The storm comes days after Typhoon Khanun hit Japan during its peak Obon holiday season, when many factories close and city-dwellers return to their home towns and villages.
Germany, Britain were also among nations for which restrictions were lifted but Canada, which has had especially politically fraught relations with China of late, was not reinstated.
Aso, who is in Taipei, did not specify China as the aggressor but emphasised the importance for Japan, as a neighbor of Taiwan, and other countries upholding the international order.
The release will most likely come shortly after Japan PM Fumio Kishida meets with US President Joe Biden and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol in the United States next week.
#NoBarbenheimer hashtag trended online, prompting Warner's Japan division to issue rare public criticism of its parent firm. No Japan release date announced for ‘Oppenheimer’.
Tokyo said it would begin Fukushima water release some time this summer, and received backing from the International Atomic Energy Agency for the plan earlier this month.
In a first, number of Japanese residents fell in all 47 prefectures, the data showed. The overall population in Japan fell to 125.41 million people, decrease of about 511,000.
As early states developed in the Iranian plateau and northern India, ideas continued to circulate between the steppe and the settlements of the Iranian plateau and the Punjab plains.
WEF report flags growing erosion of multilateralism, long considered stabilising force. 'Declining trust, heightened protectionism are threatening trade, investment.'
Pakistan lacks capacity to deliver aircraft at pace suggested by its claimed contracts as it depends on China for avionics, electronic warfare, weapons, and on Russia for engines.
UK, EFTA already in the bag and EU on the way, many members of RCEP except China signed up, and even restrictions on China being lifted, India has changed its mind on trade.
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