Japan faces a challenge in bridging a widening divide over how to revitalize sluggish growth in leading economies at a meeting of top financial officials that began Thursday with the group bashing in the lids of sake barrels.
Finance chiefs of the Group of Seven (G7) remained apart over the foreign exchange rate and coordinated step to boost public spending so as to improve world economy growth after their two-day meeting in Sendai in northeast Japan on Saturday.
A male civilian working for the U.S. military arrested for dumping the corpse of a Japanese woman in her twenties admitted to strangling her, local police officials said Friday, sparking a torrent of fury from the Japanese government towards the United States just one week before U.S. President Barack Obama is scheduled to make a visit here to the City of Hiroshima.
One of the most talked-about television commercials in Japan this year advertises an unusual product: contrition.
The European Union (EU) hailed "a great success of European trade diplomacy" on Thursday as Japan lifted an embargo on Italian beef which has been in place for 15 years.
Since Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe assumed power in 2012, the economic strata of Japan is gradually degenerating to a "pyramid" with the polarization of the rich and the poor becoming more serious and the poor at the bottom accounting for an increasingly larger part of the population.
A foreign policy adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Japan’s economic cooperation with Russia and progress in the two countries’ long-standing territorial dispute are totally unrelated, Russia’s Interfax news agency reported.
Statistics released Wednesday showed Japan recorded better-than-expected economic growth numbers in the first quarter of the year. However, economists said the real picture may not be as rosy as it looks to be based on preliminary statistics.
The Abenomics, which started off with much fanfare, has seen its worshippers dwindling and confidence in Japan's economic future fell dramatically, said an Australian economic expert.
Science and technology-related ministers from the Group of Seven major economies issued a joint statement Tuesday in Japan outlining the importance of technical innovation for the development of societies and economies around the world as well as being central to tackling a number of worldwide challenges including gender parity.
The new Japanese Ambassador to China, Yutaka Yokoi, a China expert who previously worked in the country in other roles for more than five years, arrived in Beijing on Sunday.
The South China Sea issue has become one of the major irritants in the China-US relations in recent years, over which the public opinion in the two countries are very critical of each other. There are even frictions in the sea between the two navies.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe held talks Thursday with the Prime Minister of Kuwait, Jaber Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, on a number of topics spanning terrorism and the refugee crisis.
"The new security laws are in violation of the pacifist constitution. They and Abe's attempts to amend the constitution, could see Japan return to militarism and are absolutely unacceptable to the people," said constitutional scholar Makoto Ito in a recent interview with Xinhua.
China urges Japan not to go down the path of militarism again, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Wednesday when commenting U.S. President Barack Obama's upcoming visit to Hiroshima, Japan.
The White House said Tuesday that U.S. President Barack Obama will visit Hiroshima later this month, but he won't apologize for the United States' nuclear attacks in Japan at the end of World War II.
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