Demining diplomacy: to counter China’s Cambodia sway, Japan touts landmine clearance
Analysts say the timely proposal aims to cement Tokyo’s influence in the region as the Southeast Asian nation undergoes a generational leadership transition.
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Analysts say the timely proposal aims to cement Tokyo’s influence in the region as the Southeast Asian nation undergoes a generational leadership transition.
The local government in Japan’s Yamagata prefecture has just passed an ordinance calling on residents to laugh at least once every day to promote better physical and mental health, although the new law has gone down like a bad joke in some quarters.
Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways have united to draw up guidelines on travellers’ behaviour, in a bid to stamp out the increasing problem of “customer harassment” faced by the two carriers and other local companies.
More than 10 per cent of young Japanese have experienced sexual groping on trains and other public settings, according to a study by the Cabinet Office, with around 3.4 per cent of 36,000 people interviewed saying they had been molested more than 11 times.
Japan is planning to construct hospital ships that will be able to respond quickly to natural disasters in coastal areas, with one medical expert who volunteered in the aftermath of the January 1 earthquake that struck the Noto Peninsula saying such vessels would have been a “huge help”.
The Self-Defence Forces managed to hire only 9,959 people in the financial year 2023, just over 50 per cent of their target and a record low for personnel joining the three branches of the armed forces.
Protests have erupted across Okinawa following revelations that the Japanese government withheld information about US troops’ sexual assaults on local women, with residents expressing outrage and demanding greater accountability from Tokyo.
The Grand Canyon Trust, a conservation group headquartered in Flagstaff, Arizona, announced on June 11 that newly discovered documents had shown that Energy Fuels Inc had imported the waste from the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), arriving on January 16.