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Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu announced the new construction on the Kuril Islands on Friday, Russian state news agency TASS reported. The islands, the most southerly of which lie within sight of Hokkaido, were seized by Soviet troops in the closing days of World War II.
The US will fork over an estimated US$2 billion for the Glide Phase Interceptor project, according to 2025 budget estimates released by the US Department of Defence in March.
Japan’s “traditional and business interests, political pressure and gender inequalities often prevent journalists from completely fulfilling their role as watchdogs”, Reporters Without Borders said, arguing that since “the rise to power of the nationalist right” in 2012, Japanese journalists have experienced “a climate of distrust, even hostility”.
The plea from a doctor’s receptionist came from the heart. In her letter published in the “Troubleshooter” column of the Yomiuri newspaper on April 28, the unnamed woman said she was tired of being “a punching bag” for patients’ frustrations.
The windows are boarded up, the paint is peeling and the garden is hopelessly overgrown. This single-storey property in the upmarket Negishi district of Yokohama, south of Tokyo, should be ripe for redevelopment – but has instead been left to gently decay for more than a decade.
Nearly 80 years after 62 US airmen held as prisoners of war were buried in a mass grave after perishing in a fire that consumed the Tokyo Military Prison, a new effort is under way to identify their remains and bring closure to their families.
Academics in Japan expressed mixed feelings about the label, with some acknowledging there was resistance to large-scale immigration – the context in which Biden made the remark – but contending that such a stance does not equate with a “loaded, negative term” like xenophobia, given Japan’s unique cultural context and history.
The Japanese public appears to have come around to the conclusion that more foreign workers are needed to keep the country functioning, with a new poll indicating 62 per cent of respondents support the government’s policy of granting more visas for skilled personnel.