South Korea and Japan fortify military collaboration. US President Joe Biden, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, and South Korean President Yoon Suk recently met. Presidents concurred that the advancement of North Korea’s atomic and rocket programs presented serious dangers to the Korean promontory. North Korea has reprimanded an understanding between the United States. South Korea … Read more
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, said Tuesday during a phone call to Zelensky that Japan will provide additional supplies such as food and medicine to Ukrainian people. Japan will also escalate its diplomatic efforts to support Ukraine along with other G7 nations. Kishida told that Zelensky praised Japan for its support. The two countries discussed … Read more
The White House said Sunday that US President Joe Biden and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin have scheduled a meeting if Moscow does not attack Ukraine, as Western countries continue their diplomatic attempts to avoid a war from breaking out in Europe. According to White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, Biden has agreed to meet … Read more
TOKYO: Japan will extend measures barring almost all new foreign arrivals until the end of February and reopen mass-vaccination centres as it battles an Omicron-fuelled coronavirus surge, the government said Tuesday. “We will keep the current border control policy until the end of February while taking necessary measures from a humanitarian viewpoint and considering the … Read more
SEOUL: North Korea fired what appeared to be a ballistic missile into the sea on Wednesday, South Korea and Japan said, in the first such launch by Pyongyang this year. In the decade since Kim Jong Un took power, North Korea has made rapid progress in its military technology at the cost of international sanctions. … Read more
TOKYO — Japan’s cabinet on Friday approved a 107.60 trillion yen (940 billion U.S. dollars) draft budget for fiscal 2022, marking a record high for the 10th year in a row, local media reported. By component, social security spending is the largest part, increasing 440 billion yen to a record 36.27 trillion yen and accounting … Read more
The Japanese government on Thursday withdrew its request for airlines to completely stop taking reservations for inbound international flights this month, local media reported Thursday. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida admitted that the transportation ministry’s announcement the previous day had caused confusion to the public while instructing officials to “adequately take into account” people’s wishes … Read more
TOKYO – Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced a record $490 billion stimulus for the world’s third-largest economy Friday as he looks to shore up the country’s patchy pandemic recovery. The 56 trillion yen injection, the third since the Covid crisis struck last year, “is enough to deliver a sense of safety and hope to the … Read more
BEIJING — Japan should be prudent about its words and actions on historical issues such as the Yasukuni Shrine and make a clean break with militarism, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson said here Monday. Zhao Lijian made the remarks at a daily news briefing in response to a question on Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida sending … Read more
