The Japan National Police Agency has decided to adopt AI-enhanced pre-crime surveillance cameras to bolster the security measures surrounding VIPs. This step comes in response to the commemoration of the shocking assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and the rising threats posed by what the government called “lone offenders.” The use of AI in law enforcement is becoming commonplace... 

Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot dead during a speech in the city of Nara on Friday morning, several media outlets reported. Security personnel on the spot immediately ran forward and wrestled down the perpetrator who could be arrested immediately. Gunman Tetsuya Yamagami, 41, shot Abe twice with a home-made shotgun made out of two pieces of pipe attached to a wooden board, with... 

Russia started the special military operation in Ukraine on 24 February, following a request for assistance from the Donbass republics. The latter had been suffering from Ukrainian bombardment over the past eight years as Kiev delayed the implementation of the 2015 Minsk agreements. Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has suggested in an interview with The Economist that the Russian special... 

Japan is about to hit Covid Cover Uppers China with a massive manufacturing exodus following the Coronavirus pandemic that has brought the world to its knees. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has proposed “building an economy that is less dependent on one country, China, so that the nation can better avoid supply chain disruptions.” reports Nikkei Asia Review. The plans have sent chills down... 

Abe’s strategy is working in the short-term. The businessmen are creating monopolies in their industries and will continue to rake in profits as their people age, die and are replaced. But hopefully soon Abe will be forced to answer the most important question of all: does honor have a price? The most recurring story Westerners get about Japan is that their society is old and dying. The latest... 

The Cossacks and all other brave Russians who fought to conquer the East would surely hang Putin for this! It doesn’t matter there are nearly 20,000 people living on those islands, mostly white Christian Russians, he wants to give the islands away. Now these white Christian people will have to live among those slanted eye Asians and suffer the exact same fate the Ainu suffered, total genocide. So... 

In December, French President Emmanuel Macron and Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe agreed to secure stable relations between the alliance of three-way automaker, which consists of Renaut, Nissan, and the Mitsubishi Motors Corp. French authorities have pressed Japan to agree to a merger of France’s Renault SA and Japan’s Nissan Motor Co after the arrest of ex-Nissan Chairman Carlos... 

Top officials from Brussels have come to Tokyo to sign the world’s biggest single market trade deal with Japan. The move will strengthen global trade cooperation that has been recently shattered by the current US administration. The agreement was signed during the meeting of EU Council President Donald Tusk and Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker with the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.... 

Participants of the G7 meeting reportedly had a hard time restraining themselves when the US President shared his insights on migration and terrorism with the French President, threatened to send the Japanese Prime Minister 25 million Mexicans and slammed the European Commission President during talks in Canada. A senior EU official summed up his behind-the-scenes experience at the meeting of the... 

South Korea and Japan have been reluctant to take in refugees from Syria. The United States admitted more than 10,000 Syrian refugees on former President Barack Obama’s watch. Since 1994, 1,144 Syrians have requested asylum in South Korea, but refugee status has been granted to only three, government figures show. As of October 2016, Japan had taken in just six Syrian refugees. Japanese Prime Minister... 

President Trump told reporters on Friday he is considering signing a “brand new order” on immigration as his original executive order faces legal trouble. The comments, made aboard Air Force One, come after the administration signaled it would not ask the Supreme Court to review an appeals court decision that keeps the travel ban frozen. “We also have a lot of other options, including just filing... 

WikiLeaks has tweeted that the Asian Press is already reporting that the US has withdrawn from the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP). Trump stated in late November that the first thing he would do on his first day in office would be to pull out of the TPP. The TPP was expected to send more US jobs offshore and another major criticism is that the: TPP will protect and guarantee profits for multinational... 

An intriguing Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today on the wide-ranging conversation held yesterday between President Putin and President-elect Donald Trump states that the Federation has assured America’s new leader of its support in the looming crisis soon to erupt between the United States and China. [Note: Some words and/or phrases appearing in quotes in this report are... 

Ruling coalition lawmakers stand to approve the passage of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade deal in the lower house of the parliament in Tokyo on November 10, 2016. Japan’s Lower House of parliament has passed the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade agreement, despite the fact the deal is likely doomed after Donald Trump’s US presidential election victory. Even... 

On Thursday leaders at the G7 in Japan ignored a dire warning issued by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe about the perilous state of the global economy and the risk “of the re-emergence of a Lehman-scale crisis.” The collapse and bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in 2008, at the time the fourth-largest U.S. investment bank, was the seminal event of the subprime financial crisis. Its implosion resulted in...