June 2022

passed away peacefully on June 17, 2022. She was the beloved daughter of the late Henry and Mildred MacFarlane Isé of Cranston, Rhode Island. She is survived by her brother, William H. Isé, Esq, and her sister-in-law, Nancy Isé of Newport…

Two planned coal-fired power plants, one in Indonesia and the other in Bangladesh, have had their funding withdrawn by the Japanese government, as part of Tokyo's decision to no longer fund coal projects in either 'other country.Officials…

Getty ImagesFrench President Emmanuel Macron will meet Jacinda Ardern on Tuesday ahead of the NATO summit. The pair are pictured here at the Elysee Palace in April 2018.Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has arrived in Madrid, Spain, and…

SCREENSHOT OF THE PHILIPPINE COAST GUARD FACEBOOK PAGE The PHILIPPINES, Japan and the United States held joint training exercises this month on towing and firefighting techniques using patrol boats provided by…

Phoenix Mercury guard Sophie Cunningham wears a t-shirt in support of Brittney Griner before a game against the Las Vegas Aces on May 6.(Darryl Webb/Associated Press) Once the US government officially classified Griner as…

Forget the rooftop solar panels, power plants and wind turbines ravaging our landscape – space solar power might be closer to reality than we once thought.According to researchers from Xidian University, testing and inspection have been…

Online Advocacy Platforms Market 2022 The Online Advocacy Platform Market report provides insights into the global industry including valuable facts and figures. This research study explores the global market in…

The two US senators behind a bill to bring some order to cryptocurrency funding have posted their legislation on Microsoft's GitHub for comment from the unruly public. The bill, known as the Responsible Financial Innovation Act, has been…

Murder Before Evensong by Richard Coles (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £16.99)The first in a projected series from the pop star turned vicar and memoirist, Murder Before Evensong takes place in the late 1980s in the English village of…

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MetLife's annual sustainability report, released today, shows how the company continues to embed sustainability into its operations, including through its 2030 climate and diversity commitments, l Equity…

TOKYO — Japan, the United States and South Korea are discussing holding a trilateral summit next week, the first such meeting in nearly five years.The plan is to hold the meeting on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Spain, which begins on…

TOKYO (AP) — A U.S. executive who resigned from Toyota after being arrested in Japan in 2015 on suspicion of drug offenses has returned…

By Morf Morford Tacoma Daily Index In all categories, from education to dentistry to business investment, a simple idiom prevails; Prevention is better than cure. Any crisis, from homelessness to drug addiction to mass shootings and more,…

It is no coincidence that my first two bilateral visits as Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister of Australia were to Japan and India. The case for Australia making India a priority is unassailable: Australia must deepen its…

AdvertisingDiplomat author Mercy Kuo regularly engages subject matter experts, policy practitioners, and strategic thinkers from around the world for their diverse insights into US policy in Asia. This conversation with Dr Ja Ian Chong,…

Young victims of the climate crisis will take legal action in Europe's highest human rights court on Tuesday against an energy treaty that protects investors in fossil fuels.Five people, aged 17 to 31, victims of devastating floods, forest…

Perhaps one of the most influential subgenres in film history, the samurai film is largely responsible for many popular trends in world cinema. Without this, star warsspaghetti westerns and many films by Quentin Tarantino would either…

Hello. This article is an on-site version of our FirstFT newsletter. Sign up for our Asia, Europe/Africa or Americas edition to get it delivered straight to your inbox every weekday morningHello.The German government said yesterday…

Think the Fed's job is tough? At least the US Federal Reserve can focus on fighting inflation. In Japan and Europe, central banks are fighting the markets, not just rising prices. This leads to some very strange, even contradictory…

Ohio Association of Mayors President Mike Barhorst greets Ohio Governor Mike DeWine at the Ohio Association of Mayors Annual Conference after telling the audience about mayors that the 70th governor of Ohio provided "transformational…

Kenichi Horie has made so many epic voyages across the world's oceans that at first he has trouble remembering the exact number."It must be around 10 a.m.," he told the Guardian in an interview at his home port, Shin Nishinomiya Marina,…

Anearly ten years to the day after the The World Bank withdrew its funding of the bridge over the Padma River in Bangladesh in 2012, citing "credible evidence" of corruption, the Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina invites the…

A Buddhist priest from Japan has asked at a hearing in South Korea for the early return of an ancient statue stolen from his temple 10 years ago. Tanaka Setsuryo is the chief priest of Kannonji Buddhist…

Contracting Parties and Signatories to the Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage (CSC) met for their second meeting since the CSC entered into force in 2015. The IAEA, which had previously agreed to the Parties'…

Hanoi (VNA) - The following is a brief overview of the day's events as reported by Vietnam News Agency on June 14.- The National Assembly plans to pass the law on mobile police and the resolution establishing the NA's specialized…

Rio de Janeiro: The family of a missing journalist said they were informed by Brazilian authorities that two bodies had been found tied to a tree in the Amazon rainforest. The report came more than a week after the journalist and a…

The Diet passed a revision of the penal code to integrate two categories of detention - "choeki" and "kinko" - into one called "kokin". The revision removed the traditional classification into two types!--googleon:index-->…

China has arrested nine men after video footage of a vicious attack on a group of diners at a barbecue restaurant sparked outrage and debate about women's rights on social media. The attack took place Friday morning in the northern…

Placeholder while loading article actions"The Ukraine of today may be East Asia tomorrow," Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida told an international security rally in Singapore, a slogan that speaks to the hard lessons learned over the…

Truong Thi Mai, member of the Politburo, secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee and head of its Organizing Committee, and Japanese Ambassador Yamada Takio (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) - Truong Thi Maimember of…

People with disabilities are "systematically ignored" by governments around the world when it comes to the climate crisis, even though they are particularly at risk from the effects of extreme weather, research has found.Few countries make…

January 6 Panel: Investigation Shows Trump Led Effort to Cancel 2020 ElectionWashington and large swathes of the United States are still reeling on Friday after members of a House committee investigating the January 6, 2021 attack on the…

Intense competition between Japanese companies trying to recruit new graduates has led some of them to adopt drastic and unprofessional tactics in a desperate attempt to lock in students who had previously made informal commitments…

The Shangri-La Dialogue (SLD), the key Asia-Pacific security meeting, kicks off in Singapore later Friday with talks expected to focus on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, US-China tensions and the crisis in Myanmar. It will be the first…

(Getty Images) The Mainichi Shimbun answers some common questions readers may have about Japan's measures to prevent child sexual abuse in day care centers and other!-->…

The Summit of the Americas opened in Los Angeles, California. But the leaders of Mexico and some other countries are boycotting the event to protest the omission of Cuba,…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG, Associated PressNorth Korean leader Kim Jong Un has convened a key political conference where he is expected to review major state affairs, including the fight against COVID-19, and possibly address foreign relations with…

Published on: 08/06/2022 - 11:34Amended: 06/08/2022 - 11:32 Tokyo (AFP) - A Japanese man was jailed for 20 months on Wednesday for attacking a Thai academic in Japan where he lives…

Placeholder while loading article actionsThe best political slogans are simple and direct: think “It's the economy, stupid” or former British leader Tony Blair: “Tough on crime, hard on the causes of crime”.Japanese politicians usually…

KANAZAWA - Entrepreneur Tadateru Mitani has pledged to make his business here "friendly" for all parties involved, including employees, and sustainable as a "good business". "The current!--googleon:index-->…

Tomitaro Makino, known as the "Father of Japanese Botany", once said: "Plants can survive without humans, but humans cannot survive without plants." "Hear hear!" I say. The Makino Botanical Garden in!--googleon:index-->…

Citing Russia's war on Ukraine and its continued occupation of Japan's Northern Territories, a former ambassador to Moscow is calling on Tokyo to hold the line against Russian expansionism. Relations between…

Among the evidence relied on by a special court in Mumbai while sentencing a 44-year-old man to death for the rape and murder of a woman in the Saki Naka neighborhood of the city, is a "gait analysis" report. The prosecution relied on a…

North Korea tested a barrage of short-range ballistic missiles from multiple locations out to sea on Sunday, the South Korean military said, extending a provocative streak of weapons demonstrations this year that U.S.…

Placeholder while loading article actionsJapanese prime ministers have notoriously short lifespans – and often shorter legacies.At first glance, Yoshihide Suga, who left office last October after just 384 days in office, might seem like…

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida plans to attend a summit of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) leaders in late June to boost coordination with the West on Russia's invasion of Ukraine, said reported Kyodo News, citing unnamed…

Tokyo Regional Tax Bureau employee Kohei Tsukamoto, left, is seen referred to prosecutors at the Metropolitan Police Department's Mejiro Police Station in Tokyo's Toshima!-->…

RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — Washington Governor Jay Inslee, who recently criticized the slow pace of cleanup at the Hanford nuclear stockpile, toured the former nuclear weapons production site on Thursday and said more Federal money was needed…

The navy's advantage over our greatest military adversary, China, is rapidly diminishing. Still, some House leaders who oversee national defense don't seem too worried about it. Earlier this month, the chairmen of the House Appropriations…

A tsunami evacuation tower is seen in Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, in this December 2021 photo. (Mainichi/Ikuko Ando) The Mainichi Shimbun answers some common questions!-->…