Tag Archives: Japan

Tokyo, Japan | Xinhua | An advisory panel for the finance minister on Monday proposed that the Japanese government end free-of-charge coronavirus vaccinations, highlighting concerns over a further increase of its financial strain. Japan’s Ministry of Finance convened a subcommittee meeting on Monday and asked a panel of experts to start …

📌 Team Uganda | Engineers 🇺🇬 ✳ Edgar Mujuni ✳ Bonny Omara ✳ Derrick Tebusweke Wallops Island, Virginia, USA | THE INDEPENDENT, NASA & URN | First satellites from Uganda and Zimbabwe go to the Space Station this weekend under a Joint Global Multi-Nation Birds Satellite program (BIRDS). The Cygnus spacecraft will carry them …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Government of Japan has donated $1.5 million, approximately 5.7 Billion Shillings to the United Nations Children’s Agency-UNICEF, to support the government improve the tracking of under-immunized and un immunized children at the community level. According to Catherine Ntabadde, the spokesperson of UNICEF, the money …

The Japan-Africa conference in Tunis from August 27 to 28 will give Japan a chance to get relations back on track after the upheavals of the pandemic | NEIL FORD | Japan’s relations with the African continent are again in the spotlight as the eighth Tokyo International Conference on African …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Japanese Government has donated food aid worth 1 Million US Dollars to the people of Karamoja. While speaking to journalists at the World Food Programme (WFP) Offices in Kampala, Japanese Ambassador Fukzawa Hidemoto said they had signed off one million dollars to help …

Beijing, China | Xinhua | China on Friday expressed strong dissatisfaction and firm opposition concerning content in Japan’s 2022 defense white paper, urging the country to stop arbitrarily hyping up security threats in the neighborhood to justify its military build-up. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said at a daily press briefing …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A delegation from the Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC) has visited the Japan embassy in Kampala to pay their last respects to former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Abe was assassinated on Friday July 8, 2022 at a campaign trail in the city of Nara …

Tokyo, Japan | Xinhua | Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe died after being fatally shot on Friday by a gunman during a speech in the western city of Nara when campaigning for Sunday’s upper house election, local media reported. Abe, 67, fell to the ground and was seen bleeding after …

Tokyo, Japan | Xinhua | Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe collapsed and showed no sign of life after being shot twice on Friday when he was delivering a speech in the western city of Nara, local media reported. Abe fell to the ground and was seen bleeding after he …

Moscow, Russia | Xinhua | Russia said on Wednesday that it is closely monitoring hostile activities of Japan and reserves the right to strengthen its defense capability in response. Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova made the remarks in a statement commenting on Japan’s so-called protest against the joint strategic air …