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From housing to jobs to education, support grows for Ukrainians fleeing to Japan

Yokohama and Osaka Prefecture are among the local governments looking to help evacuees by providing housing and other services.
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Japan resists pressure to follow Big Oil’s exit from Russia

Unless the situation with Russia drastically changes, Japanese companies and consortia have decided keep their stakes in Sakhalin 1, Sakhalin 2 and Arctic LNG 2 ...
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Japan looks to accept most foreign students waiting to enter by end of May

In addition to raising the daily cap on entrants from overseas starting Monday, the government has introduced a new program to give priority to foreign ...
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Japan’s economy needs more spending aid, Abenomics advocate says

The call for more stimulus by Etsuro Honda comes barely three months after Prime Minister Fumio Kishida unveiled a bigger-than-expected ¥56 trillion package to support ...
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Japan downgrades fourth-quarter GDP on service sector weakness

The downwardly revised growth is bad news for policymakers tasked with keeping the country's fragile recovery on track.
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Future turns dark for Russia’s oil industry

With short-term turmoil for the Russian oil industry a given at this point, the long-term future of an industry which bankrolls a large portion of ...
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Russia’s war in Ukraine set to compound worldwide hunger crisis as shipments dry up

Together, Russia and Ukraine exporting so much wheat, corn, sunflower oil and other foods that it adds up to more than a tenth of all ...
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Taiwan studies Ukraine war for own battle strategy with China

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen has championed the idea of "asymmetric warfare," as has been seen in Ukraine, to make its forces more mobile and hard ...
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As fighting gets closer, a Kyiv hospital treats the war’s atrocities

The World Health Organization said Tuesday that it had confirmed attacks on medical facilities in Ukraine and said it was investigating reports of more attacks.
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Top Japanese and U.S. officials to meet this week to discuss Ukraine war

Foreign and defense officials will meet in Tokyo to coordinate their responses to the Ukraine crisis, while also discussing closer defense cooperation between China and ...