Tag: Japan

TOKYO: Around half of Japan's ruling party lawmakers have had dealings with the Unification Church, an official said Thursday (Sep 8), after the assassination of ex-premier Shinzo Abe heightened scrutiny of ...

India and Japan will deepen cooperation on defence, with India inviting investment by Japanese companies and plans for joint military exercises involving their air forces, the two sides said on ...

TAIPEI: A representative from Taiwan will attend the state funeral of slain former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe this month, but the government is still discussing whom to send, the ...

TOKYO: Japan's prime minister said on Thursday (Sep 8) he accepted criticism that he had not sufficiently explained why he wants a state funeral for slain former premier Shinzo Abe, ...

TOKYO: Japan further relaxed its infection border controls on Wednesday (Sep 7), but its insistence on visitor visas means the yen's plunge will not translate to a tourism boom any ...

LONDON/COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout plan could be a turning point in its worst economic crisis, but far-from-stable politics and a need to get debt relief from ...

"With my friends I feel I have to entertain them, but with the rental-guy (Morimoto) I don't feel the need to be chatty," she said. Before Morimoto found his true ...

TOKYO: Japan on Monday (Sep 5) braced for the impact of a strong approaching typhoon, with airlines cancelling flights and some companies suspending production at factories in the western part of ...

TOKYO: Japan's government ministries have made budget requests totalling US$784 billion for the next fiscal year - their second-largest total to date, driven largely by the defence ministry's request for ...

TOKYO: Japan's services sector activity shrank for the first time in five months in August as a resurgence of COVID-19 infections hurt demand, a business survey showed. The contraction shows ...