Tag: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe

Japan’s Abe vows cooperation in French Olympic payments probe

TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday vowed cooperation with French investigators probing payments allegedly made to help Tokyo secure the 2020 Olympics. “I have instructed the education and sports minister to fully cooperate in the investigation,” Abe told lawmakers in parliament, Jiji Press reported. “Education and sports minister (Hiroshi) Hase told the Japanese Olympic Committee and the former bid committee to cooperate in the investigation,” Abe was quoted as saying. […]

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China says Japan ties should be based on cooperation, not confrontation

(Reuters) China’s relations with Japan should be based on cooperation not confrontation, China’s foreign minister told his Japanese counterpart on Saturday, adding that China would judge Japan’s desire to improve ties depending on its actions. China, the world’s second-largest economy, and Japan, the third-largest, have a difficult political history, with ties strained by the legacy of Japan’s World War Two aggression and conflicting claims over a group of uninhabited East China Sea islets. Ties have […]

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Japan PM Abe to ‘strongly demand’ North Korea refrain from suspected missile launch

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Wednesday (February 3) he would work with the United States and others to “strongly demand” that North Korea refrain from a planned satellite launch suspected to be a missile test, calling it a provocative move that threatens the nation’s security. “This has been a meaning actually for a ballistic missile test. In addition to the nuclear tests, North Korea testing these ballistic missiles is an obvious violation of […]

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Japan’s PM says calls for larger Japan worldwide leadership role, defends security policy

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe addressed the country on Friday (January 22) from the parliament building, saying he expected the country to take on more international leadership in the coming year. Abe pointed out that Japan should take on a stronger role especially as it is to host a G7 gathering later in the year. “There is no end in the pursuit of the international community for a better future and a better world. In […]

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Philippines and Japan conducts bilateral talks during APEC

MANILA, Philippines – President Noynoy Aquino and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe conducted bilateral talks during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, with said bilateral talks centering on the maritime dispute in the West Philippine Sea as well as agreeing in principle for stronger defense relations between the two countries. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing and Uploaded by Vince Alvin Villarin)

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Japan’s Prime Minister arrives in Manila for APEC summit

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived in Manila on Wednesday (November 18) for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders’ Meeting. A contingent of Filipino officials headed by Philippine public works minister Rogelio Singson welcomed Abe at Manila’s international airport. Japan and the Philippines are set to agree this week on a deal paving way for Tokyo to supply Manila with used military equipment, possibly including aircraft that could be deployed to patrol the disputed South […]

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Japan’s Abe says TPP would have strategic significance if China joined

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says if China participated in the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal in the future, it would have significant strategic meaning. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Tuesday (October 6) that it would have significant strategic meaning if China joined the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal in the future. Twelve Pacific Rim countries on Monday (October 5) reached the most ambitious trade pact in a generation, aiming to liberalize commerce in 40 […]

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Philippines President Benigno Aquino arrives in Japan

JUNE 2 (Reuters) — Philippines President Benigno S. Aquino III arrived at Tokyo’s Haneda International Airport on Tuesday (June 2), starting a four-day trip to bolster the two nations’ security ties. Aquino’s visit is the latest move by the president and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to strengthen security ties between the two nations as Southeast Asian nations face China’s growing naval ambitions. China claims sovereignty over most of the South China Sea, through which […]

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Japan PM to seek fresh mandate for ‘Abenomics’ with snap poll

(Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Tuesday that he would call an early election to seek a fresh mandate for his economic policies, and postpone an unpopular sales tax rise, a day after data showed the economy had slipped back into recession. The world’s third-biggest economy unexpectedly shrank for a second consecutive quarter in July-September, a sign the pain from an initial rise in the sales tax to 8 percent from 5 percent in April was […]

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Aquino to meet Japanese PM Abe next week

President Aquino is set to meet with the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on June 24. President Aquino will deliver a keynote address at the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) International Conference in Hiroshima at the invitation of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Malacañang said. Before heading to Hiroshima, President Aquino will also hold a summit meeting over lunch with Prime Minister Abe in the latter’s official residence. Presidential Communications Operations Office Secretary Herminio Coloma, […]

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