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Ambassador to Japan John Roos at his official residence Sunday, stirring speculation they may have exchanged views on a thorny bilateral issue though the visit was said to be private. Hatoyama and his wife Miyuki made the call to watch an American...
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Rafferty has ticked all the relevant boxes bringing to light most, if not all, of the salient and negative aspects of the European Union. The EU is a laudable conception, but the requisite mental machinery is not yet in place for its effective operation.
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Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama said Saturday he is not yet at a stage in which to draw to a conclusion by the end of the year on the issue of relocating a U.S. military airfield in Okinawa Prefecture. ‘‘I’m not yet at that stage,’’ Hatoyama told reporters...
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The Democratic Party of Japan's oldest lawmaker recently had a few bitter words for his old friend, DPJ Secretary General Ichiro Ozawa. Speaking in Fukuoka earlier this month, Kozo Watabe criticized what he considered the monopolization of party authority...
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The Cabinet Secretariat received around 1.2 billion yen in so-called secret funds each year from fiscal 2004 through fiscal 2008—roughly 100 million yen each month from April 2004 through last month, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirofumi Hirano disclosed Friday,...
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Hatoyama made the remarks after a meeting with his foreign and defense ministers. His government has called for the US to move its troops off the island, and even Japan altogether. The new administration in Tokyo has also ordered an investigation into...
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Today’s report suggests that the Japanese government is preparing itself for the horrors of a “double-dip” recession – a calamity which most economists currently believe can be avoided, but only if China and Asia retain their recovery momentum. The government’s...
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Japan will urge the United States more strongly to cooperate in its ongoing investigation into a fatal hit-and-run accident in Okinawa Prefecture allegedly involving a U.S. Army member who has refused to turn up for questioning, Japan’s top government...
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A Japanese engineer kidnapped near Sanaa is still being held by Yemeni tribesmen, a mediator said on Wednesday, while Japan’s prime minister expressed hope the 63-year-old’s release was “close.Sheikh Abdel-Jalil, a tribal leader in Arhab, northeast of...
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The review was ordered by Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada who has set transparency as one of the main goals of the new Japanese government's foreign policy. A panel will announce the final outcome of the probe in the coming months. Some of the deals are...
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