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Mar 15 2023
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South Korean President Yoon Lands For Summit In Japan
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol arrived in Japan on Thursday looking to open a "new chapter" in relations, just hours after Pyongyang fired a long-range ballistic missile.
He will meet Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida later Thursday for the first full-scale summit between leaders of the two countries in 12 years.
Barron's
Mar 20 2023
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Japan PM Kishida, India's Modi set to strengthen cooperation, Kishida says
[1/2] Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Japan Prime Minister Fumio Kishida talk before their meeting at the Hyderabad House in New Delhi, India, March 20, 2023. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi
NEW DELHI, March 20 (Reuters) - Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Monday he confirmed with his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi that they would strengthen cooperation between the two nations
Reuters
Mar 15 2023
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South Korea’s President Yoon Arrives in Japan for Rare Summit Talks
TOKYO—South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol arrived in Tokyo on Thursday for the first formal summit between the leaders of South Korea and Japan since 2011, with trade and intelligence sharing on the agenda.
Mr. Yoon’s visit comes after his administration last week proposed a plan to resolve a standoff over payments for Koreans forced to work for Japanese companies during World War II,
Wall Street Journal (News)
Feb 16 2023
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Japan's New Rocket Fails To Blast Off
Japan's next-generation rocket failed to launch on Friday after an apparent ignition problem, the national space agency said. The H3 rocket -- the successor to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)'s H-IIA model, which debuted in 2001 -- was meant to launch mid-morning from Tanegashima Space Center in southwestern Japan. But "it appears that we failed to ignite the two solid rocket
Barron's
Mar 06 2023
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Japan's new rocket fails on debut launch in setback for space program
Japan’s maiden launch of its new flagship space rocket ended in failure on Tuesday when controllers issued a destruct command just 15 minutes after liftoff, the country’s space agency said. “A destruct command has been transmitted to H3 around 10:52 a.m. (Japan Standard Time), because there was no possibility of achieving the mission,” a statement from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (
CNN (Online News)
Mar 01 2023
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Mike Lee demands Japan free naval officer; briefly suspended on Twitter
SALT LAKE CITY — Sen. Mike Lee intends to call for the U.S. to renegotiate its military agreement with Japan because the Far East nation ignored his one-man deadline to release an imprisoned Navy officer. And the Utah Republican's language on his personal Twitter account toward Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishidia for not returning Lt. Ridge Alkonis may have led to @BasedMikeLee being
KSL
Jan 27 2023
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Adjusting to a big-power era, Germany and Japan enhance militaries
Japan and Germany, World War II’s two great vanquished powers, are both enhancing the role and stature of military power in their diplomatic and security policies. Their adversaries may differ, but their motivations are similar.
At his White House visit this month with a supportive President Joe Biden, Prime Minister Kishida Fumio laid out Japan’s assertive new national security
Christian Science Monitor
Jan 13 2023
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Biden recommits to defend Japan after Kishida visit
President Joe Biden has praised Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio for his decision to bolster Japan's defense posture as the two countries experience tensions with China, North Korea, and Russia.
Japan announced last month it would reinvest in its defense after decades of pacifism, the investments amounting to its most extensive military buildup since World War II. In a joint
Washington Examiner
Feb 27 2023
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Japan, New Zealand foreign ministers agree to speed up talks on intelligence sharing as China concerns grow
The foreign ministers of Japan and New Zealand agreed on Monday to speed up talks on an intelligence sharing pact as the two island nations vowed to strengthen security ties and cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region amid shared concern over an increasingly assertive China. New Zealand Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta and her Japanese counterpart, Yashimasa Hayashi, also agreed during their
Fox News (Online News)
Jan 23 2023
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Japan PM says country on the brink over falling birth rate
Japan's prime minister says his country is on the brink of not being able to function as a society because of its falling birth rate.
Fumio Kishida said it was a case of "now or never."
Japan - population 125 million - is estimated to have had fewer than 800,000 births last year. In the 1970s, that figure was more than two million.
Birth rates are slowing in many countries
BBC News