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[ad_1] Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki on Tuesday called for the swift passage of a fiscal 2024 budget to help Japan deal with recent inflation through more robust pay hikes and extend "full" support to areas hit by the deadly earthquake on New Year's Day.The ¥112.57 trillion ($763 billion) budget for the fiscal year beginning in April, revised after the magnitude 7.6 quake devastated the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture, is […]

[ad_1] Doha – Former Liverpool attacker Takumi Minamino said Monday he was "shocked" by the news that manager Jurgen Klopp will leave the English Premier League club at the end of the season. The 29-year-old Monaco man, currently with the Japan team in Qatar for the Asian Cup, joined Klopp's Liverpool from Red Bull Salzburg during the 2020 January transfer window in the season that they won their first league […]

[ad_1] A new study just published recently in Science makes a compelling case that people with long COVID have a chronic imbalance in their immune response.The findings don’t explain why that immune response is out of whack and needs confirming in larger studies. Still, this is important new piece to the vexing puzzle that is long COVID.One of the challenges with diagnosing and treating long COVID is the dozens of […]

[ad_1] The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has revealed that it is planning to build an underground missile shelter under the Azabu-Juban subway station in Tokyo's Minato Ward, in a move that comes amid heightened geopolitical tensions and concerns over national security.“We have prepared other evacuation facilities in the past, but considering how rocky international affairs are right now we think it's important to prepare for the serious and significant threat of […]

[ad_1] Frustrated with the slow progress in reaching a regional maritime code-of-conduct with China, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is turning to neighboring South China Sea claimant states to boost regional security cooperation and potentially forge a united front against Beijing at a time of growing friction in contested waters.A first step in this direction came Tuesday as the Philippines signed two memoranda of understanding (MoUs) on security with Vietnam […]

[ad_1] Rapid growth in the number of post-pandemic tourists has left many local authorities in Japan confronting the challenge of overtourism and its negative impact on residents and the environment.Issues such as overcrowding on public transportation systems and problems related to garbage disposal have emerged in various parts of the country.The challenge has caught the attention of the central government, which is aiming to support local efforts at overcoming these […]

[ad_1] At a time of languishing approval ratings and soul-searching for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida made "power" the key leitmotif of his policy speech in parliament on Tuesday.He emphasized the "power of bonds" on full display in the country’s response to the earthquake that devastated the Noto Peninsula on New Year’s Day and how it became a "new power" for the future, as well as […]

[ad_1] Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa appeared unfazed Tuesday following remarks by Liberal Democratic Party veteran Taro Aso, who called her an obasan (old lady) and said she’s “not that good looking.”When asked about Aso’s comments at a post-Cabinet news conference on Tuesday, Kamikawa said she was aware of “a variety of opinions and voices out there.”“I am grateful for all of them,” she said. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] The Supreme Court has rejected a 10th and likely final retrial request to review the 1961 murders of five women with poisoned wine in the city of Nabari.In a decision dated Monday, the top court rejected a special appeal for reopening the case involving Masaru Okunishi, who died at age 89 of pneumonia while on death row in 2015, some 43 years after his death sentence for killing the […]