Asia Japan Japanese export in May recorded the strongest increase in 41 years, +49.6% on last year, mainly driven by robust demand for cars and auto parts
Asia Japan The country plans to join a multinational mine-clearing project in Ukraine; the Japanese Self-Defence Forces are expected to supply demining equipment to Ukraine and collaborate in the training of personnel
Asia Japan Citizens of the Philippines, Vietnam, China, Indonesia, Nepal and Myanmar will have to be tested for tuberculosis before entering Japan for stays longer than three months, the government plans to require for FY2024
Asia Japan The country is set to issue nearly 9 trillion yen ($59.8 billion) in bonds in its second supplementary budget to finance an economic package to ease rising living costs
Asia Japan A program to grant asylum seekers long-term residence permits that will allow them to work will be launched on December 1, part of the revision of the asylum law approved by parliament in May