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The new defence agreement was announced in a virtual four-way meeting between Japanese Foreign and Defence Ministers and the US’s Secretary of State and Secretary of Defence on Thursday. As per the new five-year agreement, Japan will extend the support package provided or the hosting of around 50,000 US troops and their families

The Japan Coast Guard said the unidentified projectile is believed to have already landed, Xinhua news agency reported. It was fired toward the Sea of Japan, according to South Korea's Yonhap News Agency citing the South Korean military. This was the first test-fire of the country in 2022. Before it, the DPRK test-fired a new type of submarine-launched ballistic missile in October 2021.

Japan's defence spending, in 2022, is pegged at 5.4 trillion yen ($47.18 billion) which is 1.1% higher than the previous year. However, it is still less than a quarter of China's military budget this year, according to official Beijing data. In view of the intense regional security environment, the decision to strengthen Japan's defence capability was taken by former Japan PM Yoshihide Suga when he met US President Joe Biden in April this year.

In a statement released on Wednesday, Woodside said it had signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Singaporean conglomerate Keppel Corporation and Japan's Osaka Gas to conduct a feasibility study into ultimately establishing a "stable supply chain of sustainable liquid hydrogen (LH2)" from WA to those companies' home markets.

Of the 28 injured, 17 men and 10 women were in cardiopulmonary arrest, according to firefighters. The injured were brought out from the fourth floor of the eight-storey multi-tenant building located near JR Osaka Station, reports Xinhua news agency. It was reported that the fire started within a medical clinic that provides psychosomatic and psychiatric treatments on the fourth floor.

Maezawa, who earlier booked a lunar flight with SpaceX, lifted off with his production assistant Yozo Hirano and veteran cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin of the Russian federal space agency Roscosmos on board Russia's Soyuz MS-20 spacecraft, Space.com reported. The flight took off at 2:38 a.m. EST (1.08 p.m. IST) atop a Soyuz 2.1a rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

“A military adventure would be the path to economic suicide, we must keep reiterating that peaceful ties between China and Taiwan are the only option,” Shinzo Abe said. Abe made these remarks while delivering a video speech at the Institute for National Policy Research, a think-tank in Taiwan.

The country had announced the sixth-generation stealth fight aircraft program three years ago which was popularly known as F-X or F-3. Taking the growing disputes from China and North Korea into consideration, the Japan Air Self Defense Force (JASDF) has been seriously rethinking the fighter's capacity to carry missiles compared to the American supplied F-35 Lightning II aircraft.

Andersson is scheduled to take office after a meeting with King Carl XVI Gustaf on Friday, giving her less than 10 months to prepare for the country's 2022 general elections, reports Xinhua news agency. Sweden is the only Nordic country never to have elected a woman as national leader before.

After Akira Amari resigned from the post of the secretary-general of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) due to his shock defeat in a single-seat district in Sunday's House of Representatives election, the party officially decided to appoint Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi to the party's No. 2 post, reports Xinhua news agency.