China is ramping up its military actions and raising tensions in the Nansei Islands. Japan is bolstering its presence in response. Locals are caught in the middle.

Vietnam's foreign ministry published a map defining its baseline claim in the Gulf of Tonkin, where it shares a maritime border with China, which it said on Friday was to help protect and enforce its ...

Egypt, one of the oldest countries in Africa, calls itself Masr in Arabic, thought to come from the word “Mizraim”, a ...

Apple Maps now has expanded coverage for cycling directions in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The expansion, first spotted ...

Japan already has many proprietary corporate use AI platforms but nothing in the field of an open, large scale AI chatbot. Ishiba said, "We need to create a basic plan....." Way behind the curve ...

Ms Liu is one of thousands of Chinese immigrants who have moved to Japan to seek a new life after being traumatised by China's strict zero-COVID era. China's emergence from that period was abrupt ...

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The uninhabited islets are administered by Japan, which sees it as its own inherent territory based on history and international law. China also claims the islands. The popularity of the DeepSeek ...

One lesson from the damage caused by the destructive typhoon that hit Japan in October last year is the need to improve hazard maps that visualize projected data for natural hazards. Hazard maps ...

Markets in China were also shut to usher in the Chinese ... sparked more volatility for USD/JPY on Monday than the (Bank of Japan)'s hawkish meeting last Friday tells you how much of a big deal ...

Google Maps will display the name “Gulf of America” instead of the “Gulf of Mexico” for U.S. users once official government sources are updated to reflect the name change ordered by ...

A new China-based AI chatbot challenger called DeepSeek has reached the number one position on Apple's App Store free charts in ...