Julian Ryall
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🔮 Will Takaichi visit Kyiv?
🔮 That would be best served by pulling back from the "first island chain," which runs from Okinawa in southern Japan, through Taiwan and on to the Philippines.
🔮 Iceland’s whaling ban plan threatens to leave Japan alone in defending industry
Reykjavik’s move to end hunts increases international pressure on Tokyo as low consumption of whale meat and high subsidies fuel debate
The Icelandic government has announced plans to submit a bill early next year to end whaling – a step that would leave Japan and Norway as the world’s only two nations still carrying out commercial hunts.
🔮 South Korea's National Intelligence Service estimated in May that Pyongyang received at least $7.7 billion (€6.6 billion) in financial aid and economic value from Russia in the preceding three years for committing men and materiel to Moscow's war against Ukraine — and potentially as much as $14 billion.
🔮 The estate agent's pitch says the price includes dismantling by "expert heritage craftsmen" and delivery to anywhere in Japan, where it would be fully restored into a "stunning" two- or three-bedroom home.
🔮 This week, Hitachiomiya Mayor Sadayuki Suzuki accepted a request from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry for his community to undergo a preliminary survey to determine whether the town’s geology is suitable for a repository to store Japan’s large – and growing – stockpile of highly radioactive nuclear waste.
🔮 Trump added that US involvement in the exercises would send a "signal that is totally inappropriate and hostile" to North Korea, which he said has been "unthreatening and respectful" to his presidency.
🔮 Russia and Japan's longstanding territorial row
Successive Japanese governments have consistently taken the position that the islands were illegally annexed, with the dispute so impacting bilateral ties that the two nations have yet to sign a formal peace treaty.
The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the subsequent economic hardships gave Japan renewed hope that Moscow could be convinced to return the islands in return for economic assistance or even joint development of the region.
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