Arata Yamamoto

1 week ago | nbcnews.com | Arata Yamamoto |Jennifer Jett |Greg Rosenstein

Updated Trump downplayed the potential for a recession, tariff-spurred price increases and concerns he would try to seek a third term in a wide-ranging interview with NBC News’ “Meet the Press” moderator Kristen Welker that aired yesterday.

1 week ago | nbcnews.com | Arata Yamamoto |Mithil Aggarwal

TOKYO — It's likely some of the tens-of-thousands of passengers were hissing with madness after a snake brought Japan’s busiest bullet train line to a halt. The slippery 39-inch reptile slithered onto an overhead power line and tangled itself, a spokesperson for line operator, JR Central, told NBC News. As a result, it shorted the electricity supply and brought the line between Osaka and Tokyo to a halt.

2 weeks ago | nbcnews.com | Arata Yamamoto |Peter Guo

By and TOKYO — A climber was rescued twice in one week from Japan’s Mount Fuji after he went back to search for his lost phone, police said Monday. On Sunday, rescuers carried the climber on a stretcher from a station on the Fujinomiya Trail, which sits about 10,170 feet high, Japanese news outlet Nippon TV cited the local police as saying. The man appeared to suffer from altitude sickness but was not in life-threatening condition.

1 month ago | nbcnews.com | Janis Mackey Frayer |Dawn Liu |Arata Yamamoto |Peter Guo

By , , and TOKYO — Major League Baseball’s regular season kicked off on Tuesday with an opening pitch thrown from halfway around the world. The Los Angeles Dodgers won 4-1 against the Chicago Cubs in the first of a two-game series at Tokyo Dome, a 55,000-seat indoor stadium in the Japanese capital, as America’s pastime seeks a wider international audience.

Feb 7, 2025 | nbcnews.com | Jennifer Jett |Arata Yamamoto |Stella Kim

HONG KONG — What a difference a few months makes. The U.S. and its longtime allies Japan and South Korea have been strengthening ties in recent years, both individually and as a three-way partnership, in an effort to counter an increasingly assertive China and North Korea. But recent political changes in all three countries have injected new uncertainty into their relations.