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Donald Trump Delivers A Major Announcement On Economy - Washington

US President Donald Trump delivers a major announcement on economy with a chart detailing monthly BLS monthly jobs revisions and overestimates in the East Room at the White House in Washington on August 7, 2025. Photo by Yuri Gripas/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Protest against planned election law revisions in Jakarta

Demonstrators gather near the parliament building in Jakarta on Aug. 22, 2024, in protest against planned controversial revisions to election law.

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Protest against planned election law revisions in Jakarta

Demonstrators gather near the parliament building in Jakarta on Aug. 22, 2024, in protest against planned controversial revisions to election law.

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Okinawa Gov. Nakaima in Diet building

TOKYO, Japan - Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima answers questions from reporters in the Diet building in Tokyo on Feb. 9, 2012, after meeting with Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda and members of his Cabinet to listen to the central government's plan for legal revisions aimed at promoting economic development in Okinawa.

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Panel calls for legal revisions for disaster prevention

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshiaki Kawata (R), a professor at Kansai University who heads a panel of the Central Disaster Prevention Council, hands a report to Tatsuo Hirano, disaster management minister, in Tokyo on Sept. 28, 2011. In the report, the panel calls for reviewing disaster-related laws to maintain the functions of local governments and smooth long-distance evacuations if a massive natural disaster occurs.

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Deliberation on education law revisions resumed

TOKYO, Japan - Education minister Bunmei Ibuki answers an opposition question during a debate at a lower house committee on a government-sponsored bill to revise Japan's basic postwar education law on Oct. 30.

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Deliberation on education law revisions resumed

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe answers an opposition question during a debate at a lower house committee on a government-sponsored bill to revise Japan's basic postwar education law on Oct. 30. Seated behind him is Yukio Hatoyama, secretary general of the opposition Democratic Party of Japan.

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Japan revises Iraq deployment plan after GSDF withdrawal

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi arrives at his office, as Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe stands by, to preside over a regular Cabinet session on Aug. 4. The Cabinet decided on revisions to the basic plan for deployment of Japan's Self-Defense Forces to Iraq following the recent withdrawal of its ground troops from the country.

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Belarus seeks review of report on effects of Chernobyl disaster

MINSK, Belarus - Vladimir Tsalko, head of the Chernobyl committee under the Belarusian ministerial council, points to the site of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on the map at his office on March 15. Belarus has proposed that revisions be made to an international report compiled in 2005 summarizing the effects of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, which it views as being too hasty in estimating the health effects.

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Cabinet OKs law revision for Web search for lost items

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows lost items at an East Japan Railway Co. center March 7. The same day, Japan's Cabinet approved legislative revisions on handling lost items, including setting up a public online search database.

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(4)Diet panel issues Constitution revision report

TOKYO, Japan - Taro Nakayama (R), head of a House of Representatives panel on the Constitution, speaks at a press conference after submitting his panel's final report calling for revisions to the supreme law, including changes to the war-renouncing Article 9, to lower house Speaker Yohei Kono. This is the first time for Japan's post-World War II parliament in nearly 60 years of its history to come up with support for revisions to the Constitution since it was promulgated in 1946.

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(3)Diet panel issues Constitution revision report

TOKYO, Japan - Taro Nakayama (2nd from L), head of a House of Representatives panel on the Constitution, hands lower house Speaker Yohei Kono (L) on April 15 his panel's final report calling for revisions to the supreme law, including changes to the war-renouncing Article 9.

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(5)Diet panel issues Constitution revision report

TOKYO, Japan - Protestors hold placards outside the Diet building on April 15 after a House of Representatives panel on the Constitution approved by a majority vote its final report calling for revisions to the supreme law, including changes to the war-renouncing Article 9.

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(3)S. Korea expresses anger over Japanese textbook revisions

SEOUL, South Korea - Members of South Korean civic groups try to cut a banner meant to look like a controversial Japanese history textbook during their protest rally outside the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on April 5.

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(2)S. Korea expresses anger over Japanese textbook revisions

TOKYO, Japan - Two municipal assembly members from the South Korean city of Kwangju hold placards protesting Japan's newly authorized textbook in downtown Tokyo on April 5. The placards read: ''No to distortion of history: Yes to Asian peace.''

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S. Korea expresses anger over Japanese textbook revisions

SEOUL, South Korea - Members of civic groups shout their protest over newly authorized Japanese textbooks outside the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on April 5. South Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman Lee Kyu Hyung labeled the new textbooks as ''justifying and beautifying'' Japan's imperialist past.

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Japan, U.S. ink pact to trade ammunition

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Howard Baker (L) and Japanese Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi shake hands after signing revisions to a bilateral agreement on Feb. 27 to enable Japan's Self-Defense Forces (SDF) and the U.S. military to exchange ammunition if Japan is attacked by foreign forces. The revised Acquisition and Cross-Servicing Agreement (ACSA) also enables the two sides to mutually provide logistics in Iraq and in other areas where they cooperate.

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SDF launches U.S. military base protection drill

ZAMA, Japan - Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) vehicles enter the U.S. Army's Zama base in Zama, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Dec. 6, the first day of a nine day SDF drill on guarding U.S. military bases in Japan in emergencies. Protecting the bases is authorized under recent revisions to the SDF law.

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Gov't asks panel to consider education law revisions

TOKYO, Japan - Education minister Atsuko Toyama (L) asks Yasuhiko Torii, chairman of the Central Council for Education, her advisory panel, on Nov. 26 to recommend within a year whether Japan's 1947 Fundamental Law of Education should be revised. Toyama said a study of revisions to the law is necessary to deal with changes in the times and society, nurture creativity, and foster respect for tradition and culture.

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Putin, Kim call for adherence to ABM pact, sign accord

MOSCOW, Russia - President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Il signed a declaration on Aug. 4 to counter U.S. moves to ditch or seek revisions to a 1972 Soviet-U.S. treaty that has restricted the deployment of ballistic missiles. Ahead of the meeting with Putin, Kim (3rd from left) walks in Red Square to lay flowers at the tomb of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin and at the memorial to the unknown soldier near the Kremlin.

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Justice minister visits Osaka elementary school

OSAKA, Japan - Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama (L) on July 18 visits Ikeda Elementary School in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, the site of the June 8 massacre where eight children were stabbed to death and 15 others injured. Moriyama made the visit to talk to the victims' parents amid growing calls for revisions to a law exempting mentally ill criminal suspects from criminal liability for their actions.

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Inamine reiterates demand for SOFA revisions

TOKYO, Japan - Okinawa Gov. Keiichi Inamine is surrounded by reporters July 11 at the prime minister's office in Tokyo after talks with Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda. In the talks, Inamine reiterated his demand for a revision to a Japan-U.S. agreement on the management of U.S. military bases in Japan to facilitate the pre-indictment handover of U.S. soldiers suspected of crimes.

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Inamine reiterates demand for revisions to pact

TOKYO, Japan - Okinawa Gov. Keiichi Inamine (R) is in talks with Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka at the Foreign Ministry on July 11. The governor reiterated his demand for a revision to the Japan-U.S. agreement on the management of U.S. military bases in Japan to facilitate the pre-indictment handover of U.S. soldiers suspected of crimes.

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Choi expresses disappointment over textbooks

TOKYO, Japan - South Korean Ambassador to Japan Choi Sang Yong (L) shakes hands with Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Yutaka Kawashima in Tokyo on July 10. During their meeting, Choi formally conveyed South Korea's disappointment over Japan's decision the previous day to reject most of the revisions requested by Seoul to controversial junior high school history textbooks. Critics say the eight textbooks approved recently by Japan's education ministry distort history and gloss over Japan's wartime atrocities.

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S. Korea's Han meets reporters over textbook issue

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Han Seung Soo meets Japanese reporters in Seoul on July 9 on the Japanese history textbook issue, the focus of a row that was renewed the same day after Tokyo rejected Seoul's requests for major revisions to the books.

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Japan rejects requests by China, S. Korea to revise textbooks

SEOUL, South Korea - Japanese Ambassador to Seoul Terusuke Terada (L) and South Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Han Seung Soo (R) are surrounded by reporters at Han's ministry in Seoul on June 9. Terada conveyed to Han Japan's rejection of requests by China and South Korea for revisions to controversial history textbooks.

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S. Korean envoy seeks Japan 'calm' over textbook revision

SHIMONOSEKI, Japan - South Korean Ambassador to Japan Choi Sang Yong urged Japan on June 22 at a meeting in Shimonoseki in western Japan to deal ''calmly'' with South Korea's demand for revisions to some history textbooks approved for use from next April. In May, Seoul demanded that Japan make 35 revisions to the new junior high school textbooks, which critics say justify Japan's wartime colonization of Korea.

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Koizumi eyes law revision following Ikeda massacre

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi says June 9 his government will begin studying possible law revisions regarding crimes by mentally ill people following Friday's massacre of eight children by a man with a history of psychiatric illness. ''There are issues that must be dealt with both from the point of view of medical treatment and the Penal Code,'' the premier told an NHK TV program that is to be aired on the morning of June 10.

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S. Korean envoy conveys textbook revision demand to Japan

TOKYO, Japan - South Korean Ambassador to Japan Choi Sang Yong (R) talks with Education Minister Atsuko Toyama (L) on May 11 to explain the South Korean government's demand for revisions to Japanese textbooks it claims distort history.

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Koreans protest Japanese textbooks

SEOUL, South Korea - Two young women put their signatures in protest over Japanese history textbooks during a boycott campaign against Japanese goods organized by civil groups in Seoul on May 8. The South Koran government formally demanded Japan make 35 revisions to eight history textbooks it says glorify Japan's colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula and whitewash wartime atrocities committed by the Imperial Japanese Army.

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S. Korea demands 35 revisions to Japanese textbooks

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Han Seung Soo (R) hands over documents to Japanese Ambassador Terusuke Terada at his ministry in Seoul on May 8, demanding Japan make 35 revisions to eight controversial history textbooks. South Korea feels the textbooks justify Japan's colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula and whitewash wartime atrocities committed by the Imperial Japanese Army.

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S. Korean lawmakers demand revisions to screened textbooks

TOKYO, Japan - Park Sang Cheon (C), vice chairman of the (South) Korea-Japan Parliamentarians Union, and another South Korean lawmaker meet with Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister Nobutaka Machimura (L) at the ministry in Tokyo on April 12. During the meeting, the South Korean lawmakers demanded that Japan revise several recently screened junior high school history textbooks, which they say distort historical facts about Japan's wartime aggression toward its Asian neighbors.

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S. Korea, U.S. initial revised SOFA agreement

SEOUL, South Korea - Frederick Smith (L), U.S. deputy assistant secretary of defense for Asia-Pacific Affairs, and Song Min Soon, director general for North American Affairs of the South Korea Foreign Affairs and Trade Ministry shake hands in Seoul on Dec. 28 after initialing revisions to the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) covering some 37,000 U.S. military personnel stationed in South Korea.

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U.S. critical of Japan's proposal to revise NTT law

WASHINGTON, Japan - Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Richard Fisher speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Washington on June 21. He blasted Japan for trying to settle its long-standing dispute with the U.S. over interconnection fees charged by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT) through revisions to a law governing NTT's business operations.

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China's parliament discusses revisions to Constitution

Tian Jiyun (front), a vice chairman of China's National People's Congress (NPC), explains proposed revisions to the country's Constitution at an NPC session in Beijing on March 9. President Jiang Zemin (L at the back) and Premier Zhu Rongji are deep in conversation.

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China regrets U.S. push for human rights language in Security Council resolution on South Sudan

STORY: China regrets U.S. push for human rights language in Security Council resolution on South Sudan DATELINE: March 16, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:17 SHOTLIST: UN Headquarters CATEGORY: POLITICS STORYLINE: A Chinese envoy on Tuesday regretted the push by the United States for human rights-related texts in a draft Security Council resolution on the mandate renewal for the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS). Dai Bing, China's deputy permanent representative to the United Nations, said China had to abstain in Tuesday's voting after the United States, the penholder on South Sudan, refused to make revisions. SOUNDBITE (Chinese/English interpretation): DAI BING, China's deputy permanent representative to the United Nations "Throughout the consultation process, the United States had pushed for the inclusion of many human rights-related texts, resulting in a very unbalanced draft resolution. South Sudan is the youngest member of the UN. The international community should support the country in gradually exploring a pa

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Gov't asks panel to consider education law revisions

TOKYO, Japan - Education minister Atsuko Toyama (L) asks Yasuhiko Torii, chairman of the Central Council for Education, her advisory panel, on Nov. 26 to recommend within a year whether Japan's 1947 Fundamental Law of Education should be revised. Toyama said a study of revisions to the law is necessary to deal with changes in the times and society, nurture creativity, and foster respect for tradition and culture.

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(3)S. Korea expresses anger over Japanese textbook revisions

SEOUL, South Korea - Members of South Korean civic groups try to cut a banner meant to look like a controversial Japanese history textbook during their protest rally outside the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on April 5. (Kyodo)

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S. Korea expresses anger over Japanese textbook revisions

SEOUL, South Korea - Members of civic groups shout their protest over newly authorized Japanese textbooks outside the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on April 5. South Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman Lee Kyu Hyung labeled the new textbooks as ''justifying and beautifying'' Japan's imperialist past. (Kyodo)

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(2)S. Korea expresses anger over Japanese textbook revisions

TOKYO, Japan - Two municipal assembly members from the South Korean city of Kwangju hold placards protesting Japan's newly authorized textbook in downtown Tokyo on April 5. The placards read: ''No to distortion of history: Yes to Asian peace.'' (Kyodo)

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(4)Diet panel issues Constitution revision report

TOKYO, Japan - Taro Nakayama (R), head of a House of Representatives panel on the Constitution, speaks at a press conference after submitting his panel's final report calling for revisions to the supreme law, including changes to the war-renouncing Article 9, to lower house Speaker Yohei Kono. This is the first time for Japan's post-World War II parliament in nearly 60 years of its history to come up with support for revisions to the Constitution since it was promulgated in 1946. (Kyodo)

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Japan revises Iraq deployment plan after GSDF withdrawal

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi arrives at his office, as Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe stands by, to preside over a regular Cabinet session on Aug. 4. The Cabinet decided on revisions to the basic plan for deployment of Japan's Self-Defense Forces to Iraq following the recent withdrawal of its ground troops from the country. (Kyodo)

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Deliberation on education law revisions resumed

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe answers an opposition question during a debate at a lower house committee on a government-sponsored bill to revise Japan's basic postwar education law on Oct. 30. Seated behind him is Yukio Hatoyama, secretary general of the opposition Democratic Party of Japan. (Kyodo)

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Deliberation on education law revisions resumed

TOKYO, Japan - Education minister Bunmei Ibuki answers an opposition question during a debate at a lower house committee on a government-sponsored bill to revise Japan's basic postwar education law on Oct. 30. (Kyodo)

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SDF launches U.S. military base protection drill

ZAMA, Japan - Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) vehicles enter the U.S. Army's Zama base in Zama, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Dec. 6, the first day of a nine day SDF drill on guarding U.S. military bases in Japan in emergencies. Protecting the bases is authorized under recent revisions to the SDF law.

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(5)Diet panel issues Constitution revision report

TOKYO, Japan - Protestors hold placards outside the Diet building on April 15 after a House of Representatives panel on the Constitution approved by a majority vote its final report calling for revisions to the supreme law, including changes to the war-renouncing Article 9. (Kyodo)

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(3)Diet panel issues Constitution revision report

TOKYO, Japan - Taro Nakayama (2nd from L), head of a House of Representatives panel on the Constitution, hands lower house Speaker Yohei Kono (L) on April 15 his panel's final report calling for revisions to the supreme law, including changes to the war-renouncing Article 9. (Kyodo)

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Virus-related laws revised?

?TOKYO, Japan Kyodo - Japanese economic revitalization minister Yasutoshi Nishimura meets the press in Tokyo on Feb. 3, 2021, after parliament enacted revisions to the coronavirus special measures law and the infectious disease law.

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Japan's wartime, postwar English texts reflect changing ideas

Wakayama University professor Haruo Erikawa compares an English textbook during World War II (L) with one immediately after the war to analyze revisions enforced by the education ministry at the time in this photo taken on Oct. 27, 2014, at the university in Wakayama, western Japan. The alterations, such as changes of words and blackening out or removal of undesirable pages, reflect the values and ideologies the authorities of the time wanted to instill in Japanese students through language study. (Photo by Tatsuya Hagiwara) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Protesters form human chain outside Taiwan's parliament

Civic group members form a human chain around Taiwan's Legislative Yuan, Taiwan's parliament, in Taipei on April 10, 2015, demanding revisions to laws including those on referendum and recall. The day marked the first anniversary of the end of the occupation of the legislature by student-led protests, dubbed the "Sunflower Movement," in 2014 against a service trade deal signed with Beijing. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo