News

Tokyo, Feb. 19 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Rakuten Group Inc. and U.S. technology giant Google said Thursday they have signed a partnership on a program promoting e-commerce shopping utilizing YouTube in Japan. Under the program, video uploaders to YouTube can introduce products sold on

(Adnkronos) – Italy has deplored the “abhorrent violence”, “grave” breaches of international humanitarian law and an “unacceptable escalation of terror” against civilians in Sudan’s almost three-year civil war by paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.  “Italy adheres to the declaration on the crisis in

Tokyo, Feb. 19 (Jiji Press)–A Japanese panel of experts on Thursday gave the green light for the health minister to approve the production and sale of two regenerative medical products that use induced pluripotent stem, or iPS, cells. The products, if approved

(Adnkronos) – Bill Gates has canceled his speech scheduled for today at the artificial intelligence summit in India. The Gates Foundation stated this after the Microsoft founder was named in the Epstein files. “‘After careful consideration and to ensure that the focus

Tokyo, Feb. 19 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Thursday that the country will host a ministerial meeting on the utilization of artificial intelligence in March. She made the announcement in a video message sent to the ongoing AI Impact Summit

Cairo, Feb. 19 (Jiji Press)–A Japanese member of Doctors Without Borders has expressed a sense of crisis as the group known as MSF has to stop humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip due to Israel’s measure banning international nongovernmental organizations from operating

Yokohama, Feb. 19 (Jiji Press)–Japanese police will question a man in his 40s on suspicion of using a forged ID card to trespass into the U.S. Navy’s Yokosuka base in Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo, Jiji Press learned Thursday. The Kanagawa prefectural

Kobe, Feb. 19 (Jiji Press)–Japanese police have referred to prosecutors a man in Kobe, the capital of Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, for allegedly attaching a loss prevention tag to the bicycle of a female acquaintance without her consent. The suspect, a company

Tokyo, Feb. 19 (Jiji Press)–Only 18.9 pct of people in Japan have hopes for the new opposition Centrist Reform Alliance, falling far behind the 59.2 pct who do not, a Jiji Press poll suggested on Thursday. The party was formed by the

Tokyo, Feb. 19 (Jiji Press)–The support rate for Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party topped 30 pct for the first time in four years in February, a Jiji Press opinion poll showed Thursday. Support for the LDP jumped 7.6 percentage points from the