Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force and the British Army are conducting a joint exercise simulating remote island defense.
The first joint drills in four years are being held until November 30th in Gunma Prefecture northwest of Tokyo.
The Japanese government says it will tighten entry restrictions on travelers from the United Kingdom, in response to the spread there of what is said to be a highly contagious variant of the new coronavirus.
Some neighboring countries have banned passenger flights from Britain.
LONDON — Japanese carmaker Honda hopes to restart production at its British factory on Monday after halting output because of transport-related delays that caused a shortage of parts.
Britain's major container ports, such as Felixstowe, have been hit by the Covid-19 pandemic, which has disrupted global trade, leaving containers in the wrong place and goods stacked up.
Honda has stopped production at its factory in Swindon, England, as congestion at ports has delayed delivery of vital components. The Japanese carmaker will attempt to restart output as soon as it is able to.
Honda is introducing the new 2021 CR-V Hybrid to the UK market, which has been updated aesthetically to better fit with the company's latest electrified model range and has been retuned in other areas.
The operator of a storage facility in northern Japan is making arrangements with power companies to resume accepting shipments of highly radioactive nuclear waste from spent fuel reprocessed in Britain.
NHK has learned that Japan Nuclear Fuel Limited has started talks with utility companies to accept the nuclear waste again in the business year that begins next April.
Honda is the latest automaker to stop selling diesel-powered vehicles in the United Kingdom.
Mazda has announced pricing and specifications for the MX-30 range in the UK, which joins the already available First Edition model.
Japanese industrial giant Hitachi is pulling the plug on construction of a nuclear power plant in Britain.
Hitachi says its board of directors decided on Wednesday to withdraw from the project on the island of Anglesey in Wales.
Japan and Britain have reached a broad agreement on a new economic partnership.
The two sides aim to bring the pact into force on January 1, 2021.
Toyota will start accepting pre-orders for the facelifted Hilux in the United Kingdom on September 1, prior to the opening of the order books two months later.
The foreign chiefs of Japan and Britain have agreed to work together to respond to the coronavirus and the situation in Hong Kong.
Japanese Foreign Minister Motegi Toshimitsu met his British counterpart Dominic Raab in London on Wednesday. They talked for about two hours.
Japanese Foreign Minister Motegi Toshimitsu is visiting Britain from Wednesday to discuss a bilateral trade agreement.
Motegi will hold talks with British International Trade Secretary Liz Truss in London.
Twenty years have passed since Mitsubishi first launched the Lancer Evolution in the UK. Five of the nameplate’s ten generations were sold officially in the UK between the year 2000 and 2015, marking a total of 5,728 units.