Abe will travel to Europe and Middle East next week, ink free trade pact with EU
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Monday he will embark on a tour of Europe and the Middle East from July 11, during which a signing ceremony for a free trade pact between Japan and the European Union will be held. "Amid a global trend of ...
Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko visited a memorial to Japanese war dead southeast of Manila on Friday to commemorate those who died in the Philippines in some of the conflict's fiercest fighting. The Imperial Couple bowed their heads and laid white flowers before the monument ...
India clears Japan's bid for first bullet train ahead of Abe trip
India's Cabinet has cleared a $14.7 billion Japanese proposal to build its first bullet train line, an Indian government minister and official said on Thursday, one of India's biggest foreign investments in its infrastructure sector. The decision ahead of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit beginning ...
Chinese vice premier may visit Japan in spring for economic talks
In a fresh sign of improving bilateral ties, Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang may visit Japan this spring to resume high-level economic dialogue between the two countries, according to a diplomatic source. The countries are arranging to hold ministerial-level dialogue for the first time in ...
Execs from Japan's ruling coalition to visit China in early December
The ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner, Komeito, said Wednesday their secretaries-general will make a four-day trip to China from Dec. 2 for talks with senior officials of the Chinese Communist Party. Sadakazu Tanigaki of the LDP, which is headed by Prime Minister ...
Putin unlikely to visit Japan by year-end due to territorial row
Japan and Russia are likely to shelve a planned visit by Russian President Vladimir Putin by year-end amid a lack of progress in territorial talks between the two countries, Japanese government sources said Wednesday. "It will be difficult to realize (the visit). There is not ...
Nakatani to visit South Korea next week, sign of warming ties
Defense Minister Gen Nakatani is likely to visit South Korea next week to attend an international aerospace and defense exhibition, a South Korean Defense Ministry official said Tuesday. "Japan wants to hold defense ministers' talks with South Korea on the occasion of the Seoul International ...
Japan and Russia are making arrangements for a close aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin to visit Japan in late September, sources said Tuesday. By arranging the visit by Nikolai Patrushev, secretary of the Security Council of Russia, Tokyo hopes to discuss Putin's possible visit ...
Japanese visit graves of kin who died at end of WWII in North Korea
A Japanese group on Sunday visited the graves of relatives who died in what is now North Korea during the chaos at the end of World War II. "I could finally come," said Yasuko Irie, 73, holding a family photo and making an offering of ...
Japan urges Russian prime minister not to visit disputed isles
Japan has urged Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev not to visit disputed islands off Hokkaido, Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said Friday, calling the planned trip to the isles at the center of a long-standing bilateral dispute “unacceptable.” The planned visit, seen by experts as underlining ...
Government mulls invitation for Putin to visit Japan in December
The government is considering inviting Russian President Vladimir Putin to visit Japan in December as part of efforts to make progress on a long-standing territorial row, government sources said. To pave the way, the government wants to send Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida to Russia in ...
Britain's Prince William to visit disaster-hit Tohoku this week
Britain's Prince William will make a four-day trip to Japan from Thursday that will take him to areas in Tohoku hard hit by the March 2011 disasters, according to Buckingham Palace. He will not be accompanied by his wife, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, who is ...
