▽New York Times: Third woman accuses Cuomo of unwanted advances in 2019 as crisis deepens - CNNPolitics A third woman has accused Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo of unwanted advances in 2019, The New York Times reported Monday, addin…

▽Spokeswoman for Japan PM Suga resigns over expensive dinners with his son | Reuters Makiko Yamada, a key spokeswoman for Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, will resign after she and other senior bureaucrats were reprimanded for atten…

▽Japan's Mizuho Bank reports large-scale ATM system failure Mizuho Bank said Sunday a glitch affecting more than half of its 5,400 automated teller machines had prevented customers from withdrawing cash.The system failure apparently occurr…

▽Tokyo's population falls year-on-year | NHK WORLD The population in Tokyo has fallen year-on-year for the first time in almost a quarter-century.The Tokyo Metropolitan Government says there were an estimated 13,952,915 people living in th…

▽Head of Russian prisons confirms Navalny sent to detention centre | Al Jazeera Jailed Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny has been moved to a detention centre where he will serve his more than two-year-long jail sentence, the hea…

▽Japan opposition urges resignation of elite female bureaucrat over scandal Opposition parties demanded Thursday the resignation of an elite female bureaucrat who was treated to a luxury dinner by the eldest son of Prime Minister Yoshihide…

▽Japan elite bureaucrats punished over scandal involving Suga's son Japan's communications ministry reprimanded 11 officials on Wednesday for ethics code violations after they were treated to expensive meals by officials of a broadcasting …

▽Fukushima nuclear plant operator: Seismometers were broken The operator of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant said Monday that two seismometers at one of its three melted reactors have been out of order since last year and did not …

▽Ministry to reprimand 11 officials for dinner scandal involving Suga’s son : The Asahi Shimbun A lobbying scandal in which Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's eldest son allegedly tried to influence the telecommunications ministry by wining a…

▽Russia confirms first human case of H5N8 bird flu | NHK WORLD Russia's health authorities say they have confirmed the world's first case of the highly pathogenic H5N8 strain of avian flu virus passed from birds to humans.The head of the c…

▽Water Levels at Fukushima Reactor Containers Falling - JIJI PRESS Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. said Friday that the water levels in the containment vessels for the No. 1 and No. 3 reactors at its disaster-crippled Fukushima …

▽Ministry admits dinners involving Suga’s son had talk of business : The Asahi Shimbun The telecommunications ministry backpedaled and admitted that satellite broadcasting was discussed at dinners involving ministry officials and employees…

▽Japan's Hashimoto says she was selected as new Tokyo 2020 president | Reuters Japan’s Seiko Hashimoto, a woman who has competed in seven Olympics, has been chosen as president of the Tokyo 2020 Organising committee, she said on Thursday, …

▽UK queen's husband Prince Philip, 99, admitted to hospital Britain’s 99-year-old Prince Philip has been admitted to a London hospital after feeling unwell, Buckingham Palace said Wednesday.The palace said the husband of Queen Elizabeth II…

▽Police to probe Aichi governor recall petition for alleged fraud : The Asahi Shimbun The Aichi prefectural election administration commission filed a criminal complaint with police on Feb. 15 over scores of dubious signatures found on a p…

▽Japan's 2020 GDP shrinks real 4.8%, 2nd worst on record amid pandemic Japan's economy contracted 4.8 percent in real terms in 2020 from the previous year, the second sharpest contraction on record, reflecting the impact of the novel coron…

▽Magnitude 7.3 earthquake strikes near site of Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan A magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck Saturday off the coast of Japan's Fukushima prefecture, which was home to one of the world's worst nuclear disasters almos…

▽Four Thai pro-democracy leaders detained under royal defamation law - France 24 A Thai court denied bail Tuesday to four prominent democracy activists after they were indicted for violating the kingdom's royal defamation law -- the first …

▽Kawabuchi declines offer to head Tokyo Olympics as Mori resigns - Nikkei Asia Saburo Kawabuchi, 84, a former Japan Football Association president and soccer player, will decline an offer to become head of the organizing committee for the …

▽Alexei Navalny's wife arrives in Germany on flight from Russia | The Guardian The wife of the jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has arrived in Germany on a flight from Moscow.Yulia Navalnaya touched down at Frankfurt am Main…

▽Violation of broadcasting ethics that is serious in BPO Fuji TV BPO = Broadcasting Ethics & Program Improvement Organization announced opinion that there was violation of serious broadcasting ethics for news program of Fuji TV today. Subs…

▽Japan submarine collides with commercial ship off Shikoku, 3 injured A Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force submarine collided Monday with a commercial vessel in the Pacific Ocean off the western main island of Shikoku, with three crew me…

▽Germany, Poland and Sweden expel Russian diplomats | The Guardian Germany, Poland and Sweden have each expelled a Russian diplomat in a coordinated act of retaliation over the expulsion of three EU officials by Moscow while the bloc’s for…

▽Myanmar sees biggest protests since 2007 uprising - Nikkei Asia Tens of thousands of defiant protesters marched in the streets of Yangon for a second day almost a week after the military arrested the country's elected leader, Aung San Suu…

▽Ex-head of McDonald's, Apple units in Japan arrested for assault Eiko Harada, who has served as the head of the Japanese subsidiaries of McDonald's Corp. and Apple Inc., has been arrested for alleged domestic violence, Tokyo police said S…

▽Smartmatic Voting Machine Company Sues Fox for $2.7 Billion - Rolling Stone The legal blitz by voting-machine companies who have been the target of right-wing conspiracies just took another big step forward. On Thursday, the company Smart…

▽Tokyo Olympics chief Yoshiro Mori apologises but refuses to resign after saying women talk too much in meetings | Sky News The head of the Tokyo Olympics organising committee has apologised for making sexist remarks about women, but he sa…

▽PM Suga's son allegedly entertained officials | NHK WORLD Four senior officials of Japan's communications ministry were reportedly treated to meals by the eldest son of Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide in a possible violation of the law."Bun…

▽Japan to extend coronavirus emergency to March 7 as hospitals strained - The Mainichi The Japanese government is set Tuesday to extend the state of emergency for Tokyo and other regions struggling to contain the novel coronavirus by one m…

▽Myanmar military ousts Aung San Suu Kyi in apparent coup - Nikkei Asia A decade ago, Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi was released after a total of 21 years under house arrest to set Myanmar back on the path toward democracy. In a ma…