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[ad_1] SYDNEY – China has a strategy to help Pacific Island nations with policing, not defense, and its growing presence in the region should not alarm Australia, China's ambassador to Australia said on Wednesday.Ambassador Xiao Qian also told reporters that Nauru's decision this week to form diplomatic relations with China at the expense of Taiwan was "their own choice" and would not impact Australia's ties with Nauru, a tiny nation […]

[ad_1] The extensive scope of Johnny Kitagawa's decadeslong sexual abuse has made it difficult to identify what has been done to whom, with almost 1,000 individuals claiming to be victims.As a result, Smile-Up, formerly known as Johnny & Associates, is struggling to compensate victims of the late founder's sexual abuse.During a news conference Monday, a victims' group demanded more transparency on the criteria for compensation. They also asked that the […]

[ad_1] Japan Airlines (JAL) named its first female president on Wednesday, a former flight attendant who rose through the ranks to senior management, taking a deeply symbolic step in a country struggling to close a vast gender gap at work.Mitsuko Tottori, a senior managing executive officer who joined JAL in 1985, the year it suffered one of the worst crashes in airline history, will become president from April 1, the […]

[ad_1] Japanese lawmaker Mito Kakizawa was indicted Wednesday for violation of the election law, prosecutors said, following the former Liberal Democratic Party member's arrest over illegal campaign financing allegations related to a Tokyo ward election last April.The 52-year-old former senior vice justice minister and his four secretaries, who were also arrested on Dec. 28, initially denied that the money they offered ahead of the Koto Ward mayoral election was intended […]

[ad_1] Almost lost in the flood of storylines that emerged at the start of the ongoing Grand Sumo Tournament was news that Hidetoshi Tanaka — the former head of the International Sumo Federation (IFS) — passed away Saturday.Current IFS President Kazufumi Minami released a statement to national sumo federations on Jan. 16 announcing the death, adding, “Mr. Tanaka made great contributions to the development of amateur sumo, including establishment of […]