Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio’s April 10 speech to the US Congress, following the American custom, began with a joke. The speaker introduced him, the audience gave him a friendly applause, and he said, “Thank you. I never get such nice applause from the Japanese Diet.” The joke was a success: it got a big More
Tokyo, May 16 (Jiji Press)--Public support for Japanese Prime Minister
The approval rating for Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's cabinet has edged up by 0.4 percentage point to 24.2 percent, a Kyodo News survey showed Monday, with a political funds scandal still shaking his Liberal Democratic Party. The telephone poll conducted for three days from Saturday also showed 79.7 percent
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is planning to attend an international leader-level meeting in Switzerland next month to explore measures to achieve peace in Ukraine, a government source said Thursday. Kishida is expected to visit the Burgenstock resort, where the first "Summit on Peace in Ukraine" is scheduled to take
SAN FRANCISCO--Meta’s Oversight Board on May 16 said it would accept public opinions after the company deleted and restored a post on the Threads site that called on Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to “drop dead.”