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Tokyo, Oct. 21 (Jiji Press)--Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's administration has steadily delivered on its promises to the public over the past year, Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara said Wednesday, the first anniversary of her taking office. "We have worked boldly to build a strong economy and establish strong diplomacy and national security, steadily delivering on what we pro...
Tokyo, Oct. 20 (Jiji Press)--The Japanese government on Tuesday criticized Russia for its failure to allow consular access to a Japanese journalist detained there within a period set in their bilateral diplomatic agreement. The failure is "extremely regrettable," Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara said at a press conference. Russia announced the detention of a reporter for the Hokkaid...
China strongly condemned what it called Japan’s “negative moves” concerning the Yasukuni Shrine, saying the actions were a provocation against the postwar international order, according to a Saturday statement from the Chinese Embassy in Japan.
The Yasukuni shrine controversy tests Japan-South Korea trust and the US-led security network, with 2.46 million war dead and 14 Class-A criminals enshrined. The post Why Japan’s Yasukuni Shrine Offering Angers Seoul appeared first on The Rio Times.
Japan has long established itself as a pioneer of mediation in Southeast Asia. In 1990, for example, its officials helped broker talks between Cambodia’s warring factions, supplementing international efforts to end conflict in the country. Now, Tokyo is seeking to upgrade its diplomatic toolkit. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ International Peace Mediation Unit was set up in March, followed by the launch of the Parliamentary Association for Peace Mediation in May. Around the same time, the...
Senior American diplomats, administration officials and Indo-Pacific military commanders met in Tokyo earlier this month in what one source called an “unusual” gathering ahead of US President Donald Trump’s planned visit to China in November. People familiar with the meeting said it represented an evolution of a long-standing practice in which US ambassadors stationed across Asia and the Pacific gathered to exchange intelligence, coordinate diplomatic reporting and align regional priorities. The...
Tokyo, Oct. 9 (Jiji Press)--Japan expressed regret Friday over Russia's request for the extradition of Tomoko Akane, president of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, the Netherlands. At a press conference, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Masanao Ozaki said Russia's request that the Dutch government and other entities hand over Akane and others is "regrettable." "We will communi...
Tokyo, Oct. 8 (Jiji Press)--Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Thursday that she recognizes the importance of visiting Ukraine, which is fighting against Russian aggression, but added that she currently has no concrete plans for such a trip. Takaichi made the remark at a plenary meeting of the House of Representatives, in response to a question from Yuichiro Tamaki, leader of the o...
Tokyo, Oct. 7 (Jiji Press)--Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi met with Okinawa Governor Genta Koja in Tokyo on Wednesday and expressed her willingness to talk with the United States following the arrest of a U.S. Marine for allegedly murdering a woman in the southern Japan prefecture on Saturday. During the meeting at the prime minister's office, Koja said that the incident was "absolu...
Tokyo, Oct. 6 (Jiji Press)--Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi asked U.S. President Donald Trump at their meeting last month to encourage North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to accept a summit with Japan if a U.S.-North Korea summit is realized, it was learned Tuesday. This was revealed by Katsunobu Kato, a former minister in charge of the issue of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea ...
Tokyo, Oct. 2 (Jiji Press)--Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi has urged Iran to show maximum flexibility in a phone call with his Iranian counterpart, Seyyed Abbas Araghchi, apparently referring to mediated negotiations between Iran and the United States aimed at ending their conflict. "Japan would also like to build momentum for diplomacy together with the countries concerned," M...
New York, Sept. 28 (Jiji Press)--Japan confronted China and North Korea at the U.N. General Assembly on Monday over the U.N. Charter's enemy state clauses, after Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi called for the clauses to be deleted in her U.N. speech on Sept. 22. During Monday's session, Chinese Deputy Permanent Representative Sun Lei said that the clauses provide institutional safegu...