UNHCR Grandi in Tokyo

UNHCR Grandi in Tokyo

U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi speaks during a press conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Oct, 15, 2025.

UNHCR Grandi in Tokyo

UNHCR Grandi in Tokyo

U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi speaks during a press conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Oct, 15, 2025.

Japan Innovation Party leader Yoshimura

Japan Innovation Party leader Yoshimura

Hirofumi Yoshimura, leader of the Japan Innovation Party, the second largest opposition force, speaks to the press in Tokyo on Oct, 15, 2025, following his meeting with new ruling Liberal Democratic Party President Sanae Takaichi, alongside JIP co-leader Fumitake Fujita. The two parties agreed to begin talks on forming a coalition government.

China's 3rd qtr GDP slips below 7% for 1st time since 2009

China's 3rd qtr GDP slips below 7% for 1st time since 2009

BEIJING, Oct. 19 Kyodo - Sheng Laiyun, spokesman for China's National Bureau of Statistics, announces at a press conference in Beijing on Oct, 19, 2015, that China's economy in the July-September quarter grew 6.9 percent from a year earlier. The gross domestic product figure of the world's second-largest economy slipped below 7 percent for the first time in more than six years.

Abe, Vietnam's Phuc meet in Tokyo

Abe, Vietnam's Phuc meet in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc (L) shakes hands with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe before their talks at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Oct, 10, 2014.

Singapore's Scoot eyes new air route in Japan in 2015

Singapore's Scoot eyes new air route in Japan in 2015

NAGOYA, Japan - Campbell Wilson, CEO of Singapore Airline's low cost carrier Scoot Pte Ltd., (2nd from R) visits Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd.'s Nagoya Works 1 in Yatomi, Aichi Prefecture, on Oct, 2, 2014. Scoot announced that it will open a Kansai International Airport-Singapore Changi Airport route in 2015.