Seoul, Sept. 22 (Jiji Press)–North Korea’s Missile Administration successfully tested on Sunday a new weapon that is significantly important for advancing the country’s weapons system technology, the state-run Korean Central News Agency said Tuesday. Japanese and South Korean authorities confirmed Sunday that

Tokyo, Sept. 22 (Jiji Press)–Hideki Murai, who became new parliamentary affairs chief of Japan’s governing Liberal Democratic Party last week, is drawing attention from both the ruling and opposition sides. The 46-year-old has been elected to the House of Representatives, the lower

New York, Sept. 21 (Jiji Press)–Nissan Motor Co. said Monday that it will shortly launch a hybrid version of the Rogue SUV model equipped with its e-Power technology in the U.S. market. It will be the first time for the major Japanese

Yamaguchi, Sept. 22 (Jiji Press)–An iconic class C57 steam locomotive in Japan has finished major repairs and is now set to resume commercial operations. On Saturday, a train hauled by the C57, nicknamed “Kifujin” (noble lady) partly for its slender shape, was

London, Sept. 21 (Jiji Press)–Mitsui Fudosan Co. on Monday held a groundbreaking ceremony for a redevelopment project at the British Library in central London. The total project cost will reach about 1.1 billion pounds, marking the largest investment in Europe for the

New York, Sept. 21 (Jiji Press)–The foreign chiefs of Japan, the United States and South Korea agreed Monday to enhance cooperation to strengthen supply chains, apparently keeping China in mind. The agreement came at a meeting held among the three officials in

London, Sept. 21 (Jiji Press)–Mitsui Fudosan Co. on Monday held a groundbreaking ceremony for a redevelopment project at the British Library in central London. The total project cost will reach about 1.1 billion pounds, marking the largest investment in Europe for the

New York, Sept. 21 (Jiji Press)–The foreign chiefs of Japan, the United States and South Korea agreed Monday to enhance cooperation to strengthen supply chains, apparently keeping China in mind. The agreement came at a meeting held among the three officials in

(Adnkronos) – The Putinist party United Russia has lost votes in the majority of polling stations opened in cities abroad where Russians who left Russia after the start of the war against Ukraine in February 2022 have taken refuge, the independent investigative

(Adnkronos) – Donald Trump has rejected accusations of an attack on press freedom after the lawsuit announced by CNN, Politico, and Ms Now against the president and some members of his administration for the ban on White House access imposed on their

(Adnkronos) – The elections that marked the AfD’s victory in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania were ”a dramatic event”. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz stated this during a press conference at the CDU headquarters in Berlin. Merz then expressed his concern about the growing antisemitism in

(Adnkronos) – The leadership of the Spd, the German Social Democratic Party, partner of the Cdu and Csu in the federal government coalition in Germany, intends to organize a convention in December. According to reports from “Der Spiegel” and Ard, the party’s

(Adnkronos) – 29% of Americans approve of Donald Trump’s performance as president, while 68% disapprove. This is what emerges from the latest American Research Group poll, conducted from September 16 to 20 among 1,100 adults in the United States, with a margin

(Adnkronos) – The British prosecution announced today that it has formalized the first charges against a person called to answer for their alleged role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, at the end of a complex seven-year investigation. Vincent Brown, 65, has been

Tokyo, Sept. 21 (Jiji Press)–Powerful Typhoon Dujuan passed northeastward over waters north of Hachijojima in the Izu island chain south of Tokyo on Monday afternoon and approached the Boso Peninsula in the Kanto region in eastern Japan. The Izu islands and southern

Tokyo, Sept. 21 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi left Tokyo’s Haneda Airport aboard a government plane late Monday for New York to attend a U.N. General Assembly session. In her first address to the General Assembly’s general debate, Takaichi plans to

Tokyo, Sept. 21 (Jiji Press)–Japan won gold medals in swimming and karate at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on Monday, with Shin Ohashi sharing the men’s 100-meter breaststroke title and Kakeru Nishiyama winning the men’s individual kata. Seventeen-year-old Ohashi clocked 58.64 seconds to

London, Sept. 21 (Jiji Press)–The Bank of Japan conducted a “rate check” with financial institutions, a move regarded as a preparatory step toward possible currency market intervention, ahead of a five-day holiday period through Wednesday in Japan, market sources said Monday. The

(Adnkronos) – Just Russia, the party of the ‘systemic opposition’, meaning the fake opposition tolerated by the Kremlin which in fact always votes as requested in the lower house of Parliament, does not exceed the five percent electoral threshold.   According to

(Adnkronos) – The outgoing State Duma ‘speaker’ Vyacheslav Volodin has been re-elected with over 92 percent of the votes for a single-mandate seat in the Saratov constituency, according to the vote count results, relating to the tabulation of just over 4 percent

(Adnkronos) – Three South Korean officers were injured in an explosion near the border with North Korea. The Seoul army announced this, specifying that the incident occurred south of the Military Demarcation Line within the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), one of the most

Tokyo, Sept. 21 (Jiji Press)–Former Japanese internal affairs minister Yoshimasa Hayashi is drawing attention within the country’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party over his next move after leaving the cabinet in a reshuffle on Thursday. Of the four candidates who ran against Prime

Kanazawa, Ishikawa Pref., Sept. 21 (Jiji Press)–People in Ishikawa Prefecture observed a moment of silence Monday for the victims of torrential rains that struck the northern part of the Noto Peninsula in the central Japan prefecture two years ago. The disaster left

Tokyo, Sept. 21 (Jiji Press)–Yuichiro Tamaki, leader of the Japanese opposition Democratic Party for the People, will visit Ukraine on Monday, his office said. Tamaki will be the first leader of a Japanese opposition party to visit Ukraine since Russia invaded the

Manila, Sept. 21 (Jiji Press)–A 90-year-old second-generation Japanese woman born in the Philippines who was separated from her father after World War II is planning to visit his native Okinawa Prefecture in southernmost Japan for the first time by the end of

Kanazawa, Ishikawa Pref., Sept. 21 (Jiji Press)–People in Ishikawa Prefecture observed a moment of silence Monday for the victims of torrential rains that struck the northern part of the Noto Peninsula in the central Japan prefecture two years ago. The disaster left

Tokyo, Sept. 21 (Jiji Press)–Needy households in Japan live on an average food expenditure of less than 500 yen per person a day amid lingering inflation, according to a survey by Save the Children Japan, a nongovernmental organization. The survey, conducted in

Manila, Sept. 20 (Jiji Press)–Economy ministers from Japan and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations agreed at a meeting in Manila on Sunday to begin a study on expanding the Japan-ASEAN economic partnership agreement, Japan’s Ryosei Akazawa said after the meeting. Participants

Seoul/Tokyo, Sept. 20 (Jiji Press)–North Korea fired two ballistic missiles toward the Sea of Japan from around Wonsan, Kangwon Province, at around 3 p.m. and 5:50 p.m. Sunday, according to the South Korean military. Both missiles are believed to have fallen into

Tokyo, Sept. 20 (Jiji Press)–Ahead of Respect for the Aged Day in Japan on Monday, the National Institute of Technology and Evaluation warned of accidents involving nursing beds or wheelchairs and urged elderly people to review proper usage with their families and