World champion halfpipe skier Kyle Smaine has died after getting buried in an avalanche in the mountains of central Japan on the weekend.Key points:Kyle Smaine was reportedly thrown 50 metres by the air blastOne other skier died and another emerged unscathedSmaine won the world championship in ski halfpipe in 2015The US Freeski team has paid…

Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA. Source: Flickr. (CC BY 2.0) Pacific island nations, neighboring countries in Asia, scientists, and others criticized an international organization’s endorsement of plans to dump tens of thousands of tons of contaminated wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the ocean. The plan…

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Information on the easing of travel restrictions to Japan (as of 11 November 2022)   From 11 October, Australia and New Zealand passport holders will no longer require a visa to enter the country.    Japan has announced that from 11 October 2022, the following changes will be implemented:   1. The daily cap on arrivals into the…

TOKYO, Jan 30 (Reuters) – Japan will continue to monitor the COVID-19 situation in China and deal “flexibly” with border control measures, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said on Monday.The comment came a day after the Chinese embassy in Japan said it had resumed the issuance of ordinary visas for Japanese citizens travelling to the…

Japanese makers of semiconductor manufacturing machinery and materials used to make chips said on Monday they had yet to hear from Japan’s government about export restrictions that could directly or indirectly affect their business in China. Of ten chip-related companies contacted, five — Advantest Corp., Nikon Corp., Resonac Holdings Corp., Lasertec Corp. and Shin-Etsu Chemical…

Pre-Ceramic culture It is not known when humans first settled on the Japanese archipelago. It was long believed that there was no Paleolithic occupation in Japan, but since World War II thousands of sites have been unearthed throughout the country, yielding a wide variety of Paleolithic tools. These include both core tools, made by chipping…

Following years of lobbying from Washington, Japan and the Netherlands agreed on Friday to tighten restrictions on the export of chip manufacturing technology to Chinese companies. News of the agreement was reported by Bloomberg, the Financial Times, and The New York Times.The controls are designed to limit China’s ability to ramp up its own domestic…

Whale meat was an affordable source of protein during Japan’s undernourished years after World War II, with annual consumption peaking at 233,000 tons in 1962.Whale was quickly replaced by other meats. The whale meat supply fell to 6,000 tons in 1986, the year before the moratorium on commercial whaling imposed by the IWC banned the…