AJMEDIA News Digest: May 4, 2022

Tokyo, 4 May, /AJMEDIA/ Japan’s child population falls for 41st year, record low amid pandemic TOKYO – Japan’s estimated child population fell for the 41st straight year to a record… Read more

Japan’s child population falls for 41st year, record low amid pandemic

Tokyo, 4 May, /AJMEDIA/ Japan’s estimated child population fell for the 41st straight year to a record low, government data showed Wednesday, as women are believed to have refrained from… Read more

Sunken Hokkaido boat searched with camera, 12 people still missing

Tokyo, 4 May, /AJMEDIA/ Police searched a sunken tour boat off Japan’s northernmost main island of Hokkaido with a drone Tuesday but found no signs of 12 people who remain… Read more

Some companies try 4-day workweek to offer flexibility to employees

Tokyo, 4 May, /AJMEDIA/ A growing list of Japanese companies have opened the door for employees to work four days a week, instead of five, offering them more flexibility so… Read more

Foreign minister, not Kishida, to attend S Korean president’s inauguration

Tokyo, 4 May, /AJMEDIA/ Japan plans to send Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi to South Korean President-elect Yoon Suk Yeol’s inauguration ceremony next week, deciding not to consent to Seoul’s wish… Read more

Putin tells Macron Russia is ready to continue dialogue with Kiev

Tokyo, 4 May, /AJMEDIA/ Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a telephone conversation with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday that despite Kiev’s unpreparedness for serious work Russia remained… Read more

Turkey to launch new project for return of 1 million Syrians

Tokyo, 4 May, /AJMEDIA/ Turkey is working on a new major construction project in Idlib province of Syria for the return of 1 million Syrians, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has… Read more

Al-Shabaab attacks African Union camp in Somalia, three killed

Tokyo, 4 May, /AJMEDIA/ Somalia’s al-Shabaab group attacked an African Union mission troop camp in the Shabelle region in the center of the country, a local elder and the group… Read more

Azerbaijani FM, French Foreign ministry official discuss situation in S.Caucasus

Tokyo, 4 May, /AJMEDIA/ Azerbaijan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Jeyhun Bayramov met with Brice Roquefeuil, Ambassador of the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs of the French Republic for the… Read more

Turkish, Armenian special representatives hold meeting in Vienna

Tokyo, 4 May, /AJMEDIA/ The meeting of the special representatives for the normalization process between Turkey and Armenia, respectively, Ambassador Serdar Kilic and Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of… Read more