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Kuala Lumpur, Oct. 26 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi vowed Sunday to beef up cooperation with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in the fields of security, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. At a meeting with leaders of ASEAN member states

Kuala Lumpur, Oct. 26 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi vowed Sunday to beef up maritime security cooperation with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. Also at a meeting with leaders of ASEAN member states in Kuala Lumpur, Takaichi promised that

Kuala Lumpur, Oct. 26 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi held a meeting with leaders of Association of Southeast Asian Nations member countries in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur on Sunday. This is Takaichi’s first foreign trip since she took

Kuala Lumpur, Oct. 26 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Sunday agreed to strengthen the two countries’ cooperation including in the security field. The Philippines has territorial disputes with China in the South China Sea.

Tanegashima, Kagoshima Pref., Oct. 26 (Jiji Press)–The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, successfully launched an H3 rocket carrying the first unit of the newly developed HTV-X resupply vehicle on Sunday. The seventh H3 rocket was launched from the Tanegashima Space Center

Tokyo, Oct. 26 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s new Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama on Sunday vowed to “do everything possible” to secure funds to raise the share of the country’s defense spending to its gross domestic product to 2 pct in the current fiscal year.

Tokyo, Oct. 26 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s new Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi said Sunday that he may meet with U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth during U.S. President Donald Trump’s three-day visit to Japan from Monday. “I will tell (Hegseth) that Japan will strengthen its

Tokyo, Oct. 26 (Jiji Press)–A Komeito executive said that the Japanese party may give its backing to candidates of the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan in future parliamentary elections. “It could be possible” for Komeito, the former coalition partner of

Tokyo, Oct. 26 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s health ministry has started considering ways to promote the use of follow-on products of very expensive original biological drugs. Options include increasing out-of-pocket costs of patients who choose original drugs even though the original and follow-on products

Tanegashima, Kagoshima Pref., Oct. 26 (Jiji Press)–The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, successfully launched an H3 rocket carrying the first unit of the newly developed HTV-X resupply vehicle on Sunday. The seventh H3 rocket was launched from the Tanegashima Space Center