Tag: Japan

South Korea's new President Yoon Suk-yeol, who took office in May, has vowed to boost trilateral security cooperation with the United States and Japan to better counter the North's evolving ...

TOKYO: In a rare admission of sexual harassment in Japan’s military, its army chief apologised on Thursday (Sep 29) to a former soldier for suffering caused by a group of ...

TOKYO: A Japanese health ministry panel on Thursday (Sep 29) recommended revising the nation's drug laws to allow for the importation and use of medicinal marijuana products. The recommendation was ...

TOKYO: Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Thursday (Sep 29) it was important to take bilateral relations in a positive direction as they marked ...

TOKYO: Japan's restart of more nuclear power plants would help ease Europe's energy supply fears during the winter as more liquefied natural gas (LNG) will become available to the global ...

TOKYO: With flowers, prayers and a 19-gun salute, Japan honoured slain former prime minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday (Sep 27) at the first state funeral for a former premier in 55 ...

GOOD FOR JAPAN TO HOST FOREIGN DIGNITARIES Kishida has certainly mismanaged the situation. He first dithered on the decision, then moved too hastily. The funeral date was schedule too far ...

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has pledged the party will sever all ties with the church, but the scandal has helped fuel discontent over the state funeral. Thousands have protested the ...

DISCONTENT OVER FUNERAL Abe's accused killer targeted the former leader believing he had ties to the Unification Church, which he resented over massive donations his mother had made to the ...

MOSCOW: Russia said on Monday (Sep 26) it had detained a Japanese diplomat based in the eastern city of Vladivostok for carrying out espionage-related work and declared the official person non ...