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Manila, July 22 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi expressed a desire to strengthen cooperation with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, at a meeting with his counterparts from ASEAN countries in Manila on Wednesday. Motegi said ASEAN is “at the core”

Tokyo, July 22 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese government is planning to increase the number of employees at the Immigration Services Agency by about 200 starting next fiscal year, informed sources said Wednesday. The personnel increase is aimed at strengthening enforcement against illegal residents

Tokyo, July 22 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara on Wednesday defended Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi after the leader’s social media post about being unable to get enough sleep drew criticism for running counter to workstyle reform efforts. Kihara avoided commenting

Tokyo, July 22 (Jiji Press)–The first state-paid secretary to Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said in a statement submitted to the chairman of the Budget Committee of the House of Representatives that he did not create or disseminate defamatory videos targeting Takaichi’s

Tokyo, July 22 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s House of Councillors, the upper chamber of the Diet, or parliament, began deliberations Wednesday on a bill to establish a secondary capital of the nation that would assume core government functions during major disasters. An outline of

Tokyo, July 22 (Jiji Press)–A Russian hacker group calling itself “RansomHouse” has claimed responsibility for a cyberattack that disrupted the operations of major Japanese frozen food maker Nichirei Corp., it was learned Wednesday. Nichirei declined to provide details about the attack while

Tokyo, July 22 (Jiji Press)–More prefectural chapters of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan oppose than support the opposition party’s possible merger into the Centrist Reform Alliance, a Jiji Press survey showed Wednesday. In the survey of senior prefectural chapter officials earlier

(Adnkronos) – According to the latest data released Wednesday by the World Health Organization (WHO), citing Congolese health authorities, the Ebola epidemic has so far caused 1,001 victims in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Uganda, exceeding one thousand.  In the

(Adnkronos) – A suspected case of bubonic plague has been reported in Khovd province, western Mongolia, the country’s National Center for Zoonotic Diseases (Nczd) said today. According to the Nczd, the individual is suspected to have contracted the disease after consuming marmot

(Adnkronos) – The Louvre Museum reopens its Galerie d’Apollon, or Apollo Gallery, today, nine months after the spectacular jewel theft, but visitors will find the sumptuous room stripped of the valuables and art treasures that once filled it. The museum’s director, Christophe