April 20, 2019
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The government on Friday urged gambling business operators in the country to consider taking concrete measures against addiction, including steps to restrict the admission of ...
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga announced that U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump will make a state visit to Japan from May 25-28. The trip will mark the first state vis...
Koichi Hagiuda, the Liberal Democratic Party’s executive acting secretary general, hinted at the possibility that the planned consumption tax hike from 8 percent to 10 percent in October could be de...
Toshihiro Nikai, secretary general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, will visit China from April 24-29 as a special envoy of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Nikai will attend an international conf...
TAIPEI (Reuters) — Terry Gou, chairman of Apple supplier Foxconn, said on Wednesday he will contest Taiwan’s 2020 presidential election, shaking up the politi- cal landscape at a time of heightene...
The United States has proposed disclosing some of the top-secret details of its state-of-the-art F-35 stealth fighter jet to Japan to encourage joint development of an aircraft that will succeed the A...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The government has launched an emergency inspection of fireproofing and other measures at national treasures and important cultural properties in the country in the wake of Mond...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Japan and the United States will hold a so-called two-plus-two meeting of foreign and defense officials in Washington on Friday, Defense Minister Takeshi Iwaya said Tuesday. At...
About 30 percent of all mayoral races in Sunday’s upcoming elections have already been decided as candidates in 27 cities, including two prefectural capitals, were unopposed. Official campaigning ...
Three candidates are polling neck and neck in a by-election for the House of Representatives in Osaka Constituency No. 12, according to a Yomiuri Shimbun analysis. The analysis was based on the resul...
Expecting a victory, the government of Japan and members of the fishery industry affected by the 2011 nuclear disaster were deeply shocked by the recent decision by the World Trade Organization’s hi...
HELSINKI (AP) — Results from Finland’s parliamentary election illustrated the struggle by Europe’s traditional political parties to retain supporters, with the center-left Social Democratic Part...
LONDON (AFP-Jiji) — Ecuadoran President Lenin Moreno on Sunday defended his decision to overturn Julian Assange’s asylum status, claiming in an interview with the Guardian newspaper that the Wiki...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. President Donald Trump did not wish any harm in his Twitter post criticizing Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s comments on the 9/11 attacks, White House spokeswoman...
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Pete Buttigieg, the little-known Indiana mayor who has risen to prominence in the early stages of the 2020 Democratic presidential race, made his official campaign entrance ...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Campaigns started on Sunday for elections for 86 mayors and 294 city assemblies as well as 11 ward heads and 20 ward assemblies in Tokyo that will be held as part of unified loc...
JAKARTA (Reuters) — Tens of millions of Indonesians will vote in presidential and parliamentary elections this week after campaigns focused on the economy, but with political Islam looming ever larg...
CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s new ruling military council announced Sunday that it will name a civilian prime minister and Cabinet but not a president to help govern the country following the coup that re...
Three candidates are polling neck and neck in a by-election for the House of Representatives in Osaka Constituency No. 12, according to a Yomiuri Shimbun analysis. The analysis was based on the resu...
SEOUL (Jiji Press) — South Korean Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon has stressed the importance of cooperation with Japan and other countries to achieve peace on the Korean Peninsula. In a speech at a c...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The government said Friday that women accounted for 35.4 percent of its new recruits in fiscal 2019, the highest level since it started to collect data in fiscal 2005. The fig...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe spurred Kosei Inoue and other judokas from the All Japan Judo Federation as they paid a courtesy call to the Prime Minister’s Office in Tokyo on Thursday.
With less tha...
Yoshitaka Sakurada, the minister in charge of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games, submitted his resignation to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Wednesday to take responsibility for controversial remar...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Campaigning started Tuesday for two by-elections for the House of Representatives on April 21, with the ruling and opposition parties both resolved to win the polls in the run-...
OSAKA (Jiji Press) — Osaka Ishin no Kai leader Ichiro Matsui said Monday that the regional party in western Japan will aim to hold a second referendum on its so-called Osaka metropolis plan within ...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — A senior official of the Liberal Democratic Party mentioned Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso during talks with a then senior government official on ...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday met with Crown Prince Naruhito for the first time since the announcement on April 1 of the name of the next era. At the meeting at the Togu...
A Japan Coast Guard training vessel carrying officer candidates is planning port calls in Greece and Sri Lanka, two nations involved in China’s “Belt and Road Initiative” to build a giant econom...
The government plans to establish a national information center (NIC) to create a database of Japanese universities and students’ academic credentials in English for overseas universities and compa...
BANGKOK (Reuters) — Thailand’s first general election since a 2014 army coup has been touted by the ruling military junta as a return to democratic rule, but two weeks after the vote, results are ...
NEW DELHI (AP) — As she patrols for cow smugglers, Sadhvi Kamal, a Hindu holy woman in a saffron robe, rides in a white SUV with a sticker on the rear window displaying a cow framed by swords and r...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats will “never” see U.S. President Donald Trump’s tax returns, White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said Sunday, as a new front opened in the confrontation between...
HAVANA (Reuters) — Hundreds of Cubans marched peacefully through Havana on Sunday calling for an end to animal cruelty in what organizers believe was the first independent march authorized by the on...
OTTAWA (Reuters) — The leader of Canada’s opposition Conservative Party said Sunday that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau threatened to sue him for libel over statements made about a scanda...
BRASILIA (AFP-Jiji) — Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has the worst approval rating in the first three months of a first mandate since the country returned to democracy in 1985, according to a su...
DINARD, France — Foreign Minister Taro Kono held talks with French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian on Friday in Dinard, France, where Le Drian expressed his concern over the continuing detention...
Candidates backed by the regional party Osaka Ishin no Kai won the Osaka gubernatorial and Osaka city mayoral races on Sunday, according to preliminary results for the first leg of unified local elec...
In the public eye for being the face of the “Reiwa” announcement, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga is becoming a focus of attention as a possible successor to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Ca...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — A senior official of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s administration resigned on Friday, after suggesting that he acted voluntarily for the interests of Abe and Deputy Prime Minis...
U.S. political scientist Ian Bremmer said on Wednesday that Japan, which has a functioning democracy, is serving as a good model for the world, and that it should further exercise leadership in the g...
