Singapore – Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi has conveyed Tokyo’s concern to China about a number of regional security issues, including repeated Sino-Russian military flights near Japanese airspace and Beijing’s activities in the East and South China seas. Following his first in-person meeting with Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe — held on the sidelines of the
Japan’s top uniformed officer of the Defense Ministry said Thursday that recent activities by China’s navy, including fighter jets taking off and landing on an aircraft carrier near the southern prefecture of Okinawa, are “a security concern.” Gen. Koji Yamazaki, chief of the ministry’s Joint Staff, aired a strong sense of caution against the activities
Shanghai – Japan’s top representative in Shanghai urged China’s most populous city to address concerns of Japanese businesses over losses and other disruptions caused by lockdowns aimed at containing a COVID-19 surge. Consul General Shuichi Akamatsu’s letter, posted on the consulate’s website on Saturday, comes as most of Shanghai’s 25 million residents remain under strict
Japan s imported products have been heavily depending on China, which accounted for 23% of all items imported from around the globe in 2019, the Cabinet Office said Thursday.In a report on world economic trends, the federal government company compared Japan s degree of dependence on imports from China in some cases euphemized as the
