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TOKYO -- Uichiro Niwa, a former chairman of major Japanese trading house Itochu and an ex-ambassador to China, died on Dec. 24 at the age of 86. [1]
TOKYO -- The sentencing of a Japanese employee of Astellas Pharma on espionage charges by a Beijing court on Wednesday could have had a different outcome, says Hideo Tarumi, a former Japanese ambassador to China. [2]
Julia Longbottom is the U.K.'s ambassador to Japan. U.K. Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander speaks as Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer listens during a visit to Hitachi in Newton Aycliffe, U.K., in December 2024. [3]
'Hikikomori', one of Japan’s major social ills, takes centre stage In Japanese hikikomori refers to acute social withdrawal. The problem affects about 613,000 Japanese aged 40 to 64 and 540,000 aged 15 to 39. [4]
TOKYO -- Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya met with his Uzbek counterpart on Wednesday during a trip to the country, pressing for a summit involving the leaders of Japan and the five resource-rich nations of Central Asia. [5]
WASHINGTON -- U.S. Sen. William Hagerty, who served as the ambassador to Japan in the Trump administration, is urging Tokyo to launch a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. InterviewFormer U.S. [6]
Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been shot, a government spokesman said Friday, as local media reported the ex-premier was showing no vital signs. [7]
TOKYO (Reuters) -- Former U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Roos on Saturday endorsed the continued leadership of Toshiba Corp Board Chairman Osamu Nagayama, who has come under intense pressure to resign amid a deepening crisis at the Japanese conglomera... [8]
TOKYO -- Uichiro Niwa, a former chairman of major Japanese trading house Itochu and an ex-ambassador to China, died on Dec. 24 at the age of 86.
TOKYO -- The sentencing of a Japanese employee of Astellas Pharma on espionage charges by a Beijing court on Wednesday could have had a different outcome, says Hideo Tarumi, a former Japanese ambassador to China.
Julia Longbottom is the U.K.'s ambassador to Japan. U.K. Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander speaks as Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer listens during a visit to Hitachi in Newton Aycliffe, U.K., in December 2024.
'Hikikomori', one of Japan’s major social ills, takes centre stage In Japanese hikikomori refers to acute social withdrawal. The problem affects about 613,000 Japanese aged 40 to 64 and 540,000 aged 15 to 39.
TOKYO -- Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya met with his Uzbek counterpart on Wednesday during a trip to the country, pressing for a summit involving the leaders of Japan and the five resource-rich nations of Central Asia.
WASHINGTON -- U.S. Sen. William Hagerty, who served as the ambassador to Japan in the Trump administration, is urging Tokyo to launch a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. InterviewFormer U.S.
Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been shot, a government spokesman said Friday, as local media reported the ex-premier was showing no vital signs.
TOKYO (Reuters) -- Former U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Roos on Saturday endorsed the continued leadership of Toshiba Corp Board Chairman Osamu Nagayama, who has come under intense pressure to resign amid a deepening crisis at the Japanese conglomera
TOKYO -- With Republican Donald Trump poised to enter the White House, Japan faces perhaps its greatest test as a U.S. ally, but the situation calls for cool-headed discourse rather than overreaction, experts on bilateral relations say.
TOKYO—A Japanese journalist released from Myanmar in a prisoner amnesty called on Monday for Tokyo to put more pressure on the junta and accept refugees fleeing the Southeast Asian country.