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SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — Japan’s foreign minister was in South Korea for a rare visit Wednesday, armed with a list of issues Tokyo wants to push onto the agenda of a looming summit between North and South Korea. The first such visit in more than two years comes at a time of frenetic diplomatic activity in Northeast Asia, ahead of the North’s planned summits with South Korean President Moon Jae-in and US President Donald […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — At least six people were unaccounted for Wednesday after a landslide hit their houses in southern Japan, local police said. “Three houses were buried after a landslide” in a mountainous area of Nakatsu City, a police spokesman said. “Six people (believed to be in there) were unaccounted for after that,” the official said, adding a resident in the neighborhood called for rescue. Search operations were continuing while troops are expected to […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Asian markets fluctuated on Monday as easing concerns about a sharp rise in US interest rates were tempered by growing fears about a potentially catastrophic China-US trade war. US markets plunged on Friday after Donald Trump warned of tariffs on an additional $100 billion worth of Chinese imports, which Beijing responded to by saying it would stand firm. The president’s announcement comes weeks after his decision to tax imports of […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — A 5.6-magnitude quake hit western Japan early Monday, injuring five people and damaging buildings and roads, as officials warned stronger tremors could come in the days ahead. The shallow tremor was gauged as magnitude 5.6 by the US Geological Survey and 6.1 by Japan’s meteorological agency on the Richter scale. It rocked the west of the main island of Honshu, 96 kilometers (60 miles) north of Hiroshima, at 1:32 am (1632 […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — A father who allegedly confined his mentally ill son in a small cage for more than two decades was arrested on Saturday in western Japan, police and news reports said. Police arrested 73-year-old Yoshitane Yamasaki on suspicion of imprisoning his son, now aged 42, at their house in the city of Sanda in Hyogo prefecture, a local police spokesman told AFP. Further details of the case were not available as the […]
by Kyoko HASEGAWA Agence France Presse TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Oscar-nominated Japanese anime director Isao Takahata, who co-founded Studio Ghibli and was best known for his work “Grave of the Fireflies”, has died aged 82, the studio said on Friday. The winner of many awards domestically and internationally, Takahata was considered one of the greats of Japanese animated film and is often linked with long-term Studio Ghibli collaborator Hayao Miyazaki. He enjoyed a career spanning […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Asian stocks were mainly higher during the opening skirmishes Thursday, taking their cue from a stronger session on Wall Street as investors judged recent trade war fears were overblown. Tokyo led the gainers, climbing a solid 1.5 percent as the more positive market sentiment reduced demand for the safe-haven yen, pushing the currency down. The dollar fetched 106.83 yen in early Asian trade, up slightly from 106.82 yen in New […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Asian stocks dropped sharply at the open Tuesday, following Wall Street lower as fears of a trade war between the United States and China battered market sentiment. Tokyo led the declines, with the benchmark Nikkei 225 index shedding 1.51 percent in early trade. China followed suit, with the main Shanghai Composite Index falling 1.05 percent. Seoul was down more than half a percentage point and Hong Kong was off one […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Donald Trump will meet with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe April 17-18 to discuss the US president’s planned summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un and other matters, the White House said Monday. Trump and Abe will meet at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida where they “will discuss the international campaign to maintain maximum pressure on North Korea,” the statement said. The meeting, the third between Trump and Abe, will […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japanese whaling vessels returned to port on Saturday after catching more than 300 of the mammals in the Antarctic Ocean without facing any protests by anti-whaling groups, officials said. A fleet of five whalers set sail for the Southern Ocean in November, as Tokyo pursues its “research whaling” in defiance of global criticism. Three of the vessels, including the fleet’s main ship, the Nisshin Maru, arrived in the morning at Shimonoseki […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Asian markets resumed their downward spiral on Wednesday following a sell-off on Wall Street, with technology firms tracking their US counterparts, while trade war fears continue to niggle at investor confidence. The volatility that has raked trading floors since the start of February shows no sign of abating as heavy, across-the-board selling followed Tuesday’s rally. Confirmation North Korean leader Kim Jong Un had visited Beijing this week to meet President […]
by Kyoko Hasegawa Agence France Presse TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — A Japanese official at the heart of a cronyism and cover-up scandal that has dented Shinzo Abe’s popularity said Tuesday that the prime minister’s office was not involved in falsifying documents. In hotly awaited parliamentary testimony beamed live on national television, Nobuhisa Sagawa said only his office took part in altering key documents relating to a controversial land sale. “This is an issue only for […]
