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TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japan’s prime minister said Wednesday that the latest North Korean missile launch was a “violent act” that “can never be tolerated” after the ICBM splashed down in its exclusive economic zone (EEZ). “We will never yield to any provocative act. We will maximise our pressure” on Pyongyang, Shinzo Abe told reporters. The defence minister said earlier the missile was thought to have landed within Japan’s EEZ. The Pentagon said it flew about […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is “confident” of progress in amending Japan’s pacifist constitution, he said Friday, in his first policy speech since his landslide election victory. Abe’s conservative coalition held a two-thirds “super majority” in the 465-seat lower house last month, giving him the numbers to realize a long-held dream. “I’m confident that debate on amending the constitution will be able to advance,” he told the newly formed parliament. However, in his […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — A Japanese railway operator has issued a deep apology for the “tremendous nuisance” caused by a train departing 20 seconds early, surprising even a nation renowned for both punctuality and politeness. The Tsukuba Express train linking Tokyo and the capital’s northern suburbs pulled out of Minami Nagareyama Station at 9:44:20 instead of 9:44:40. “We deeply apologize for causing tremendous nuisance to customers,” said the Tsukuba Express company. “There was no complaint […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) –Japan has decided to donate the five surveillance planes that were previously being leased to the Philippines. Defense spokesman Arsenio Andolong said that during the bilateral talks between the two countries last Monday (November 13), Japan decided to cancel the lease contract of the five airplanes and decided to officially donate the airplanes to the Philippines. In their earlier agreement, a total of five TC-90 aircraft will be rented by […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Subaru recalled nearly 400,000 vehicles from its domestic market on Thursday due to an inspection scandal — the latest to hit the beleaguered Japanese car industry. The recall concerns nine models, including a sports car that Subaru manufactures for Toyota, but vehicles sold overseas were not affected, a spokesman told AFP. Subaru admitted last month that uncertified staff had conducted vehicle inspections at two factories northwest of Tokyo. It said at […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japan and the United States launched a joint naval drill Thursday in a show of force aimed at North Korea, whose nuclear ambitions dominated US President Donald Trump’s recent Asia trip. The 10-day exercise, joined by some 14,000 US servicemen, aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan and the guided-missile destroyers USS Stethem, USS Chafee and USS Mustin, among others, “will take place in waters surrounding Okinawa” in southern Japan, the US navy […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japan notched up its seventh straight quarter of economic growth, official data showed on Wednesday, although the rate of expansion in the world’s third-biggest economy is slowing. Japanese gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 0.3 percent in the third quarter of the year, marking the longest string of gains for more than 16 years. However, the figure represented a slowdown from the second quarter, when the economy grew by 0.6 percent, as […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — UN member-states on Tuesday condemned North Korea for gross human rights violations and for conducting missile and nuclear tests while its people suffer from severe hunger. The UN General Assembly’s human rights committee adopted by consensus a resolution drafted by the European Union and Japan that expressed international concern over Pyongyang’s rights record. The measure will now go to the General Assembly for debate next month. North Korea conducted its sixth […]
(Eagle News) — Nurturing a peaceful co-existence within the ASEAN region. This was the goal of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and Japan, Korea, and China during the 20th ASEAN Plus Three (APT) Commemorative Summit on Tuesday, November 14. President Rodrigo Duterte, chairman of the 31st ASEAN Summit, urged his fellow ASEAN leaders and three dialogue partners, Japan, China and Korea, to continue nurturing a peaceful co-existence within the region. “I urge […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Struggling Japanese conglomerate Toshiba said Tuesday it has decided to sell its television business to China’s Hisense Group as part of its efforts to restore its balance sheet. Toshiba agreed with the Chinese group to sell 95 percent in shares of its unit Toshiba Visual Solutions (TVS) for about 12.9 billion yen ($114 million), it said in a statement. “Toshiba has been considering structural reforms that will … strengthen Toshiba’s financial base,” the […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japanese tech giant SoftBank Tuesday said there was “no final agreement” on an investment in Uber and warned it could pull out of a potential deal if the terms were unsatisfactory. The statement came after Uber said it had entered an agreement with a consortium led by SoftBank and investment group Dragoneer on what it termed a “potential investment.” Uber unveiled the deal after former CEO Travis Kalanick and an influential […]
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe vowed to deepen cooperation with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in various areas such as maritime security, defense, trade, infrastructure development, combating terrorism, disaster risk reduction and cultural exchanges. Abe made the commitment during the 20th ASEAN-Japan Summit held at the Philippine International Convention Center in Pasay City on Monday, November 13. He also asked the ASEAN to apply more pressure on North Korea for it to […]
