Yano, 58, will succeed Mitsuru Ota, 61, as vice finance minister, the top bureaucratic post at the most powerful ministry in Japan, effective Thursday. The government also named Masato Kanda …
China Will ‘Destroy’ Japan Forces In A Taiwan Conflict, Media Personality Says
Officials in Tokyo and Washington have skirted around the topic of a collective defense of Taiwan following remarks by Japan’s Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso.
Statue of ‘comfort woman’ in Japan draws crowds, jeers
Japanese far-right protesters calling for the severing of diplomatic relations with South Korea disrupted a “comfort woman” exhibit in central Japan.
Crews sift through debris of Japan mudslide; at least 4 dead and 24 missing
Search crews on Tuesday hoped to find more survivors of a mudslide in the Japanese city of Atami, which killed at least four people and left two dozen missing.
Japan’s pledge to defend Taiwan from Chinese is a big shift for a pacifist nation
For many people in China and Korea it is a frightening thought – Japanese military forces at large in East Asia, as they were in the Thirties and Forties , when they invaded, conquered and oppressed …
Rescuers search for missing in Japan amid fresh slide risks
Rescue workers are facing the risk of more mudslides as they search for more than two dozen people still missing three days after a torrent of mud and debris ripped through a Japanese resort town and …
Police in Japan search for missing British woman Alice Hodgkinson
China ‘Will Never Allow’ Military Intervention Over Taiwan: Beijing
The response from China’s Foreign Ministry came after Japan’s deputy PM said Tokyo and Washington would need to jointly defend Taiwan in the event of an attack.
Coronavirus latest: Vietnam struggles to contain southern outbreaks
More than 200 employees of a Japanese-owned electronic components factory in Vietnam have tested positive for Covid-19, as the south-east Asian country struggles to contain a continuing surge of cases …
Japanese firm to expand business in Bangladesh infrastructure sector
TOA Corporation, a world renowned Japanese engineering company established in 1908, is planning for long to expand its operations in Bangladesh in line with the rapidly growing economy of the country.