Almost 30 per cent of Japan’s population is aged 65 or over. Last year,births fell below 800,000 for the first time since 1899.
Two police officers were among those killed in the attack in a country where crimes involving guns are extremely rare.
You have to work hard to create something different in the Tokyo culinary scene,like this luxury underground restaurant.
China has just shown how vulnerable it is in the escalating global war over technology.
As Biden cancels his Sydney trip,some correspondents predict the cost would prompt media bosses to pull back from covering the president’s overseas tours.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has sharpened his calls for China to remove all remaining trade restrictions on Australia at the G7.
A child of Hiroshima,Fumio Kishida is using some of his domestic political capital to expand Japan’s mark on the world.
When Anthony Albanese joins leaders of the world’s largest economies at the G7 summit in Hiroshima tomorrow,there will be one notable absence.
Japan is emerging from decades of economic hibernation but it threatens to generate uncertainty and volatility at a very delicate time for the world.
Victims say the pain the Japanese system causes children “is beyond the description” as they call on G7 leaders to escalate pressure on Tokyo.
Biden rejected suggestions that cancelling part of his trip was a win for Beijing,noting “we still have four good allies” in the form of the Quad alliance.