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WASHINGTON: United States President Joe Biden welcomed Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at the White House on Friday and is expected to hail what Washington sees as historic plans by Tokyo for a major military build-up in the face of shared concerns about China. Kishida met Vice President Kamala Harris …

By Dhara Ranasinghe LONDON (Reuters) – World stocks scaled one-month highs on Friday as hopes of inflation easing took hold, while the yen jumped to seven-month peaks and Japanese bond yields breached a central bank target as investors challenged its commitment to loose …

Advertisement On January 10, Japan’s Prime Minister Kishida Fumio arrived in Italy for his first official visit, meeting new Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni for a working lunch at Palazzo Chigi. This was also the first bilateral meeting between the two leaders. Kishida’s visit is part of an extended tour …

Comment on this story Comment Sign up to get the rest free, including news from around the globe and interesting ideas and opinions to know, sent to your inbox every weekday. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will meet with President Biden at the White House on Friday. Kishida arrives in …

Spacewalk and Steel City have attracted plenty of support from TAB Fixed Odds punters going into the Rosehill Gardens meeting on Saturday. “When markets opened on Wednesday, Spacewalk was the first horse backed,” TAB spokesman Andrew Georgiou said. “We wrote a lot of big bets against him in the first …

TOKYO : Yields on Japan’s benchmark 10-year government bonds breached the central bank’s new ceiling on Friday in the market’s most direct challenge yet to decades of uber-easy monetary policy. With speculation swirling that the Bank of Japan’s policy of yield curve control (YCC) could be revised, or even abandoned, …

Singapore’s Minister for Health Ong Ye Kung told Parliament Monday that the government is not imposing new restrictions on travelers from China because limited flight capacity, combined with its current border policies, have resulted in few imported cases — and even fewer severe cases — coming from China. Ong said …

Advertisement The Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) and the Indian Air Force (IAF) will conduct their first bilateral fighter jet training in Japan later this month, marking a historic milestone in the two nation’s defense and security ties amid China’s military buildup and regional assertiveness. Their first-ever joint air combat …

Advertisement South Korean officials are considering creating a domestic fund to compensate Koreans who were enslaved by Japanese companies before the end of World War II, as they desperately try to repair relations with Tokyo that have deteriorated in recent years over historical grievances. The plan, revealed Thursday during a …

Advertisement This winter Japan is once again asking households and companies to conserve electricity as the country braces for falling temperatures. “Warm biz,” the government’s latest campaign, encourages residents to dress warmly in turtlenecks and sweaters in an effort to prevent blackouts. Last March, for the first time in seven …

The United Kingdom and Japan have signed a major defense pact, praised as “historic” by the British prime minister but frowned upon by the Chinese government. The Japan-U.K. Reciprocal Access Agreement (RAA), signed by Rishi Sunak and his counterpart Fumio Kishida on Wednesday, would allow both countries to deploy forces …

South Korea’s government has proposed compensating Koreans who were forced to work for Japanese firms during World War II using funding from a domestic foundation rather than funds from the companies involved in the forced labour. The plan, unveiled at a public hearing on Thursday, comes as Seoul seeks closer …