Tokyo, 18 October, /AJMEDIA/ French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday faced accusations of seeking to reduce the media to merely reproducing press releases after blaming journalists, ministers and commentators for… Read more
Tokyo, 18 October, /AJMEDIA/ North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said South Korea is a foreign and hostile nation, state media KCNA reported on Friday, with photos showing Kim conferring… Read more
Tokyo, 18 October, /AJMEDIA/ Israeli forces in Gaza killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, a chief architect of last year’s attack on Israel that sparked the war, the military said Thursday.… Read more
Tokyo, 18 October, /AJMEDIA/ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pitched his “victory plan” to the European Union and NATO on Thursday, receiving pledges of continued support but no endorsement from key… Read more
Tokyo, 18 October, /AJMEDIA/ Elon Musk warned Thursday that the “fate of Western civilization” depends on Donald Trump returning to office as the tech billionaire launched five nights of campaign… Read more
Tokyo, 18 October, /AJMEDIA/ The defense ministers of Japan and three other Indo-Pacific countries agreed at their first meeting with their NATO counterparts on Thursday in Brussels to boost cooperation,… Read more
Tokyo, 18 October, /AJMEDIA/ Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba pledged Thursday to bring back Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea decades ago, but his plan to set up liaison offices to… Read more
Tokyo, 18 October, /AJMEDIA/ Executives from Canada’s Alimentation Couche-Tard are in Japan in a bid to overcome resistance to their $47-billion takeover of 7-Eleven’s parent but are being given the… Read more
Tokyo, 18 October, /AJMEDIA/ Japan confirmed on Thursday the season’s first avian influenza outbreak, with authorities identifying around 19,000 birds for culling at a poultry farm on the northernmost main… Read more
Tokyo, 18 October, /AJMEDIA/ China’s coast guard said Thursday that a Japanese fishing vessel “illegally entered” China’s territorial waters around Diaoyu Islands on Oct 15-16 and was warned to leave.… Read more