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Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike while campaigning for her Tomin First Party for Sunday’s Tokyo metropolitan assembly election. (AP)

Japanese PM Suffers Heavy Defeat in Tokyo Elections

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jul 2, 2017 | World

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) suffered a crushing defeat in local Tokyo elections on Sunday, losing to the capital’s Governor Yuriko Koike’s Tokyo Citizens First party. Koike’s novice party and its allies, including...

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Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman leaves Japan after official visit (SPA) 16-06-1438 AH

King Salman: Islamic World Challenges Require More Solidarity among Muslims

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 16, 2017 | Middle East, Saudi Arabia

Riyadh- Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud arrived in the People’s Republic of China Wednesday on an official visit. Before his departure from Tokyo, he received at his residence a number of Islamic figures in Japan. In his...

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Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir speaks to the media at a hotel in Tokyo, Japan, September 2, 2016. REUTERS/Toru Hanai

FM Adel Al-Jubeir: Syria Ceasefire Deal Could Be Agreed within 24 Hours

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Sep 6, 2016 | Middle East

Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said on Tuesday there was a possibility of brokering an agreement on a ceasefire in Syria within 24 hours. Asked at a briefing with reporters in London to comment on the failure of the United States and Russia to agree a...

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Tokyo elects Yuriko Koike as first female governor to lead city. Reuters

First Woman Governor Elected in Tokyo, Says Defying Party Secured Win

by Najeeb Al-Khash and Asharq Al-Awsat English | Aug 1, 2016 | World

Tokyo’s new governor Yuriko Koike on Monday credited her landslide victory to having stood up to the powers that be in Japan’s ruling party who didn’t want her to run. Koike, 64, was elected Tokyo’s first female governor in the Sunday vote,...

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Mahe Drysdale of New Zealand celebrates winning gold in the men’s rowing Single Sculls final during the London 2012 Olympic Games at Eton Dorney August 3, 2012. REUTERS/Pool

Olympic Rowing Champion Mahe Drysdale Back to Defend Title in Rio

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | May 27, 2016 | Sports

Mahe Drysdale, five time world rowing champion and bronze medalist at the Beijing Olympics, has returned after a long vacation, fully ready and refreshed to defend his single sculls title in Rio later this year. Drysdale took 2013 off to “refresh his mind and...