Gov’t plans to evacuate 110K residents as well as tourists from Sakishima Islands in case of Taiwan emergency

The government has drawn up plans to evacuate approximately 110,000 residents on Okinawa’s Sakishima Islands and 10,000 tourists to Yamaguchi Prefecture and the Kyushu region in the event of an emergency where an armed attack is imminent.

Explosible concentration of gas detected during Expo 2025 rehearsal

Methane gas with concentrations that could trigger an explosion was detected at the Expo site in Osaka City, where a 3-day “test run” rehearsal for the “Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai” was being held in which a total of about 90,000 citizens participated.

JCP EC Chair Tamura: Japan should demand retraction of ‘Trump tariffs’

Japanese Communist Party Executive Committee Chair Tamura Tomoko said that Japan should protest against U.S. President Trump’s unilateral tariff policy and demand the withdrawal of that policy.