Japan ruling bloc set to win majority of contested upper house seats

Tokyo, 10 July, /AJMEDIA/ Japan’s ruling coalition is set to win more than half of the upper house seats contested in Sunday’s election, Kyodo News exit polls showed, giving Prime… Read more

AJMEDIA News Digest: July 10, 2022

Tokyo, 10 July, /AJMEDIA/ Voting under way in Japan’s upper house election TOKYO – Voting is under way for a House of Councillors election Sunday, with rising prices and security… Read more

Abe shooter says he tried to make bomb

Tokyo, 10 July, /AJMEDIA/ The man who fatally shot former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has told police he had attempted to make a bomb, investigative sources said Sunday. Tetsuya Yamagami… Read more

Voting under way in Japan’s upper house election

Tokyo, 10 July, /AJMEDIA/ Voting is under way for a House of Councillors election Sunday, with rising prices and security threats seen as being at the forefront of the people’s… Read more

Japan’s House of Councillors election system

Tokyo, 10 July, /AJMEDIA/ The following explains how members of the Diet’s House of Councillors are elected in the Sunday election. Lawmakers in the House of Councillors, the upper chamber… Read more

Upper house candidates make final appeals as Abe’s death grips Japan

Tokyo, 10 July, /AJMEDIA/ Candidates made their last-ditch appeals Saturday across Japan for the House of Councillors election, as the country reels over the death of Shinzo Abe, a former… Read more

China’s Xi offers condolences to Japan PM Kishida over Abe’s death

Tokyo, 10 July, /AJMEDIA/ Chinese President Xi Jinping has offered condolences to Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on the death of former Japanese political leader Shinzo Abe, state-run media reported… Read more

Former UK ministers Jeremy Hunt and Sajid Javid join leadership race

Tokyo, 10 July, /AJMEDIA/ British Conservative lawmakers and former health ministers Jeremy Hunt and Sajid Javid used interviews with the Telegraph newspaper to announce they were joining the race to… Read more

Sand clouds are common in atmospheres of brown dwarfs

Tokyo, 10 July, /AJMEDIA/ Clouds of sand can condense, grow and disappear in some extraterrestrial atmospheres. A new look at old data shows that clouds made of hot silicate minerals… Read more

Zelensky dismisses ambassadors to Germany, Hungary, Czech Republic, Norway and India

Tokyo, 10 July, /AJMEDIA/ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has dismissed Ukraine’s ambassadors to Germany, Hungary, Norway, the Czech Republic and India. The relevant presidential decrees, No. 479/2022-No. 483/2022, were published… Read more