The Japanese group Yokogawa is setting up in Morocco. It is establishing itself after the implantation in the Kingdom of Toyo inc Group, another industrial group from the Land of the Rising Sun.
Japan maintains its position on the conflict around the Sahara. Takuji Hanatani, Japan’s Ambassador to Morocco, reaffirmed this to Habib El Malki, President of the House of Representatives.
Several foreign countries have tried to overthrow the regime of the late King Hassan II. The coups all failed, to the point that even in the West, people had started talking about the "baraka" of the Sharifian Sovereign.
A Japanese tourist was the victim of a snatch theft in the old medina of Marrakech. Two assailants were both identified thanks to a surveillance camera video. One of them was arrested.