May 2022

ANALYSIS: It didn't take long for the world to change. When Jacinda Ardern became prime minister in 2017, she probably had no idea that five years later she would be talking with US President Joe Biden about wanting to get much more US…

Japan's largest law firms—Nishimura & Asahi; Nagashima Ohno and Tsunematsu; Mori Hamada &!-->…

The stewardess (Sky Max) | now tvLucy Worsley Investigates: The Witch Hunt (BBC Two) | iPlayerDeputy Tokyo (Starz Play)big boys (Channel 4) | All 4How disappointing when a first series is all tumultuous, slimy moxie, rebooting tired spy…

Japan's deputy chief of mission to India, Kawazu Kunihiko, said on Sunday that the investment target of five trillion yen over the next five years from his country will depend on the "investment atmosphere" in India. The diplomat, however,…

Growing international fears that Russia could use nuclear weapons in the war in Ukraine appear to have prompted Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to announce last week that the 2023 Group of Seven summit will take place in Hiroshima.…

Responding to the call of a mass shooting, police officers in the United States are trained, first and foremost, to stop the shooter. Act with urgency. Defend innocent lives. As new questions emerged on Friday about the police…

Governor Newsom and New Zealand Prime Minister Ardern establish new international climate partnership The cooperation protocol aims to reduce pollution, strengthen the clean economy, accelerate the transition to clean energy and…

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Japan raised "serious concerns" with China and Russia over a flight of strategic bombers at a Quad summit in Tokyo, the government said on Wednesday. Six Chinese and Russian strategic bombers flew over the Sea of…

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TOKYO, May 24 (Reuters) - Japan has dispatched jets after Russian and Chinese warplanes approached its airspace during a visit by U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday, with Tokyo citing "serious concerns" over what he saw as a provocative…

Leaders of the Quad group of countries, including India's Narendra Modi, shared their concerns about the situation in Ukraine during their meeting in Tokyo, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Tuesday. "The four leaders had a…

HONOLULU, May 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Two older investors from Japan have filed a FINRA arbitration request against the broker Bankoh Investment Services and its broker Yoko K.Farias on the losses they suffered in Northstar Financial…

KYIV, Ukraine - Ukrainians dug in to defend the eastern city of Sievierodonetsk as it came under heavy shelling from Russian forces attempting to take the industrial zone known as Donbass.!--googleon:index-->…

The Quad Leaders Summit in Tokyo will review the progress of initiatives launched by the grouping and discuss developments in the Indo-Pacific region, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday, with the Indian leader also due to hold…

TOYKO — President Biden began the second chapter of his diplomatic tour of Asia on Sunday, moving from reassuring allies of the threat posed by North Korea to rallying the nations behind his administration's new economic policy for the…

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi also sent his congratulations and spoke of the priorities shared with Australia in the region.Mr Albanese is expected to pick up where Scott Morrison left off by engaging closely with the United States…

“Izakayas (informal bars that serve alcohol and snacks) are busy establishments,” he said. "There is very little room for mistakes."Ishii, the eldest of two boys, often went to the market in the morning to buy rice, vegetables and eel,…

(Bloomberg) - In many ways, Takeshi Magami's farm is like any other in Japan, growing everything from potatoes to ginger and eggplant. But one major difference sets it apart from its neighbours: the 2,826 solar panels perched above the…

Seoul, South Korea - US President Joe Biden has arrived in South Korea for the first leg of an Asia tour aimed at bolstering Washington's engagement in the Indo-Pacific region and countering China's rise despite global attention brought to…

Subscribe to receive this newsletter straight to your inbox. The first Russian soldier to be tried for war crimes in Ukraine admitted to killing an unarmed civilian, reports the Wall Street Journal. In Ukraine's first war crimes trial…

A North Korean computer engineer based in China has received compensation for developing a smartphone app for a Japanese company while using the name of a South Korean national living in Japan, police said Wednesday.…

At the Science7 Dialogue Forum in Berlin/Germany on Tuesday 31 May, the science academies of the G7 states will issue scientific statements on topics on the agenda of this year's G7 summit at…

President Joe Biden will host Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson of Sweden and President Sauli Niinistö of Finland at the White House for a meeting on Thursday as part of their drive to join NATO following the invasion of Ukraine by…

In this photo from May 15, 2022, a sheet is seen drawn on the balcony of the apartment where a baby boy who died the day before was living with his mother and twin brother as!-->…

Under the leadership of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has proposed a drastic adjustment to the country's defense budget, strategies and policies in response to the security dynamics currently…

In this decade and the next day, astronauts will go into space like never before. This will include missions beyond low Earth orbit (LEO) for the first time in more than fifty years, renewed missions to the Moon and crewed missions to…

Satellite images, which were captured by Maxar in April and May this year, show North Korea has restarted construction of the second reactor at its Yongbyon nuclear complex after years of inactivity, Middlebury experts have said. Institute…

By Hsieh Chun-lin and Liu Tzu-hsuan / Personal Reporter, with a personal editor…

We were old. We were skated. We have lost our youthful appearance. We dotted the coastline of Japan. We were at the height of a man, sometimes taller. They called us “tsunami stones”. Our faces were engraved with messages: to…

The war in Ukraine entered its third month with no diplomatic resolution in sight. Despite this, some have argued that while the war will impact Russia, its neighbors and the rest of Europe, it will have little consequence for Asia or the…

Japan's upper house of parliament passed a bill on Wednesday that is supposed to help bolster the country's economic security. The new bill includes four pillars that cover strengthening supply chains so…

"TIME IS COUNTED" While Somchai ships its products directly overseas, the majority of orchid growers in Thailand rely on large Bangkok-based exporters. Air freight costs have tripled or quadrupled in recent months, depending on the…

In this decade and the next, astronauts will go into space like never before. This will include missions beyond low Earth orbit (LEO) for the first time in over fifty years, renewed missions to the Moon, and crewed missions to Mars.…

WASHINGTON/TOKYO (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden's visit to Japan later this month is expected to coincide with the official launch of a new U.S. economic strategy for the Indo-Pacific region, the Japanese ambassador said on Monday. in…

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - As South Korean President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol begins his five-year term, he envisions South Korea's expanded position on the world stage and strengthens Seoul's role in its long but languid alliance with the United…

Tokyo, 1999. Recent American graduate Jake Adelstein (Elgort) gets a job as a crime reporter at a major Japanese newspaper, the paper's first foreign-born reporter. With the help of a veteran detective (Watanabe) and a local "hostess"…

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan and Fiji confirmed on Saturday that they would continue to cooperate closely for peace and stability in the Pacific region as they shared concerns over a recent security deal between China and the United States.…

While Russia and China challenge the existing world order, the United States remains trapped in an inward-looking mindset. In this troubling global landscape, it makes sense for Japan and Europe to!--googleon:index-->…

TOKYO — Japan should do more for peaceful diplomacy with China and not just focus on deterring weapons as tensions rise around Taiwan west of Okinawa, the prefectural governor of Tokyo said on Friday. South Island, demanding a further…

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will meet next Thursday in Tokyo with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Charles Michel, Russia's war against Ukraine and China's…

At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences On May 3, 2022, the following tribute to the life and service of the late Albert Morton Craig was released in the Faculty's permanent archives. Albert Craig was born in Chicago on…

Author Junko Suetomi Junko Suetomi is a partner at Baker McKenzie Tokyo. Prior to joining the firm, she worked in the WTO Dispute Settlement Division of the Economic Bureau of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She…

BOGOTA, Colombia — As women in the United States are on the verge of losing their constitutional right to abortion, courts in many other parts of the world have taken the opposite direction.This includes in a number of traditionally…

Prime Minister Modi spoke about the importance of infrastructure in unlocking human potential.New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday that India remains committed to meeting the needs of the poorest and most…

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The most basic war crime is to wage war. Article I of the 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact, or Paris Pact, obliges its signatories to declare that they "condemn recourse to war for the solution of international disputes and renounce it as an…

Aluminum associations from the United States, Europe, Canada and Japan welcome the new report from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the…

Half of respondents in a Kyodo News survey published on Monday believe Japan should amend Article 9 of the Constitution which renounces war to clarify the legal status of the Self-Defense Forces, with the level of…

Dozens of dented trucks loaded with gold ore wind through the desert in northeast Sudan and dump their load at a compound on the outskirts of the town of Atbara.The tons of ore, mined by small miners in Nile State, are then…