Women are now 9% of what makes up one of the biggest military ships for Japanese marines. Women on the ship don’t face any discrimination when put to a job on the ship and have all the equal rights to tasks as men do. This is such a wonderful step in the right direction. They could be letting women work… Read more »
As Chinese influence grows, Japanese warship visits Sri Lanka COLOMBO (Reuters) – Japan’s largest warship, the Kaga helicopter carrier, sailed into Sri Lanka’s Colombo harbor this weekend, marking Tokyo’s highest profile salvo in a diplomatic battle with China for influence along the region’s vital commercial sea lanes. Japanese destroyer Inazuma is seen behind one of its ship inspection teams on… Read more »
North Korea intends to abolish all nuclear weapons, South says SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un intends to abolish all nuclear weapons, materials and facilities to achieve “complete” denuclearization, South Korean President Moon Jae-in, who held his third summit with Kim last month, said on Friday. Kim and U.S. President Donald Trump pledged to work towards denuclearization… Read more »
Japan’s women sailors serve on frontline of gender equality ABOARD JS KAGA (Reuters) – Women serving on Japan’s biggest warship, the Kaga, are a tight-knit group on the frontline of a push to transform the Japanese navy into a mixed-gender fighting force, where men outnumber them more than 10 to one. The Maritime Self Defence Force (MSDF) needs more women… Read more »
BEIJING (Reuters) – Tesla Inc has signed an agreement with the Shanghai government for an 860,000 square meter plot of land to build its first overseas Gigafactory, the electric carmaker said in a Chinese social media post on Wednesday. The land agreement marks a key step toward the firm and its Chief Executive Elon Musk making cars locally in China… Read more »
The trade war with China isn’t looking up for anyone right now. China raised their tariffs on United States automobiles imports to 40% this summer which has had an extremely negative effect on the automobile industry. Right now Tesla is has lost over 2 billion dollars on these taxes that could have been put towards building the new factory in… Read more »
Image captionThe threat of climate change exercises the minds of even the youngest in Vietnam One little girl draws a nightmarish picture of people calling for rescue as they drown in rising water. Another sketches a huge snake with sharp teeth to show the power and danger of flooding. These disturbing images are the work of children at a primary… Read more »
© Handout / JAXA / AFP | Handout photograph released Oct. 3 shows the shadow of Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 over the asteroid Ryugu. Text by NEWS WIRES Latest update : 2018-10-03 A Japanese probe landed a new observation robot on an asteroid on Wednesday as it pursues a mission to shed light on the origins of the solar system. The French-German… Read more »
Tesla worried by China tariffs even as deliveries surge (Reuters) – Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) announced record quarterly car production on Tuesday but warned of major problems with selling cars in China due to new tariffs that would force it to accelerate investment in its factory in Shanghai.
Scientists behind game-changing cancer immunotherapies win Nobel medicine prize STOCKHOLM/LONDON (Reuters) – American James Allison and Japanese Tasuku Honjo won the 2018 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine on Monday for game-changing discoveries about how to harness and manipulate the immune system to fight cancer. The scientists’ work in the 1990s has since swiftly led to new and dramatically improved… Read more »