AJMEDIA News Digest: Oct. 13, 2022

Tokyo, 13 October, /AJMEDIA/ G-7 finance chiefs note “increased volatility” in currencies WASHINGTON – Finance chiefs of the Group of Seven industrialized nations on Wednesday noted “increased volatility” in many… Read more

Japan wholesale prices soar 9.7% in Sept. on higher import costs

Tokyo, 13 October, /AJMEDIA/ Wholesale prices in Japan surged 9.7 percent in September from a year earlier as a sharp fall in the yen inflated import prices for energy and… Read more

Japan mulls clarifying Abe’s legacies in revised security guideline

Tokyo, 13 October, /AJMEDIA/ Japan is planning to highlight diplomatic initiatives advocated by assassinated former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in its long-term security policy guideline slated to be updated by… Read more

Myanmar court hands Japanese journalist 3 more years in jail

Tokyo, 13 October, /AJMEDIA/ A court in military-ruled Myanmar on Wednesday convicted a Japanese journalist of violating immigration law, adding three years to the seven-year prison sentence he was handed… Read more

Russia protests over Japan’s firing of HIMARS in exercise with U.S

Tokyo, 13 October, /AJMEDIA/ Russia said it had protested to the Japanese embassy on Wednesday over joint Japan-U.S. military exercises this week in which it said HIMARS rocket systems were… Read more

Japan to mandate safety devices in 44,000 buses after kid’s death

Tokyo, 13 October, /AJMEDIA/ The Japanese government decided Wednesday to make it mandatory from next April to install safety devices in approximately 44,000 buses used by kindergartens and child care… Read more

Turkish Defense Minister meets with NATO chief

Tokyo, 13 October, /AJMEDIA/ Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar discussed regional defense and security issues with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg as part of the NATO defense ministers meeting in Brussels… Read more

Macron calls on nation to withstand domestic, international crises

Tokyo, 13 October, /AJMEDIA/ France’s President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday called on the nation to withstand the different crises that France, Europe and the whole world are going through, AJMEDIA… Read more

US sees China as main geopolitical challenge, does not want Cold War — White House

Tokyo, 13 October, /AJMEDIA/ The United States sees China as its biggest geopolitical challenge, yet it does not want to see the world split into rigid blocs, an open confrontation,… Read more

Saudi Arabia says OPEC+ oil cut ‘purely economic’

Tokyo, 13 October, /AJMEDIA/ Saudi Arabia rejected as “not based on facts” statements criticising the kingdom after an OPEC+ decision last week to cut its oil production target despite U.S.… Read more