Tetsuma Esaki, the newly-appointed minister in charge of Okinawa economic promotion and territorial issues, is known as a cheerful, friendly politician. But the usual genial demeanor of the Lower House member elected from Aichi Prefecture took a more somber turn during a joint interview with ...
Japan and Russia are exploring the idea of conducting cruises around the Moscow-held, Tokyo-claimed islands off Hokkaido as part of envisioned economic collaboration, a diplomatic source said. The countries will hold a vice foreign ministerial meeting Thursday in Moscow to discuss possible joint projects before ...
The Democratic Party called Monday for the new minister in charge of issues related to Okinawa to be sacked after he made a gaffe just two days after being assigned the post in the latest Cabinet reshuffle. Tetsuma Esaki told reporters Saturday that he would ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin agree to hold talks in August about jointly developing the disputed Russian-held islands off Hokkaido.
Two days of bad weather forced the cancellation Monday of what was to have been the first chartered flight by former residents to visit Kunashiri and Etorofu, two of the four Russia-held islands off northeastern Hokkaido claimed by Japan. About 70 people, including government officials ...
A homecoming trip scheduled for former Japanese residents of the Russian-controlled islands off Hokkaido was postponed Sunday due to poor weather, government officials said. About 70 people, including former islanders and their kin, are to be the first former residents to travel by air to ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's approach to Russia is looking increasingly risky.
Japanese experts will survey the disputed Russian-held islands claimed by Japan in late June to assess the potential for setting up joint economic ventures with Russia, Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said Friday. The dispatch of the public- and private -sector experts in fisheries management, tourism ...
Former residents headed out Monday to visit the Russian-held islands off Hokkaido under a bilateral visa-free exchange program, the first such trip since the two countries agreed to ease travel restrictions. Approximately 60 people departed from the port in Nemuro aboard a chartered ship bound ...
The Russian government will this year not hold a national youth event on a disputed island claimed by Japan, Alexander Bugayev, head of the Agency for Youth Affairs, has told a Russian media organization. In 2015 and 2016, the all-Russian youth education forum gathered on ...
Tokyo has lodged a protest with Moscow over a potential plan to deploy a military division later this year on Russian-controlled islets claimed by Japan off Hokkaido, the government's top spokesman said Thursday, a move that could exacerbate the decades-old territorial row. The government plans ...
Say what you will about Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, he is a glutton for punishment. Too bad his bravado is not matched by canny discernment. Case in point is his plan to visit Russian President Vladimir Putin to follow up on the recent fiasco ...
