AJMEDIA News Digest: Nov. 27, 2022

Tokyo, 27 November, /AJMEDIA/ Envoy hopes South Korea, Japan leaders’ mutual visits to resume soon TOKYO – South Korea’s ambassador to Japan expressed hope that the countries’ leaders can restart… Read more

23% of major Japanese firms may raise prices next year on rising costs

Tokyo, 27 November, /AJMEDIA/ Nearly a quarter of major companies in Japan are considering raising the prices of their products next year or later due to increasing material costs and… Read more

Daiso value retailer aims to increase U.S. stores 10-fold

Tokyo, 27 November, /AJMEDIA/ Japanese 100-yen shop operator Daiso Industries Co. aims to increase the number of its stores in the United States more than 10-fold in the long-term to… Read more

Japan WWII foreign minister asked Holy See to avert war with U.S.

Tokyo, 27 November, /AJMEDIA/ A Japanese foreign minister met Pope Pius XII and his secretary of state during World War II to seek mediation in a desperate bid to avert… Read more

Envoy hopes South Korea, Japan leaders’ mutual visits to resume soon

Tokyo, 27 November, /AJMEDIA/ South Korea’s ambassador to Japan expressed hope that the countries’ leaders can restart their reciprocal visits “sooner than expected” as both nations try to improve bilateral… Read more

University of Tokyo to double number of female professors by FY2027

Tokyo, 27 November, /AJMEDIA/ The University of Tokyo has said it aims to double its number of female professors and associate professors to around 400 by fiscal 2027 as it… Read more

Civilians escape Kherson after Russian strikes on freed city

Tokyo, 27 November, /AJMEDIA/ Fleeing shelling, civilians on Saturday streamed out of the southern Ukrainian city whose recapture they had celebrated just weeks earlier as the country remembered a Stalin-era… Read more

Taiwan president quits as party head after China threat bet fails to win votes

Tokyo, 27 November, /AJMEDIA/ Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen resigned as head of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) on Saturday after her strategy to frame local elections as showing defiance… Read more

Iraqi premier to visit Iran soon

Tokyo, 27 November, /AJMEDIA/ Prime minister of Iraq Mohammed Shia’ Al Sudani is going to visit Tehran in the coming days at an invitation by Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, AJMEDIA… Read more

Azerbaijani MoD denies information of Armenian side

Tokyo, 27 November, /AJMEDIA/ The information spread by the Armenian side about the alleged shelling of the positions of the units of the Armenian Armed Forces from small arms of… Read more