For southwestern Kyushu, the JMA predicted an huge 1, 100mm of rain in the 48 hours to Friday night. Top tiles were blown off of homes, broken windows, and trees were depicted in a video released by the public broadcaster NHK TV. ” Our carport dome was blown away inContinue Reading
A judge announced on Thursday ( Aug 29 ) that the CEO of a South Korean lithium battery manufacturer that was struck by a fire that claimed 23 lives in June had been detained. Park Soon-kwan, the CEO of Aricell, which is majority-owned by S-Connect, apologised after the fire butContinue Reading
SLOW AND WET Fukashi Oishi, a resident in the town of Usa, was gloomily looking at an aged tree that was already adult when he was a kid but had broken and fallen on the side of the road. ” Oh, it’s so sad”, he told AFP. The wind companyContinue Reading
As part of measures aimed at addressing the growing problem, South Korean authorities announced on Wednesday ( Aug 28 ) that they intend to ask Telegram and other social media platforms to more actively help with the removal and blocking of sexually explicit deepfake content. Following reports that sexually explicitContinue Reading
The North unveiled a” murder drone,” an autonomous aircraft that can be purposefully crashed into enemy goals and essentially acts as guided missiles, just two weeks after the release of the Wednesday statement. The North announced in February that a new control system for a number of rocket launchers mayContinue Reading
Tokyo: On Wednesday ( Aug 28 ), four members of the same family vanished in Japan after a landslide from a typhoon that was on the way was reported, according to authorities. On Wednesday morning, Typhoon Shanshan experienced gusts of up to 252 kilometers gusting 80 kilometers north of theContinue Reading
The president is authorized by the policy to call on the parliament to issue normal reports and respond to questions from lawmakers. The legislation also includes businesses and the general public.
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets to rally the validity of the law.  ,
The two main opposition parties, the nationalist Kuomintang ( KMT ) and the less populist Taiwan People’s Party ( TPP ), were the main supporters of the Bills.
” The extremely aggressive move by the two opposition parties to pass the Bill has annoyed members of the public”, said Wang Chih-Sheng, director general of Taipei-based think tank Cross-Strait Policy Association.
” The citizens want checks and balances with the ruling group,” the statement read. However, when it was done in a very simplistic approach, it really sparked their desire to back or sympathize with Lai.”
Lai has had to cope with the frequent military threat from China across the sea.
The 64-year-old has long been branded a” troublemaker” and a dangerous” separatist” by China.
His commencement speech in May, in which he claimed that the two sides of the Taiwan Strait are” not inferior to each other,” further irritated Beijing, which held the claim that the two factors are distinct state.  ,  ,
He even rejected Beijing’s independence claims and said that simply Taiwan’s people can determine their future.
China has since increased military exercises with planes and staged belittle attacks by launching “punishment” drills in its area of Taiwan, escalating tensions more across the sea.
However, numerous studies have shown that more than half of the Japanese public support Lai’s notes.
According to experts, this is mainly due to a lot of Taiwanese, especially the young people, never being ready to accept a reconciliation with China right now.
” Lai had frequently say that Taiwan and China are not superior to one another. I believe it gives him the assistance of people between the ages of 40 and 45,” Wang said.
He continued, noting that Lai is more a demagogue and had a more eloquent position than Tsai Ing-wen, who had a less ambiguous position on cross-strait issues.
According to experts, Lai’s statements have now heightened his bottom line in terms of cross-strait relations.
He is unlikely to adopt an even tougher position despite rising in the polls, as any more actions against Beijing depend on the growth of relations between China and the US.
” It does n’t seem like the US would want to create more trouble. The US has been using the brakes to stop Lai,” said National Taiwan Normal University professor of social technology Chu Chao-Hsiang.
I do n’t think he would be able to adopt a tougher or more aggressive position toward China, even if his approval rating increases by another 10 percentage points.
Cross-strait conflicts are unlikely to alleviate any time soon, watchers said. Lai has consistently offered deals with China under similar standing, but has been rebuffed.
According to experts, Beijing is unlikely to engage in discussions or resume official markets with Taiwan as long as Lai rejects the” One China” process.
Taiwan is expected to increase its military spending to a report US$ 20 billion second year in order to strengthen its defense capacity as Beijing’s military maneuvers in the waters and airspace around Taiwan are becoming more frequent.
The Lai administration wants to keep Taiwan’s gross domestic product ( GDP ) growing at 3 %, keep the unemployment rate under 3.5 %, and cap inflation at 2 %.
It even plans to bring US$ 3.29 trillion in assets in proper business, which would be selected and targeted by a cross-ministry work pressure.
Other factors include lower crops as a result of warm weather and water scarcity as well as an increase in demand due to record-keeping of foreign visitors. At one food store in Tokyo, a sign seen by AFP read:” In order for many customers to be able to buy, weContinue Reading
Apparently, offenders apparently used social media platforms like Instagram to save or screen-capture images of subjects, which were later used to produce fake pornographic images. The biggest problem with website physical abuse is that it’s very challenging to remove. Victims usually suffer without even being conscious of it”, Bae Bok-joo,Continue Reading
On Tuesday ( Aug 27 ), a powerful typhoon was heading for southern Japan, bringing heavy rain and stumbling bullet trains and flights.
Typhoon Shanshan was moving towards the southern Amami island, packing winds of up to 216kmh.  ,
On Tuesday night, heavy rains prompted the expulsion of the gun station between the main cities of Hamamatsu and Toyohashi, though support resumed shortly thereafter, according to the operator.
According to Central Japan Railway and West Japan Railway providers, there were difficulties even for different areas of the high-speed community and local carriages.
Going forward, some shot train operations may be cancelled or suspended after this year, depending on the training of the storms, the firms cautioned Tuesday.