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North Korea launched at least one ballistic missile in the direction of Japan on Wednesday, drawing a formal protest lodged by Japan via China. 

The government of South Korea confirmed on Wednesday that a short-range missile fired in an attempted response to North Korea flying its own projectile over Japan this week crashed into a local golf course, causing panic among South Korean civilians.

Leftist American President Joe Biden, skipping the funeral of longtime Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo, signaled to Japan that “he’s more worried about the midterms than the threat of China and Russia,” Japanese conservative journalist and commentator Yoko Ishii told Breitbart News in an exchange on Friday.

Germany and Japan conducted their first joint military drills Wednesday as Berlin forecast a continuous security commitment in the volatile region.

Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio joined other free nations at the 77th U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday in condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine as an outrage that “tramples on the vision and principles of the U.N. Charter.”

President Joe Biden will travel to the Queen’s funeral in his own private car, despite his supposed climate concerns, while the Japanese Emperor and other world leaders take a bus.

A Dutch non-profit group called The Ocean Cleanup released a report on September 1 that found the bulk of the plastic debris in the so-called North Pacific Garbage Patch consists of discarded fishing equipment from Japan and China. 

The government of Noto, a central Japanese town known for its squid fishery, said Monday that its once controversial decision to erect a giant squid statue with pandemic relief funds in October 2020 had paid off, as it had since boosted tourism in the area and thus generated significant income for the local economy, the Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) reported Tuesday.

Japan’s federal government said on Wednesday it is mulling over plans to build “next-generation nuclear power plants,” Kyodo News reported, noting that the admission marks a major shift from previous statements by Tokyo that it would not pursue “new nuclear energy” in the wake of the 2011 nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan.

Japan’s government recently kicked off a marketing campaign aimed at increasing alcohol sales among younger citizens, aged 20 to 39, in response to record decreases in alcohol tax income in Japan over the past few years, the Hindustan Times reported Friday.

An organized crime syndicate called the Anegasaki-kai has recently disbanded after operating within Tokyo’s old downtown district since about 1912, investigative sources told the Asahi Shimbun newspaper Friday.

Tokyo has allegedly agreed to work jointly with the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) to create a new body of the U.N. public health agency that will promote universal health coverage in developing countries, Japanese Foreign Ministry sources told Kyodo News Thursday.

Japan’s population dropped in 2021 by 726,342, which was the greatest decline margin documented since Tokyo began recording relevant data nearly a decade ago, Kyodo News reported on Tuesday.

Saudi Arabia on Thursday announced record-high selling prices for crude oil to Asian buyers. The remarkably high increase of 50 cents per barrel was still lower than some forecasts, which anticipated up to $1.50 per barrel.

At a press conference on Friday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying bizarrely and offensively compared U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Taiwan visit to the death of George Floyd, in a strained effort to paint the U.S. government as a murderously abusive “world policeman.”

A new Japanese economic security law came into effect on Monday, Kyodo News reported, noting that it aims to bolster a stable global supply of crucial technologies such as semiconductors and protect their patents in the face of increasing Chinese interest in such materials.

The governments of Japan and Indonesia agreed on Wednesday to ramp up coordination across the defense sector in the coming months in an effort to counter Chinese aggression in the Indo-Pacific region, Kyodo News reported.

Japan’s Health Ministry on Monday awarded a compensation payment to the family of a woman who died after suffering an allergic reaction and heart attack related to a Chinese coronavirus vaccination, Kyodo News reported on Tuesday, noting that the transaction was the first of its kind in Japan.

A soccer game in Japan continued uninterrupted last week while an active volcano visibly erupted nearby, Chile’s CHVNoticias website reported on Wednesday, noting that all athletes, officials, and spectators of the event participated in the game as if nothing was amiss despite plumes of volcanic smoke gathering in the sky above the open-air soccer stadium.

Japan’s central government plans to reactivate up to nine nuclear power plants in the next few months to support an expected spike in electricity demand during the upcoming winter season, Japan’s Asahi Shimbun newspaper reported on Friday.

Various media outlets — including the Associated Press (AP) and the Chinese Communist Party-run Global Times — alleged this week that the recently slain former Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo maintained ties with a South Korean religious cult active in Japan

The Chinese state-run propaganda newspaper Global Times published a story on Wednesday defending ebullient celebrations last week on Beijing-controlled social media following the news of the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo, insisting that “it is impossible to expect” decorum from the Chinese public given Abe’s politics.

China’s Foreign Ministry and its government propaganda outlets expressed concern on Tuesday that the decisive conservative victory in Japan’s legislative elections this weekend, which took place immediately after the assassination of former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo on Friday, could encourage Japan to become a “geopolitical thug.”

Japanese voters turned out in large numbers Sunday to help the nation’s conservative, Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and a junior coalition party win enough seats to forge a two-thirds majority in the Upper House chamber of Japan’s national legislature, the Asahi Shimbun reported on Monday.

Former Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo was assassinated on July 8 while delivering a campaign speech in Nara, Japan. Abe, 67, stepped down as Japan’s longest-serving prime minister in September 2020 due to health concerns.

Mourners of former Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo on Friday – assassinated in broad daylight on Friday – offered flowers and watermelon juice, reportedly Abe’s favorite fruit juice, at makeshift shrines set up across the country on Saturday.

Multiple Japanese newspapers, citing unnamed police “sources,” reported on Saturday that the man arrested on charges of having assassinated former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo said he initially wanted to kill the leader of an unnamed “religious” group but found it more difficult than targeting Abe.

LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Former President Donald Trump told Breitbart News exclusively here that he is considering attending the funeral of the assassinated former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

Former first lady of Japan Abe Akie arrived in Nara, southern Japan, on Friday shortly before authorities confirmed that her husband, former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo, had died of gunshot wounds sustained while he was delivering a campaign speech in the city.

Photos appearing to show Chinese vendors offering beverage discounts in celebration of former Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo’s assassination began to crop up on Chinese social media platforms including Weibo on Friday, Taiwan’s Apple Daily newspaper reported.

The Taliban terrorist organization, which currently rules Afghanistan, offered condolences to the “people of Japan” and its government on Friday following the assassination of former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo.

President Joe Biden reacted to the assassination of former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo, by praising Japan’s strict gun control laws.

Chinese social media reportedly blew up Friday with posts gleefully celebrating the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo, who annoyed the tyrants of Beijing with his staunch support for Taiwan.

Video footage of former Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo’s assassination on Friday appears to show that the leader had very little security protecting him at the time of his murder, which took place as he gave a campaign speech outdoors.

China’s Global Times state propaganda outlet described former Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo on Friday as having a “bad reputation” and a career littered with “wrongdoings” just hours after the Japanese government announced Abe’s death. 

Former Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo, slain by an assassin’s bullet on Thursday night, revived the moribund Japanese economy with an ambitious package of policies known as “Abenomics.”