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A resident shovels snow off around a car at a parking lot in Kitami city Hokkaido prefecture, northern Japan, on Dec. 24 2022. (Kyodo News via AP)

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Heavy snow in Japan leaves 17 dead, dozens injured
By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press
Sun,12/25/22-11:15PM , 746 Reads
TOKYO (AP) — Heavy snow in large swaths of Japan has killed 17 and injured more than 90 people and left hundreds of homes without power, disaster management officials said Monday.
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This photo provided by the North Korean government shows the test-firing of what it says a Hwasong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile at Pyongyang International Airport in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Nov. 18, 2022. In a major break from its strictly self-defense-only postwar principle, Japan adopted a national security strategy Friday, Dec. 16, 2022, declaring plans to possess preemptive strike capability and cruise missiles within years to give itself more offensive footing against threats from neighboring China and North Korea. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)

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EXPLAINER: Why Japan is boosting its arms capability, budget
By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press
Sat,12/17/22-12:15AM , 415 Reads
TOKYO (AP) — Japan this week adopted a new national security strategy that includes determination to possess “counterstrike" capability to preempt enemy attacks and double its spending to gain a more offensive footing and improve its resilience to protect it
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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida pauses for a moment as he speaks before media members at his official residence in Tokyo, Saturday, Dec. 10, 2022, after an extraordinary Diet session. (Yoshikazu Tsuno/Pool Photo via AP)

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New Japan law aims at Unification Church fundraising abuses
By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press
Sat,12/10/22-3:49AM , 471 Reads
TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s parliament on Saturday enacted a law to restrict malicious donation solicitations by religious and other groups, which mainly targets the Unification Church, whose fundraising tactics and cozy ties with the gove
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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks during a news conference at his official residence in Tokyo, Friday Oct. 28, 2022. Kishida’s government approved Friday a hefty economic package that will include government funding of about 29 trillion yen ($200 billion) to soften the burden of costs from rising utility rates and food prices. (Yoshikazu Tsuno/Pool Photo via AP)

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Japan Cabinet OKs $200B spending plan to counter inflation
By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press
Thu,10/27/22-10:50PM , 460 Reads
TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Cabinet approved Friday a hefty economic package including 29 trillion yen ($200 billion) in government spending to counter the blow to household budgets from inflation, signaling that the greater concern of its policymakers is that the economy will stall, not overheat.
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