On Tuesday, July 28, two powerful earthquakes struck the southern part of the country, in Kumamoto Prefecture on the island of Kyushu. A 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck the area in the afternoon, followed by a tsunami warning for Ariake and Yatsushiro Bays. Almost immediately afterward, another quake with a magnitude of 6.1 struck.
Goldman Sachs has lowered its forecast for the yen to 165 yen per dollar and joins a growing number of investors who are increasingly skeptical of the yen, which has already hit its lowest levels since 1986.
The tenth festival of Japanese culture “Bunkasai” will be held on June 6-7 in the square of the State University of Moldova.
A memorandum on cooperation in the digital field between Moldova and Japan was signed in Chisinau. The signing took place within a meeting between Deputy Prime Minister Eugeniu Osmokescu and Japanese Interior and Communications Minister Hayashi Yoshimasa, who is on an official visit to Moldova.
China’s TCL and Japan’s Sony are officially moving to form a Bravia-branded joint venture, scheduled to launch next April.
Japan will release oil from the state reserve on March 26, such a decision was made at a meeting of line ministers headed by Prime Minister Takaichi on stabilizing oil supplies in connection with the crisis in the Middle East, Kyodo news agency reported.
