The central government is setting up an organization within the Cabinet Secretariat to take on disinformation campaigns, such as fake news and impersonator accounts.
A Chinese carrier strike group led by the aircraft carrier Liaoning has been carrying out military drills in the western Pacific that simulate attacks on Japan's Nansei Islands since Dec. 16, reported The Yomiuri Shimbun, citing Chinese sources.
Japan’s Defense Ministry said it will stop accepting Myanmar military personnel as students for a training program from next fiscal year after the junta executed pro-democracy activists in the Southeast Asian country.
A survey by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party of its members’ ties with the Unification Church revealed a surprisingly wide scope of connections the group built up within the governing party. About half of the LDP Diet members had dealings of some sort with the church, formally called the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification.