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5 days ago
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Kyodo News Digest: May 30, 2025
KYODO NEWS - 6 minutes ago - 09:23 | All, Japan, World The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News. ---------- China agrees to begin steps to resume Japanese seafood imports: Tokyo TOKYO - Japan's government said Friday that China has agreed to begin procedures to resume imports of Japanese seafood, lifting a ban imposed after the release of treated radioactive wastewater from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant into the sea. Chinese authorities are expected to issue a public notice easing the blanket ban in place since August 2023 and soon open registration for Japanese facilities that process and preserve marine products, sources familiar with the matter said. ---------- Japan PM says mutual understanding "deepened" with Trump over tariffs TOKYO - Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Thursday he and U.S. President Donald Trump deepened their understanding of each other's positions on tariffs and agreed that their ministers should accelerate ongoing negotiations in greater detail. Ishiba made the comment after a roughly 25-minute phone call with Trump ahead of the next round of bilateral tariff negotiations at the ministerial level. ---------- U.S. appeals court says Trump's hefty tariffs can continue for now WASHINGTON - A U.S. federal appeals court on Thursday allowed President Donald Trump's administration to continue with its most sweeping tariffs for the time being. The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington granted the administration's request to temporarily suspend a lower court ruling a day before that invalidated its so-called reciprocal tariffs along with some other levies. ---------- Japan's April jobless rate remains unchanged at 2.5% TOKYO - Japan's unemployment rate in April remained unchanged from the previous month at 2.5 percent, government data showed Friday. The job availability ratio was also unchanged from March at 1.26 in the reporting month, meaning there were 126 jobs available for every 100 job seekers, according to separate data. ---------- Ex-Japan PM Abe's widow Akie meets Putin, welcomed with large bouquet TOKYO - Akie Abe, widow of the late Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Thursday, his presidential office said, with a photo showing him welcoming her with a large bouquet of flowers. Putin, who held in-person talks 27 times with Shinzo Abe during his tenure as prime minister until 2020, was quoted by the office as saying, "We remember his contribution to the development of Russian-Japanese cooperation." ---------- Japan, U.S. eye "2-plus-2" security talks in Washington TOKYO - Japan and the United States are considering holding "two-plus-two" ministerial security talks in Washington this summer, Japanese government sources said Thursday, as the allies face ongoing security challenges from China and North Korea. The meeting involving foreign and defense ministers from the two countries will be the first for the governments of Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and U.S. President Donald Trump. The two leaders took office in October last year and January, respectively. ---------- Sony's financial arm aims to launch overseas businesses after listing TOKYO - The top executive of the financial unit of Sony Group Corp. said Thursday that it aims to launch overseas operations after it is spun off from the parent company and listed on the Tokyo stock market later this year. Toshihide Endo, CEO of Sony Financial Group Inc., said the company will focus on "honing our business model at home "through March 2027, adding that expanding its business abroad is "on the menu as an excellent strategy for the mid-term." ---------- Group held in Cambodia for alleged fraud involves some 20 Japanese TOKYO - Japanese police said Thursday that at least 20 Japanese were among roughly 30 people believed to be involved in scams and detained by local authorities in northwestern Cambodia. The group's detention in Poipet, mostly comprising people in their 20s, comes amid a rise in cases of Japanese nationals committing fraud and scams while hiding in Southeast Asia. Video: Japan Business Federation appoints new chief
Kyodo News
01-05-2025
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Kyodo News Digest: May 1, 2025
KYODO NEWS - 5 minutes ago - 09:20 | All, Japan, World The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News. ---------- U.S., Ukraine sign economic reconstruction deal WASHINGTON - The United States on Wednesday signed an economic deal with Ukraine that signals the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump is committed to seeing lasting peace in the war-torn nation after weeks of contentious negotiations between the two countries. "This economic partnership positions our two countries to work collaboratively and invest together to ensure that our mutual assets, talents and capabilities can accelerate Ukraine's economic recovery," the U.S. Treasury Department said in a statement. ---------- U.S. Marine in Okinawa indicted over rape, injury NAHA, Japan - A 27-year-old U.S. Marine in Japan's Okinawa Prefecture was indicted on Wednesday for allegedly raping a woman and injuring another in a U.S. military base restroom last month, according to local prosecutors. Austin Wedington, who was under custody by the U.S. military in line with the bilateral Status of Forces Agreement, was handed over to Japanese authorities the same day. The accord governs the legal status and conduct of U.S. military personnel in Japan. ---------- Snake causes power outage, Tokyo-Osaka shinkansen services disrupted NAGOYA - Services were temporarily disrupted Wednesday on the Tokaido Shinkansen bullet train line connecting Tokyo and Osaka after a snake tangled in overhead wires and caused a power outage, the operator said. The incident occurred between Gifu-Hashima and Maibara stations around 5:25 p.m., causing suspensions on the Tokyo-bound trains between Shin-Osaka and Nagoya and the Osaka-bound trains between Shin-Osaka and Tokyo. ---------- Japan PM negative about opposition's 1-year consumption tax cut plan TOKYO - Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Wednesday rejected a proposal by a major opposition party to remove the consumption tax on food items for one year, aimed at cushioning the impact of inflation and higher U.S. tariffs. Amid calls to reduce tax burdens, including from within the ruling coalition, Ishiba said he will "examine in detail" proposals from other parties, including one from the Komeito party, the junior coalition partner of his Liberal Democratic Party. ---------- Ex-Japan ruling coalition party head seeks more exchanges with China BEIJING - Natsuo Yamaguchi, former leader of Japan's junior ruling coalition partner, the Komeito party, met Wednesday with a senior Chinese Communist Party official in Beijing and sought more exchanges between the two Asian neighbors. Yamaguchi, who is on a three-day visit to China through Wednesday, told reporters following his talks with Liu Jianchao, head of the ruling Communist Party's International Department, that it is important to "deepen bilateral interactions in a wide range of areas including education, culture and sports." ---------- Japan PM hails "relations of trust" with Vietnam, Philippine leaders MANILA - Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Wednesday he succeeded in building "relations of trust" with the leaderships in Vietnam and the Philippines during his trip to the two Southeast Asian nations. Ishiba told reporters in Manila before he left for Tokyo that his four-day trip was "meaningful," saying the agreements reached on strengthening security ties will foster "peace, stability and the rule of law" in the region, in an apparent reference to concerns over China's military clout. ---------- Baseball: Yamasaki sets CL shutout inning record as Giants beat Carp TOKYO - Yomiuri Giants right-hander Iori Yamasaki set a new Central League record of starting a season with 35 shutout innings on Wednesday, propelling his team to a 2-0 win over the Hiroshima Carp. Yamasaki (4-0) threw seven scoreless innings at Tokyo Dome to eclipse the previous record of 31 innings set by Etsuo Nakai in 1963 and Shoki Murakami in 2023, both for the Hanshin Tigers. Video: Participants complete a walk tracing the route that Korean envoys to Japan took during Japan's Edo period in Tokyo
