Month: October 2024

[ad_1] Hurricane Milton is closing in on Florida’s west coast, packing torrential rainfall and a destructive storm surge that could inundate some of the state’s fastest-growing counties.Milton was 50 miles (80 kilometers) west-southwest of Sarasota at 6 p.m. Wednesday, according to an update from the U.S. National Hurricane Center. Vertical wind shear over the Gulf of Mexico has knocked back Milton’s top winds to 120 mph (193 kph), leaving it […]

[ad_1] A new Japanese professional volleyball league, which begins its inaugural season on Friday, will take on the challenges to come while holding big dreams and aspirations, its chairman, Masaaki Okawa, said in a recent interview.The SV. League replaces the V. League as Japan's top volleyball league, following a reform initiative that Okawa has been involved in since autumn 2022.Okawa is a leading figure in the country's sports business world, […]

[ad_1] Kushiro, Hokkaido – Public prosecutors indicted the president of a tour boat operator on Wednesday over a fatal sinking incident off the Shiretoko Peninsula in Hokkaido in April 2022. The Kushiro District Public Prosecutor's Office charged Seiichi Katsurada, 61, head of Shiretoko Yuransen, based in the Hokkaido town of Shari, with professional negligence resulting in death. Katsurada has denied the charges, according to investigators. The Japan Coast Guard arrested […]

[ad_1] A third of the 158 agreements signed under the Japan-led Asia Zero Emission Community (AZEC) are linked to fossil fuel technologies, according to a report recently published by an international climate and energy research group. Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba will chair an AZEC summit set to take place in Laos on Thursday on the sidelines of an Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit. The 11 AZEC partner countries are […]

[ad_1] South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol called again for unification of the Korean Peninsula to free it from nuclear threats in a renewed challenge to Pyongyang’s moves to rule out the possibility of rapprochement."A unified Korean Peninsula that is free and open will also create a strong impetus for economic development and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific," Yoon said Wednesday in a speech in Singapore. "Across the energy, logistics, transportation, infrastructure […]