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President Donald Trump on Friday said he was considering banning the video platform TikTok in response to concerns the Chinese Government could access user data.

The UK’s first post-Brexit international trade deal is set to be signed with Japan within a matter of weeks, according to reports.

The U.S. ambassador to South Korea shaved off his mustache recently to stay “cool” during the country’s hot summer months after his controversial facial hair drew heat from anti-U.S. activists who claimed the mustache was a nod to former Japanese colonial rulers, Reuters reported on Monday.

Japanese officials reacted angrily on Tuesday to the construction of a statue in Pyeongchang, South Korea, appearing to depict Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo kneeling and bowing to a seated “comfort woman.”

Recently revealed satellite data shows that 700 Chinese vessels fished illegally in North Korean waters in 2018, violating U.N. sanctions on foreign fishing adopted in 2017 after Pyongyang’s testing of ballistic missiles, the Japan Times reported Monday.

Tokyo’s governor said on Monday that the Summer Olympics – postponed due to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic – must go forward next year to symbolize world unity in overcoming the health crisis, Japan Today reported on Tuesday.

Indian and Japanese warships conducted a joint naval drill in the Indian Ocean on Saturday, in an exercise involving two warships from each country’s navy, the Hindustan Times reported on Monday.

The United Kingdom and Japan are seeking to forge a free trade agreement in six weeks in order to get it passed during the current parliament in Japan.  

Japan filed a diplomatic protest against Beijing after Chinese ships encroached on Japanese territory near the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea for a record 66th day on Wednesday, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported.

Japan has halted the deployment of a U.S. missile defense system on its shores, citing unexpected costs and logistic difficulties, Japan’s Defense Minister Taro Kono said on Monday, the Nikkei Asian Review reported.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s mistreatment of Uyghur Muslims extends beyond China’s borders and into foreign countries, with Beijing ordering Chinese diplomats to “harass and intimidate” members of the ethnic group in Japan, the U.S. State Department’s 2019 Religious Freedom Report on Japan revealed on Wednesday.

Japanese public broadcaster NHK issued an apology on Tuesday after deleting an animated video from its Twitter account that was meant to explain the anti-police protests rocking America, but instead caused outrage over its callous depiction of black people.

The UK has launched the beginning of negotiations for a free trade deal with Japan, the talks commencing as reports suggest discussions between Brexit Britain and the European Union could collapse over fishing and regulatory alignment.

The U.S. military has documented a “surge of maritime activity” by China in the South China Sea and the East China Sea since the coronavirus pandemic began, indicating that Beijing has been capitalizing on the global distraction caused by the crisis to bolster its illegal claims to territory in the waters, Reuters reported on Friday.

The Japan Patent Office on Wednesday said an individual in China had recently applied to trademark the name of a Japanese indigenous group for products including cell phone cases and computer mice, Japan’s Kyodo News reported on Wednesday.

Noise complaints by annoyed neighbors are on the rise in Japan as people forced to stay home for weeks during the country’s coronavirus lockdown grow increasingly hostile. In an extreme case, a man in Tokyo was stabbed to death by his neighbor following a noise complaint, the Japan Times reported on Wednesday.

A member of the National Diet of Japan, the federal lawmaking body, was caught on Wednesday watching videos of snakes and alligators during a committee meeting.

Japanese Health Ministry found a 20-percent decrease in the number of suicides between April 2020 and April 2019, it revealed this week – a notable decline, particularly given that suicide hotlines report struggles to cope with demand.

The World Health Organization’s (W.H.O.) top legal officer claimed on Monday that Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the head of the agency, has no power to invite Taiwan to this month’s World Health Assembly, despite widespread pressure on the group to do so.

Two Chinese Coast Guard ships pursued a Japanese fishing boat in its home waters near the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, the Japanese coast guard said on Saturday. 

Softbank has warned about deeper losses for the year due to a  whopping $6.6 billion write-down on its WeWork investment.

The term “corona divorce” is trending on Japanese social media as couples confined to their homes amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic vent their marriage frustrations online, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on Monday.

Matsui Ichiro, the mayor of Osaka, is taking heat on social media for suggesting that men should handle shopping chores during the coronavirus pandemic because women tend to hang around the stores for too long.

Bill Hagerty called the Chinese Communist regime’s cover-up of the coronavirus the “crime of the century,” in an interview with Breitbart News.

The Navy said it is “fully aware” and remains “operationally ready” in response to a Chinese deployment of a carrier strike group.

Taiwan organized warships on Saturday night to monitor the movements of a Chinese carrier strike group after Japan spotted it heading towards the western Pacific, the South China Morning Post reported on Sunday.

Japan is paying its companies to leave China and relocate production elsewhere as part of a stimulus deal in response to the Chinese coronavirus.

Even without the stringent mandatory shutdowns imposed in much of the world, Japan’s economy will suffer its worst contraction on record.

Japanese investment powerhouse SoftBank has confirmed that it will not be purchasing $3 billion worth of WeWork shares, citing multiple “significant” criminal and civil investigations into WeWork and its finances among other factors.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently published a paper reporting that Japanese data showed that coronavirus transmission was nearly 20 times more likely indoors than outdoors.