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Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
May 27, 2018
Government officials say Japan will keep maximum pressure on North Korea ahead of summit
Japan plans to maintain maximum pressure on North Korea to make it abandon its nuclear weapons and missile programs in close coordination with the United States, government officials said Sunday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 16, 2017
Officials deny remarks attributed to them in Kake papers
Two senior government officials deny making the smoking-gun remarks linked to them in the Kake Gakuen document leak, pitting the education ministry against Prime Minister Abe's Cabinet.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 6, 2015
South Korea urges rapid action on 'comfort women' row
A senior South Korean official on Friday urged Japan to waste no time in presenting acceptable proposals for ending a festering dispute over wartime sex slaves.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 24, 2014
Suga again denies revisionism
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga denies speculation that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is considering a key aide's proposal to issue a new government statement on the 'comfort women' issue.
JAPAN
Mar 23, 2014
Abe aide calls for new statement on wartime sex slavery
A special advisor to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe suggests issuing a new political statement on wartime sex slavery, saying “it would not be strange if new findings emerge.”
JAPAN
Oct 20, 2013
Aide: Abe may visit Yasukuni this year
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will probably visit war-linked Yasukuni Shrine by year's end, an aide in his ruling Liberal Democratic Party claims.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Did Japan intervene to prop up the yen? Analysts think it did.
A man walks past an electronic board displaying the exchange rate for the yen against the U.S. dollar (right) in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.
Number of vacant homes in Japan hits record high of 9 million
A vacant house in Tokyo is seen demolished in January 2020.
Weak yen fattens tourist wallets in Japan
People visit the Ameya Yokocho market in Tokyo's Ueno district during the Golden Week holiday on Tuesday.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.

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