Prime Minister Shinzo Abe plans to propose creating international rules on the movement of personal and corporate data in a Wednesday speech to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, it has been learned.
WASHINGTON (Kyodo) -- Senior officials from the United States and China started a two-day meeting in the U.S. capital Wednesday in an effort to resolve the tariff war between the two countries, China's Xinhua News Agency reported.
The Soviet Union took the four southernmost Kuril Islands during the final days of World War II. Japan asserts territorial rights to the islands, which it calls the Northern Territories, and the dispute has kept the countries from signing a peace treaty.
Several participating countries that attended the Annual Meeting of IMF-World Bank Group 2018 in Bali have expressed their willingness to provide assistance for natural disasters in Palu and Donggala and Lombok
The true face of Indonesia, said organizers of the recent Asian Games, was reflected in the throng of young volunteers who were always smiling and ready to help
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday sharply criticized the use of economic sanctions "as weapons" in his address to the United Nations, in an implicit swipe at the United States
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is widely expected to win his ruling party's leadership election Thursday, setting him on course to become Japan's longest-serving premier
In a rapidly advancing world in which people now have access to life-prolonging medicines and mass produced food, modern cities have become the centers for these scientific and technological advancements. This has lead to skyrocketing population growth in urban centers
The toll in the most powerful typhoon to hit Japan in a quarter century rose Wednesday to nine, with thousands of strikes at a major airport because of storm damage
Economic policy in Turkey is like testing a developing economy in the midst of a tightening of the monetary system by a number of major world central banks
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