by WorldTribune Staff, February 7, 2021 Human rights activists in Japan are calling on the Biden administration to join them in boycotting the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. The activists, campaigning to stop China’s atrocities in Tibet and against the more than 1 million Uighurs being held in concentration camps, said countries which allow their […]
FPI / September 10, 2020 Geostrategy-Direct.com Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga is expected to succeed Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who has nurtured security alliances in Asia to counter China while boosting Japan’s military under the post World War II pacifist constitution. Abe announced late last month that he is resigning due to health problems. […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 24, 2020 Japan has purchased 105 F-35A and F-35B strike fighters from the United States in one of the largest foreign military sales ever. The deal for the Lockheed Martin-produced jets is worth $23.11 billion. The F-35A variant takes off from a normal runway while the F-35B is a jump jet […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 19, 2020 Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Thursday that the country should consider acquiring preemptive strike capability amid ongoing regional threats, including escalating tensions on the Korean Peninsula. He made no specific mention of Chinese military aggression believed by analysts to have been a primary factor behind his statement. Abe […]
FPI / May 18, 2020 Geostrategy-Direct.com The top technology issue after 5G is the world’s network of undersea cables, a U.S. government official told a Japanese researcher during a meeting in Washington, D.C. in early March. As much as 99 percent of communications and data transmitted across the globe are made possible through the undersea […]
WorldTribune, April 23, 2020 Analysis by Paul Crespo China may lose big as foreign firms relocate out of the country and move elsewhere in the aftermath of the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is most concerned about the large-scale business withdrawal from U.S. and Japanese firms operating in China. As noted […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 19, 2020 The two leading airlines in Japan have maintained near normal domestic flight schedules amid the coronavirus crisis, even though most flights have less then 10 passengers, if any at all, a report said. “The government has declared an emergency, but hasn’t asked the airlines to reduce flights — rather […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 10, 2020 The disruption of supply chains due to the Wuhan coronavirus crisis has led Japan to set aside ¥243.5 billion (nearly $2.5 billion U.S.) of its economic support package to help manufacturers shift production out of China. The funds include ¥220 billion for companies shifting production back to Japan and […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 6, 2020 Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday said he will declare a state of emergency in seven prefectures but added that the declaration does not amount to a lockdown. Japan’s approach, like Sweden’s, is less radical than that imposed on the USA. Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama, Chiba, Osaka, Hyogo and […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 2, 2020 The World Health Organization (WHO) has essentially become China’s accomplice in the coronavirus outbreak and should be renamed the “China Health Organization,” Japan’s deputy prime minister said. “Early on, if the WHO had not insisted to the world that China had no pneumonia epidemic, then everybody would have taken […]