Former Indian foreign secretary Kanwal Sibal said Donald Trump had effectively admitted to unprovoked aggression, the same charge historically levelled at Japan for the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack.
Japan’s election has delivered something rarer than a market rally: a sense of political finality.
The ruling party under Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi went past 233 seats mark and was headed towards a supermajority of up to two-thirds of the 465 seats in the lower house of the National Diet.
The decision to dissolve the lower house was taken on Friday.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Tuesday said that she received reports of 30 injuries and a residential fire.
Japan’s new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has stirred a diplomatic storm that may reshape the strategic balance in East Asia.
Japanese residents held a protest in front of the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo on Saturday evening, demanding Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's resignation.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday called on Sanae Takaichi, the newly-elected Prime Minister of Japan, and congratulated her on assuming office.
Takaichi joined Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party in 1996 and entered the Cabinet for the first time under former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. She held the position of the Minister of State for Okinawa and Northern Territories Affairs. Later, she went on to become the first woman to chair the LDP's Policy Research Council.
