Hiroshima mayor urges Japan PM to join UN nuke ban treaty meeting
Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui on Friday urged Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba to decide on Japan's participation as an observer ...
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LDP staff member of Tokyo assembly charged as funding scandal grows
Prosecutors on Friday issued a summary indictment against a ruling party staff member in charge of accounting for the party in the Tokyo metropolitan assembly, alleging that he failed to properly ...
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LDP Money Scandal Hits Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly; Ruling Party Worries Over Effect On Summer Elections
The “politics and money” scandal involving factions of Liberal Democratic Party in the Diet has now spilled over into the ...
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China-Japan relations
Record defence budgets from Japan and the Philippines come as tensions with China grow and incoming US leader urges allies to spend more.