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Melbourne, April 18 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi and his Australian counterpart Richard Marles agreed Saturday to expand cooperation between their countries and with like-minded nations for the security of the Indo-Pacific region. In a meeting in Melbourne, the two ministers

Tokyo, April 18 (Jiji Press)–The president of an information technology company in Tokyo who has been arrested for allegedly abandoning the body of an executive of the firm told police last October that he was unable to contact the senior official, Jiji

Tokyo, April 18 (Jiji Press)–Two powerful earthquakes struck northern areas of Nagano Prefecture in central Japan on Saturday, with the first temblor measuring up to upper 5, the fourth-highest level on the Japanese seismic intensity scale. According to the Japan Meteorological Agency,

Tokyo, April 18 (Jiji Press)–Two powerful earthquakes struck northern areas of Nagano Prefecture in central Japan on Saturday, with the first temblor measuring up to upper 5, the fourth-highest level on the Japanese seismic intensity scale. According to the Japan Meteorological Agency,

Tokyo, April 18 (Jiji Press)–Junya Ogawa, leader of Japan’s main opposition Centrist Reform Alliance, has called for “dialogue and consensus” to better the world at an international conference of center-left political parties. At a panel discussion in the inaugural Global Progressive Mobilization

Brussels, April 18 (Jiji Press)–Japan and the European Union have held the first dialogue designed to reinforce their cooperation for the defense industry. Amid an increasingly severe global security environment, Japan and the EU aim to work closely together to strengthen supply

Tokyo, April 18 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has sent a message to an international meeting expressing her country’s determination to take “all possible measures” to improve the situation in the Strait of Hormuz. In the message sent to the meeting

Nantan, Kyoto, April 18 (Jiji Press)–Police began examining the area around a public restroom in Nantan, Kyoto Prefecture, western Japan, on Saturday, after a missing 11-year-old boy was found dead in a forest area of the city earlier this month, Jiji Press

Tokyo, April 18 (Jiji Press)–A powerful earthquake measuring up to upper 5, the fourth-highest level on the Japanese seismic intensity scale, struck northern areas of Nagano Prefecture in central Japan on Saturday. According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, the earthquake with an

Melbourne, April 18 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi and his Australian counterpart Richard Marles at a meeting in Melbourne on Saturday agreed to strengthen bilateral cooperation to ensure security in East Asia. The two ministers confirmed their countries’ cooperation apparently to