Akie Abe, widow of slain former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, said Saturday that Taiwan's security is directly tied to Japan's, offering her view on remarks made by her late husband about the self-ruled democratic island. Akie Abe, widow of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, delivers a speech in Taipei on April 19, 2025. (Kyodo) 'What he truly meant was, if Taiwan is safe, then Japan is safe,' Akie Abe said in a speech at a symposium in Taiwan on security in the Indo-Pacific region. Her husband said in December 2021, during a virtual appearance at a Taiwan think-thank event,
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The Metropolitan Police Department on Tuesday set up a section specializing in investigating lone offender terrorism, which involves attacks by people who do not belong to any organizations or groups. The launch of the first such police section in Japan is designed to help prevent terrorist attacks by lone offenders on important persons and facilities. The move followed a series of such attacks in recent years, including the fatal shooting of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2022 and a bomb attack on then-Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in 2023. Those cases involved the use of a homemade gun or explosive
Countries around the world are braced for Donald Trump's so-called 'Liberation Day in America!!!' next week.The US president's deadline to impose reciprocal tariffs on trading partners will come just days after he hit foreign carmakers with 25% import taxes.Vietnam could be particularly vulnerable to Trump's latest salvo of levies. It has a large trade deficit with the US and has been a beneficiary of firms moving factories out of China to avoid measures announced during his first term in office.While some countries have hit back at Washington, Vietnam's Prime Minister, Pham Minh Chinh, has suggested that he may take a
Un tribunal japonais a émis mardi 25 mars un “ordre de dissolution juridique” contre la secte Moon, dans le collimateur de la justice depuis l’assassinat de l’ancien Premier ministre Shinzo Abe en 2022. Dans les faits, l’organisation pourrait perdre ses avantages fiscaux, mais elle ne devrait pas cesser ses activités, décrypte la presse japonaise.