Abe expresses hope for key role by China on North Korea
April 30, 2017
LONDON- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expressed his hope on Saturday China will play a key role to persuade North Korea to abandon its nuclear and missile development. “In order to realize the denuclearization (of North Korea), we hope that China
Drop wartime laborer statue plan, Seoul urges
April 30, 2017
SEOUL- A South Korean Foreign Ministry official has effectively called for the cancellation of a plan to set up statues symbolizing Korean people conscripted to work at Japanese factories during Japan’s colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula. “It would be undesirable
MSDF to guard US ship in peacetime for 1st time
April 30, 2017
Tokyo- A Japanese Maritime Self-Force vessel will guard a US warship as early as Monday in the first such operation during peacetime under Japan’s national security laws, government sources said Sunday. Following an order from Defense Minister Tomomi Inada, an MSDF
Japan to confer decorations to 2 Filipinos
April 29, 2017
Japan has chosen two Filipinos as among the 105 foreign nationals who would be conferred with decorations. Washington SyCip would be awarded the “Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star,” while Benedicto Zulita Onari would be given the
May Day rally in Tokyo calls for end to long work hours
April 29, 2017
TOKYO- According to the organizer, the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, or Rengo, the rally was attended by some 40,000 people. In Japan, the overwork-linked suicide in 2015 of a 24-year-old female employee of leading advertising agency Dentsu Inc. has aroused keen
Tokyo Metro services halted after N. Korea missile launch
April 29, 2017
TOKYO- Tokyo Metro Co. briefly suspended all subway services on Saturday morning following news reports on a ballistic missile launch by North Korea. It is the first time that Tokyo Metro train operations have been brought to a halt in response
Tillerson cites “real” threat of N. Korea nuke attack on Tokyo, Seoul
April 29, 2017
NEW YORK- The threat of a North Korean nuclear attack on Tokyo or Seoul is “real,” US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson warned Friday. With each nuclear test and missile launch, North Korea “pushes Northeast Asia and the world closer to
Court avoids constitutional judgment on Abe’s Yasukuni visit
April 29, 2017
TOKYO- A Japanese court declined to judge on Friday whether the December 2013 visit by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to war-related Yasukuni Shrine violated the constitutional separation of politics and religion. Tokyo District Court also rejected a demand by plaintiffs, totaling
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