Kishida, like Biden, revives party by stepping aside
August 26, 2024
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Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party is set to elect a new leader in September and, by extension, the country's next prime minister.
It is an amazing story: A person who probably does not exist has been holding an entire nation, North Korea, in semi-poverty for more than the past twenty years, and the rest of us under alleged nuclear threat.
TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida reiterated Thursday his determination to work toward a summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un to realize the return of Japanese people believed abducted by North Korean agents in the 1970s and 80s.
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said a visit by Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to Pyongyang is possible if Tokyo does not make the issue of the past abductions of Japanese nationals an obstacle between the two countries, state-run media reported Thursday.
I retired as a Ministry of Finance official in January 2003, after more than 35 and a half years of service. The reason I stayed on as vice minister of finance for international affairs for three and a half years, an unusually long term, seems to be that Finance Minister Masajuro Shiokawa decided to keep me on a bit longer, and my retirement was postponed by six months.