A US military fighter jet accidentally dropped an inert bomb on private land outside training grounds in Aomori Prefecture, northern Japan, on Wednesday evening.
Officials from Japan and South Africa are working together to help Japanese companies make the most of business opportunities. A signing ceremony for a new promotions committee was held in Johannesburg on Wednesday.
Governments around the world are increasingly using social media to manipulate elections and monitor their citizens, in a worrisome trend for democracy, a human rights watchdog said Tuesday.
The UN-backed government of Libya on Tuesday accused the rebel east-based army of launching an airstrike that killed two policemen and injured four others in the south of the capital Tripoli.
South Korea planned to reduce the number of troops to 500,000 by 2022 as part of efforts to tackle a demographic change, the Ministry of Economy and Finance said Wednesday.
The US government has criticized Iran's decision to resume uranium enrichment at a nuclear facility in the central part of the country, calling it a big step in the wrong direction.
