TOKYO - Speculation is growing in security circles in Japan as to whether targets of a proposed "counterstrike capability" would include China's Central Military Commission, the highest decision-making organ of the country's armed forces led by President Xi Jinping. In its first regular review of the evaluation of the IMF's special drawing rights, or SDR, since the yuan was included in the basket in 2016, the Washington-based organization has decided to raise the status of the Chinese currency, also known as the renminbi.Ĭhina military body may be target of Japan counterstrike capability IMF lifts Chinese yuan's weighting in basket of top currenciesīEIJING - The International Monetary Fund has lifted the Chinese yuan's weighting in its elite basket of reserve currencies to 12.28 percent from 10.92 percent, the country's central bank said Sunday. The total number of deaths now stands at 42. The state-run Korean Central News Agency said 15 people died during the same period between Friday evening and 6 p.m. Korea reports 296,000 more fever cases as COVID-19 spreadsīEIJING - North Korea said Sunday an additional 296,000 people displayed a fever in the past day as it scrambles to curb the spread of the coronavirus through a nationwide lockdown. "If we give up our stakes and Russia gets them," Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Seiji Kihara said on an NHK television, energy imports could be "more costly" for Japan in the long term. TOKYO - Japan has no plan to pull out of two major energy projects off the Russian island of Sakhalin and the policy does not contradict the slew of sanctions it placed on Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine, a senior government official said Sunday. Japan says Sakhalin energy projects do not contradict Russia sanctions Denny Tamaki urged the central government to undertake "sincere efforts" to make Okinawa "an island of peace," saying that mutual goal made at the time of reversion remains unfulfilled. military bases despite decades of protest.Īt a commemoration ceremony held near a major U.S. rule as residents' frustrations continue over a weak local economy and the ongoing presence of U.S. GINOWAN, Japan - The southern island prefecture of Okinawa on Sunday marked 50 years since its reversion to Japan from U.S. Okinawa marks 50 years since reversion from U.S. The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News. forces to be reduced, a day before the 50th anniversary of its reversion to Japan. Kadena Air Base in Okinawa Prefecture, southern Japan, on May 14, 2022, during a peace march calling for the burden on Okinawa from hosting U.S. People walk in the village of Kitanakagusuku toward the U.S.
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