nuclear waste site survey at Hitachiomiya City Hall in Ibaraki Prefecture on Aug. 31. (Takayuki Goto) HITACHIOMIYA, Ibaraki Prefecture—The mayor of this struggling and shrinking city…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (681+ words) The military is reviewing budget execution trends and postponing non-urgent projects to maximize defense spending, the Ministry of National Defense said yesterday as it submitted its budget for next year and other defense documents to the legislature. The ministry said…...

2+ week, 26+ min ago   (284+ words) —— Writes Bill Madden: In the book from which the attached pamphlet was made, a few pages are devoted to Winston Churchill’s being controlled by the world’s richest families. As we know, after the war, General Patton claimed that we had…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (207+ words) People have gathered outside a city hall in Ibaraki Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, to call on the city to reject an initial survey to determine whether the area could host a final disposal site for high-level radioactive waste. The Japanese…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (149+ words) Japan has accumulated about 44.4 tonnes of plutonium separated from spent nuclear fuel, an amount that, according to the Chinese side, would be sufficient to produce roughly 5,500 nuclear warheads. Chinese Ambassador to Moscow Zhang Hanhuai told TASS that the figure refers…...

4+ week, 8+ hour ago   (263+ words) One shouldn't stereotype people, but the British are often perceived – not least by themselves – as stubborn, steady, capable of endurance, resistant to sudden shifts. Scepticism, which sometimes curdles into cynicism, albeit not without humour, seems part of the national psyche....