Japan FY 2020 budget requests hit record high
September 6, 2019
Tokyo–General-account budget requests from Japanese government agencies for fiscal 2020 have hit a record high of 104,999.8 billion yen, exceeding 100 trillion yen for the sixth straight year, the Finance Ministry said Thursday. The total is up 3,542.7 billion yen,
Ex-skater Hashimoto may become Olympic minister
September 6, 2019
Tokyo–Former speed skater Seiko Hashimoto emerged as a candidate for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics minister on Thursday, ahead of a planned cabinet reshuffle by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Wednesday. Hashimoto, elected to the House of Councillors for
Abe, Putin affirm future-oriented isle, peace treaty talks
September 5, 2019
Vladivostok, Russia–Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin affirmed Thursday that the two nations will work on negotiations on their decades-old territorial row and the conclusion of a bilateral peace treaty in a future-oriented manner. But the
Japan blames South Korea for worsening ties
September 5, 2019
Tokyo–Japan blamed South Korea on Thursday for worsening bilateral relations. “The situation has been extremely tense, all because of a series of negative actions made by the South Korean side,” Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told a press conference. These
Abe to visit India in December
September 5, 2019
Vladivostok, Russia–Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is scheduled to visit India in December, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Thursday. The trip by Abe is part of mutual visits by the two countries’ leaders to each other’s nations, Modi said
Japan, Mongolia confirm cooperation on North Korea denuclearization
September 5, 2019
Vladivostok, Russia–Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Mongolian President Khaltmaa Battulga agreed on Thursday that their countries will cooperate to denuclearize North Korea. In their meeting in Vladivostok in Russia’s Far East, Abe called for the cooperation of Mongolia, which
One killed, some 30 injured in train-truck collision in Yokohama
September 5, 2019
Yokohama–An eight-car Keikyu Corp. train and a truck collided at a crossing in Yokohama, the capital of Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo, on Thursday, leaving a man dead and some 30 people injured, authorities said. The man died after he
Putin celebrates new plant on isle disputed with Japan
September 5, 2019
Vladivostok, Russia–Russian President Vladimir Putin celebrated on Thursday the opening of a new large fishery processing plant built on one of the four northwestern Pacific islands at the center of a decades-old territorial row between Moscow and Tokyo. Talking with
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