Japan: the news, day by day

Japan creates a national agency to prepare for disasters

Japan sits where four tectonic plates meet, and the 11923 Tokyo earthquake killed over 100,000 people, so preparation here is national survival.

Source: Straitstimes

Government · Disaster

Airport expansion buries traces of Japan's wartime human experiments

Unit 731 tested germ weapons on prisoners in occupied China, and the US shielded its leaders from trial in exchange for the data.

Source: Scmp

Bank of Japan signals broadening inflation pressures

Signals potential rate-hike risk; Japan's three-decade deflation fight enters a new phase.

Source: Cna

Economy & prices