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TOKYO (AP) — Japan's parliament on Friday raised the age of sexual consent to 16 from 13, a limit which had remained unchanged for more than a century and was among the world's lowest, amid calls for greater protection of children and women. The revision was part of a ...
TOKYO (AP) — An 18-year-old army trainee shot three fellow soldiers at a firing range on a Japanese army base Wednesday, killing two of them, officials said. The suspect was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder at the scene in Gifu prefecture in central Japan, police said. The suspect ...
... areas where debris might possibly fall. The same information had already been disseminated through the worldwide navigation warning system following the North's communication with Japan’s coast guard, which coordinates and distributes maritime safety information in the region. Last week, South Korea launched its first commercial-grade satellite, which ...
... Japan, Australia, India and the United States. The G7 includes Japan, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Canada and Italy, as well as the European Union. Associated Press writers Zeke Miller, Elaine Kurtenbach and Mari Yamaguchi in Hiroshima, Japan, and Joanna Kozlowska in London contributed to this report.
In our news wrap Thursday, President Biden met with Japan's prime minister and discussed support for Ukraine's military and defense cooperation against China's growing military power, 30 Russian cruise missiles rained down on Ukraine overnight and the toll of a flood disaster in northern Italy is still climbing after torrential rain caused dozens of rivers...
... S. and Japan. During his January meeting with Kishida, Biden brought up the case of Lt. Ridge Alkonis, a U.S. Navy officer deployed to Japan who last year was sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to the negligent driving deaths of two Japanese citizens in May ...
State Department deputy spokesman Vedant Patel held a news briefing as President Joe Biden attends the G-7 summit in Japan. Watch the briefing in the player above. The G7 is about tackling the many pressing global challenges that are in front of us, and it is about the world ...
... In that declaration, then-Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi said: “I feel acute remorse and offer an apology from my heart” over the colonial rule. Japanese governments have expressed remorse or apologies over the colonial period numerous times. But some Japanese officials and politicians have occasionally made comments that have ...
Pentagon deputy press secretary Sabrina Singh gave a news briefing on Monday after the United States, South Korea and Japan conducted a joint missile defense exercise aimed at countering North Korea's growing nuclear arsenal, as a top North Korean army official warned the U.S. that it risks "a ...
... Tetsuya Yamagami has been charged with murder and several other crimes, including violating gun-control laws. Yamagami told investigators that he killed Abe, one of Japan’s most influential and divisive politicians, because of the former prime minister’s apparent links to a religious group that Yamagami hated. In statements ...
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