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(Reuters) — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday (July 16) pushed through legislation in the lower house of parliament that could see troops sent to fight abroad for the first time since World War Two, despite thousands of protesters overnight chanting and holding up placards reading “No War, No Killing” outside. A lower house panel approval on Wednesday (July 15) of the unpopular bills, which would drop a ban on collective self-defence or […]
JUNE 5 (Eagle News) — The Japanese government shared the Philippines’ serious concern over China’s ongoing massive reclamation activities in the disputed West Philippine Sea, as no less than Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced that Japan opposes any attempt of China’s further reclamation in the disputed waters. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said this on June 4, Thursday, following his summit meeting with President Benigno S. Aquino III at the Akasaka State Guest House in […]
(Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s favored candidate won Sunday’s election for governor of Tokyo, quashing efforts to make the vote a referendum on Abe’s pro-nuclear energy policy nearly three years after the Fukushima disaster The widely-expected victory by former health minister Yoichi Masuzoe comes as a relief for Abe, who had suffered a rare setback in another local election last month. The 65-year-old Masuzoe, backed by Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party, was the winner […]
