Tag: Shinzo Abe

• Tuesday, August 29th 2017 - 08:15 UTC

  Urgent meeting of the UN Security Council to address North Korean missile launch

  

  The United Nations Security Council will meet late Tuesday to discuss the latest North Korea missile launch. North Korea fired a ballistic missile that passed over Japan early Tuesday local time, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told reporters.

• Tuesday, November 22nd 2016 - 11:11 UTC

  Argentina and Japan, strategic partners, agree on a investment accord to prop economic ties

  

  Argentina and Japan agreed on Monday to speed up negotiations for a bilateral investment accord as part of efforts to strengthen economic ties between “strategic partners”. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Argentina President Mauricio Macri also agreed to launch talks for a tax pact for increased economic exchanges between the two countries, according to a joint statement issued after their meeting in Buenos Aires.

• Tuesday, November 22nd 2016 - 10:56 UTC

  TPP without the US would be “meaningless” says Japanese PM Shinzo Abe

  

  The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal would be “meaningless” without US participation, Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe said as United States President-elect Donald Trump announced he planned to quit the pact. PM Abe’s comment on Monday (Tuesday morning) came shortly before the Mr Trump released a short video about his plans for his administration, including an intention to have the US drop out of the TPP pact.

• Monday, November 21st 2016 - 11:34 UTC

  Japanese PM arrives in Argentina with pledges to increase investments

  

  Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will make an official visit to Argentina this Monday hoping to boost investment in the Latin American nation, officials said. It is the first visit to Argentina by a Japanese prime minister in 57 years—the last was by Abe’s grandfather Nobusuke Kishi in 1959.

• Monday, August 22nd 2016 - 11:13 UTC

  Despite all odds, Rio “the marvelous city” earned its Olympian record

  

  Rio do Janeiro is the marvelous city, the heart of Brazil, are the lyrics of the song which identifies the sublime and the misery of Latin America's biggest country with the largest economy. This Sunday ended the almost three weeks 31st Summer Olympics hosted for the first time by a non developed country, and contrary to fears and uncertainties ended as a complete success, winning the hearts of all those who shared the Rio Games.

• Thursday, November 5th 2015 - 05:38 UTC

  Putin, Merkel and Obama, in that order, the world's three most powerful people, according to Forbes

  

  Russia's President Vladimir Putin (No. 1) takes the top spot out of 73 on Forbes’ seventh annual ranking of “The World’s Most Powerful People” for the third year in a row. German Chancellor Angela Merkel (No. 2) moved up 3 spots from last year, while President Barack Obama (No. 3) dropped 1 spot, making it the first year a sitting U.S. President has not made it into the top 2 spots.

• Tuesday, September 9th 2014 - 04:07 UTC

  Japan's economy contracted 1.8% in second quarter; fall blamed on consumer sales tax

  

  Japan's economy shrank 1.8% in the April-to-June period, worse than forecast and raising more questions about the government's economic policy. The official data confirmed that the world's third largest economy suffered its sharpest quarterly contraction since the 2011 earthquake disaster.

• Wednesday, July 30th 2014 - 08:01 UTC

  Japan's PM Abe at CARICOM summit pledges development support

  

  Heads of Government of the fourteen Caribbean Community (CARICOM) “were heartened” by their Japanese counterpart’s Shinzo Abe positive response to a number of issues raised during their one-day summit in Guyana.

• Friday, August 30th 2013 - 23:30 UTC

  Falklands’ conflict erupts as example for current Japan/China clash over disputed islands

  

  Japan’s outspoken Finance minister and Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso said that the Japanese government needs to make it clear that they intend to defend the Senkaku Islands from whatever invading force. This is to avoid what happened to the Falkland Islands when Argentine troops triggered a war with British forces by landing on the disputed islands in 1982.

• Wednesday, April 24th 2013 - 23:20 UTC

  China plans more carriers as it extends naval influence and anticipates conflicts in the region

  

  China unveiled plans to build more aircraft carriers after commissioning its first last year, as the country extends its influence amid territorial disputes with neighbours including Japan and Vietnam. China already has the world’s second-biggest military budget after the US.