Jordan’s peace treaty with Israel is broadly unpopular amongst many voters. The Mainichi Shimbun said the tiny variety of people aboard the Japanese flight had taken foreign ministry officials by surprise. “We hurried to keep away from Japan being accused of responding too slowly, but with only eight folks on board, it backfired on us,” the newspaper quoted a source near the ministry as saying. Passengers on the Japanese flight were charged ¥30,000 each (US$200), sparking anger on X, formerly known as Twitter, with some customers accusing the federal government of being “stingy”. The South Korean authorities, by contrast, didn’t…
