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Kyodo News, Published on 15/05/2024
» KYODO - Members of Myanmar's expatriate community in Japan are lobbying local assemblies to pressure the central government to accept their fleeing compatriots in the wake of the enforcement of a controversial conscription law by the junta in February.
Kyodo News, Published on 09/05/2024
» TOKYO - Japan will add large fin whales to its list of commercial whaling species, government spokesperson Yoshimasa Hayashi said on Thursday, five years after leaving an international body that regulates the commercial hunt of the marine mammals.
Kyodo News, Published on 04/05/2024
» TBILISI - The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) plus Japan, China and South Korea on Friday agreed to provide each other funds in times of emergency such as pandemics and natural disasters, building on their existing currency swap arrangements for the United States dollar and its counterparts.
Kyodo News, Published on 03/05/2024
» HAWAII - The defence ministers from Japan, the United States, Australia and the Philippines on Thursday pledged to maintain the rules-based order in the Indo-Pacific region, where concerns are growing over China's increasing assertiveness.
Kyodo News, Published on 12/04/2024
» KYODO - Japan's population fell 595,000 from a year earlier to total 124,352,000 as of Oct 1, declining for the 13th consecutive year, government data showed Friday.
Kyodo News, Published on 18/03/2024
» MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday clinched a landslide election victory that will extend his nearly quarter-century of rule for six more years, consolidating his grip on power amid the country's war in Ukraine.
Kyodo News, Published on 28/02/2024
» TOKYO - The operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on Wednesday started a fourth release of treated radioactive water into the sea, in what will be the last discharge for the fiscal year ending March.
Kyodo News, Published on 21/02/2024
» KYODO - A North Korean missile fired into eastern Ukraine by Russia contained hundreds of electronic components that trace back to companies headquartered in Europe, the United States, Japan, China and elsewhere, according to a British research institute.
Kyodo News, Published on 13/02/2024
» SHOZUOKA - The start date of the new high-speed maglev train that will run from Tokyo to Nagoya has become increasingly uncertain, as long-running environmental disputes with the Shizuoka prefectural government leave the project at a stalemate.
Kyodo News, Published on 08/02/2024
» SEOUL - North Korea's parliament decided to abolish laws on inter-Korean economic cooperation, state-run media said Thursday, with the move in line with leader Kim Jong Un's policy announced last month of not seeking peaceful reunification with South Korea.