Don't use China as a hedge against US, Beijing's envoy warns Japan
China's top envoy to Japan has warned Tokyo against using better ties with Beijing as a hedge against uncertainty in its ties with Washington. On the sidelines of the annual "two sessions" in the ...
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Williams: Nurturing women's voices in a nation that would muzzle them
who in 2017 went public with rape allegations against a powerful journalist who was the biographer of Japan’s then-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. “Paint Me a Road Out of Here” documented the ...
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Six months into the job, Kishida is rewriting Abe’s Russia playbook
This involved fending off resistance within his own party and paying his respects to former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Kishida had to quickly shift from addressing one crisis at home--how to ...
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What to know about tensions between Iran and the US as Trump sends a letter to its supreme leader
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A letter U.S. President Donald Trump wrote to Iran’s supreme leader in an attempt to jump-start talks over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program has ...
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EDITORIAL: Politicians need to tackle burden posed by U.S. bases in Okinawa
The actions taken by the administrations of former Prime Ministers Shinzo Abe and Yoshihide Suga in dealing with the controversial plan to build a new U.S. military base in the Henoko district of ...
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Takaichi decides to run in LDP presidential race this autumn
She ran for president in the previous election in 2021, with the backing of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and garnered 114 votes from LDP Diet members, making her the second most popular of ...
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Motegi follows his open ambition to seek top LDP post
Others who were first elected to the Lower House in that election included two future prime ministers: Shinzo Abe and Fumio Kishida. Since 2012, when the LDP regained control of the government ...