Japan PM meets with U.S. House Speaker Pelosi after her Taiwan visit

Tokyo, 5 August, /AJMEDIA/ Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi agreed Friday to jointly work to ensure peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait,… Read more

AJMEDIA News Digest: Aug. 5, 2022

Tokyo, 5 August, /AJMEDIA/ Japan PM meets with U.S. House Speaker Pelosi after Taiwan visit TOKYO – Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi met Friday… Read more

Chinese-fired ballistic missiles fall into Japan’s EEZ: gov’t

Tokyo, 5 August, /AJMEDIA/ Five ballistic missiles fired by the Chinese military fell into Japan’s exclusive economic zone on Thursday, the Japanese government said, with Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi demanding… Read more

Japan, S. Korea to accelerate consultations over wartime labor issue

Tokyo, 5 August, /AJMEDIA/ Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi and his South Korean counterpart Park Jin agreed Thursday to speed up their consultations over a wartime labor issue that has… Read more

Toyota lifts net profit outlook as yen expected to absorb higher costs

Tokyo, 5 August, /AJMEDIA/ Toyota Motor Corp. on Thursday lifted its net profit forecast for the current business year to 2.36 trillion yen ($17.6 billion), as a greater windfall from… Read more

Sri Lankan President Wickremesinghe thanks PM Modi for India’s support

Tokyo, 5 August, /AJMEDIA/ Newly elected Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe thanked India which he said under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has provided the crisis-hit island nation… Read more

Italy unveils 17-bln-euro aid package to combat inflation, drought

Tokyo, 5 August, /AJMEDIA/ Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi announced an aid package worth an estimated 17 billion euros (17.3 billion U.S. dollars) to combat surging inflation and drought, AJMEDIA… Read more

Saudi, UAE save oil firepower in case of winter supply crisis

Tokyo, 5 August, /AJMEDIA/ OPEC leaders Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates stand ready to deliver a “significant increase” in oil output should the world face a severe supply… Read more

Turkish FM expressed concern over attack on Azerbaijani embassy in London

Tokyo, 5 August, /AJMEDIA/ Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov and Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu had a telephone conversation. During a telephone conversation, the Turkish Foreign Minister expressed concern over the… Read more

Construction of Horadiz-Jabrayil-Zangilan-Aghband highway continues

Tokyo, 5 August, /AJMEDIA/ The construction of the Horadiz–Jabrayil–Zangilan–Aghband (Zangazur Corridor, connecting Azerbaijan with its Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic) highway with a length of 123.6 kilometers, continues apace, AJMEDIA reports. The… Read more