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President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a law lowering the draft age from 27 to 25 and eliminated some medical exemptions in an effort to replenish Ukraine’s exhausted army. He also created an electronic database of men, starting at age 17, to crack down on draft dodgers.
TOKYO -- The U.K.'s deputy prime minister has welcomed Japan's decision to ease its defense export regulations, facilitating sales of next-generation fighter aircraft co-developed with the U.K. and Italy to third-party countries.
After hitting a record high of US$73,000 last week, the price of bitcoin declined to US$67,197 on Thursday evening (Hong Kong time), which was more than double from US$28,000 a year ago.
TOKYO -- The Bank of Japan on Tuesday conducted a sweeping policy overhaul, scrapping its negative interest rate policy as it bets that Asia's second-largest economy is now emerging from a protracted period of disinflation.
Japan's central bank raised interest rates on Tuesday for the first time since 2007, ending the world's only negative rates regime and other unconventional policy easing measures enacted over the course of the last few decades to combat deflation.
TOKYO -- The Bank of Japan on Tuesday conducted a sweeping policy overhaul, scrapping its negative interest rate policy as it bets that Asia's second-largest economy is now emerging from a protracted period of disinflation.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un joined his troops in training to operate newly developed battle tanks as he called for bigger efforts to prepare for war, state media reported Thursday.
The destination of fighter jet exports will be limited to countries that have signed a deal with Japan on defence equipment and technology transfers, Kishida said at a parliamentary session. Currently, 15 nations have such an agreement with Tokyo.