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TOKYO, Japan (AFP) – Japan’s media-savvy digital minister said Friday he’s ready to take an iron-fisted approach to speed up the nation’s slow embrace of online services at government offices and workplaces. Taro Kono — a political heavyweight who has been minister of defence, foreign affairs and Covid vaccines — has already declared war on fax machines, floppy disks and other obsolete technologies that are still common in the world’s third-largest economy. “I have no […]
(Eagle News) — Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III thanked the government of Japan for its “generous support” in helping jumpstart the Philippines’ ambitious “Build, Build, Build” infrastructure program, citing the nine loan agreements signed since the start of the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte. Dominguez said the loan agreements with a combined amount of JPY398.82 billion (about $3.63 billion or P189.92 billion) were formalized between the Philippines and Japan since President Duterte assumed the […]
(Eagle News)—Japan has renewed its vow to help the Philippines combat the “scourge of terrorism” following the twin explosions in Jolo, Sulu that killed at least 23 people. In a statement, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said Japan Foreign Minister Taro Kono, in his visit to Davao, also “conveyed (Japan Prime Minister Shinzo) Abe’s grave concern over the twin explosions in Jolo, Sulu, and expressed Japan’s condemnation of the terrorism and violent extremism..” Panelo said Kono […]
(Eagle News) — Japan Foreign Minister Taro Kono will visit the Philippines this month. In a statement, the Department of Foreign Affairs said Kono will undertake the official visit from Feb. 9 to 11, upon the invitation of Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. According to the DFA, on Feb. 10, Locsin will hold bilateral discussions with Kono on “areas of mutual interest, including political, economic and people-to-people engagement, especially Japan’s support for infrastructure development […]
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 […]
