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Japan and Australia urged calm on Sunday after Chinese military aircraft locked radar on Japanese fighter jets, a month after the Japanese leader`s recent remarks on Taiwan that stirred tensions between Tokyo and Beijing...

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President Donald Trump heads to Asia on Friday for the first time this term, a trip where he`s expected to work on investment deals and peace efforts before meeting face-to-face with Chinese President Xi Jinping to try to deescalate a trade war...

Japan`s parliament elected ultraconservative Sanae Takaichi as the country`s first female prime minister Tuesday, a day after her struggling party struck a coalition deal with a new partner expected to pull her governing bloc further to the right...

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Many Japanese took to the street in Tokyo, protesting the government’s constant pursuit of military expansion in disregard of the current severe inflation and increasing pressure on people’s livelihoods...

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The United States has agreed to tighten COVID-19 restrictions on personnel at US military bases in Japan, said the Japanese Foreign Ministry on Sunday...

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A news broadcast shows file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul, South Korea, on January 5, 2021...

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Firefighters are seen in front of a building where a fire broke out in Osaka, western Japan December 17, 2021 in this photo taken by Kyodo...

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Takashi Okada, Japan’s ambassador to Afghanistan, says his country has decided to reopen its embassy in Kabul after the new government ensured Tokyo about its security...

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A historic heavy snowfall hit Japan’s northern prefectures, stranding hundreds of cars, Japan’s public broadcaster NHK reported on Sunday...

Yoshihide Suga speaks during a news conference following his confirmation as prime minister of Japan, in Tokyo, Japan, on September 16, 2020...

Newly-elected leader of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) Yoshihide Suga (3rd-L) is applauded after being elected as Japan’s prime minister by the lower house of parliament, in Tokyo, Japan, on September 16, 2020...

Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga presents Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with flowers after Suga was elected as new head of the ruling party at the Liberal Democratic Party’s (LDP) leadership election in Tokyo, Japan September 14, 2020...