After failing to rebrand the Wuhan Coronavirus as something other than a pathogen of Chinese origin, China’s officials decided to go on a charm offensive.

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We were promised a future with flying cars and got this instead.

The Business Insider reports:

A Japanese University used remote-controlled robots to hold a virtual graduation

Students at Business Breakthrough University in Tokyo didn’t get a traditional ceremony due to the coronavirus, but they had the next best thing. Using “Newme” mobile robots...

Veteran International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Dick Pound said that the organization will postpone the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics due to the Wuhan coronavirus.

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Last fall, I reported that plans were being made to clone an extinct species of horse as well as saber-tooth tigers.

Now comes news that Japanese scientists have awakened the cells of an extinct woolly mammoth as part of a long-term approach to resurrect that species.

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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is meeting with President Trump at in Mar-a-Lago, with trade and North Korea being two of the key topics the leaders will discuss.

Abe is set to arrive Tuesday at Trump’s winter resort in Palm Beach, Fla., for two days of meetings as concerns mount in Tokyo...

One of Trump’s first presidential acts was killing Obama’s Trans-Pacific Partnership deal.

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There are days in the year we should commemorate yearly: 9/11, D-Day, V-Day, July 4. December 7, the day the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, is one of those days. We lost 2,400 in the attack, the majority on the USS Arizona.

Today at Pearl Harbor, a sailor who saved six men finally...

South Korean authorities have announced that North Korea shot a ballistic missile towards Japan. This is the first launch since the communist kingdom shot one in September. From Fox News:

South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency, which first reported the launch, said the missile “flew eastward from the vicinity of Pyongyang” toward the...

Thirty-somethings in Japan aren’t having sex and it could lead to the end of Japanese culture as we’ve known it.

Without sex, there are no kiddos and without a generation to perpetuate it, the culture is doomed. In what’s referred to as a “demographic time bomb”, death rates are far above...

It was a busy day in New York concerning North Korea. We learned that China’s central bank told banks to stop working with North Korea. President Donald Trump met with South Korean President Moon Jae-in and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to discuss the North Korean nuclear crisis. Trump also announced...

South Korea’s government reported that North Korea fired another missile over Japan from Sunan, which is located just north of Pyongyang, at 6:30AM local time. From CNN:

The missile flew about 3,700 kilometers (2,300 miles) and reached an altitude of 770 kilometers (480) miles. It landed in the Pacific Ocean, South...

Early Tuesday morning local time, North Korea shot a missile over Japan, which broke apart and landed near Japan’s Hokkaido island in the Pacific Ocean.

President Donald Trump has warned North Korea that all options are now on the table.

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The only state which still celebrates Victory Over Japan Day is my home State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.

Except, we can’t call it Victory Over Japan Day. Because that is a microaggression against Japan, even though they did start the war and we are celebrating victory over Japan.

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On Friday, 93-year-old WWII veteran Marvin Strombo will fly to Tokyo, Japan, to return a Japanese flag he took from a fallen enemy soldier during the 1944 battle in Saipan. The Associated Press reported:

Strombo knelt and pulled out a silk flag, all the space around the bright red emperor’s sun filled...

The Pentagon has confirmed that North Korea launched a ballistic missile at 11:41PM local time towards the Sea of Japan. The Wall Street Journal reported:

The unusual late-evening launch, which South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said took place at 11:41 p.m. Seoul time, was launched from Mupyong-ri in North Korea’s Chagang...

Upon taking the oath of office a few days ago, South Korea’s new president, Moon Jae-in, indicated the he is willing to visit the nuclear-armed North.

Moon, who was declared the winner on Tuesday of the presidential election, said he will “sincerely negotiate” with the United States, South Korea’s chief ally, and...

Everyone in Japan apparently wants potato chips! In fact, the country has started to run out of the delicious snack. From Bloomberg:

Calbee’s pizza-flavored chips were going for about 1,250 yen ($12) on Yahoo Japan Corp.’s auction website Friday. One bag usually sells for less than 200 yen. Photos of near-empty shelves...