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News Source: Kyodo News
| about 1 year ago
Japan's Mio Nishimaki won her first major international title after beating Russian Lubov Volosova in the 63-kilogram final at the women's wrestling world championships on Sunday. The 21-year-old Nishimaki, who filled in for injured five-...
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News Source: Taiwan News
| about 1 year ago
South Korean Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan adjusts his glasses while he listens to reporter's question during a press briefing at Foreign Ministry in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Oct. 10, 2008. North Korea marked the anniversary of the ruling Workers'...
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News Source: The Boston Globe
| about 1 year ago
Japanese voters want the government to prioritize economic steps instead of focusing on an early election, a media survey showed Monday, the latest sign that Prime Minister Taro Aso may delay calling a general election. Aso, who took office last...
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News Source: The Boston Globe
| about 1 year ago
Tepid public support for Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso has fallen further in the weeks since he took office and voters now want help for the country's economy to take priority over domestic politics, according to a poll published Monday. Support...
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News Source: Channel NewsAsia
| about 1 year ago
South Korea said Monday it hopes a US move to drop North Korea from a terror blacklist will warm Seoul's chilly ties with the communist state, but conservative media slammed the move as "unprincipled." Unification ministry spokesman Kim Ho-Nyoun said...
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News Source: Kyodo News
| about 1 year ago
The United States made too many concessions in removing North Korea from its blacklist of terror-sponsoring states, but North Korea, faced with economic difficulties, also conceded in making the deal, a South Korean analyst and newspapers said Monday.
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News Source: Contra Costa Times
| about 1 year ago
North Korea said Sunday that it was resuming the dismantlement of its nuclear program in response to President Bush's decision to remove it from a list of nations that sponsor terrorism. The announcement means that U.N. nuclear inspectors, who were...
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News Source: International Herald Tribune
| about 1 year ago
Choe Sang-hun reported from Seoul, South Korea, and Helene Cooper from Washington. South Korea — North Korea welcomed its removal from Washington's list of terrorism sponsors and confirmed on Sunday that it would resume disabling its main nuclear...
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News Source: Androscoggin News
| about 1 year ago
Japanese Premier's Approval Rating Declines in Yomiuri Survey Oct. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso won an approval rating of 45.9 percent, down 3.6 points from the level on Sept. 24 when he took office, according to a Yomiuri...
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News Source: Kyodo News
| about 1 year ago
The approval rating for the Cabinet of Prime Minister Taro Aso has fallen to 45.9 percent, down 3.6 percentage points from the immediate aftermath of its launch in late September, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported Monday. The disapproval rating...