Section: Japan
- Japan Today (Japan) (302)
- Kyodo News (Japan) (71)
- The Diplomat (Japan) (28)
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Japan-Ukraine Relations: Untapped Potential
With shared interests and experiences, Japan-Ukraine relations should be booming. Why aren’t they? …read more Source: The...
Ukraine’s embattled Prime Minister Yatsenyuk announces he will quit
Embattled Ukraine Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk announced Sunday that he is resigning, opening the way for the formation of a new government to end a drawn-out political crisis. In his weekly televised address, Yatsenyuk said his resignation will be formally submitted to parliament on Tuesday. Yatsenyuk’s Cabinet survived a no-confidence...
World › Politicians, celebs in spotlight over offshore accounts
The fallout from a massive leak of records on offshore accounts dragged a growing number of leaders and celebrities into the spotlight Wednesday, with a Bollywood actor, a race car driver and Ukraine’s president among those denying they evaded taxes. The reports center on millions of documents detailing how the… …read more Source:...
UPDATE1: Japan urges Ukraine to fully implement cease-fire accord
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Abe to affirm Japan’s aid to Ukraine in talks with Poroshenko
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International relations keep warm at Antarctic research stations
Winter is coming, and like many scientists posted in Antarctica, Bogdan Gavrylyuk is looking forward to going home. It has been a year since the 43-year-old Ukrainian geophysicist started his latest posting, monitoring climatic phenomena on an island off western Antarctica. “Everybody misses home. Everybody has a family or a girlfriend, and of...
Pope declares special April 24 collection for conflict-torn people in Ukraine
Pope Francis has announced a special collection to help people in Ukraine suffering amid conflict “who thirst for peace and reconciliation.” The pontiff told the faithful Sunday following a Holy Year Mass that Roman Catholic parishes in Europe will hold a special collection on April 24 as a “humanitarian initiative of support,” noting that the...
Kerry cites progress on Syria, Ukraine in Moscow talks
After lengthy meetings with both Russian President Vladimir Putin and the country’s foreign minister, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday that Washington and Moscow have reached an understanding on how the fragile cease-fire in Syria can be strengthened. At a midnight news conference with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Kerry...
Area around Chernobyl plant to become a nuclear dump
A heavily contaminated area within a 10-kilometer radius of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine will be used to store nuclear waste materials, the chief of a state agency managing the wider exclusion zone said in an interview. “People cannot live in the land seriously contaminated for another 500 years, so we are planning […] The post...
As 30th anniversary of Chernobyl nears, giant arch set to encase radiation for next 100 years
In the middle of a vast exclusion zone in northern Ukraine, the world’s largest land-based moving structure has been built to prevent deadly radiation spewing from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site for the next 100 years. On April 26, 1986, a botched test at the Soviet nuclear plant sent clouds of smoldering nuclear material across […]...
