China says it firmly opposes foreign military alliances targeting it and stoking bloc confrontation.
Despite talk of a Nobel peace prize, Japan’s leader is facing a backlash among voters as key byelection approachesIn the past fortnight Fumio Kishida has been mentioned as a possible recipient of the Nobel peace prize and praised for a speech to congress in which he urged the US not to retreat into isolation.But since his return to Tokyo after a successful summit with Joe Biden, Japan’s prime minister has been buffeted by domestic political headwinds that this weekend could spell the beginning...
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, April 18, 2024 It’s not often an American ally and partner addresses the U.S. Congress; but when they do, it’s time to listen. That was certainly the case when Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida spoke before a joint session of Congress in Washington to both thank America for […]
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says his governing party’s major defeat in last weekend's by-elections was largely due to a political fundraising scandal and that he will not resign or replace party executives to take responsibility
Japan’s ruling party lost a special election Prime Minister Fumio Kishida had described in part as a judgment on himself, months ahead of a party leadership vote.
Japan's average unemployment rate stood at 2.6 percent for the year that ended in March, unchanged from the previous fiscal year. The internal affairs ministry says the number of people in employment rose by 280,000 to more than 67.5 million on average. The manufacturing industry and the hotel and dining sector led the gains. Ministry officials say the job situation appears to be improving, with the number of people in jobs almost back to the pre-pandemic level. Meanwhile, the seasonally...
Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada is no longer waging off-screen battles as he
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Australian Nuclear Free Alliance gathering, March 2024. Image by Ray Acheson. AUKUS is the awkward-sounding acronym for “Australia-United Kingdom-United States”—a trilateral military alliance that stands poised to waste billions of dollars, proliferate high-level radioactive material and impose its safekeeping on First Nations communities for hundreds of thousands of years, increase global militarism and potentially provoke a nuclear war. If this doesn’t sound like a good investment to you,...
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TikTok and CTS Eventim have announced a partnership that will allow certified artists in Germany to sell tickets through the popular social media platform.