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YANGON — Four executives from supermarket chains in Myanmar, including a Japanese joint-venture official, were arrested for selling rice at inflated prices, state media said on July 1, as the war-torn country's ruling junta struggles to stabilise a spiralling economy.
A mayor of a city in the southernmost Japanese prefecture of Okinawa, which hosts a US military base at the heart of a controversy over its relocation, was found dead in a Tokyo hotel on Friday, police said. He is suspected to have died from an illness.
TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s government said Wednesday it has protested against Russia’s announcement that it is permanently banning 13 Japanese citizens, mostly business leaders of prominent companies including Toyota Motor Corp., in retaliation for Tokyo’s sanctions over the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
TOKYO — Japan will continue to work with the United States for peace on the Taiwan Strait regardless of who is in the White House after the November presidential election, Japan's top government spokesperson told Reuters in an exclusive interview.
BEIJING (Kyodo) -- China expressed its "strong dissatisfaction and firm opposition" on Friday to a joint maritime drill conducted by the coast guards of Japan and Taiwan, saying Beijing has lodged a protest with Tokyo over the exercise.
The buoy was discovered last week near Okinotorishima, a tiny remote atoll 1,730km south of Tokyo and the southernmost feature claimed by Japan. Though China and other have argued that the coral reef does not qualify as an island under UN definitions, Japan insists it can use the outpost to extend its exclusive economic zone (EEZ).
The Japanese government said on Friday it has confirmed China has installed a buoy in the high seas over Japan’s southern continental shelf in the Pacific Ocean, in a move that could further strain bilateral relations.
