The Daily Manila Shimbun

 

S. Korean court orders Mitsubishi Heavy to compensate for wartime labor

August 8, 2017

GWANGJU, SOUTH KOREA- Gwangju District Court ordered Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. on Tuesday to pay damages to a South Korean woman who was recruited to work for the Japanese company during World War II and the family of a former

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Okinawa asks US to suspend Osprey flights

August 8, 2017

KITANAKAGUSUKU- Okinawa Vice Governor Moritake Tomikawa asked the head of US forces in Okinawa Prefecture on Tuesday to suspend operations of MV-22 Ospreys in Japan until the cause of a fatal crash of the tilt-rotor aircraft off Australia has been

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1st-half current account surplus hits high since 2nd-half 2007

August 8, 2017

TOKYO- Japan’s current account surplus in January-June hit the highest level on a half-year basis since the second half of 2007, before a global financial crisis was triggered by the 2008 collapse of US investment bank Lehman Brothers, the Ministry

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Vietnam foreign chief praises Kono for challenging China

August 8, 2017

MANILA- Vietnamese Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh praised his Japanese counterpart, Taro Kono, when the two met in Manila on Tuesday for his remarks opposing China’s development of military facilities in the South China Sea. Minh said that he highly

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Japan cites importance of abiding tribunal’s award on South China Sea

August 7, 2017

Japan underscored on Monday the importance of abiding the United Nations Arbitral Tribunal’s award to the Philippines regarding its territorial disputes with China. In a press conference at the International Media Center in Pasay City, Japan Foreign Minister Taro Kono

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US, Japan, Australia call on PH, China to abide by arbitral tribunal’s award on South China Sea

August 7, 2017

The United States, Japan and Australia have urged China and the Philippines to follow the ruling of an arbitral tribunal on their territorial disputes in the South China Sea. This was contained in the Australia-Japan-US Trilateral Strategic Dialogue joint statement

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Abe hints at future study on enemy base attack ability

August 7, 2017

HIROSHIMA- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has suggested that the government may launch a study in the future on the possibility of equipping the country with the ability to strike enemy bases before it is hit by a ballistic missile

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Hiroshima hibakusha groups rap Japanʼs failure to sign nuke ban treaty

August 7, 2017

HIROSHIMA Seven organizations of hibakusha atomic bomb survivors in Hiroshima Prefecture have criticized the Japanese government’s policy of not signing a landmark UN nuclear weapons ban treaty that was adopted in July. At a meeting with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe

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