Depending on how the situation unfolds, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s trip to South Korea set for January will likely be postponed. Defense Minister Gen Nakatani’s visit to…
Many of the thefts occurred when the cabin lights had been turned off during long-haul international flights. Chinese organised crime groups are reportedly often involved in the…
The government plans to expand the scope of the ministries and agencies involved in the management of the soil from the current limited number of organizations, including the…
For other policy issues to be discussed specifically in next year’s ordinary Diet session, the issue of politics and money and the review of the annual income barriers must…
Currently, lawmakers do not have to make public how the funds have been spent.
U.S. documents record that 1,086 bodies were buried there. It is extremely unusual to collect remains from a burial ground of such a scale. The families of Japanese soldiers who…
There are many posts with anti-Japanese views on Chinese social media, which may have contributed to the worsening of sentiment toward Japan.
The Siberian cat named Mir was sent to Gov. Norihisa Satake in February 2013, after the governor sent President Putin an Akita Inu dog named Yume to show gratitude for Russia’s…
PM Ishiba hopes to revise the Political Funds Control Law during the current Diet session so that he can have some closure on the money and politics issue. But for the ruling…
Japan has been elected as a non-permanent member of the UNSC every three to six years since 2000, and is currently serving its 12th term, the most in the world.