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[ad_1] Vientiane, Laos – Southeast Asian leaders will hold talks with a Myanmar junta representative at a summit on Wednesday as they try to kick-start faltering diplomatic efforts to broker an end to the country's bloody civil war.Rising tensions in the disputed South China Sea will also be on the agenda at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) gathering, after months of violent clashes between Chinese vessels and Philippine […]

[ad_1] Airlines, energy firms and a Universal Studios theme park were among the companies beginning to halt their Florida operations as they braced for disruptions with Hurricane Milton set to make landfall on Wednesday.The hurricane has rapidly intensified into one of the area's most powerful on record, threatening a stretch of Florida's densely populated west coast that is still reeling from the devastating Hurricane Helene less than two weeks ago.As […]

[ad_1] New Defense Minister Gen Nakatani has held his first talks with his U.S. counterpart, with the two agreeing to continue expanding their bilateral presence in Japan's far-flung Nansei Islands near Taiwan.Nakatani and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin spoke over the phone late Tuesday, the Defense Ministry said in a statement, with efforts to modernize the alliance’s command-and-control framework another focus of the talks.The ministers said they could continue “to work […]

[ad_1] Tsuguhiko Kadokawa, former chairman of Japanese publisher Kadokawa, pleaded not guilty on Tuesday over allegations he bribed a former executive of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic organizing committee."I don't recall anything, and I'm innocent," Kadokawa, 81, said in the first hearing of his trial at the Tokyo District Court. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Cases of mycoplasma pneumonia, a common infection affecting children that is usually accompanied by prolonged fever and cough, reached a record high during the last week of September, according to the most recent data from the National Institute of Infectious Diseases.The data published on Tuesday showed an average of 1.64 patients with the disease being reported per medical facility in the week between Sept. 23 and 29. This is […]

[ad_1] Japan saw the highest number of bankruptcies since 2013 in the six months through September, as companies were increasingly hit by rising costs. Some 4,990 firms went bankrupt in that period, increasing 18.6% from the previous year, according to a report by Teikoku Databank on Tuesday. The number of firms going under in Japan has continued to increase since the second half of the year ending March 2022. The […]

[ad_1] Parliament cleared a bill on Tuesday that will allow victims of a now-defunct eugenics law to receive ¥15 million in damages even if they did not file a lawsuit against the government for being forcibly sterilized.Spouses of victims are also eligible to receive ¥5 million in compensation. In the event of the death of the victim or their spouse, the family can claim compensation appropriate to the situation. Those […]

[ad_1] Real wages in Japan fell in August, bringing into doubt the earnings recovery some politicians hope will drive a sustained economic recovery.The labor ministry said real wages declined 0.6% year-on-year in August as high inflation ate away at solid nominal gains. This followed a positive reading in June, which broke a 26-month streak of real-wage declines, and another positive reading in July.The increases in those two months “were largely […]

[ad_1] New Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s “Asian NATO” proposal appears dead on arrival.The idea, long-mulled by the former defense chief, has faced an outpouring of criticism that it is both unrealistic and unpalatable for partners. It also comes just as Ishiba is set to attend his first multilateral forum as prime minister, when he heads to Laos this week for Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) meetings.Ishiba himself has admitted […]