Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo on May 20 issued a statement on “G7 Leaders’ Hiroshima Vision on Nuclear Disarmament”. The full text of Shii’s statement is as follows ...

Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo ... in Canada-who is also present here today-strongly criticized the G7 Hiroshima Vision adopted in May, saying that she was appalled by the fact that ...

THE current international tariff saga, based on a notion of the "Make America Great Again" (MAGA) ideology promoted by President Donald Trump and supported by millions of Americans, should, one would ...

Even Japan, traditionally reticent when it comes ... Chinese military activity in the Indo-Pacific. In Hiroshima last year, G7 leaders agreed to launch an initiative to counter “economic ...

If Japan had surrendered six months earlier than it did, then there would have been no firebombing of Tokyo, no Battle of Okinawa, no atomic bombing of Hiroshima or Nagasaki ... will work in ...

HIROSHIMA, Japan – For the Zen monks, days in the calendar that contain the digits four and nine are regarded as special. On those six days each month – except February in a leap year – the ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato ... Noting he is making arrangements to attend the three-day meeting of G7 finance ministers and central bank governors starting May ...

The United States, where Donald Trump was reelected as president, fell two spots to 57th, the second-worst ranking among the G7. Media freedom is "generally respected" in Japan, but "traditional ...

TOKYO - Japanese Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato said on Tuesday that he would seek to meet U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on the sidelines of the G7 meetings in Canada next week to discuss ...

Finding enough rooms at the inn is proving no mean feat for Japanese government officials set to attend the G7 Leaders’ Summit in Kananaskis next month. The Asian country’s foreign affairs ...

Both Japan and the US have the lowest rankings in the G7 and badly need to improve on that. Both should at least be in the top ten. "Japan trailed other members of the Group of Seven countries in the ...