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Nishimura brought a trade delegation of 80 Japanese company representatives as Tokyo and Jerusalem explore a possible free trade agreement that would expand their $3.3 billion commercial relationship.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
According to heir's lawsuit, Sompo’s predecessor purchased the picture “in reckless disregard of its provenance, including Mendelssohn-Bartholdy’s forced sale of the painting in Nazi Germany in 1934.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Ma has virtually vanished from public view since he publicly chastised Chinese regulators two years ago.
By Nathan Lewin
Israeli bureaucrats have denied visas for the son of a righteous gentile to attend a Jerusalem ceremony in his father’s honor.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The airline had wanted to start the flights last year, but the coronavirus outbreak delayed those plans.
The Israeli startup will produce oxygen from the lunar surface by means of a soil-fed reactor in addition to other various metals.
Chiune Sugihara defied his own government’s orders by issuing handwritten transit visas in 1940 to more than 6,000 Lithuanian Jews, enabling them to escape Nazi-occupied Europe.
Despite several scares, Israel itself has yet to contend with a patient suffering from COVID-19, as coronavirus is officially named.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israel’s embassy in Japan has been working to ensure that the Israelis receive needed medications and kosher food.
Israel's Foreign Ministry stressed that at this stage, Israelis are not among those suspected of having the virus.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Chiune Sempo Sugihara issued between 2,100 and 3,500 transit visas and saved some 6,000 Jews, papers which later came to be known as “visas for life.”
By JNi.Media
Yankees and Mets legendary manager Casey Stengel said he was "the strangest man ever to play baseball."
The company’s technology enables security forces and others to condense hours of video in minutes.
“The government set a target to cross $100 billion in exports by 2020, but estimates are that we have passed the mark in 2017."
By JNi.Media
"I have clarified to our friends in Washington and our friends in Moscow that we will operate in Syria, including southern Syria, in accordance with our understanding and in accordance with our security needs."
By JNi.Media
Daily Torah seminars exploring the Jewish message behind sports and the meaning of competition will take place at one of the two Pyeongchang Chabad centers and at the Jewish room in the Olympic Village.
By JNi.Media
After someone over in Tokyo had shown him the light, Aso realized “it was inappropriate that I cited Hitler as an example and I would like to retract that.”
By JNi.Media
Public figures in Japan, a German ally in World War II, occasionally cause controversy when they express favorable comments about economic or other aspects of the Nazi regime.
By JNi.Media
The miracle ended on Monday night for the undefeated Israel team. It was finally stopped by the Netherlands, which Israel had beaten in round one.
By JNi.Media
The Elbit training platform provides a rich and up-to-date selection of simulated attack scenarios, including ransomware.
Over 20 religious leaders from east Asia arrived in Israel Monday for a four-day summit in Jerusalem.
By JNi.Media
Friedman recalled, "On the way home, another sailor kissed me, just one on the cheek and went on his way. The sailors were especially happy."
The attacker apparently stabbed his victims in a facility for handicapped people.
By JNi.Media
Only 22 countries around the globe have reached an average life expectancy greater than 80 years, so if one is planning to retire abroad, one should consider those countries most seriously.
By JNi.Media
The Israeli Basil Bonsai has already been successful in South Korea, where it is being sold in leading flower shops across Seoul.
By Moshe Herman
Israeli-Japanese Jew Dr. Kenichi Hartman talks with VOI's Yishai Fleisher about the similarities -- and economic ties -- between Japan and Israel. Dr. Hartman, who converted to Judaism at the age of 12, has a doctorate in neuroscience from Harvard and is today a patent agent. He writes about Japan-Israel economic cooperation for the Times of Israel and is a mentor at Samurai House Israel, a Japanese investment fund. He shares the story of his remarkable life, as he crisscrossed continents, got in touch with his Jewish father’s heritage and ultimately ended up in Israel. He offers his unique perspective on the religious, cultural and philosophical similarities between the states of Japan and Israel.
By JNi.Media
Whole colonies of Israeli Bees are being sent from Israel to Japan to help farmers overcome the damage caused by the Japanese bees shortage.
Obama and his predecessors have always "known" how to "fix" the Middle East while their domestic problems spin out of control.
ISIS released a video showing the beheading of Japanese hostage Kenji Goto.
Japan is a very resilient nation, and they've chosen to respond to ISIS's threats and blackmail demands with black humor. They've taken the photos that ISIS released and reworked them into various memes:
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expressed his rage and demanded the release of the hostages.
The Islamic State wants to punish Japan for spending $200 million on the war against ISIS.
Israel is not boycotting Europe. It simply is taking its business elsewhere, says Netanyahu.
The ICC is a political organization dependent on donor countries.
Japan and Israel are expanding and strengthening their economic ties.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is scheduled to arrive in Israel on Sunday with a delegation of more than 100 government officials and heads of leading Japanese global companies. Representatives of major Japanese companies also will arrive in order to evaluate economic opportunities in Israel. The two prime ministers will discuss advancing efforts to expand […]
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
Israelis of all ages watched in fascination as the Hawaiian-born Japanese-Samoan former sumo star, Konishiki Yasokichi shared his moves during a special workshop for children in Jerusalem.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Over the past year, the Japanese business sector’s interest in Israel and in cooperation with Israeli businesses has grown, in particular in the homeland security sector, including cyber-security,.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
Japan’s largest pharmaceutical company, Takeda, recently signed an agreement with Teva Pharmaceutical Industries to commercialize the Israeli company’s innovative treatment for Parkinson’s disease, rasagiline, in Japan.
Prime Minister Netanyahu concluded his visit to Japan with a call on Japan to address Iran’s nuclear program with the same seriousness it treat’s North Korea’s. "We are interested in peace and stability throughout the world. We see a danger and a challenge posed by a rogue state arming itself with nuclear weapons. In your […]
By Shalom Bear
Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu will be traveling to Japan on Saturday evening for a four day meeting to discuss increasing economic and diplomatic cooperation.
By JTA
Tokyo Metropolitan Police reportedly have arrested a man in connection with the vandalism of hundreds of copies of “The Diary of Anne Frank” in city libraries. The Tokyo resident, identified as an “unemployed man in his 30s,” made a statement admitting to some involvement in the vandalism of the books in February, according to a […]
By JTA
Israel’s embassy in Japan is donating 300 copies of Anne Frank’s “Diary of a Young Girl” to Tokyo libraries following a vandalism spree. More than 300 copies of the diary and other books about Anne Frank have been found damaged in libraries throughout the country’s capital. Police have established a task force to investigate the […]
Japan the country and the society are still peering into the abyss.
By J. E. Dyer
I’m skeptical that we have any intention of taking action against Syria – even punitive action, with no view to an outcome or end-state.
The Japanese do not feel the need to apologize to Muslims for the negative way in which they relate to Islam.
France says that the UN Disengagement Observer Force may removed due to the fear of Syrian chemical weapons.
Israel and Japan are celebrating sixty years of diplomatic relations, and so, a week ago, the Israel-Japan Chamber of Commerce marked the occasion with a festive event. But the current commercial ties between the two countries gives less cause for celebration. Israeli businesses find it difficult to understand the Japanese market and Japanese companies are not in a hurry to reach Israel.
By J. E. Dyer
The Tumultus Post-Americanus is now well underway. There is no initiative on our collective part – we have done nothing but react in the last three years – and possibly even less appreciation of how the world is changing. The forms of international discourse – the processes of the UN, the G-8 and G-20, the IMF – are being adhered to now because they are a convenience, not because they produce anything useful.
By J. E. Dyer
The holiday from history is over, although we may be the last ones to see it. Neither Russia nor Iran – nor China, North Korea, or Syria, for that matter – is very interested in signing anything with the West right now. Good deals based on the old assumptions aren’t as tempting when better ones seem to lie just over the horizon.
Israel and Japan celebrated 60 years of diplomatic relations on Tuesday, kicking off a series of special events commemorating the occasion. On May 21, the Israeli embassy in Tokyo will stage a special gala concert marking the occasion, joining the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra with leading Israeli musicians.
Comments come during US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's visit to Japan.
June 19, 2026 
