Japan, Australia finalise contracts to deliver first 3 of planned frigates

This comes as Japan is set to ease rules on defence equipment exports, which have strict limits on exporting weapons with ...

Japan, Australia sign deal for first three Mogami frigate warships

Defence Minister Richard Marles and his Japanese counterpart, Koizumi Shinjirō, signed the deal aboard one of the warships ...

Japan on Track to Log Highest Post-Pandemic Measles Cases

Japan is on pace to log its highest annual measles cases this year since the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, with 236 patients confirmed by early April compared with the post-pandemic full-year high of ...
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AI eases fraught task of predicting cherry blossom blooms

This year, forecasters are crowdsourcing photos from the public and feeding them into AI-powered databases that can track the ...

Australia inks landmark A$20B deal for Japanese stealth frigates

Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles and Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi formalized the deal during a ...