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June 9, 2025   In the South Korean presidential election, Lee Jae Myung of the Democratic Party of Korea was elected as the new president. He won 49% of the vote, against 41% for Kim Moon So of the ...

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June 9, 2025   Japan’s economic revitalization minister Ryosei Akazawa held the fifth round of ministerial tariff negotiations with the United States. For the latest round, he visited Washington for...

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June 9, 2025   On June 1, Ukraine carried out a historic surprise attack using small unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, damaging a lot of Russian Air Force planes. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Ze...

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June 2, 2025   From May 25 to 29, several Chinese naval vessels, including the aircraft carrier Liaoning, sailed southeast from the East China Sea to the Pacific Ocean through the waters between the...

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June 2, 2025   For about 15 minutes from around 12:21 on May 3, a helicopter from a China Coast Guard ship in Japan’s territorial waters around the Senkaku Islands violated Japan’s airspace above th...

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May 26, 2025   Due to the rise in food and energy prices, the overall price index remains high, with an increase rate in the mid-3% range, exerting a great burden on consumers. Food price hikes h...

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May 19, 2025   The United States and China reached a tentative agreement at high-level talks in Switzerland on May 10 and 11, which included the reduction of U.S. tariffs on China from 145% to 30%. ...

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May 19, 2025   “While calling for ‘securing a stable imperial succession,’ it may be trying to disrupt the convergence of discussions.” This is an impression by a senior government official who read...

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May 12, 2025   As the chairman of an organization supporting Japanese victims of abduction by North Korea, I visited the United States from April 29 to May 4 together with members of the families’ a...

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May 12, 2025   The United States and Britain have reached agreement at their tariff negotiations. While maintaining the basic 10% reciprocal tariff imposed by the U.S. Trump administration, the agre...

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