Tokyo’s Shibuya to ban street drinking during Halloween
May 14, 2019
Tokyo–Tokyo’s Shibuya Ward plans to ban the consumption of alcohol in streets and parks near Shibuya Station during the Halloween period, officials said. A related ordinance will be submitted to the ward assembly in June, and the ward aims to
Trump to meet with Japanese abductee families
May 14, 2019
Tokyo–U.S. President Donald Trump will meet with family members of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea decades ago during his visit to Japan from May 25, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Tuesday. “Japan and the United States will work
Japanese, Russian governors hold 1st meeting in 9 years
May 14, 2019
Moscow–Governors from Japanese prefectures and Russian provinces held talks in Moscow on Monday for the first time in nine years to discuss regional cooperation and exchanges between the two countries. From Japan, the governors of Hokkaido, Ibaraki, Saitama, Toyama, Gifu,
Suga declines to clarify whether regret over N. Korea missiles shared with pence
May 13, 2019
Tokyo–Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga stopped short of clarifying Monday whether he and U.S. Vice President Mike Pence had shared the view that North Korea’s recent firing of short-range ballistic missiles was extremely regrettable. “At the meeting, we affirmed
Japan protests S. Korea’s survey plans near Takeshima: Suga
May 13, 2019
Tokyo–Japan has strongly protested against South Korean ocean survey plans covering areas near disputed islands, Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Monday. The national Korea Hydrographic and Oceanographic Agency started to post plans on such surveys using drones around
Japan to continue active participation in NPT talks: Suga
May 13, 2019
Tokyo–Japan will continue to actively participate in discussions on nuclear disarmament, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Monday. Suga’s comment came after the preparatory committee for the 2020 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) review conference failed to come up with recommendations
U.N. Climate panel releases new guidelines to calculate emissions
May 13, 2019
Kyoto–A U.N. climate panel on Monday released new guidelines to help countries calculate their greenhouse gas emissions more accurately. The guidelines were adopted at a general meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that ended in the western Japan
No change in Japan’s stance on Summit with N. Korea: Suga
May 13, 2019
Tokyo–Japan maintains its policy stance of seeking to hold a summit with North Korea without preconditions, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga suggested Monday. “There is no change in the government’s policy,” Suga said at a meeting of the Committee on
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