It was 74 years today that Japan’s Imperial Navy launched a surprise attack on the Hawaiian Naval base of Pearl Harbor that would result in the United States entering World War II. The attack, designed by Japan to be a preventative action to keep the U.S. from interfering with their military actions in the Philppines, […]
SYDNEY—Australia and New Zealand have condemned Japan’s move to send a whaling fleet to the Southern Ocean. It comes a year after an international court ruled that Tokyo’s whale hunt in the Southern Ocean should stop. Last year, the U.N.’s International Court of Justice (ICJ) found that Japan’s whaling program in the Southern Ocean was […]
On a damp island far out in the Aleutian chain, a secret weapon of Japan’s World War II Navy sinks into the sod. A Type-A midget submarine the shape of a killer whale was one of six the Japanese carried to Kiska Island in 1942. Debra Corbett, an archaeologist who spent five weeks on Kiska […]
TOKYO—Governor Bill Walker delivered a keynote speech at the opening ceremony of the 4th LNG Producer-Consumer Conference in Tokyo. He and his team also held meetings with the presidents and chief executives of Korea Gas Corporation (KOGAS), the world’s largest buyer of liquefied natural gas (LNG); Mitsubishi Corporation’s natural gas division; GS Energy, which is […]