AJMEDIA News Digest: Aug. 19, 2022

Tokyo, 19 August, /AJMEDIA/ Tokyo Games sponsor accused of bribery got more than 50% discount TOKYO – Business suit retailer Aoki Holdings Inc. paid 500 million yen ($3.7 million) for… Read more

Japan logs record daily 255,000 COVID-19 cases

Tokyo, 19 August, /AJMEDIA/ Japan posted about 255,000 daily coronavirus infections on Thursday, hitting a record high as the country grapples with the seventh wave of the pandemic. Fueled by… Read more

Japan’s industry minister inspects crippled Fukushima nuclear plant

Tokyo, 19 August, /AJMEDIA/ Japan’s industry minister Yasutoshi Nishimura inspected the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant Thursday, his first visit since assuming the position last week, to assess the progress… Read more

Award for Gates

Tokyo, 19 August, /AJMEDIA/ Microsoft Corp co-founder Bill Gates, right, receives the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun from Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi in Tokyo on… Read more

Crisis-hit Sri Lanka to ask Japan to open talks with main creditors

Tokyo, 19 August, /AJMEDIA/ Sri Lanka will ask Japan to invite the Indian Ocean island’s main creditor nations, including China and India, to talks on bilateral debt restructuring as it… Read more

Japan July core consumer prices up 2.4%, biggest rise in 7.5 years

Tokyo, 19 August, /AJMEDIA/ Core consumer prices in Japan rose 2.4 percent in July from a year earlier, marking the sharpest increase in about seven and half years amid surging… Read more

Russia Sees 38% Rise in Energy Export Earnings in 2022

Tokyo, 19 August, /AJMEDIA/ The jump in revenues, if it materialises, will help shore up Russia’s economy in the face of waves of Western sanctions, Trend reports citing Reuters. It… Read more

US denies making new concessions to Iran in bid to revive 2015 nuclear deal

Tokyo, 19 August, /AJMEDIA/ The White House denied reports that the US has made new concessions to Iran as talks to revive the 2015 nuclear deal approach their 500th day,… Read more

Azerbaijan to determine wage increases for teachers – decree

Tokyo, 19 August, /AJMEDIA/ President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev signed a decree on establishing monthly increments to official salaries of executives and teachers of state general education institutions (other state… Read more

President of Mongolia invites President Ilham Aliyev for a visit

Tokyo, 19 August, /AJMEDIA/ President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has accepted credentials of the newly appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Mongolia Gombosuren Munkhbayar. Gombosuren Munkhbayar said… Read more