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Japan PM Fumio Kishida to hold talks with Zelenskyy in Ukraine today
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Japan Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is set to visit Ukraine on Tuesday and hold talks with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Japan-based Kyodo News reported citing a government source.
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It's 12 years since massive earthquake-tsunami struck Japan that killed 15
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Recovery from the magnitude-9.0 earthquake and resultant tsunami that devastated Fukushima, Iwate and Miyagi prefectures has progressed in the ensuing years, but some 31,000 people remained displaced as of November 2022, Kyodo News said. Cleanup plans at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex
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Chinese navy vessel enters Japan's territorial waters near Kagoshima Prefe
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
According to Kyodo News, a survey ship crossed into Japanese waters from southwest of Yakushima Island in the prefecture at around 2:30 a.m., marking the seventh entry by a Chinese survey vessel into waters off Kagoshima since November 2021.
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Japan, Netherlands to limit export of high-end semiconductor technology to
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
According to Kyodo News, the deal was struck after the United States in October unveiled sweeping export controls on certain advanced chips that could be used by China to train artificial intelligence systems and power advanced military and surveillance applications.
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US, Japan agree China represents greatest shared strategic challenge
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
The foreign and defence officials of the two countries agreed that China's growing power poses the "greatest strategic challenge" in the Indo-Pacific region and beyond, Japan's Kyodo News reported.
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Japan imposes mandatory COVID-19 testing for arrivals from China
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
The measure applies to travellers from mainland China and those who visited it within the past seven days. They are required to take a COVID-19 test upon their arrival in Japan. Those who test positive will be quarantined for seven days. The Kyodo news agency said Japanese Prime Minister
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'Military build-up doomed to fail', says China on Japan's new security pol
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Japanese media said the new strategies outlined in three defence and security documents approved by Japan's cabinet on Friday are a marked departure from post-WWII norms. Most notably, they involve doubling defence spending over the next five years to 2 per cent of GDP in fiscal 2027, Japan'
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Japan, Australia sign security pact amid Beijing's rise in Asia-Pacific
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Japan and Australia have signed a joint declaration for the first time in 15 years, according to Kyodo News.
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Japan, US hold joint drills with Anti-ship missiles, HIMARS: Reports
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], August 31 (ANI/Sputnik): Japan's Ground Self-defense Force and the US army held joint military exercises to defend Japan's remote southwestern island of Amami Oshima, the Kyodo news agency reported on Wednesday.
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Japan's suicide rate spikes due to COVID pandemic
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], August 18 (ANI): A new study has found that the Covid-19 pandemic resulted in over 8,000 excess suicide deaths in Japan between March 2020 and June 2022, news agency Kyodo reported on Wednesday.
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Japan intending to secure its participation in Sakhalin-2 project: Reports
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], July 17 (ANI/Sputnik): The Japanese government is intending to secure its participation in the Russian Sakhalin-2 oil and gas project, Japanese news agency Kyodo reported on Saturday, citing government sources.
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Japanese Prime Minister to meet with Pope Francis on May 4: Reports
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], May 2 (ANI/Sputnik): Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will meet with Pope Francis on May 4 during his official working visit to the Vatican, the Kyodo news agency reported, citing the Holy See.
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