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China insisted that its muted response to Japan electing its first woman prime minister, conservative Takaichi Sanae, was “appropriate.”

Japan’s first female prime minister, Takaichi Sanae, laid out an ambitious conservative agenda after winning her office in a parliamentary vote on Tuesday.

Conservative Takaichi Sanae is Japan’s first female prime minister after the 64-year-old triumphed Tuesday in an historic vote to clear the way for her ascendancy.

Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) made a deal on Monday to form a coalition with the Japan Innovation Party, generally known as “Ishin,” that should clear away the final obstacles to conservative Takaichi Sanae becoming Japan’s first female prime minister.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry’s response to the Gaza ceasefire deal on Thursday was tepid and sour, expressing doubt that anything less than the creation of a Palestinian state would bring peace.

Saito Tetsuo, leader of Japan’s Komeito Party, announced on Friday that Komeito will break from the ruling coalition headed by the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) over concerns about corruption.

Japan’s Nikkei stock index rose 4.7 percent to a record high of 47,944.76 on Monday, driven by a remarkable surge of investor optimism over the election of conservative Takaichi Sanae as leader of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), and most likely the first female prime minister of Japan.

Takaichi Sanae won leadership of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), positioning her to become Japan’s first female prime minister.

Japan could run out of its most popular beer, Asahi Super Dry, this weekend due to a massive cyberattack that shut down dozens of the company’s factories.

The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) of Japan is preparing for a special election in October to replace outgoing Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru, who announced his resignation after less than a year in office on Sunday.

Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba announced Sunday he will step down as his Liberal Democratic Party slumps in the polls and critics blast his government over its “African Hometown” program seen as a backdoor scheme to enable mass migration from Africa to Japan.

Communist China staged an expensive demonstration of its military power at a parade on Wednesday to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War 2. Beijing also used the event to push its false version of WW2 history and showcase its tyrant allies, prominently including Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un.

The Japanese government struggled this week to convince a public nervous about demographic decline that its “African Hometown” program is not a backdoor scheme to set up mass migration from Africa to Japan.

Defense ministers hailed their “deep strategic alignment” on Thursday as a Royal Navy aircraft carrier made a historic port call in Tokyo.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday inaugurated a factory in the town of Hansalpur that will manufacture an electric vehicle (EV) called the Maruti Suzuki e-Vitara.

A Japanese man was expelled from Taiwan after he filmed himself proclaiming “Taiwan belongs to China” at a shopping district in Taipei.

The government of Japan has reportedly asked European and Asian leaders not to attend China’s military parade and other events to mark the 80th anniversary of World War II.

Taliban officials urged Japan to consider recognizing the jihadist terrorist organization as the legitimate government of Afghanistan this week as they marked the fourth anniversary of seizing power.

Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru said on Tuesday that his country is ready to participate in an international coalition to guarantee the security of Ukraine after a prospective peace deal with Russia.

The USA Pavilion at Expo 2025 in Osaka, Japan, set the stage for a trade deal that was agreed upon just days after it hosted a delegation of cabinet officials sent by President Donald Trump.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha and First Lady Olena Zelenska visited Japan this week seeking opportunities for cooperation in both politics and business, particularly investments in the reconstruction of post-war Ukraine.

Record recruitment into the Australian armed forces has delivered the biggest single-year military personnel increase Down Under in 15 years, figures released Wednesday show.

Australia is spending billions of dollars upgrading its navy with 11 new-build Mogami-class frigates from Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Defence Minister Richard Marles said on Tuesday.

The tsunami unleashed by the massive 8.8 earthquake off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula reached Japan on Wednesday morning.

Governor Arnold Palacios of the Northern Mariana Islands died on July 23 at age 69, after suffering from an enigmatic “medical incident.” Palacios suddenly “collapsed” and died soon after announcing his intention to pivot from China to the United States.

Police arrested and charged gardener for possessing an “offensive weapon”, with officers refusing to accept tools had a legitimate purpose.

Several tsunami alerts have been sent out for Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, Hawaii, states on the West Coast of the United States, and Guam after an 8.8 magnitude earthquake occurred off the coast of Russia.

The far-left Axios seems pretty upset over President Trump’s triumphant trade deal with the European Union.

President Donald Trump announced that his administration had “completed a massive” trade deal with Japan, under which Japan would pay a 15 percent reciprocal tariff rate and would invest $550 billion in the United States.

Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru said on Sunday evening that he intends to remain in office as prime minister, even though his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) suffered an anticipated defeat in Sunday’s elections and lost control of the upper house of the National Diet.

Japan’s upstart populist-conservative party Sanseito is causing major headaches for Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in this weekend’s election, peeling off just enough votes to bring Ishiba’s minority coalition government down.

As we approach the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, we recall that Japan’s surrender on September 2, 1945, was determined by another world-changing event: the first detonation of an atomic bomb on July 16, 1945.

Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) posted its lowest polling numbers since 2012 on Monday, a grim omen of the ruling party’s fortunes heading into this Sunday’s elections for the upper house of the National Diet, the Japanese parliament.

Largest-ever war-fighting drills in Australia, Exercise Talisman Sabre, are underway and expected to attract the attention of Chinese spies.