Japanese drugmaker Eisai and its American partner,Biogen,said the slowing of deterioration,compared with a placebo,was “highly statistically significant”.
After three months of protest and bitter debate,Japan has finally farewelled its longest-serving prime minister.
Anthony Albanese will fly into a storm of protest in Tokyo surrounding the funeral of Shinzo Abe as other world leaders pull out of the memorial.
Japan’s central bank has intervened to prop up the yen last week for the first time since 1998,but it faces having to abandon decades of economic policies if it wants to arrest the currency’s dive.
Empathy for the assassin who killed Japan’s longest-serving prime minister has matched sympathy for the victim.
South Korean workers are on track to become wealthier and more productive than their Japanese counterparts.
Albanese’s travel program has barely paused since his first day. He returned from London on Wednesday and leaves for Tokyo on Monday.
North Asia correspondent Eryk Bagshaw reports from Nara near Kyoto in Japan,at the location where Japan's former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot in July.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Thursday his country will ease COVID-19 border control requirements next month,a key step in fostering a recovery in Japan's tourism sector,which is eager to take advantage of the yen's slide to a 24-year low.
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Four Australian prime ministers will land in Japan on Monday,and the mood in Tokyo could not be more different from the scenes of ceremony across London.