Environment Pressure grows for world’s militaries to report and reduce greenhouse emissions By Keith Preston on July 10, 2023 • ( Leave a comment ) Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Top News Stories One killed and eight missing as heavy rain triggers landslides in southern Japan Authorities ordered tens of thousands of residents to leave their homes as the deluge hit. Shizuoka prosecutors to push for guilty verdict in Hakamata retrial Prosecutors have said they plan to argue that the March retrial decision by the Tokyo High Court was “groundless.” Yellen hails ‘productive’ China talks, but tensions still close to surface There are hopes that the more civil tone will help the world’s largest economies forge greater compatibility in some areas, but it is also not … Ukraine envoy to Japan sees major role for Tokyo in reconstruction The ambassador expressed his hope of tapping into Japan’s vast experience in rebuilding after natural disasters like the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Japan’s fertility rate is likely even lower than it seems The official statistic doesn’t include foreign mothers, meaning children born to them and Japanese men are treated as if they were born to Japanese women. Seibu Railway tests new translation device to boost communication The window-like interface creates real-time translations that appear as text bubbles as people converse on either side of the screen. Other Stories News Pressure grows for world’s militaries to report and reduce greenhouse emissions As temperatures hit new highs, scientists and environmental groups are stepping up efforts to end a long-standing exemption that has kept some military climate pollution … Opinion Supporting an embattled Kyiv amid an axis of denial The debate over support for Ukraine has become a microcosm of the broader “democratic recession.” Sports Masataka Yoshida connects on 10th home run as Red Sox earn fifth straight win Masataka Yoshida belted his 10th home run in his seventh straight multiple-hit game to lift the Boston Red Sox past the Oakland Athletics 4-3 on … News AI robots at U.N. reckon they could run the world better They robots were assembled for what was billed as the world’s first news conference with a packed panel of AI-enabled humanoid social robots. News U.S. destroys its last chemical weapons, as watchdog hails milestone The U.S. announcement meant that all the world’s declared chemical weapons stockpiles were “verified as irreversibly destroyed,” the OPCW said. Life Drinking off the rails on Niigata’s sake train The Koshino Shukura is Ione of Japan’s 44 “Joyful Trains” — on-rail experiences themed around a regional specialty, this particular one is about sake. Attack the SystemTweetMore Print (Opens in new window) Print Share on Tumblr Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Categories: Environment, Military