TOKYO, Sep 07 (Nikkei) –
Tokyo prosecutors arrested decrease home member and former parliamentary vice international minister Masatoshi Akimoto on Thursday on suspicion of receiving 61 million yen ($410,000) in bribes from a wind energy firm.
Tokyo prosecutors arrested decrease home member and former parliamentary vice international minister Masatoshi Akimoto on Thursday on suspicion of receiving 61 million yen ($410,000) in bribes from a wind energy firm.
Akimoto allegedly acquired the cash in return for elevating questions in parliament on the request of the Tokyo-based firm, which was bidding for offshore wind energy initiatives in Aomori Prefecture and different areas.
During a decrease home session in February 2019, Akimoto mentioned he hoped no extreme or pointless restrictions could be positioned on wind energy amenities developed within the sea off Aomori.
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Japan’s quiet management: Reshaping the Indo-Pacific
Brookings Institution – Sep 07
On September 6, the Center for East Asia Policy Studies will host Solís to debate key findings from her guide and a panel of consultants to judge Japan’s evolving function and its affect on the Indo-Pacific area.
First convention held on over-tourism countermeasures
News On Japan – Sep 06
Due to a fast enhance in home and worldwide vacationers, the federal government has convened its first-ever countermeasure convention to forestall the unfavorable impacts of ‘over-tourism’ similar to visitors congestion and noise on the lives of native residents.
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DW News – Sep 02
Japan is arming itself prefer it by no means has earlier than. The Defense Ministry has now requested for a virtually 12 % funds enhance this yr, to finance the acquisition of warships and lengthy vary cruise missiles.
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NHK – Aug 28
Japan’s Environment Ministry has examined seawater across the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear energy plant for tritium – a cloth contained in handled and diluted water that the power started releasing on Thursday. The ministry says all samples had been beneath the extent set as detectable.
Japan’s new imaginative and prescient for financial progress
East Asia Forum – Aug 27
In June 2023, the Japanese authorities revealed a revised model of the implementation plan for Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s ‘new capitalism’ initiative.
Abe’s legacy of expanded police energy
East Asia Forum – Aug 24
Shinzo Abe’s lengthy tenure as prime minister of Japan is notable for a lot of causes, however maybe his most enduring achievements had been made within the Diet the place he led colleagues in passing a number of extremely controversial payments positive to have an effect for a few years to return.
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