By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A government panel has retained Japan’s male-only imperial succession system despite a sharply shrinking number of men in the royal family. The panel submitted a report to Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Dec. 22 proposing ways to ensure there are enough potential successors, such as adopting single […]

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — The prolonged pandemic and surging prices are undermining food security for millions of people in Asia, with 1.8 billion lacking access to healthy diets, a report by the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organization said on Dec. 15. The report says access to food worsened in 2020 […]