Tokyo, 26 May, /AJMEDIA/ Finance officials from the Group of Seven rich democracies said Saturday they had moved toward agreement on a U.S. proposal to squeeze more money for Ukraine… Read more
Tokyo, 26 May, /AJMEDIA/ More than 10,000 asylum seekers have arrived in Britain in small boats so far this year, updated government data showed on Saturday, underlining a key challenge… Read more
Tokyo, 26 May, /AJMEDIA/ A U.N. court’s order that Israel halt its offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah has deepened a disconnect with the United States over a… Read more
Tokyo, 26 May, /AJMEDIA/ Japan’s Self-Defense Forces will join a large-scale U.S. military exercise in the Pacific for the first time in June, Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara said, amid… Read more
Tokyo, 26 May, /AJMEDIA/ Tokyo Gov Yuriko Koike plans to run in the July gubernatorial election in the hope of securing a third four-year term, a source familiar with the… Read more
Tokyo, 26 May, /AJMEDIA/ Ukraine hopes to sign a security cooperation agreement with Japan sometime before a NATO summit meeting in July, a senior diplomat of the eastern European country… Read more
Tokyo, 26 May, /AJMEDIA/ On a small island off Japan’s northeastern coast, visitors make offerings at a shrine for unlikely local guardians: cats. The “Neko Jinja,” or Cat Shrine, mythologizes… Read more
Tokyo, 26 May, /AJMEDIA/ There’s a big release date coming up in Japan on July 3. It’s not a new video game, anime series, or Japanese Frappuccino, though. It’s the… Read more
Tokyo, 26 May, /AJMEDIA/ The United Auto Workers on Friday accused Mercedes of interfering in a union election at two Alabama factories by intimidating and coercing workers into voting no.… Read more
Tokyo, 26 May, /AJMEDIA/ Sean Baker’s “Anora,” a comic but devastating Brooklyn odyssey about a sex worker who marries the son of a wealthy Russian oligarch, has won the Cannes… Read more