Jul 03 Watch 6:39 As Team USA hits its stride for finals, ratings on the rise, too By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jun 27 Engineers create collapsible battery powered with the help of dirty water By Carey Reed Engineers at Binghamton University have created a paper origami biobattery that gets its charge from a drop of dirty water. Continue reading
Apr 28 Obama welcomes Abe to White House with high ceremony By Jim Kuhnhenn, Associated Press President Barack Obama welcomed Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Tuesday with full pomp and ceremony on a bright, dewy morning at the White House, calling the state visit a "celebration of the ties of friendship" and praising the alliance the… Continue reading
Apr 24 Shinzo Abe: Will he or won’t he apologize during Washington visit? By Michael D. Mosettig Throughout this coming week, a Japanese visitor named Shinzo Abe will be touring the United States with stops in Boston, San Francisco and Los Angeles as well as meetings in Washington with President Barack Obama and a speech to Congress. Continue reading
Apr 10 Carter chides China over approach to territorial disputes By Robert Burns, Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea — U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter gently chided China on Friday for its approach to territorial disputes in the South China Sea, suggesting Beijing has been isolated by its strong-arm tactics. Continue reading
Mar 11 How a hospital withstood a 9.0 quake with nary a broken window By Ed Jahn, Oregon Public Broadcasting Within an hour of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated central Japan in 2011, Ishinomaki Red Cross Hospital was accepting patients and acting as a refuge for throngs of survivors who’d lost everything. No broken windows. No collapsed ceilings. No… Continue reading
Feb 06 Japan to probe melted Fukushima reactor with ‘snake’ robot By Jasmine Wright Tokyo Electric Power Co. is finally ready to examine the inside of one of the three compromised reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant -- with the help of a remote-controlled robot that uncannily resembles a snake. Continue reading
Jan 31 Watch 5:34 ISIS videos often signal hostages’ fate may be sealed By PBS News Hour After days of negotiations over a prisoner exchange apparently broke down, the Islamic State on Saturday executed a Japanese journalist it had been holding in Syria. Douglas Ollivant, a senior national security fellow at the New America Foundation and a… Continue watching
Jan 31 Online video purports to show beheading of Japanese hostage By Elisabeth Ponsot Japan's Defense Minister Gen Nakatani said Sunday the video posted online showing the apparent execution of hostage Kenji Goto by ISIS militants appears authentic. Continue reading
Jan 29 ‘I am Kenji’ Facebook page rallies around Japanese hostage By Larisa Epatko A hastily constructed Facebook page, titled “I am Kenji,” calls for Islamic State militants to free Japanese journalist Kenji Goto. His captors gave a deadline of sundown Thursday to work out a prisoner swap for a female attempted suicide bomber. Continue reading