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Japanese deputy finance minister Kenji Kanda resigns over tax scandal

Kanda is the third official to leave a ministerial post in just two months since Japanese PM Fumio Kishida reshuffled his cabinet to improve tumbling public approval ratings.

Suspected gunman in Japan takes hostages in post office after hospital shooting

The govt of the city of Warabi, just north of Tokyo, said in a statement an undetermined number of hostages were taken by a man 'in possession of something like a handgun.'

Japan imposes sanctions on individuals, companies connected to Hamas

The sanctions consist of freezing assets of individuals & a company that helped fund Hamas. It is in line with new sanctions announced by US government earlier this month.

South Korea holds trilateral meeting with Japan and China as US allies with Beijing

The meeting aims in part to set the stage for the resumption of three-way summits between the countries' leaders, which were last held in 2019.

Japan launches rocket carrying moon lander ‘SLIM’ into space after 3 delays last month

Dubbed the 'moon sniper', Japan aims to land SLIM within 100 metres of its target site on the lunar surface. The $100-million mission is expected to start the landing by February.

‘There’s legitimacy’: US ambassador to Japan visits Fukushima, expects US support in seafood ban

Japan started releasing Fukushima treated radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean last Thursday, prompting China to impose a blanket ban on Japanese aquatic products.

‘Can’t afford kids’: A third of Japan’s 18-yr-old women may not have children, finds study

The number of children in Japan has been falling for more than four decades as the appetite for marriage and parenting has waned and financial worries have grown, surveys show.

‘No plans to boost funds’, Japan on reputation damage from Fukushima water release

It started releasing treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean from 23 August after which China imposed a ban on sea food from Japan.

Defence companies are shifting their Asia offices to Japan. Here’s why

Amid Japan’s efforts to boost its defence industry and rising geopolitical tensions in East Asia, companies like US's Lockheed Martin & UK's BAE Systems are relocating their operations.

Japan considers WTO action against China over seafood import ban amid Fukushima water release

Businesses & public facilities in Japan continued to receive harassment calls from numbers with the +86 Chinese country code, with many complaining about the Fukushima water release.

On Camera

Trump’s unpredictability is not the absence of strategy—it works on everyone but China

The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.

Asia’s ‘weakest’ link: Yunus on a tightrope as Bangladesh tries to fix banks without breaking economy

With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.