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Japan's Kishida To Announce New Indo-Pacific Plan, Seek India's Support

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REUTERS
 
Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will on Monday announce a new plan for an open and free Indo-Pacific in New Delhi and seek India's support to partner with Tokyo to check China's growing influence across the region.
Under the plan, which will be announced during Kishida's two-day vi...

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South Korean Leader In Japan For First Visit In 12 Years For Fence-Mending Summit

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CNN
 
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol met his Japanese counterpart in Tokyo Thursday for a fence-mending summit, the first such visit in 12 years as the two neighbors seek to confront threats from North Korea to rising concerns about China.
Those shared security challenges were on stark disp...

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DSEI Japan 2023: KHI Unveils New Anti-Ship Missile

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NAVAL NEWS
 
At DSEI Japan 2023, Kawasaki Heavy Industry (KHI) unveiled a new type of stealthy anti-ship missile called “Island defense anti-ship missile (島嶼防衛用新対艦誘導弾 in Japanese)”.
Island defense anti-ship missile (島嶼防衛用新対艦誘導弾)
Yoshihiro Inaba story with additional reportin...

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How to Get Kicked Out of Parliament: Livestream Instead of Legislating

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NEW YORK TIMES
 
The upper house of Japan’s Parliament almost unanimously voted to expel an eccentric YouTuber who won a seat last year. The reason: He never showed up for work.
Since he was elected to Japan’s Parliament in July, Yoshikazu Higashitani has spread celebrity gossip on his YouTube ch...

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The SVB Crisis May Prompt The Bank Of Japan To Delay Policy Changes, Says Former Board Member

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CNBC
 
Key PointsJapan’s central bank could delay any changes to its monetary policy in light of the turmoil that the Silicon Valley Bank crisis triggered in financial markets, Nomura Research Institute economist Takahide Kiuchi, who served on the Bank of Japan’s policy board from 2012 to 2017, t...

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South Korea Pres. Hopes To Move Forward With Japan, Not Focus On Past

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KYODO NEWS
 
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said Wednesday he hopes to cooperate with Japan and look "toward the future" after his government proposed a solution aimed at settling a long-running wartime labor compensation dispute with its neighbor.
South Korea "will faithfully implement" th...

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Japan, Britain, Italy Defence Ministers To Meet In Tokyo This Week

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SWISS INFO
 
Britain and Italy's defence chiefs will visit Japan this week to hold meetings with their local counterpart, Defence Minister Yasukazu Hamada, Japan said on Tuesday.
The three nations announced in December the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP) venture to develop by 2035 a next-gener...

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Masatoshi Ito, 98, the King of Convenience Stores in Japan, Dies

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NEW YORK TIMES
 
He introduced the American chain 7-Eleven to the country, covering the landscape with thousands of outlets and starting a retail revolution there.
Masatoshi Ito, who built a Japanese retail empire and helped fundamentally change the country’s consumer culture with the introductio...

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Iwao Hakamada: Japan Retrial For World's Longest-Serving Death Row Inmate

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BBC
 
A Japanese man who was on death row for nearly half a century has been granted a retrial.
Iwao Hakamada, now 87, is the world's longest-serving death row inmate, according to Amnesty International.
He was sentenced to death in 1968 for murdering his boss, the man's wife and their two childr...

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Ex-Head Of Inn With Bacteria Exceeding Limit Dies In Apparent Suicide

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KYODO NEWS
 
The former head of the operator of a southwestern Japan inn, who came under fire for only changing hot spring bathwater twice a year, allowing legionella bacteria to proliferate beyond the allowable limit, has died in a suspected suicide, police said Sunday.
Makoto Yamada, 70, was fo...

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