Japan is temporarily relaxing restrictions on coal power plants due to rising energy prices linked to the Hormuz Strait crisis. This shift may impact air quality and energy costs for travelers.
Potential Strait of Hormuz shutdown raises concerns about Japan's aluminum supply. While inventories offer some buffer, product manufacturers are growing wary of disruptions.
It’s amazing how two little lines popping up on a stick can produce such a range of conflicting emotions in a person. Hopefully, that range tends more toward elation rather than the shock-filled-terro
One-coin lunches still exist in Asakusa, but now to find out if it’s money well spent. In Japan, there’s a concept called the “one-coin lunch,” meaning a lunch you can buy for 500 yen (US$3.25) or les
Absent the strait's reopening, shortages will become more acute, threatening higher costs for energy, food and numerous other products worldwide.
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Hong Kong police arrested a bookstore owner and three shopkeepers on Tuesday for allegedly selling "seditious" publications including a biography of jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai, broadcaster TVB…
Oil prices fell more than 4% and Asian shares gained on Wednesday over possibilities of a de-escalation of the Iran war and negotiations between the United States and Iran. Tokyo’s Nikkei…
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