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Extreme temperatures and droughts in Southeast Asia have led to lower coffee bean yields in Vietnam and Indonesia, the world's second and third largest producers, sending global coffee futures to near record highs.
Ukraine has received $118 million in grants from Japan under the World Bank's HEAL and HOPE projects to support the state budget, health care system, and housing repairs.
Japan has extended trade sanctions against russia for another year, raising duties on imported goods in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
The United States and Japan plan to deepen cooperation in artificial intelligence and semiconductors, creating a framework for joint research and development involving companies such as Nvidia, Arm, and Amazon.
In March this year, Ukraine will receive record budgetary funding from our allies for the entire duration of the war and the entire history of independence. We are talking about more than $9 billion.
Ukraine has received a $1. 5 billion loan from Japan and the United Kingdom through the World Bank to support key state budget priorities in the face of full-scale Russian aggression.
In 2022, households threw away more than 1 billion meals a day, while 783 million people went hungry and a third of humanity faced food insecurity. This is according to the UN Food Waste Index report for 2024.
Hip-hop culture continues to significantly influence and shape global street fashion, combining diverse cultural elements into unique, inclusive styles that reflect identity and self-expression.
UNESCO has approved an emergency assistance program to monitor and address the environmental damage caused by Russia's destruction of the Kakhovka Dam in Ukraine, mobilizing more than $66 million to restore Ukraine's cultural heritage, education and science affected by Russian aggression.
More than 100 people have been hospitalized and 2 deaths have been reported in Japan after consuming dietary supplements containing fermented red yeast rice from Kobayashi Pharmaceutical.
The World Bank has approved a $1. 5 billion loan to Ukraine to help restore the economy, finance priority social and humanitarian expenditures, and implement reforms aimed at European integration and economic growth.
The Russian aggression in Ukraine has already generated more than 600,000 tons of destruction waste.
Japan has relaxed its arms export rules to allow the sale of next-generation fighter jets developed jointly with the UK and Italy, removing a major obstacle to the trilateral project.
Japan has allocated $230 million to support Ukraine's agricultural sector as part of a project aimed at restoring agriculture and providing access to finance for farmers.
IAEA experts have begun assessing updated anti-terrorism measures at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata, Japan, at the request of TEPCO.
Soon, Ukrainians will be able to report damaged or destroyed housing as a result of russian aggression through the Diia app to the International Register of Damages.
The United States and Japan are set to announce the largest update to the security treaty in more than 60 years, which includes restructuring the U. S. military command in Japan and strengthening operational planning and military exercises between the two countries, due to shared concerns about China's influence.
Today, the first meeting of the PIC to investigate the effectiveness of the work of Kyiv public authorities regarding the closed Kyiv Metro stations was held. Bezghin noted that all the issues were not resolved at today's meeting of the PIC, so it will continue.
An emergency earthquake warning was issued in the Tokyo area of eastern Japan with a magnitude 5 out of 7 near the epicenter north of Tokyo and a lower intensity of 2-3 in Tokyo itself, although there was no tsunami warning and no reports of injuries or damage so far.
The draw ceremony for the 2024 Olympic football tournaments, in which the Ukrainian national team is a participant in the men's competition, will take place on March 20 at 9:00 PM Kyiv time in Saint-Denis, Paris.
Japan plans to revise its strict defense export regulations to allow the sale of next-generation fighter jets developed jointly with the UK and Italy to countries that have signed defense agreements with Japan and are not involved in armed conflicts.
A military helicopter of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces crashes in Oita Prefecture, no local residents were injured.
Ukraine has started negotiations with Latvia on a bilateral security agreement, defining its content, key elements and thematic blocks.
European Union leaders are ready to impose significant new sanctions on Iran amid reports that Tehran has provided ballistic missiles to Russia for use against Ukraine.
A record is set in Ukraine for the largest mass reading of Taras Shevchenko's poem Kateryna with 210 participants from 22 countries, organized by the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy.
Japan and the United States are discussing cooperation to provide Ukraine with more ammunition, potentially easing Tokyo's restrictions on military exports and helping to expand the U. S. arsenal of weapons for Ukraine.
Male office workers in Tokyo experienced simulated menstrual cramps to better understand and support their female colleagues.
On the 210th anniversary of Taras Shevchenko's birth, Ambassador of Japan to Ukraine Matsuda Kuninori honored the great Ukrainian poet by reciting a part of his poem "The Prophet", earning gratitude from Internet users for their respect for Ukrainian culture.
Pornhub, Xvideos, and Stripchat have sued the EU to challenge new content moderation obligations under the Digital Services Act, which classifies them as "very large online platforms" requiring stricter rules to combat illegal and harmful content.
Japan is seriously concerned about closer military cooperation between China and Russia in light of its own security and that of the region.