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Expect 2025 to be a year in which Japan is forced to defend its future and its past. If Japan does not move quickly to build up its deterrence, there is a dire risk that within a few short years, it may become embroiled in war for the first time in the postwar era. Let’s […]
Even before President-elect Donald Trump assumes the presidency of the United States, Beijing has made the first move. It is fueling the boiling Taiwan issue by slapping sanctions on 13 American defense firms, putting pressure on Trump to deal with the frayed US-China ties left over from the Joe Biden administration. This largely symbolic move […]
In a dramatic turn of events last week, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol imposed and withdrew martial law, all within a span of six hours. Yoon’s unprecedented move – the first time martial law has been imposed since 1979 – has been widely condemned as an abuse of presidential power and a gamble to fight […]
このページを 日本語 で読む At a press conference on November 22, China‘s Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson, Lin Jian, announced the resumption of short-term visa exemptions for Japanese. China had previously allowed visa-free travel for short stays of up to 15 days for Japanese nationals. However, it suspended this measure in the spring of 2020 due […]
United States President-elect Donald J Trump has criticized the current President Joe Biden administration over inflation and other issues. Moreover, he has indicated his intention to fundamentally change US economic policy. Apparently, the president-elect strongly believes that the only way to make America great again is to strengthen the economy. Also, the rise of China […]
At an October 28th press conference, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba expressed his desire to continue leading the government. However, Ishiba, who leads the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), should accept responsibility by gracefully resigning. The Prime Minister had just suffered a devastating defeat in Sunday’s Lower House election. It defies belief that he is trying to […]
Tokyo: The make-up of Japan’s future government was in flux on Monday after voters punished Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s scandal-tainted ruling coalition in a weekend election, leaving no party with a clear mandate to lead the world’s fourth-largest economy. The uncertainty sent the yen currency to a three-month low as analysts prepared for days, or […]
(Bloomberg) — The yen extended losses to 1% while Japanese stocks climbed Monday as investors mulled the implications of the Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner losing their majority. Most Read from Bloomberg The slide in the currency as far as 153.88 against the dollar came after four straight weekly declines. The yen has […]
တနင်္ဂနွေနေ့ကလုပ်တဲ့ ဂျပန်နိုင်ငံလွှတ်တော်ရွေးကောက်ပွဲတွေမှာ လက်ရှိ အနိုင်ရပါတီ LDP လစ်ဘရယ် ဒီမိုကရက်တစ်ပါတီဟာ လွှတ်တော်တွင်း နေရာအများစုရထားတာကို လက်လွှတ်ရဖွယ် ရှိနေပါတယ်။ ဂျပန်အတိုက်အခံပါတီဖြစ်တဲ့ Constitutional Democratic ပါတီက သိသိသာသာ အသာရဖွယ် ရှိနေပြီး မဲခန့်မှန်းချက်တွေအရ အရင်ကလွှတ်တော်နေရာ ၉၈ နေရာကနေ အခု ၁၉၁ နေရာအထိ ရလာနိုင်တယ်လို့ ဖော်ပြနေပါတယ်။ Constitutional Democratic ပါတီ ခေါင်းဆောင် Yoshihiko Noda ဟာ ၂၀၀၉ -၂၀၁၂ မှာ ဝန်ကြီးချုပ်အဖြစ် တာဝန်ယူခဲ့သူလည်းဖြစ်ပါတယ်။ တနင်္ဂနွေနေ့ညပိုင်း သတင်းစာရှင်းလင်းပွဲမှာတော့ သူ့ပါတီရဲ့ ရည်းမှန်းချက်တွေ အောင်မြင်ခဲ့တယ်လို့ Noda က ပြောပါတယ်။ ဩဇာကြီးတဲ့ ဂျပန်အောက်လွှတ်တော်နေရာ ၄၆၅ နေရာရှိရာမှာ အာဏာရ LDP ပါတီက အများစု […]