MANILA – Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte has announced her scheduled trip to Japan to attend Tuesday’s state funeral for slain former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at Tokyo’s Nippon Budokan Hall.

TOKYO – Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Philippine President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. agreed Wednesday to further strengthen cooperation between their two countries.

TOKYO/MANILA – No overseas Filipino worker (OFW) has been reported hurt during the onslaught of Typhoon Nanmadol in Japan, the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) said Tuesday citing reports from the Philippine Overseas Labor Offices (POLOs) in Osaka and Tokyo.

TOKYO/MANILA – Japan is partnering with the United Nations Development Programme in the Philippines to help address the issue of sporadic conflicts caused by the use of private small arms and light weapons in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.