Tokyo, 1 October, /AJMEDIA/ Putin declares annexation of 4 Ukraine regions, prompts new sanctions TOKYO/WASHINGTON – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday declared the annexation of four occupied Ukrainian regions… Read more
Tokyo, 1 October, /AJMEDIA/ U.S. Indo-Pacific Command chief Adm. John Aquilino is making arrangements to travel to Japan and South Korea next week to meet with government and military officials,… Read more
Tokyo, 1 October, /AJMEDIA/ Prime Minister Fumio Kishida pledged Friday to “fundamentally strengthen defense capabilities without excluding any options,” as the government held its first meeting of an expert panel… Read more
Tokyo, 1 October, /AJMEDIA/ Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said he told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday that Japan considers Russia’s annexation of parts of southern and eastern Ukraine a… Read more
Tokyo, 1 October, /AJMEDIA/ Japan’s currency intervention last week cost 2.84 trillion yen, the largest-ever amount spent to stem the yen’s sharp slide against the U.S. dollar, Finance Ministry data… Read more
Tokyo, 1 October, /AJMEDIA/ At rush hour, you can pretty much expect every subway train in downtown Tokyo to be crowded. Even on a crowded train, though, not every car… Read more
Tokyo, 1 October, /AJMEDIA/ North Korea fired an unspecified ballistic missile toward the east coast on Saturday, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said, marking Pyongyang’s fourth launch in a… Read more
Tokyo, 1 October, /AJMEDIA/ An earthquake of magnitude 5.7 struck Northern Sumatra province in Indonesia on Saturday, European Mediterranean Seismological Centre said, AJMEDIA reports citing Reuters. The quake was at… Read more
Tokyo, 1 October, /AJMEDIA/ The Swedish authority tasked with controlling exports of war materials said on Sept. 30 it had authorized military exports to Türkiye, after blocking them in 2019,… Read more
Tokyo, 1 October, /AJMEDIA/ In its annual meeting, the International Atomic Energy Agency cast a positive vote for the membership of Qatar, Türkiye and Saudi Arabia in the Board of… Read more