News Source: Japan Today
| 17 days ago
The United States has asked that President Barack Obama’s visit to Japan be pushed back from next Thursday to Friday, a source close to Japan’s Foreign Ministry said Saturday. Obama, who originally planned to visit Nov 12 and 13, asked for the...
News Source: Myanmar News
| 18 days ago
About 200 Burmese dissidents demonstrated outside Japan’s Parliament House in Tokyo on Friday, the second of three planned protests against Burma’s military government during a visit by Prime Minster Gen Thein Sein who arrived in the Japanese...
News Source: Japan Today
| 18 days ago
Japan pledged 500 billion yen in new aid Friday to five countries along the Mekong River to fund development projects over the next three years. Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama announced the aid at a meeting in Tokyo of leaders from the five Mekong...
News Source: Channel NewsAsia
| 18 days ago
Japan from Friday hosts the leaders of Southeast Asia's five Mekong River nations as the world's number two economy looks to deepen ties with the resource-rich region amid growing influence from China. Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, who has pushed...
News Source: BBC
| 18 days ago
Japan's Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama is to meet his counterparts from Cambodia, Laos, Burma, Thailand and Vietnam for the two-day meeting. Japanese officials said the meeting would also spur dialogue with Burma. Mr Hatoyama has promoted the concept...